There are really big churches all over the world! A small peripheral city like 
mine, creeps new emergent churches anchored in America. Some friends used to say “Look how many members they have. How they treated each other in “love”. They must have been the real church !” I wonder does the size of the congregation and those who appeared so friendly, so loving, so caring would truly be the basis that one is in the right track ?
Honestly, I find these churches very attractive to many, sadly and admittedly who in many ways does fulfill something that lacks in our churches these days. Yet if we look closely these kind of churches, it occurred to me, does they meant real “loving” and not just the facade of good treatment so that people would be drawn ? Does people these days care on what the Bible says ? or do we look for something that can satisfy our human desires, something that would promise you food in your stomach and yet compromises the true gospel of Christ ?
Using various methodologies, the appeal to emotions, proving point for experiences and breaking the stereotype. Cool ?
Recalling one of John MacArthur’s article, “What’s wrong with user-friendly” he puts it this way:
“That is precisely my concern about today’s pragmatic church-growth trend. The strategy focuses on attracting and keeping the unchurched. For what? To entertain them? To get them to attend church meetings regularly? Merely "churching" the unchurched accomplishes nothing of eternal value. That is where their strategy seems to end.
What's worse is when seeker-focused churches baptize the masses with their watered-down gospel, assuring them that positive decisions, feelings, or affirmations about Christ equal genuine conversion. There are now multitudes who are not authentic Christians identifying with the church. The church is literally invaded with the world's values, the world's interests, and the world's citizens. It isn't an invasion prompted by overt hostility; people are simply responding to a survey that came in the mail. Ironically, Satan isn't sowing the tares; church leaders are.
As you set your strategy for church ministry, you dare not overlook the primary means of church growth: the straightforward, Christ-centered proclamation of the unadulterated Word of God. If you trade the Word for amusements or gimmicks, you will not only find that you have no effective means to reach people with the truth of Christ, but you will find yourself working against the Lord Himself".
