I appreciated your comments Lionel. Your mention of the Willow Creek review of its programs and goals,“an approach too heavily oriented towards growth in numbers rather than growth in maturity”  reminded me that this issue of a balanced approach often needs confronting by a church.
As a leader one must be very careful not to determine or impose on the congregation a selective approach to the vision /goals which reflects only our particular gifts and enthusiasms. We need the input,advice,views and especially criticism of all concerned being prepared to adjust our priorities or at least let them lie fallow for a time.

Thank you for pointing out the real, true seeker is not Zacchaeus, not us, but Jesus.
Nice spin on the phrase, “seeker-sensitive”. I like that. As you have shown who the real seeker is in this post, could you also do a more detailed post on the term, “sensitive” next time?

Jesus sought out Zacchaeus and Zacchaeus was transformed into a seeker: not, of course, an indecisive and indiscriminate seeker or one who especially knows what he is seeking.  Yet a real seeker whose tax grubbing hands are empty, who has not yet apprehended, but wants to apprehend because he is already apprehended (Phil 3.12f).  And Jesus does not allow Zacchaeus to be merely a casual or even friendly seeker, preoccupied with unraveling facile cultural barriers.  Zacchaeus is no longer a looky-loo who divides his powers between this seeking and a possessing.  No!  Zacchaeus is a true seeker.  He seeks this one thing, his life in Christ, and all other possibilities have passed away.

Like Zacchaeus, once our Seeker finds us, our lives on earth may now be defined in “seeker-only” terms.  This is the meaning of the imperative (Col. 3.1f): “Seek those things which are above, where Christ sits.… Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.”  As K. Barth puts it, “To seek that which is above means that we are to seek here and now, but not in this here and now, not on the earth, because, … the true life of the Christian is with Christ, his true and exalted life, his own proper life, which begins with the death of Christ as his own death, the death of the old man.  Christ is above, and so too is the Christian in so far as he is in Christ.”