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Wednesday, January 2, 2013

"SEEKER SENSITIVE, ATTRACTIONAL OR MISSIONAL CHURCH"-WHICH IS YOUR'S?

Joel Taylor of 5 Pt. Salthttp://5ptsalt.com, has an excellent article, tiltled "The Missional Church: An Attempt to Combine the Great Commission with Unbiblical Ideas" at http://5ptsalt.com/2011/02/21/the-missional-church-an-attempt-to-combine-the-great-commission-with-unbiblical-ideas/. In it Mr. Taylor refers to a 26 page pdf article of "Reformed" Tim Keller on the subject of the "missional" church titled "Contextual and Missional" at http://lcm.endisinsight.com/Publisher/File.aspx?ID=39597. Keller can be seen and heard trying to differentiate between "seeker sensitive" (a/k/a "attractional") and "missional" churches here:
And Keller trying to differentiate between an evangelistic church and a "missional" church at:
And Keller describes how a "missional" church is not offensive or confusing to the unbeliever:

Taylor also links to an article on the website Modern Reformation by Michael Horton titled "Missional Church or New Monasticism?" at http://www.modernreformation.org/default.php?page=articledisplay&var1=ArtRead&var2=1215&var3=main&var4=Home.
    Perhaps "unbiblical ideas" is too kind an attribution for this new paradigm of "doing church". A better characterization would include the words "worldly, carnal, apostate, compromised". All in the name of this so-called neo-reformation/neo-Calvinism!