Why the Attractional Model of Church is fading
A leader from the "Seeker-sensitive" or "attractional" church movement discusses why this movement is fading, and how churches can pivot so as to be effective in the new situation we face.
I am deeply critical of many aspects of the "seeker-sensitive church" movement, and so I was very interested to see someone "on the inside" saying some of the same things I've been saying.
I believe that what the church needs to do is 'return to the ancient paths': the Bible as traditionally understood, the Creeds, the Liturgy and the Sacraments, the spiritual heritage of the universal church. We need to do this not because "that is what people want now" (which seems to be what many evangelicals are saying at the moment), but because this is what it is to be a true expression of the universal Church; these are the treasures God intended us to have and to share with the next generation.
Labels: Ancient-Future Worship, church renewal, Evangelicalism, Paleo-Orthodoxy
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