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Volume 3 · Issue 3
Nov. 2026
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Many churches find that baby boomers show little interest in traditional senior adult ministry. Drawing on doctoral research, including a survey of fifteen large evangelical churches and boomer-focused classes and Bible studies, this article contrasts the traditional and boomer generations and argues that churches must rethink senior adult ministry. It proposes four approaches: ministering with boomers rather than to them, offering continued learning, designing short-term and flexible opportunities, and building relationships without the senior label.
Drawing on his experience as a former hospice chaplain and on data about elder abuse, neglect, and loneliness, the author offers a theology of geriatrics rooted in Jesus’ teaching on Corban in Mark 7:9–13. After establishing the text and the antiquity of the saying, he argues that Corban was chiefly a legal formula of exclusion by which a child used sacred language to withhold support from needy parents. He identifies modern “Corbans” (entitlement, ministerial redirection, convenient placement, the busy church, and contempt) and concludes with five affirmations for honoring the elderly.
