Of older church members

Check out Rick Davis's demographic insights on older church members:

There is something else youngsters should know about the Senior Adults around them. That is, there is more than one kind. To wit:

There is the Depression Era senior, or one closely associated with them. This is a person raised in a time of extreme need/want/poverty. This individual may live frugally, worry about "having enough" or "being ruined" and so may control the church checkbook with rigidity, just like at home. This is a person having lived through times of great affluence (and having come to affluence themselves) who still live with an attiude or perception of poverty.

There is the Boomer senior. Yes, we are getting there now. We grew up in a time of great affluence, have never really been without and so have a sense of entitlement. We may regard the church checkbook, whether we give or not, as something that must open to meet the perceived needs of our altruism, or children or our grandchildren.

One group, deeply insecure.

One group, feeling entitled.

Lotsaluck, there my friend. Remember we ain't dyin' soon.

Yep.