Did We Miss a Step?

I foresee an abrupt ending to my current thought on religion. I'm leading a small group in the fall. But in thinking today, I realize I've set my focus to inevitably meet an unwanted and ill-timed end. Maybe it's lack of ministry experience, but my current focus for ministry aims at the idea of questioning (thanks goes to my "post-modern" counterparts). I think too many people have become comfortable with their beliefs and don't desire to re-examine them. A personal relationship with God begins with re-examining the assumed and accepted. Examination eliminates trite religiosity in society and creates zeal for Christians created in and for today's generation. But that's where my thought ends: re-examine, then what? This is where the older generation has more of a voice. They built the foundation of contemporary religion's "how to's". Thinking critically and refreshing belief is one thing, but creating new practices to match the newly acquired insights is another. If my Stage 1 is formed in and for today's society, then why shouldn't Stage 2? Where does the sense of excitement from the newness of belief continue, if not into newer practices formed in the same religion? Unfortunately, it has formed a newer generation's church that lacks the theological-density older churches do/did. In creating a new starting point for this generation's take on religion, we are mandated in refreshing the practices of how ministry is done today. The older generation's answer worked for them. But we're not in the 50s, 60s, or 70s anymore. They created a standard for themselves that we have been unsuccessful in re-working for ourselves. We won't be taken seriously, nor will we be helping ourselves if we do not begin to build newer practices for our refreshed thoughts.