Dr. Thom Rainer's research shows that the seeker-sensitive movement has been a needed wake-up call for dead, inwardly focused churches. The movement has rightly reminded churches to be aware of or sensitive to the presence of lost persons in a worship service.
Some churches, however, experience a decline in personal evangelistic efforts when the church focus is on seeker sensitivity.
Rainer attributes this to an attitude that sees the seeker-sensitive worship service as the only evangelistic methodology.
The formerly unchurched his researchers interviewed left little doubt as to the importance of personal evangelism in reaching the unchurched: over half indicated that someone from the church they joined shared Christ with them.
Source: Surprising Insights From The Unchurched by Thom S. Rainer, 2001, Zondervan
