60-plus and still standing

You’re 60-plus. How do you embrace the years ahead and continue to serve God well? Neil Hudson answered this question and more at ELS.

“We have lived through humiliations that are now brilliant dinner party stories. We’ve lived through tragedy and disappointment, and we’re still standing.”

This was Neil Hudson – teaching at ELS about life as a 60-plus, or as he described it, “the most interesting phase of our lives.”

Whether you’re working, retired, volunteering, up to your neck in grandparent duties or relaxing on a cruise, you face some important questions about how to continue serving God well.

As the seminar title accurately states, it’s “60, not out!”, so here, we bring you the first of five questions Neil raised to help figure out discipleship at this stage of life.

Question 1: How can I be obedient in this context?

Every life stage brings new situations and contexts and we need to find a way to navigate them, Neil explained. Giving his own examples of becoming a granddad and living with his father’s dementia, he said: “I wanted to ask Jesus, will you help me learn your way in this context, as a disciple of yours? I’ve never done this before!”

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