What Do We Need OR Expect?

I worship pretty regularly with a great bunch of people in a church that meets fewer and fewer of my needs.  As I see it there are at least three problems:

1. I am changing.
2. The church/synagogue/temple is changing.
3. Generations are different.  

Let me elaborate.

Surprise!  I am not only getting older, I am getting more mature.  My faith is mutating as I grow.  The issues, support, reinforcement and ambitions I had twenty years ago are not the ones that drive me today.

We worshipped with another bunch of wonderful people for about ten years, I taught adults, and we felt at home.  Then the church worship services got louder and louder and louder.  It got so that I left the service, went half the width of the building outside, out to the sidewalk and across the street to the parking lot and sat in the car with the windows up and the volume was about right.  The church was changing.  I lost some of my hearing before I started leaving.  I was slower to change than the church.

Younger generations of worshipping folks like loud.  They like simple and simplistic.  Or they drop out.

So. . . what I need or expect from a worship experience is quite different from what a younger group wants or needs, seemingly.  But wait!  There's more...

I suspect that most folks I know were far more conservative forty years ago than they are now.  The "old time religion" doesn't provide meaning as it did when we were in our teens or twenties or thirties.  But what does?

For some, a move to a more liturgical experience provides the words without demanding the reality.  The number of well-known evangelicals who have migrated to the Orthodox church provides an example.  The affirm "the old time religion" in liturgy but have no expectation of believing in it.

For others, a move away from organized liturgy to meditation, yoga, or "spiritual growth" experiences offers more meaning than does an organized group experience.

Still others quite attending services except for special holidays or when grand kids are performing.

I'm trying to work out what my needs and expectations are.  Many others I know are in the same boat.
What about you?  What resonates in this set of observations that might lead you to thing, reflect and even share a bit of what you are thinking with the rest of us?