Reaching People Under 40 While Keeping People Over 60: Being Church for All Generations - Edward H. Hammett with James R. Pierce

Edward Hammett speaks of the "challenge to church growth and church health when it seems that satisfying the needs of one group creates barriers to reaching another group" (xii). Specifically, Hammett calls church leadership to devise "a well-thought-out and prayed-over plan to reach people under forty without losing or abusing those over sixty" (82).

A good leader often finds herself "caught between at least two value systems, two worlds, two cultures, and two philosophies of church" - and that, simply from interacting with her own local congregation (9). This collision of past and future creates tension.

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