If this is the case I would recommend reading more Luther, who is well know to drop rather blunt (in your face) phrasing as well to wake up a slumbering audience.
I don't mean to specifically refer to people in my church, or even people in your specific church however I do mean to speak to a problem among the vague post-Christian, post-Evangelical people in American churches in general.
I had a dream last night....
In it 2 headless men were passing on the street. One day the 2 fine upstanding, moral and polite gents stopped & struck up a conversation. The 1st headless man went on & on in depth about the 2nd headless man's haircut and how it moved him, inspired him and filled him with joy & meaning. The 2nd man was not dumb and a small part of his soul whispered to him, you have no head & no hair this man is lying to you. But the louder part of the 2nd man's heart, the place where pride reigns as sovereign shouted to drown out the voice of the soul. He cried, "This man is encouragement! This man is love! This man is positivism! This man is encouragement! This man is love! This man is acceptance! It matters less what this man says than how he says it, with love & passion & pleasantries."
Many people in the Church today love to hear nice news regardless of if its the actually the "good news."
The Church in America will too readily put up with lies told pleasantly than truth that is told that tells us we are wrong.
Do not head to Church tomorrow without your head, listen with your Bible open & your thinking cap on not with you head in a bag near your feet & merely your heart open!
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