Originally Posted by savedbygrace97
But there is just one problem. They are a very small church who tend to be so serious on their approach to holiness that they are not very open to unrepentant sinners.


Two points in reply:

First, no worship service should be "open" to unrepentant sinners! Worship is uniquely for God's own people. Those who are not His cannot worship Him and will be offended seeing true worship offered to God. Worship was not intended to appeal to unrepentant sinners, nor is the Church intended to be "open" to unrepentant sinners. It is and should be closed to them.

Second, we are to worship God as He has commanded according to His word rather than according to our own inventions, especially if those inventions are aimed at appealing to, attracting, or retaining larger numbers of unrepentant sinners.

The PCA church we left last year is in the midst of the very same error, hoping to attract unrepentant sinners rather than to worship God biblically. Worship is uniquely Christian. It is not something that unrepentant sinners are even capable of. In fact I dare say that so-called "worship" which does attract and satisfy unrepentant sinners is false worship, because it allows unrepentant sinners to feel comfortable in their rebellion rather than confronting them with God's justice as well as His mercy towards those who seek Him.