On church...

     I was recently involved in a conversation regarding different churches and life stages and it was suggested to that someone switch what church they were going to because it appears as though they aren't in the same life stage as the majority of the present church. It really surprised me, but I know a handful of other people who have experienced similar suggestions, and I felt the need to address it.
    Firstly, the benefits of attending a church with more people in your life stage. On the one hand, it may seem that there are more people who can relate to you which is good and more people to offer support because they are in the same phase of life, which is also a very good thing. Off the top of my head and those who I discussed this subject with and specifically the benefits of it, couldn't come up with anything other than those. Though, I'm sure there are more - so please feel free to leave comments of more benefits. :)
     The main issues that we came up with with leaving a church with less people in your life stage and going to a church with more is that you are saying that a certain life stage is not necessarily as welcomed as another as well as creating a completely flat group of people (no diversity), which goes against what a church is. The church is the body of Christ and a body is not made up of only hands or feet or ears - but of many different parts - one body with many members.
     "For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many are one body, so it is with Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body - Jews or Greeks, slaves or free - and all were made to drink of one Spirit. For the body does not consist of one member but of many. If the foot should say, 'Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,' that would not make it any less a part of the body. And if the ear should say, 'Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,' that would not make it any less a part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would be the sense of hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell? But as it is, God arranged the members in th ebody, each one of them, as he chose. If all were a single member, where would the body be? As it is, there are many parts, yet one body. The eye cannot say to the hand, 'I have no need of you,' nor again the head to the feet ,'I have no need of you.' On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, and on those parts of the body that we think less honorable we bestow the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty, which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it, that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another. If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together. Now, you are the body of Christ and individually members of it. And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, administrating, and various kinds of tongues. Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? Do all possess gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret?" 1 Corinthians 12:12-30
     Based off of this passage, I believe that if we segregate our churchs into any other likeness than being followers, say one church has only teenagers, one church has only college kids, one chuch are only singles, one church are only marrieds, and so on, we lose what the church is meant to be. The church is meant to have people of all different kinds. If we're all of one exact type, who will be there to build us up when we're struggling? Who will be there when we're all weak to the same thing? Where would the people be who have experience with life we haven't encountered yet to help us through when we do encounter them? Where would be the diversity of the members that is described in the Bible; God's Word?  I believe it is incredibly important to have people in your life in your same life stage, but I also believe that it is equally important to have people in your life that are not yet in your life stage OR already through your life stage.