Yesterday Alastair asked if ‘seeker’ is a now a ‘dirty’ word when used in the context of church gatherings.
Biblically what we do in corporate worship is supposed to be something of which an outsider can make sense. One of my friends puts it that they should think our behaviour shows we’re committed, not crazy.
Last night Nathan W. Bingham put up a post focussing on the fact that a biblical worship service will reflect that the only ‘seeker’ in the work of spiritual regeneration is God Himself.
His conclusion:
Ironically, the seeker sensitive movement has not been sensitive to the Seeker at all. Rather, they have pushed Him aside and elevated man in His place.
Lane Keister quotes R.C. Sproul quoting Thomas Aquinas:
We see people searching for the things that we know can be found only in Christ, but we make the gratuitous assumption that because they are seeking the benefits of God, they must therefore be seeking God. That is the very dilemma of fallen creatures: we want the things that only God can give us, but we do not want him. We want peace but not the Prince of Peace. We want purpose but not the sovereign purposes decreed by God. We want meaning found in ourselves but not in his rule over us. We see desperate people, and we assume they are seeking for God, but they are not seeking for God. I know that because God says so. No one seeks after God
We celebrate curiosity and interest in the substance of the Gospel when individuals display it. Among other things it may mean that God is seeking that one and moving them toward His kingdom. We treat all individuals displaying such curiosity equally because we don’t know what, or who, has brought them to this point.
Perhaps we should be calling them ‘soughter Services’.
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