{
  "title": "Old Saints Ignored Because They Are Not Culturally Useful",
  "slug": "old-saints-ignored-because-they-are-not-culturally-useful",
  "url": "/modern-traditions-of-men/old-saints-ignored-because-they-are-not-culturally-useful/",
  "category": "Family and Discipleship",
  "severity": 2,
  "severity_label": "Level 2 - Dangerous distortion",
  "summary": "The modern church often honours energy, platform, and relevance while neglecting older saints whose faithfulness carries wisdom, memory, warning, and example.",
  "primary_scriptures": [
    "Lev 19:32",
    "Titus 2:1-8",
    "Prov 16:31",
    "Ps 92:12-15",
    "1 Cor 12:21-26"
  ],
  "key_terms": "zaqen [old, elder]; hadar [honour, splendour]; body [interdependent people of Christ]; utility [worth measured by usefulness]",
  "related_topics": [
    "elderly-believers-treated-as-spectators-rather-than-wisdom-bearers",
    "intergenerational-church-life-replaced-by-demographic-silos",
    "we-put-our-parents-grandparents-in-old-age-homes",
    "youth-are-favoured-and-spoilt-members-of-our-churches"
  ],
  "tier": "Modern Traditions of Men",
  "translation_links": "NET Bible local reader links are embedded in the HTML page."
}