Let me but upfront about this, I despise seeker sensitive churches, using the common usage of this term. These churches, just to paint with a broad stroke, wastes their Sunday mornings preaching sermons to the 4 people who were dragged there by their family members in the hopes that one of them will "Convert" to being another person sitting in the pew who isn't being taught anything since that person is now "saved" and can now be ignored.
The incredibly sad part about all this is that there is a church in my area that proclaims itself seeker-friendly, then this very same church
closed its doors on Christmas since being there for the seekers was just too doggone hard that day!
Anyway, just as I saw a study that suggests that people are more irritable when they don't get enough sleep comes this report that not teaching what Christ demands we do is failing to bring people to true salvation.
Yes, I am stunned as well.
Here is a quote from the story:
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Some of the stuff that we have put millions of dollars into thinking it would really help our people grow and develop spiritually, when the data actually came back it wasn’t helping people that much. Other things that we didn’t put that much money into and didn’t put much staff against is stuff our people are crying out for."
This is what happens when foolish man decides that he is wiser than an all-powerful and all-knowing God. This is the idiocy that occurs when we turn our backs on God and instead use poll data to decide how we are to run our churches. Hopefully truth will be learned from this pile of horsepoopie that "seeker-friendly" churches have created.
Read the rest of the article here.
