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Closing the Gap Acts 217-18
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Generation Gap
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We are separated by generations

• Generation gap is a popular term used to describe
  big differences in older generation people
  between people of a younger generation and their
  elders
• It occur when older and younger people do not
  understand each other because of their different
  experiences, opinions, habits and behavior

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Baby Boomer

• Baby boomer (1946-1964) born after World War II
• As of 2008, the term baby boomer is generally
  applied to anyone between the ages of 44 and 63
• First group to be raised with televisions in the
  home
• 1950s, people in diverse geographic locations
  could watch the same shows, listen to the same
  news, and laugh at the same jokes.

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Memorable event for Boomers

• Assassinations of JFK, Robert Kennedy, and Martin
  Luther King, political unrest, walk on the moon,
  Vietnam War, anti-war protests, social
  experimentation, sexual freedom, civil rights
  movement, environmental movement, women's
  movement, protests and riots

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Generation X

• Generation X (1965-1976/83) also known as Baby
  Bust, very commonly used in media and pop
  culture
• Some studies revealed - a generation of teenagers
  who "sleep together before they are married,
  don't believe in God, dislike the authority, and
  don't respect parents

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What Influence the Generation X?

• Disaffectation with governance, a lack of trust
  in leadership, particularly institutional
  leadership
• Rampant political apathy
• Increase in divorce (institution of marriage)
• Increase in mothers in the workplace
• The zero population growth movement
• Availability of birth control pills ("Children
  were things you took pills not to have")
• "Devil-child films"
• Increase in educational variance
• Decrease in educational funding and loan
  availability
• Inception of the Internet
• The end of the Cold War

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Generation Y

• Generation Y (1977/83-1990/97) - primarily
  children of the Baby boomers, though some are
  children of older Gen X adults
• The later birth after Gen Y also known as
  Millennial.
• Facebook, MySpace, texting, IM and other instant
  communication technologies may explain
  Millennials' reputation for being peer oriented
  and for seeking instant gratification

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Gen Y and Technology

• Reynol Junco and Jeanna Mastrodicasa (2007) found
  that in a survey of 7,705 college students in the
  US
• 97 own a computer
• 94 own a cell phone
• 76 use Instant Messaging.
• 15 of IM users are logged on 24 hours a day/7
  days a week
• 34 use websites as their primary source of news
• 28 author a blog and 44 read blogs
• 49 download music using peer-to-peer file
  sharing
• 75 of college students have a Facebook account
• 60 own some type of portable music and/or video
  device such as an iPod

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Generational Unity

• "Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me,
  O God, till I declare your power to the next
  generation, your might to all who are to come"
  (Psalm 7118 NIV).
• "One generation shall praise thy works to
  another, and shall declare thy mighty acts"
  (Psalm 1454 KJV).
• Be reminded that our Father is God of Abraham,
  Isaac and Jacob

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Our call

• Each generation is called to build on the
  foundation left by the previous generation
• "And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to
  wrath but bring them up in the nurture and
  admonition of the Lord" (Ephesians 34 KJV).
• "Remember the days of old, consider the years of
  many generations ask thy father, and he will
  show thee thy elders, and they will tell thee"
  (Deuteronomy 327 KJV).

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The enemy

• It is satans plan to cause disunity and mistrust
  between generations.
• His strategy is to kill, steal and destroy us by
  drawing us away from God
• 2Tim 31-4"But mark this There will be terrible
  times in the last days. People will be lovers of
  themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud,
  abusive, disobedient to their parents,
  ungrateful, unholy, without self-control, brutal,
  not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash,
  conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers
  of God" (NIV).

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The Lords way

• "Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet
  before the coming of the great and dreadful day
  of the LORD And he shall turn the heart of the
  fathers to the children, and the heart of the
  children to their fathers, lest I come and smite
  the earth with a curse" (Malachi 45-6 KJV).

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Restoration

• Restoration through understanding
• Restoration through love and forgiveness
• Restoration through lead-by-example
• Restoration through discipleship
• Restoration through prayer and the power of the
  Holy Spirit

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Building Strong Generation

• We are building one holy generation in the last
  day.
• Isaiah 5812 And they that shall be of thee shall
  build the old waste places thou shalt raise up
  the foundations of many generations and thou
  shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The
  restorer of paths to dwell in (KJV).