“The future of the church, and our country, depends on us employing a different model and equipping the saints while also reaching the lost. There are practicalities that we can take from the megachurch movement, but the next era of church in this nation must correct the errors above.”
(Steven Whitlow – Clear Truth Media) When I was a seventeen-year-old high school senior, I had to write a senior paper. My family had left our Assemblies of God Church a few years prior, and found ourselves at the up-and-coming local megachurch. I fell in love with it, so much so that my paper’s thesis statement was the following:
“Without the seeker-sensitive movement, the American church will fail and become irrelevant to modern culture. The seeker model is the hope of the American Church.”
Man, was I wrong.
Twenty years later, all but one of which were spent in full-time ministry, I can see the error of my ways and the immediate need to redirect the American Church from the squishy, seeker-sensitive center-right.
Research: Purpose Driven, Seeker Sensitive, Market Driven