Thriving in the City Part 4

June 6, 2010 AM
Titus Part 4
Dave Marttunen

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Multigenerational churches are new territory. While multi-ethnic is a very fashionable focus, multigenerational? Not so much. At one time, when change was slower, people living as extended families all attended the same church. Now churches are stratified and choose a specific generation as a target group and are virtually a single generational church. If Churches are brave enough to add multigenerational to their vision or mission statement, they usually mean we are trying to get younger, but it‟s not working. To be truly multigenerational, means that a Church intentionally embraces all the generations, as it embraces all the other social levels or clans in our city. Economics, social status (eg single, married, kids, not kids etc) education, and vocations are just a few of the variables in our city. The great news is that God is ahead of us, but His plan and the weight of responsibility that He assigns might surprise us. God‟s plan is in fact a kind of top down system; mature to immature, trained to untrained, committed to uncommitted, old to young.

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