Seeker sensitive church is little more than psychologically entertaining medicine for those needing something to make their lives better while they march toward the flames of eternal separation from an infinitely just God. God’s Word will not-cannot fail. Justice must be carried out and there are only two options: 1. Justification through repentance and faith alone, in Christ alone…or…2. Eternal separation from God. Now, most seeker sensitive churches would have you believe that this is not as bad as it seems. Go to almost any seeker driven church website and you will be hard pressed to find a complete biblical account of eternal separation. They usually down play this doctrine and leave out the strong punishment aspect. If they actually use the word Hell it is softened. In fact, I just looked at a seeker church website and they use the word Hell and only mention separation from God. Then they end the paragraph (short one on this subject I might add) with eternal union with God is heaven. They make sure that the positive taste is left in the readers mouth. If they are offended by the previous Hell statement they are left with the focus of Heaven.
In regard to sin here is something you should expect to see on their websites. Talking about sin…”This attitude separates people from God and causes many problems in life”. Problems in life? Have they read the Bible? People who have not been justified by the blood of Jesus Christ are more repulsive to a Holy God than they can possibly imagine. As stated above, God’s Word WILL NOT- CANNOT FAIL! Justice must be satisfied and that only comes from God imputing Christ’s Righteousness to those who respond to the Gospel in faith (faith God gives them). The Gospel is not even connected to how you can have a better life. The Gospel is how your life and everything about it is repulsive to God and you must fall on the mercy of God provided in Christ’s death. Christ rose from the dead in victory over sin and death to provide eternal life to those who repent and believe. The seeker driven church knows nothing of this. They are depending on some psychology of man to make people happy with God so they can build a larger church. When we finally see how wicked our sin is before God, then the name Jesus starts to mean something. This only comes from God’s Holy Spirit convicting us of our wickedness. Dead men cannot hear, Dead men cannot feel, Dead men cannot see, Dead men cannot do anything to move toward God. That is the reason this seeker stuff is absolute nonsense. If the Gospel in the Word of God is not preached, there is nothing to quicken the dead person’s soul to receive the Gospel.
If you are in one of these seeker churches and you are not uncomfortable with the messages, you are very likely not a Christian. There is no hope for you except the Gospel of Jesus Christ convicting you of your sin, God’s righteousness and God’s judgement of your sin. I would suggest you pickup your bible and allow God’s Word to speak to your dead soul. Read the Book of Roman’s and pray “Dear God please speak to me. I have no conviction about the wickedness of my sin. I need your help to convict me. Please, God, speak to me through your perfect Word and reveal the true Gospel to me”. If you are in one of these seeker churches and you are not bothered by the messages, God help you! Salvation is a miracle on the order of the creation of the universe. You need a miracle. Pray for a miracle.