As you all know it doesn´t take much to lose the point of something. Same is in the family-trees. It doesn´t need much for grandchildren not to understand the tradition, but to smash it all and rather discover a new wheel."In what sense our grandfather was a pastor," some children may ask. "So what?"
Actually, you do not need more than 1 generation to lose most of the information. For example, one of my sisters struggeled for a long time with a reason of taking part of the communion. Everything is so serious and sad! She knew what to do... but had lost the reason "why" behind it.
Those who remember my past summer and the andventures with small Maya know that even toys can lose the real meaning, whole point. I saw on the floor old-type telephone, with circular numberplate. But she said no, "this isn´t any kind of phone, that is a dog!"
I would say that this is megachallenge. And I imagine that this 3 generation take-the-point can be fatal for not only in families and churches, but wherever. I wish we could have wisdom to reason to those small ones what are we really doing and why so.
In other case they start thinking that our legacy is bunch of dogs. But that is just not true.
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