OneWordStudy+FollowBeing Overlooked in Church Hurts More Than You Admit At some point, you noticed it. The church started listening more to younger voices. You didn’t leave. But you felt… less necessary. In Scripture, the word zaken means elder—not retired, not irrelevant. It means weight, gravity, presence earned over time. The problem is not that elders lost value. It’s that modern churches forgot how to recognize it. If you feel invisible while still being faithful, that pain deserves language—not guilt. God never called elders “background characters.” #ChurchLife #ElderFaith #HebrewMeaning #ChristianCommunity #FaithAfter5031Share
