9 Marks : Building Healthy Churches

Which came first: the seeker-sensitive service philosophy or a commitment to sound biblical exposition?  Consider this testimony by a prominent pastor of a large seeker-sensitive church about the early days of his ministry: By January 1976 it had become evident that the core believers, who were working so hard and giving out so much, desperately needed deeper Bible teaching and corporate worship.  So we started the New Community, our midweek believers service. Read more >

Will the seeker-sensitive model ultimately be unable to keep up with the culture?  What follows is a very important statement in one pastor’s account of his seeker-sensitive church: Read more >