{
  "title": "Elderly Believers Treated As Spectators Rather Than Wisdom-Bearers",
  "slug": "elderly-believers-treated-as-spectators-rather-than-wisdom-bearers",
  "url": "/modern-traditions-of-men/elderly-believers-treated-as-spectators-rather-than-wisdom-bearers/",
  "category": "Family and Discipleship",
  "severity": 2,
  "severity_label": "Level 2 - Dangerous distortion",
  "summary": "Elderly believers should not be parked at the edge of church life. Scripture gives older saints a role in teaching, memory, prayer, and witness.",
  "primary_scriptures": [
    "Titus 2:1-8",
    "Ps 71:17-18",
    "Ps 92:12-15",
    "Job 12:12",
    "1 Cor 12:22-25"
  ],
  "key_terms": "sophia [wisdom]; presbytes [older man]; presbytis [older woman]; testimony [witness to God's works]",
  "related_topics": [
    "old-saints-ignored-because-they-are-not-culturally-useful",
    "intergenerational-church-life-replaced-by-demographic-silos",
    "we-put-our-parents-grandparents-in-old-age-homes",
    "perception-that-we-are-more-enlightened-more-spiritual-than-past-generations-evolution"
  ],
  "tier": "Modern Traditions of Men",
  "translation_links": "NET Bible local reader links are embedded in the HTML page."
}