One of the many responsibilities that unfold naturally is the counsel and warning given by the older toward the younger. Titus 2 comes to mind as a critical text of New Testament teaching wherein both older men and women are given the respect of having greater years and experience and teach the younger. Here’s the outline of his teaching.
A. Example of Aged Men
1. Temperate, grave, and sober
2. Sound in the faith, in the love, and in the endurance.
B. Example of Aged Women
1. Not false accusers
2. Not enslaved to much wine
3. Teachers of good things
(a) Teaching young women to be sober-minded
(b) Teaching young women to lovers of their husbands
(c) Teaching young women to be lovers of their children
(d) Teaching young women to be sober and pure
(e) Teaching young women to be keepers of [their own] houses, good, subject to their own
husbands, that the word of God may not be evil spoken of.
C. Younger Men
1. Exhort to be “sober-minded”
2. Showing a pattern of good works
3. Uncorruptedness in teaching, grave, incorruptibility, and sound discourse so that no evil will
be spoken against them
A variety of ways could be chosen to outline this text. However you choose to do it, one thing is clear. — the relationship of the old and young expects the elderly to be setting an example for the young and teaching them the pattern of follow. It is rare to find where rule is respected and applied. But, where it is applied, you will see a harmonious network of believers who are dedicated to God and one another.