Tom,

It's wonderful you are thinking of writing an article! I'll want to see it, as will many others here.

I think that this question was actually asked over on the Discussing Reformation Board, so a few people may be stratching their heads <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/scratch1.gif" alt="" />

I can think of how the seeker-sentive movement would contradict Total Depravity. The seeker-sensitive movement waters down sin. Thus, the whole Gospel is not preached, and man is not going to abhor his sin. The movement also says that the unregenerate can seek after God and desire God. This is in opposition to the words of Scripture, for none seek after God, unless the Lord places within them a heart of flesh to replace their heart of stone! And the seeker-sensitive churches end up, in Spurgeon's words, for the most part "amusing goats" rather than "feeding sheep."

I was also thinking about how Irresistable Grace could tie into this. Once God regenerates a person's heart, that person, being one of the elect, will indeed come to Christ. So, if God regenerates a person's heart, and He usues the preaching and expositing of the Word to make us aware of our sinful state and of our need for a Savior, then why do we think we need to invent human improvements to God's means of saving sinners?

True godliness is a sincere feeling which loves God as Father as much as it fears and reverences Him as Lord, embraces His righteousness, and dreads offending Him worse than death~ Calvin