Traveling with P.G.I am getting ready to travel with P.G. Vargis to a few churches over the next couple of weeks. P.G. is an incredible man. He is the founder and now “chief mentor” of IET the largest and fasting growing indiginous church planting movement …
Read MoreLetter to the Editor on Seeker Churches
My letter to the editor about seeker churches final appeared in the Americus Times Recorder today. To get you caught up, a letter to the editor was written about the destructive nature of seeker church. I disagreed and wrote a letter in response. It took …
Read MoreThe Consumer Culture within Seeker-Oriented Churches
When people ask me what I believe about seeker-oriented churches like Willow Creek, Saddleback, Northpoint, Fellowship Church etc., I am quick to point out their benefits. I am thankful for these seeker-oriented churches because of their passion for the local church and their passion to …
Read MoreResponding to the “Signs of the Seeker-Sensitive Movement”
The following is my thoughts on the so-called signs of the SSM (seeker sensitive movement) that appeared in a letter to the editor in our local paper, the Americus Times Recorder. (Read the entire letter for the context — http://derekvreeland.blogspot.com/2006/08/destructive-nature-of-seeker-sensitive.html). For the sake of brevity, …
Read MoreMy response to “The ‘destructive’ nature of the seeker-sensitive movement”
This is my response to the letter in our paper about the seeker-sensitive movment. My position is that the movement as a whole does not need to be feared, but it (like most man-made systems) is flawed. I did not have space in my letter …
Read MoreThe “destructive” nature of the seeker-sensitive movement
This is a letter to the editor that ran in the Americus-Times Recorder August, 20, 2006 concerning the destructive nature of seeker-oriented churches…. There is a destructive movement on now in many parts of the world, but especially in the United States, to redefine what …
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