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Maybe it\u2019s just me but does it seem as if many are saying that no one has been \u201csensitive\u201d to \u201cseekers\u201d until the end of the twentieth century? One gets the feeling from such writers that until recently most Christian evangelism was overly aggressive, mean-spirited, and did everything possible to turn sinners off to the gospel.\u00a0 But now, thanks to contemporary cultural relevancy, the world can finally be won because now we can understand and truly reach out to the sinner.<\/span><\/p>\n

And if that is not the case, then at least it must be true that although Moody, Spurgeon, Finney, Whitfield and others did evangelism differently in their own day, they too would surely make the change to \u201cseeker-sensitive\u201d evangelism if they were alive today.\u00a0 Why, you ask?\u00a0 Because although 90% of what they wrote and practiced seems to be to the contrary, surely such innovative thinkers of those days would agree with what seems to be successful in our day.<\/p>\n

The problem is only partly one of semantics.\u00a0 As I hinted above, this isn\u2019t the first generation of believers to be sensitive to those seeking Christ.\u00a0 In fact, having grown up in fundamental Baptist churches, few ministers today may have the passion for souls that those old fundamental preachers had.\u00a0 It seems to me that in order to convince us that today\u2019s seeker-sensitive churches are better, much effort has to be taken to discredit those evangelistic churches of the past as being legalistic, numbers-oriented, controlling and otherwise insincere.<\/p>\n

In defending Willow Creek\u2019s seeker-sensitive approach, G.A. Pritchard begins by telling us that now Christians no longer \u201chave to be rude or obnoxious in sharing their faith.\u201d1<\/sup> Ed Dobson, in defending his seeker approach begins by telling us that \u201cto reach the nonevangelical generation of our day, we must break out of our tradition-bound isolation and relate the gospel to people where they are.\u201d2<\/sup> One Focus on the Family book on evangelism begins by saying, \u201cMany Christians of our generation were taught mechanical, aggressive (some would say intrusive) methods of evangelism that produced minimal results.\u201d3<\/sup> (See also Ernest Pickering\u2019s answer to Chuck Swindoll in The Book Shelf.) These unkind (and mostly untrue) remarks are all too typical in seeker-sensitive material but they succeed in getting the younger reader to identify with them in their quest for change.<\/p>\n

The semantic problem arises in the use of the terms \u201cseeker\u201d and \u201csensitive.\u201d\u00a0 Though it is true that older Fundamentalists were also seeker-sensitive, the \u201cseeker\u201d of today\u2019s seeker-sensitive movement may or may not be a \u201cseeker\u201d of the gospel at all.\u00a0 The \u201csensitive\u201d nature of contemporary churches may or may not be truly \u201csensitive\u201d to sinners at all.\u00a0 Any church of any age could \u201cattract\u201d lost people if they wanted to, but the question has always been what is proper for a church to do!\u00a0 To be \u201crelevant\u201d (for the Christian) has never meant what has \u201cworked\u201d but rather what is right to do at that particular time.<\/p>\n

What did Paul mean when he wrote that \u201cthere is none that seeketh after God\u201d (Rom. 3:11)?\u00a0 What did Jesus mean when He said, \u201cNo man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him\u201d (John 6:44)?\u00a0 I don\u2019t have to believe in irresistible grace to understand that a sinner does not desire nor seek the things of God, and that the sinner must be drawn to Him by the Holy Spirit and the Word, and that the Holy Spirit is very particular in the way He works.<\/p>\n

I think that the seeker-sensitive movement has wrongly characterized past evangelism as consisting mostly of offensive, in-your-face type of people.\u00a0 This just isn\u2019t true though the young people today have no way of verifying it.\u00a0 Of course there were exceptions as there are in any age in any movement.\u00a0 Many large churches of the past fifty years were too pragmatic for my conscience as well.\u00a0 There is no doubt that many large churches of the past fifty years used methodologies designed only for nickels and noses.\u00a0 The critical difference, in my opinion, is that the moral nature of methodologies has changed drastically in fifty years.\u00a0 Giving bus kids candy just does not compare to turning the whole church into a musical rock concert designed to imitate the world so that they will come to church.\u00a0 You might say both were \u201cseeker-sensitive\u201d but the nature as well as the results of those methods have been noticeably different.<\/p>\n

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The Seeker-Sensitive Model<\/h2>\n

Here are what I might call six \u201cmarks\u201d or \u201ccharacteristics\u201d of most contemporary churches.\u00a0 In this issue I will give these from the \u201cseeker-sensitive\u201d model, and then in the next issue I will give these from what I call the \u201csinner-sensitive\u201d model.<\/p>\n

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1. It starts with assimilation<\/h3>\n

In today\u2019s seeker-sensitive model the sinner is slowly assimilated into the fellowship and services of the church and the church is readily assimilated into the culture of the world.\u00a0 Paul is not being a prude when he says, Come out from among them, and be ye separate (2 Cor. 6:17).\u00a0 Pritchard says that \u201cHybels identifies with [unchurched] Harry by adopting his language, clothing, customs, and lifestyle.\u00a0 Whenever it is possible, Hybels underlines that he is similar to the unchurched Harry who has just walked in the door.\u201d4<\/sup><\/p>\n

This should sound odd to anyone reading his Bible on a regular basis.\u00a0 This is not just being neighborly, or adjusting your clothing for some event, but rather changing your whole life-style to make the sinner feel good.\u00a0 It also keeps the Christian from feeling out of place in the world.<\/p>\n

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2. It is designed for the sinner<\/h3>\n

Assimilation leads quickly to a new design for the church altogether.\u00a0 It is now more comfortable for the sinner than for the saint.\u00a0 Almost everything, especially the Sunday services, is planned with the sinner\u2019s tastes and thought processes in mind.\u00a0 Emerging church leader Brian McLaren admits that making this change is dictated by the church\u2019s \u201cmission\u201d (read: subjective vision), \u201cSo, the new church will be relativistic about its program.\u00a0 It will expect change.\u201d5<\/sup> Paul says the church is the pillar and ground of the truth (1 Tim. 3:15).<\/p>\n

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3. It is drawn by methodology<\/h3>\n

The sinner is now being drawn into the church and supposedly to Christ almost entirely by the new methodologies being employed for his sake.\u00a0 No longer is the sinner expected to be uncomfortable or feel out of place.\u00a0 Though I\u2019m sure seeker-sensitive proponents would disagree, but at this point it becomes less and less of a possibility that the sinner is being drawn by the Holy Spirit.\u00a0 Conviction has been greatly minimized and the spiritual has been cleverly disguised.<\/p>\n

George Barna calls this \u201cmarketing\u201d a \u201cviable component of ministry.\u201d6<\/sup> Dobson says this search for methodology led him to \u201cinformal, contemporary (nontraditional), no pressure for involvement or commitment, relevant to these people\u2019s needs, casual, \u2018laid-back\u2019 format, visually appealing.\u201d7<\/sup> Pritchard says, \u201cAlthough Creekers avoid the word entertainment they are seeking to creatively provide an interesting, agreeable, and amusing experience to unchurched Harry.\u201d8<\/sup> This is, or comes dangerously close to corrupting (lit. \u201chawking\u201d) the word of God (2 Cor. 2:17).<\/p>\n

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4. It continually seeks acceptance<\/h3>\n

It is hoped that the sinner, by the use of agreeable church services, will agree with and accept the church\u2019s new disposition.\u00a0 At the same time the church has learned to \u201caccept\u201d the sinner.\u00a0 But more than just accepting the fact that he is a sinner, and that therefore he can\u2019t and won\u2019t act as a believer, the church is learning to accept the sinner\u2019s life-style as the norm.\u00a0 After all, it has done everything it can to present itself as being very much like the sinner in all outward ways, it is no wonder that the church begins to live in every way like the sinner.\u00a0 Hybels is proud of the \u201cthousands of churches and pastors who have altered their music, programming, and preaching to be \u2018seeker friendly\u2019 or \u2018seeker sensitive.\u2019\u201d9<\/sup> But Paul asked, For do I now persuade men, or God?\u00a0 Or do I seek to please men?\u00a0 For if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ (Gal. 1:10).\u00a0 We do better to persuade men and please God.<\/p>\n

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5. It aims toward friendship and love<\/h3>\n

These are good things in and of themselves and things that the Bible teaches.\u00a0 But they can be used wrongly as an end in themselves.\u00a0 An indulgent parent, for example, may spoil and ruin a child because he\/she is seeking the child\u2019s friendship and love at all costs.\u00a0 Paul had to scold the Corinthian church for withholding discipline because they loved the sinning man so much. Your glorying is not good.\u00a0 Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? (1 Cor. 5:6).<\/p>\n

Churches may do the same and this is a difficult motive to discern.\u00a0 As a pastor for over twenty years, examples would be easy to find where church leaders and parents felt pressured (and often gave in) to push for change in the church because their kids weren\u2019t happy.\u00a0 The strain on homes and churches can be great and even children can make life miserable for parents if they are unhappy at church.\u00a0 Whole churches can be held hostage by unhappy young people who grow weary of traditional church life.<\/p>\n

This misuse of a good thing can carry over into evangelism.\u00a0 We can be so concerned that the sinner likes us and feels love from us that we compromise our very convictions in order to please him.\u00a0 Ironically, as with an indulgent parent, the acquiescence turns out to be anything but friendship and love.<\/p>\n

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6. It ends in unchanged lives<\/h3>\n

I am not seeking to be \u201cjudgmental\u201d beyond what the Bible presents as the fruits of our profession.\u00a0 We cannot avoid, however, evaluating our philosophies and methodologies on the basis of the final product.\u00a0 Across the board or blanket conclusions cannot be drawn about any methodology.\u00a0 Human beings are free moral agents and can respond to God favorably or not in almost any given situation.\u00a0 But observation and common sense would suggest that where no change of life is displayed as the goal, no change of life will be achieved.<\/p>\n

In society, cultural observers may call this \u201cdefining deviancy down\u201d or simply finding the lowest common denominator of social behavior.\u00a0 What do we expect, when we have lowered the expectations and redefined\u00a0 the behavior, if our young people rise no higher than the world around them?A separated or changed young person would simply be out of place in a seeker church.\u00a0 All the other young people have dutifully changed back into the mode of the world.\u00a0 J.I. Packer\u2019s observation is very appropriate,\u00a0 \u201cReacting against yesterday’s legalistic prohibitions regarding tobacco, alcohol, reading matter, public entertainment, dress, cosmetics, and the like, we have become licentious and self-indulgent, unable to see that the summons to separation and cross-bearing has anything to say to us at all.\u201d10<\/sup><\/p>\n

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And So . . .<\/strong><\/h3>\n

It has been my contention that the \u201cseeker-sensitive\u201d movement has lost its way.\u00a0 In fact, it lost its way when it started in a wrong direction.\u00a0 It is not doing what is best for the seeker and is therefore not sensitive in a proper Christian sense to him. We are ambassadors, not salesmen.\u00a0 The gospel is a sacred trust not a product to be sold to the highest bidder.<\/p>\n

In next month\u2019s part 2 article<\/a>, I will contrast these six \u201cseeker-sensitive\u201d points with six \u201csinner-sensitive points.<\/p>\n

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Notes:<\/address>\n
1. G.A. Pritchard, Willow Creek Seeker Services (Grand Rapids: Baker Book, 1996) 24.<\/address>\n
2. Ed Dobson, Starting a Seeker Sensitive Service (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1993) 15.<\/address>\n
3. William Carr Peel & Walt Larimore, Going Public With Your Faith (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2003) 20.<\/address>\n
4. Pritchard, 123.<\/address>\n
5. Brian McLaren, The Church on the Other Side (Grand Rapids:\u00a0 Zondervan, 2000) 43.<\/address>\n
6. George Barna, Church Marketing (Ventura, CA:\u00a0 Regal Books, 1992) 14.<\/address>\n
7.Dobson, 25.<\/address>\n
8. Pritchard, 99.<\/address>\n
9. Pritchard, 12.<\/address>\n
10. J.I. Packer, Truth and Power (Wheaton: Harold Shaw Publishers, 1996) 145.<\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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