Five reasons the senior crowd is the it crowd

One significant difference between Eastern and Western perspectives is how we treat the elderly. Although modern society is eroding some of our Chinese traditional values, in general, there is still more respect and honor for the elderly than our Western counterparts. Western society is highly youth-centric: valuing industriousness, productivity, and vitality, marginalizing the aging population who easily sense themselves fading into irrelevance. I hope this is an instance where the global church in the North can allow other cultures to speak prophetically into its faith community, because without a doubt, older people are anything but irrelevant. 

Here are five reasons we need seniors in our churches:

1. Irreverence is the new reverent