This church is going to have to change it's slogan from a "place for the screwed and the screwed up" to "a place for the slobber-nockered."

How do we define church? I mean Biblically? Is the Biblical model of church supposed to be the evangelistic instrument that God uses?

The Baptist Faith & Message 2000 defines it quite well. Here is the line that is pertinent to this discussion.

"The New Testament speaks also of the church as the Body of Christ which includes all of the redeemed of all the ages, believers from every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation."

First of all, the church is not (supposed to be) made up of un-regenerate members but regenerate. If they are, and this is really a question for the "seeker"-sensitive church, how do you practice Matthew 18:15-20? Two words sum it up, that unfortunately most churches have forgotten, church discipline. You can't be a true Jesus following church if you are not practicing discipline. That includes those who are NOT "seeker"-sensitive churches.

The fact is that they cannot practice church discipline, as opposed to those that choose not to. So on the litmus of whether or not they are a true Biblical church that has the ability to practice church discipline, do they pass or fail?

Fail.

Next is evangelism.

So why are so many churches taking this approach to outreach? Is it Christ-like to create or advertise the Body of Christ on a shot glass? No.

In a world screaming for something different, the church is trying to show itself as the same…

We should be different. I used to hang out in bars. Reading the shot glass was the last thing I was looking at. When we teach our people that this is what evangelism looks like, we teach conformity not transformation. You don't have to change, you can be a Christian and be cool like the world. Even though the Bible tells a different story.

John 15:18-20 "If the world hates you, ¹you know that it has hated Me before it hated you. ¹⁹ "If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but ^aI chose you out of the world, ^btherefore the world hates you. ²⁰ "Remember the word that I said to you, ^a'A slave is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted Me, ^bthey will also persecute you; if they ^ckept My word, they will keep yours also." (NAS-emphasis mine)

So if the bartenders see you as just like them and think your cool…

Don't get me wrong, we should be in the bars sharing the Gospel, loving people, meeting needs. But passing out shot glasses doesn't shout there is a Savior, who can change your situation and/or change you.

Evangelism…fail.

They wanted to impress non believers. How about impressing and glorifying Him? Its one thing to stand outside a bar and hand out tracts and witness, but another to include a free shot glass. All you do is grant affirmation of the life they have. Not the one that they can have.

I'd vote for him. Read about who will nominate him here.