"In the last days it shall be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh." (Acts 2:17)
There is a thing in this prophecy that is easy to miss. In the last days, the old and the young will dream together. Not one instead of the other. Not the young displacing the old, which is what the young always assume is coming and what the old always fear. And not the old holding the line against the young, which is what a great many churches quietly practice while denying it. Together. The old dreaming dreams, the young seeing visions, both in the same passage, poured out from the same Spirit, on the same day, in the same room.
A church that loses either one of them dies; only the manner of death differs. A church without its young people dies in twenty years and can see it coming. A church without its old people dies in five and never sees it at all. Because the young have the energy and the old have the map, and neither can reach the destination alone, and both are absolutely certain that they can.
So do not let your church sort itself into the room of the energetic and the room of the wise, each faintly despising the other. The Spirit was poured out on both at once, on purpose, into one room. Go find someone a generation from you, older or younger, and ask them to dream with you. The future of the church is not the young winning or the old holding on. It is the two of them, refusing to be separated, hearing from the same Spirit together.