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Section 08:
SERVING THE NEEDY, Pastoral Level 2c
08 2c: Respect older people; put them to work
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Show respect and love for the aged, and help your people also to do so.
- Put the elderly to work. Churches often neglect many with ample time and skills, overlooking a priceless vein of gold.
- Arrange for the elderly to serve other elderly people.
- Arrange for young people to mix occasionally with the elderly in activities that they both enjoy, such as presenting skits, eating, reading poems prepared by the young people.
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Find in Titus 2:1-8 several guidelines for what the elderly should do.
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Find in Find in 1 Kings 12:6-15 a reason why young people should respect their elders and heed their advice.
Find in 1 Peter 5:1-5 some reasons why the youth should respect church elders.
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Stories (better, for letting the Word flow from friend to friend)
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To encourage older people: Keep the Fire, Don Anderson
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Discover what older people can do.
- Most older people have tremendous knowledge and keen skills that they do not know could be useful to the Lord for ministry.
- Find out from conversations or surveys what were their work careers and hobbies.
- You will often find some that are more expert than you, in the work that you have undertaken. Let them mentor you and serve as advisors.
- For help:
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