One of the largest seeker sensitive church's in America is Willow Creek. They are primarily responsible for the seeker sensitive movement about growing large mega-church's and they have released a new book on their findings about the spiritual depth of their congregation. Not surprising their results were not good news and they have found their congregations to be spiritually weak. This is well worth a read. I am so blessed to have my pastor,John Werhas, who isn't all about the "church" programs but about teaching the Word of God book by book, chapter by chapter and verse by verse.
Here is a quote from the founder of Willow Creek and below is a full article from Town Hall.com
"We made a mistake. What we should have done when people crossed the line of faith and become Christians, we should have started telling people and teaching people that they have to take responsibility to become ‘self feeders.’ We should have gotten people, taught people, how to read their bible between services, how to do the spiritual practices much more aggressively on their own."
Bob Burney over at Town Hall has written a piece about this new finding. You can find it HERE.
What is church to do and promote, very simple all I need to do is go look at the first Church started by the apostles in Acts 2:42:
And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.
What is the first thing they devoted themselves too? Sound doctrine from the apostles teaching. If your church is not based on sound doctrine and teaching you from the Word of God you might want to rethink why you are going there.
Wes Porter
Galatians 2:20
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