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I personally don't have a problem with anyone inviting the unsaved/unrepentent into the church worship service. If a person is receptive to coming to church, who knows if God is not already working in that person's heart? Do we gear worship to the world, of course not, worship is ascribing glory to God. However, if the church is the church it is supposed to be, then the person "invited" will either come under conviction or flee and not want to return. I am against soiling the church service in order for the unclean to feel comfortable, but I believe they can come to the worship service if they desire and someone from the church invited them. There is a difference between them being there and being members of the church body, I wouldn't allow an unrepentent person to join the church. Even then we can't be absolutely sure of a person's heart.

Just as we see in Isaiah 6, when Isaiah stood in the presence of God the doorposts shook. Holiness and sinfulness cannot coexist, there will be a shaking and it isn't God who will be shaking, but the sinner. I believe in the almighty power of God and if an unrepentent sinner comes into the assembly of saints, my prayer is that God has mercy on him. The problem today is that in many church services, God is absent and the unrepentent is quite comfortable. Worship can still be pure and acceptable even if there is an unrepentent sinner in the midst, I hardly believe that all the people I worship with are actually born again, but I'm not the one to judge. I know that quite a few left since the preaching/teaching became more heart searching because they didn't feel good from the services, go figure. Anyway, I suppose it all comes down to what we are expecting in a church service, I don't believe an unrepentent sinner is going to affect the congregation's worship experience if it is done in Spirit and truth.