When I ask a young man in our congregation to lead in corporate prayer, his prayer often addresses what you might term “young man” concerns. Sexual purity, difficult bosses, challenging children, trying to make a difference in the world, etc. Now, in no way are those things foreign to the life of a church member in his seventies. But repeated prayers like that tell the seventy-year-old that this has become a “young person’s church.” Not just a church that’s grown younger, but a church that’s for young people. What about praying for trust in God when children have wandered from the faith? For
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