Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life.

In the time it takes to get to work, I'm Patrick Miller.

In Prince Harry's autobiography, Spare. He spares hardly anyone. He castigates his father, his aunt, his grandmother, his great aunt,

and virtually every other elder in his life.

He calls them racist, classist, uptight, backwards, unwise, and far worse.

So perhaps it's no surprise that it's been a bestseller because if we're being honest we live in an

age that loves youth and discounts age we live in an age that is iconicastic we want to

destroy everything that came before us. We're cynical about received wisdom.

We see those who are older than us as people from a backwards generation.

Obviously that's a little extreme. The truth will always be more complex.

But most young people and middle-aged people don't have any or many older

sages in their lives who they look to to learn from, to draw wisdom from.

And the same cynicism often extends to the elders and pastors in our churches.

They may not be elderly themselves, but they do represent a form of authority and wisdom

that we sometimes want nothing to do with.

Or perhaps we do kind of listen, but always with a critical ear.

If that pastor says something I don't like, we get critical.

If that elder says something we don't like, we gossip.

Again, I see myself in this. I'm a millennial. My generation is anti-institutional.

We're the generation of Occupy Wall Street. We're the generation that brings matches to a problem and says we know the answer, let's just

burn it all down.

I feel this anti-institutional sentiment deep in my bones some days and yet I'm always trying to question it. Why?

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