J.I. Packer on Worship

Here is a great quote from an interview with J.I. Packer where he addresses the unfortunate tendency we all have to write off as irrelevant those of a different generation to the one we occupy, check it out:

Shane Rosenthal: What do you
think about a niche marketing approach that has by virtue of the
different worship styles--teen pop, alternative, and adult
boomer--created generational segregation?

J. I. Packer:
We have separated the ages, very much to the loss of each age. In the
New Testament, the Christian church is an all-age community, and in
real life the experience of the family to look no further should
convince us that the interaction of the ages is enriching. The
principle is that generations should be mixed up in the church for the
glory of God. That doesn't mean we shouldn't disciple groups of people
of the same age or the same sex separately from time to time. That's a
good thing to do. But for the most part, the right thing is the mixed
community in which everybody is making the effort to understand and
empathize with all the other people in the other age groups. Make the effort is
the key phrase here. Older people tend not to make the effort to
understand younger people, and younger people are actually encouraged
not to make the effort to understand older people. That's a loss of a
crucial Christian value in my judgment. If worship styles are so fixedthat what's being offered fits the expectations, the hopes, even theprejudices, of any one of these groups as opposed to the others, Idon't believe the worship style glorifies God, and some change, somereformation, some adjustment, and some enlargement of spiritual visionis really called for.