Yet from here on, I’m sorry to say, the generational evidence starts to lose its luster. As we noted in chapters 2 and 3, too often the children of First Chair parents have only “seen the works of the Lord,” not personally experienced them. This secondhand quality about their faith makes the children of First Chair parents tend to ride along on the parents’ spiritual coattails. When the kids grow up and have to make choices for themselves, they tend to show their true colors. It’s Second Chair all the way.
