We must trust our grandchildren will be drawn to gospel on their timetable.

We need to demonstrate consistent concern and compassion for those grandchildren who have chosen not to believe as we do.

Grandchildren need to see grandparents who take bold yet gracious stands on moral issues. Gentleness and compassion are key ingredients.

Grandchildren need to see grandparents who show them how to develop discernment and make right choices.  In order to gain the right to be heard we may need to walk with them through areas their life that annoys us the most.

1. We put them down.
   1. By distancing ourselves from them.
   2. By forcing them to defend all the things about themselves and their culture we don't like.
   3. By treating them the opposite way Jesus would deal with .
2. We ignore them.
   1. By not wanting to be seen with them.
   2. By being so disgusted by their culture that we simply "write them off."
3. We imitate them.
   1. By trying to look like them.
   2. By trying to act like them.
   3. By trying to reason like them.

"They are the children. We're supposed to be the mature adults seasoned with wisdom of living on the front lines of life. The last thing they need from us are grandparents who think with their emotions and take the easy way in life. That's childish behavior, and our turn for that has come and gone. We've circled the block enough that our grandchildren should be able to count on us to act like adults when we are under pressure. In the process, we get to be torchbearers of the kind of consistent living that they so desperately need."