Have we found what we are looking for?

A few years ago a popular trend emerged among evangelical churches. Almost overnight so-called "seeker friendly" churches seemed to be popping up everywhere. The general idea behind these churches seemed sound enough. Many non-Christians are put off by the trappings and traditions of the church and truth be told a church service can be a scary thing to outsiders.

These churches played modern worship music instead of traditional hymns. The services often included high production values that most concert venues would be jealous of. The Pastor would shun vestments and suit for jeans and t-shirts and people were encouraged to "come as they are". And when they got there they were offered a cup of coffee and told about all the amazing activities the church was participating in.

It wasn't long though before controversy began to arise surrounding these churches. Some of it was nothing more than critiques of style and methodology but there was a very significant concern with the message they were preaching. Many accused these churches of watering down the Gospel, only talking about the easy parts and forgetting the hard truths, in order to not push anyone away.

These accusations slowed the growth of the seeker friendly churches which seemed destined to take over the church landscape. Certainly many churches still are by all practical measures still "seeker friendly" but most would reject that term.

Shouldn't all of our churches be seeker friendly though? Of course we should not water-down God's Word but are we not all still seeking Him? We may know Him, we may have even "found" Jesus but does that mean we should stop looking for Him? Aren't all Christians called to seek to know Him better, to seek to walk closer with Him, to seek where it is He is leading us?

If so don't we wish all our churches to be "seeker friendly"?