The forgotten congregation: Even though the pews in many wards and the top hierarchy are filled with contemporaries of bygone Hollywood stars, the LDS Church’s more mature crowd often finds itself existing in shaded corners, Gordon Monson writes.
Gordon Monson.Do you have gray hair or less hair than you once did? Are wisdom’s wrinkles creasing your face like the street grid on a folded city map? Are the rings around your trunk rivaling an ancient redwood?
Ironic and confounding it is on account of the aforementioned — that general church leaders, the most influential ones, are a bunch of oldsters, people who may or more likely may not vibe all that well with younger humans.
Some of them might like it that way. They may feel as though they’ve run a good race and are ready to sit back and spectate. Youths from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints greet President Russell M. Nelson and his wife, Wendy Nelson, at a devotional in 2019 in Rome. There are exceptions, but it’s been my experience, and the experience of many others, that in church classrooms — Sunday school or women’s Relief Society or male priesthood — it’s often the younger people who, when a question is posed to the group, are so quick to answer, to have all the answers. And it’s the old veterans sprinkled around the room who either really know what the response should be or know that nobody actually knows what that response should be.
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