Boomers tend toward personal fulfillment and pragmatism. Different values mean new directions. One shift is in style. Boomers articulate the vision of their organization, unlike builders, who assumed everyone knew the organization's purpose and would remain obligated to it. A second change concerns institutional loyalty.
Boomers are less committed to traditional programs than their elders.
Boomer leaders are likely to create new coalitions around common interests, even if they cut across time-honored ecclesiastical boundaries. A third shift moves faith organizations away from secular politics. In recent decades, mainline Protestants and mainstream evangelicals served as chaplains of the Democratic Party. Conservative evangelicals and fundamentalists represented the Republican Party at prayer. Seeing no real difference between the pandering of their elders to either Bill Clinton or Ronald Reagan, boomers understand their prophetic mission requires distance from political parties.