Imagine how unbelievers may feel. Another reader admits there at least needs to be some balance:

“Teachers come here from China to upgrade their methods and we have arranged classes to introduce them to the Bible. You have to dumb it down a little when they ask, “What is this word ‘Resurrection?’ We've never heard that word.” If you don't stop and clarify this they'll leave. But those who know will leave too if you spend too much time on the basics.”

And yet MacArthur goes on to call seeker-sensitivity “deadly” for churches. And he makes a compelling, if not paradoxical, argument. For if seeker-sensivitity truly buffers the church roll (and why do it if it doesn’t?), why would it be dangerous?

Because the Word in all its truth is not taught, and according to 2 Corinthians 4:2 , anything other is “shameful and underhanded.” It also takes an important job out of the hands of believers:

“I just heard MacArthur preach this week that we too often think of church as the "place of evangelism." Instead, he taught that the church was where members gathered to worship, be taught, hear the preached Word of God, and equipped to do evangelism in the world. If every meeting of the church is turned to "seeker sensitive," I wonder-- and I mean this sincerely -- when will the saints be equipped?”

“Witnessing activities outside the church are great but the church is for Christians not for unbelievers. Unbelievers need the truth not sensitivity.”