{"id":417,"date":"2008-09-08T16:35:38","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T21:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disciple.user3.archhosting.net\/members\/?p=417"},"modified":"2017-12-31T16:43:59","modified_gmt":"2017-12-31T22:43:59","slug":"why-i-like-senior-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/2008\/09\/why-i-like-senior-adults\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Like Senior Adults"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m preaching a Senior Adult Revival this week. Guess I can throw away my Youth Revival sermons. As one who spent a few years serving on university campuses in collegiate ministry and now find myself doing a few senior adult ministry things, I can understand the conclusions drawn by another former student minister who is now a senior adult minister. He said there were four reasons why he enjoyed senior adult ministry more than student ministry: (1) with senior adults you don\u2019t get phone calls after 10:00 p.m.; (2) with senior adults you never have to deal with angry parents; (3) with senior adults you never have to counsel with an unwanted pregnancy and (4) with senior adults, they\u2019re supposed to be on drugs. Whatever your age group, I hope you can laugh at yourself this week. In the Bible you can only arrive at the seventeenth chapter of Genesis before reading, \u201cThen Abraham fell on his face and laughed\u201d (Gen. 17:17, NKJV). And the Psalmist proclaimed, \u201cHe who sits in the heavens shall laugh\u201d (Ps. 2:4, NKJV).<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m praying for the following global concerns this week and invite you to join me. By the way, I do get reports of answers to some of these requests since most come from acquaintances of mine. If you ever want a report, e-mail me at <a href=\"mailto:discipleallnations@pobox.com\">discipleallnations@pobox.com<\/a> and I\u2019ll try to provide it.<br \/>\n\u2022 A missionary friend reports, \u201ca fundamentalist group is going from village to village destroying churches, burning houses, attacking and killing Christians. It is reported that thousands of extremists have been brought from Gujarat and Chhattisgarh to perpetrate this violence which has spread to all the districts of Orissa. Their agenda is to wipe out Christians and Christianity from India starting from Orissa.\u201d Having been in Orissa a few years ago on a prayer journey, I am concerned.<br \/>\n\u2022 Another missionary friend wrote: \u201cThings are becoming uncertain in Thailand due to the political climate and we need your prayers.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2022 Pray for the Texas Baptist Men volunteers who are conducting a feeding operation for refugees in the Black Sea country of Georgia.<br \/>\n\u2022 Pray for missionary kids who are beginning school this month after their summer break.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m preaching a Senior Adult Revival this week. Guess I can throw away my Youth Revival sermons. 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