J.I. Packer on Seeker Sensitivity...

From an interview @ 9Marks: "One of the ways in which the entertainment culture expresses itself today is, it seems to me, is in the kind of [...] entertainment that's presented so often in churches that call themselves seeker friendly, and which say, if asked to explain themselves, "Well, we are orienting everything we do to attract the uncommitted outsider." I think there are two things wrong there, not just one. One is that we shouldn't cheapen or limit the worshiping and teaching life of the congregation in order to concentrate on people who are not yet members of the congregation. Otherwise the congregation will starve and I can tell you frankly that I have met members of congregations that have gone overboard in being seeker friendly and the saints are starving. But there's a second thing wrong, and that is that God himself is being dishonored by establishing a wavelength of entertainment which means gratifying people's present interests, which means worldliness, which means unspirituality. Which means that if the outsider is allured by the skits and the songs and the drama and all of that, [then] he or she will either have to learn at a late stage about the greatness and the majesty of God or, he or she will be an immature, juvenile, stunted Christian for the rest of their days. As a way of forming people in Christ, the seeker-friendly, seeker-sensitive way of structuring church life seems to me to be absolutely wrong at that level too.