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Seeker Church Flashcards

1
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So often, the church finds it so hard to follow the directions about how __ and how it marshals its efforts in order to __

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comports itself, have the kind of impact that God intends it to have in the world.

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It’s not even clear that the church even __

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knows what it is all about, what it is meant to do

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When it comes to the Biblical text, we cannot figure out what the writer meant by __, but instead we have to __

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lifting our eyes and pondering and reflecting on the term, lower our eyes back to the text and figure out inductively what it is the writer was talking about in the passage

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4
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Most churches that try to be seeker sensitive end up __

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being seeker centered

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In a seeker sensitive church, who does the church become for?

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For the seeker rather than for Christians

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The church is meant to __

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fulfill the Great Commission

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What is the Great Commission?

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Go therefore and make disciples

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Many seeker-sensitive churches use the church for __ rather than __

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evangelism, making disciples

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In a seeker sensitive church, they all get together for a service and they preach __. Which is why Christians are dropping by the wayside: they are not __

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the Gospel, getting taught

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10
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In a seeker-sensitive church service, there is nothing more complicated or deep out of the __ than that which a __ can understand

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Scriptures, non-regenerate person

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When a service only contains material a non-regenerate person can understand, that is __. That isn’t even skim milk, it’s __.

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shallow, water

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Water for a non-regenerate person when evangelizing is not wrong, but evangelization is not __ and it doesn’t happen __

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the Great Commission, in the church

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13
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The Greek word for church is __ which means __

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ekclesia, called-out ones

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14
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The church is meant to be called out __

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of the world to be separate

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When the church service is the place non-believers come to get the Gospel, where do __

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the believers get discipled?

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What is the problem with saying the small group is where believers should be disciples?

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The small group leaders have not been taught.

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You cannot disciple people unless __, and they cannot be expected to know anything if __

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you have disciplers, they’ve never been taught

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18
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What is the nature of the Gospel that is going out in the service to the mass gathering? It is the __ with __.

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Seeker Gospel, which is no Gospel at all. good news with no bad news

19
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Why do people end up attending a seeker sensitive service? What should they be coming for?

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To find purpose in their lives

To get saved from sin

20
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What is the problem with “Forty Days of Purpose”?

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There is no Gospel in those forty days. It’s a technique used to get non-believers to the church but they hear a message of good news without any bad news.

21
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The Great Commission requires __ as a logical priority, but that just __

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evangelism, gets you to the place where you start to fulfill it.

22
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You do evangelsim for the purpose of __

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building disciples in the church

23
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Where do you see two examples of building disciples being the purpose of the church?

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Acts 2: all those people got saved and then they devoted themselves to the Apostles’ preaching and to the breaking of bread and to prayer
Acts 8: the Apostles couldn’t take the time from teaching the word, not evangelism, to wait tables, so they appointed stewards in the church.

24
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The church is the place where the Christians are __ so they can __

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discipled, go out and do the works of ministry and go into the marketplace and have an impact for Christ.

25
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The message disciples gave was not a message of purpose but of __. And they turned the world upside down with that message.

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sin and salvation

26
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What is the solution to the church’s problem?

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We have to abandon the seeker model and adopt the Biblical model.

27
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There is no place in the Scripture where the church gathers as Christians for the purpose of __

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watering down the Gospel message and getting people to come into their church congregation.

28
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What did the Biblical model of church look like?

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They gathered for training and edification of believers, and then they went out with the message of sin and salvation so people could get right with God before they could even begin to think about whatever purpose God had for their lives.

29
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In all __ times the Gospel is preached in Acts, there is not a single occasion where anyone was __

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14, invited to have a relationship with God.

30
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In Acts, there is not a single occasion where anyone is told that if they become Christians their life __, they will have __, or that God __

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will get better, more purpose, loves them.

31
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Is God’s love manifest in Acts? __ but __.

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Yes, but it is not the central message.

32
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God’s love is not what __ and it isn’t what __ is all about.

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leads to salvation, the Gospel

33
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Where is God’s love manifested?

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in the efforts that He took to rescue a fallen human race

34
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What is the saving message in Acts?

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It’s about fallen human beings, about sin and righteousness and judgment, and that Jesus came to restore man to their Savior against whom they have persistently rebelled.

35
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Why might your church not be prospering?

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Because they aren’t following the directions of the Great Commission: Go and make disciples.

36
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Go and __, then bring them into the church and __

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evangelize, train them to be disciples that can go out and do evangelizing better.

37
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Don’t change your church service into a seeker service so everyone can __

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come in and feel comfortable.

38
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Non-Christians shouldn’t feel __ in church because __. If they are, it’s probably because __

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comfortable, they aren’t right with God yet, we’ve changed the message.

39
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In a belong before you believe church, the church becomes __

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the community of those who are merely on a journey together

40
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In a belong before you believe community, it is not a __. It can’t be if you can __

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witness to the truth of Jesus Christ and his gospel. belong before you believe.

41
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A belong before you believe community is merely a witness to __.

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itself, its warmth, openness, and inclusiveness.

42
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There is nothing unique to a warm and open belong before you believe community. It doesn’t __. Only __ can do that. And only if __

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testify to Jesus
the local church
you must believe in order to belong.

43
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In short, the philosophy of belonging before belief fundamentally __, which in the long run __

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redefines the church, undermines the power of the church’s witness

44
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If the church is to display the good things of the gospel, the barrier of __, for it is that __ on display that __.

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belief must not be removed, shared belief, works most powerfully to invite people in.

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