🙌 All Hail The Boomers!
And Other Generational Vanities
🙌 All Hail The Boomers! And Other Generational Vanities
Of course I jest.
But generational vanity is a very real, and very silly, idol. We’ve all seen the headlines. One generation is the savior, the one that will finally fix everything. Another is the problem, the one that ruined it all. We crown ourselves as messiahs and scapegoats with equal, unearned pride.
It’s a tale as old as time, just with new labels. And from a biblical standpoint, it’s a profound failure of theology and history.
Scripture doesn’t traffic in generational saviors. It tells the story of one Savior, and a long line of flawed, faith-needing generations through whom He works His redemptive plan.
The Bible gives us a more sobering and realistic view:
· Judges 2:10 paints a devastatingly cyclical picture: “After them another generation rose up who did not know the Lord…” A generation’ faithfulness is not inherited; it must be won anew by the Spirit.
· 1 Corinthians 4:7 asks the piercing question that shatters all generational pride: “For who makes you differ from another? And what do you have that you did not receive? Now if you did indeed receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?”
Your intellect, your work ethic, the very era you were born into—it’s all a gift of God’s providence. To boast in it is to boast in the hand you were dealt, not in your skill as a player.
This generational rivalry is a distraction. It’s a horizontal gaze that keeps us from looking upward in dependence and outward in mission. While we’re busy blaming the Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, or Gen Z, the enemy sows discord and the harvest field grows white.
The Church’s call is not to generational supremacy, but to cross-generational faithfulness.
Our hope has never been in the “Greatest Generation” or the “Woke Generation.” Our hope is in the Christ who is the same yesterday, today, and forever (Hebrews 13:8).
He is the one who commands older men and women to teach the younger, and the younger to respect the older (Titus 2:1-8). He builds His Church not as a series of competing generational silos, but as a single Body, fitted together, with each part—regardless of its manufacture date—working properly.
So, let’s drop the vanity. Let’s stop looking for a savior in a birth certificate and remember the one we have in the empty tomb.
Our only boast is in the Lord. Our only hope is His imminent return.
Let there be light.
— Robert Rousseau
Candlefish Ministries
Amen to this: “Let’s stop looking for a savior in a birth certificate and remember the one we have in the empty tomb.” Powerful truth.
The only savior is the one true savior, and his name is Jesus. I totally understand what you’re talking about when you speak at the generations. Blame can’t be placed on any generation or pointing of fingers because every generation has let Jesus slip through their fingers. I think that’s easy to see because we would not be where we’re at today if it was not so. There is a generation coming that is not going to stand as THE generation, because they will be appointed by God and filled with the spirit to proclaim his holy name. Jesus pointed to a problem, though,
“He turned to his disciples and said, “The harvest is huge and ripe! But there are not enough harvesters to bring it all in. As you go, plead with the Owner of the Harvest to thrust out many more reapers to harvest his grain!””
Matthew 9:37-38
I think there’s a great community of believers here. One of the first ones that come to mind is Kevin Beasley. I think he’s on point to bring forth laborers.
There are many different callings that the Lord has appointed, and he is truly Lord of them all. Let each one that is called, take his post and walk faithfully in Jesus name.