Baby-boomers: Why do you go to the church where you attend?
August 17, 2008
Are you a baby boomer, somebody born between 1946 and the early 1960s?
Do you go to church? Can you explain to yourself why you go to that church and whether or not it meets your spiritual needs? Huh, you ask? What do you mean?
I'm going to be 62 in about two weeks. I'm reasonably healthy, but I know that I have more time behind me than I do in front of me. That's why I'm looking carefully at my values and my goals and where I spend my efforts. I know that I have to make my moves count more now than I did when I was in my twenties or thirties. I'm running out of time to pursue many more paths.
How do you know if you're going to the right church?
Super-wife and I were born into the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. We both grew up going to church every Sunday and never questioned that. When life took us away from our home bases, we naturally looked for a church from our own tradition.
When we had kids, we looked for a Lutheran church with a day school. Now, we are at a natural change point in our lives with our nest being empty and the ability to look at what we want and what we should get from a church.
We both know that doctrine is important and so is teaching. But what else?
Can anybody else identify with this search borne from entering a new life chapter?
What's your criteria for deciding whether a church is providing what individuals and families need?
Yes, I am using this blog to sort out our steps in this search. I will talk about our present and our past churches. They have all had a positive side. But where were the gaps?
I will be sharing more about all that.