The challenge: Having said all this in favor of the seeker model, I do believe that seeker churches aren’t without their difficulties. What I’ve observed from a church-starting perspective is that seeker churches are difficult to plant. I worked with one such church where the preaching pastor put so much time and energy into the Sunday morning seeker service that he had nothing left for the midweek believers service, what Willow and others who follow the Willow model refer to as New Community. Eventually