How does a younger pastor navigate the thinking of older parishioners?

One of the challenges for younger pastors is to deal with some of the folks who have been around a while and who have heavily invested both their time and resources into the church. While many young pastors try to stay above the fray in any debate between generations of how things are done in the church, inwardly many of these same pastors are fit to be tied on how to deal with the older generation