Reaching People under 30 while Keeping People over 60: Creating Community across Generations (The Columbia Partnership Leadership Series)
Overview
Seasoned church consultant Edward H. Hammett shares his latest insights and suggestions for churches seeking to serve all generations. This is an updated version of Hammett's 2007 book Reaching People Under 40 while Keeping People Over 60 that expands the reach another decade and emphasizes diversity with insight from new contributors Paul L. Anderson and Cornell Thomas.
- Explores topics that are profoundly relevant to the current crises
- Addresses the issues of multicultural and multiracial changes from the past decade
- Augments each of its sections with the best coaching, grounded in concrete, practical church examples
Understanding the Church's Multidimensional Challenges
- Pastors Burn Out, and Churches Die
- Church: A Hotel for Saints or a Hospital for Sinners?
Discovering Points of Tension
- When Generations Collide
- When Mission Challenges Personal Preferences
- When Cultural Realities Impose on Church Traditions
Finding the Win-Win for the Church
- Tips for Creating Community with People over Sixty and People under Thirty
- A Win-Win for Your Church?
- Bible Study for Twenty-first-Century Adults?
- Win-Win Options for Your Multicultural Ministry
- Win-Win for Your Forty-or-Fifty-Somethings?
- Celebrating Church for a Diverse World
- Conclusion: Coaching Conversation with Paul Anderson
Top Highlights
“Learning to build bridges and value bridge-building more than arguing is essential if we are to be community and watch God continue to move in all ages and generations.” (Page 45)
“The desire for harmony frequently outweighs the desire to be obedient, faithful followers of Christ. Reaching People under 30 While Keeping People over 60 depends on two critical factors: (1) practicing proven principles of effective intergenerational ministry; (2) practicing consistent leadership styles and practices that creates a pull more than a push strategy that deepens the faith and function of the body of Christ. Pull is about what draws and compels people forward. Push is about feeling dictated to and by others.” (Page 24)
“Culture is now specific to a group. That’s what culture is—shared values, characteristics, beliefs, goals, and practices.” (Page 2)
“The Scripture’s clear: church leaders have a biblical mandate to equip the saints for the work of the ministry, as Ephesians puts it. Equipping means teaching people to go out to where the people are to do whatever it takes to connect people with the Good News of Jesus Christ. Jesus spent more time at parties than he did in the synagogue. His culture was similar to ours.” (Page 7)
“I love the church, but we church people are killing many of our churches to preserve our comfort. My challenge for you: Are you trying to preserve the church for yourself and your generation, or are you trying to do church in a way that reaches out to a new generation?” (Page 27)
Reaching People under 30 while Keeping People over 60 has become a contemporary classic. Eddie Hammett has helped countless churches and their leaders, clergy and lay, rethink their approach to ministry and outreach. This new Reaching People under 30 while Keeping People over 60 edition retains the meat of the original, but provides new material for the rapidly changing times in which we live and minister. The added voices of Cornell Thomas and Paul Anderson provide a much-needed perspective. Churches must shift from monocultural to multicultural in order to thrive in the future and engage people of every generation.
—Larry Hovis, Executive Coordinator, Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of North Carolina
Major shifts are being experienced in church life today and with them come the usual tensions between the old and young. Through this book, Eddie Hammett guides a church and its leadership through this foreign territory of change and transition, and he does it with a pastor's heart and the expertise of a congregational coach. Every church will face this challenge sooner or later. Eddie's book offers you the opportunity to have a 'Coach in Residence'.
—Scott Wagoner, Deep River Friends Meeting, High Point, North Carolina
Once again, Eddie Hammett has written a book that is relevant to the everyday issues facing the church. This book should be required reading for every church leader and pastor.
—Kent Rogers, First United Methodist Church, Wichita, Kansas
- Title: Reaching People under 30 While Keeping People over 60: Creating Community across Generations
- Authors: Edward H. Hammett, Paul L. Anderson, Cornell Thomas
- Edition: First Edition
- Publisher: TCP
- Print Publication Date: 2015
- Logos Release Date: 2021
- Pages: 204
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subjects: Communities › Religious aspects--Christianity; Intergenerational relations › Religious aspects--Christianity
- ISBNs: 9780827233041, 9780827233058, 9780827233065, 0827233043, 0827233051, 082723306X
- Resource ID: LLS:RCHNGPPL30PPL60
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T02:34:57Z