Seeker Sensitive Service

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Seeker Sensitive Service

• Presented by Alice Jonathan

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I. What is a seeker service?

• A seeker service aims to present a church service
  that will meaningfully communicate with the
  seeker.
• Seeker Services try to avoid any barriers that
  will hinder the unchurched person from coming to
  faith in Christ.

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I. What is a seeker service?

• Two Purposes of a Seeker Service
• 1. so that people without any religious
  background will understand everything that takes
  place
• 2. so that members are proud to bring their
  non-believing friends to it.

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I. What is a seeker service?

• Our members are constantly on mission to bring
  their friends and neighbors to these weekend
  seeker services.
• -Rick Warren

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Examples of Churches With Seeker Sensitive
Services
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II. Examples of Churches With Seeker Sensitive
Services

• Willow Creek Community Church, South Barrington,
  Illinois.
• Website Address www.willowcreek.org
• The Renewal of Sunday Worship, Robert E. Webber,
  Editor, p. 94ff.

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II. Examples of Churches With Seeker Sensitive
Services

• 2. Saddleback Valley Community Church,
• Lake Forest, California.
• When he started Saddleback Church, Rick
  Warren states that he immediately decided to
  specialize our services, having one targeted for
  the purpose of growing Christians and planning
  another one specifically for reaching our
  non-believing friends. We call our
  evangelistic-targeted service a seeker-sensitive
  service. The seeker services are designed to
  appeal to make sense to people with no religious
  background and are to be a safe place for
  believers to bring their seeking friends.

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III. The Saddle Back Story

• (See Handout)

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IV. Saddlebacks Purpose Statement

• To bring people to Jesus and membership in his
  family, develop them to Christian maturity, and
  equip them for their ministry in the church and
  life mission in the world, in order to magnify
  Gods name.

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V. Saddlebacks Belief Statement

• God is bigger and better and closer than we can
  imagine.
• The Bible is Gods perfect guidebook for living.
• Jesus is God showing himself to us.
• Through His Holy Spirit, God lives in and through
  us now.
• Nothing in creation just happened. God made it
  all.
• Grace is the only way to have a relationship with
  God

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V. Saddlebacks Belief Statement

• Faith is the only way to grow in our relationship
  with God.
• God has allowed evil to provide us with a choice,
  God can bring good even out of evil events and
  God promises victory over evil to those who
  choose him.
• Heaven and hell are real places. Death is a
  beginning, not the end.
• The church is to serve people like Jesus served
  people.
• Jesus is coming again.

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Article by Rick Warren

• (See Handout)

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VII.The SaddlebackWebsite

• www.saddleback.com