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Today's talk comes from Pastor Ben Stewart.

Well, we began a series last week called The Beauty of Belonging, and before we talk about what it means to belong to one another, I think it's worth pointing out an interesting fact that modern researchers contend that we are living in a day

where there are six major generations alive and active in our country today. So I want to put it up on the screen, you'll see.

I mean, I say major generations, there are still some from the greatest generation alive today,

but there are six major generations live and active in the country today.

It's a unique moment.

And so we put up there the generations,

the silent, boomer, Gen X, millennial, Gen Z,

and what is debatably called Polers.

You can see the birthdays next to it

and the relative ages.

I do want to point out before we begin

that there is some controversy

of what are the exact dates of who constitutes a millennial.

Pew research indicates their birthdays as 1981 to 1996.

If you see the birthdays up there, there are some millennials that have a lot of feelings about that.

I just want to say it's a spectrum more than it is rigid categories. But before we talk, I just

want to do a little test if we can by show of hands of who in the room is from each generation

so I don't know if we can see one another but do we have any from the silent generation here

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