In a recent post, “Older Men, Younger Men Need You,” Paul Maxwell writes:
“There is a sad and wide gulf between older men and younger men today. Generational discrimination and segregation are alive and, well, discouraging.
“We have to pass the torch somehow, but so many of the bridges have been burnt. Younger guys need older guys. Older men, by God’s design and grace, there are things we will get from you and no one else. Especially those of us without dads, or Christian dads, or engaged and intentional Christian dads. Yet the decades sadly so rarely seem to play well together.
“As a younger man myself, I have tried to identify how exactly older guys can love, exhort, and invest in younger men around them — men like me. On behalf of other younger men, with humility and boldness, we plead with our older brothers for five things.”
He goes on to plead for these five things.
- Love
- Stories
- Prayer
- Self-security
- Vulnerability
Read the full article (here) for his explanation of each.
Older Men: What younger man can you offer these to this week?
Younger Men: Is your life open to receive these as they are offered?