Am I In An Emerging Church?

Q. I am so thankful for your site.

Do you think a church whose pastor does not give altar calls, has long musical worship services and frequently reads from articles instead of the Bible is an Emergent Church?

Your Q&A recently about the Emergent/Seeker Friendly Church sure sounds a lot like the church my husband and I recently started going to, but I don’t want to see something that’s not there.

Frankly I guess I know the answer to this question but would like your opinion. The lack of an altar call has me really worried as I’ve never gone to a church that did not have one at the end of each and every service.

A. It’s hard to tell without actually being there, but if you notice that the focus is more on gaining new members than on gaining new believers, and if there’s an effort to downplay the need to be saved while emphasizing social programs and the entertainment value of the service, then you might have a problem.