Willow Creek’s Leadership Summit

Willow Creek’s Leadership Summit - CWN Please do not misunderstand. I gleaned some helpful stuff from the conference. But, as a leader who submits to the authority of God revealed objectively in the Scripture, I have always been troubled by the weak ecclesiology and overall weak theology coming from this organization. The market-driven, consumer-centered approach to the Church is simply contrary to the teaching of Scripture about God (His character); Humanity (Our fallen condition); the Church (centered on the Lord Jesus) and Salvation (a call to deny self and receive God’s grace). It is a good goal to lead believers to become self-feeding, mature followers of Jesus. But this is accomplished by learning under the teachers Christ gifted to the Church (Ephesians 4:11-16). The Church gathered is for the glory of Christ through the building up of His body. To know how to lead the Church, let’s go to the Scriptures before looking to the fitness center.

The problem with Willow Creek is that they are more interested in church growth than Church growth.

They reach seekers who sometimes become growing Christians but the growing Christians find they have no purpose in life so they seek out “Purpose Driven” teaching to find their purpose but instead find theories of psychology and humanism. They then have more in common with the seekers then with mature Christians in their church and dominate the church membership and boards that continue the Laodicean seeker orientated cycle.