Would you ever choose "not to preach against sin"?

Originally Posted by Lost

Yet why doesn't happen more in today's churches?

Well, there is that passage in one of the letters to Timothy about tickling ears.

There are things I've seen in saints and young people in the last several years that I wouldn't have even dared thinking about, much less do, growing up. Saints, by the bus-load, are acting, looking, and talking like the world more than they ever have before.

And it's going to get worse; but guess what: if they're living like the world and adopting the world's values, they're not saints.

Are preachers trying to make the message more palatable by taking the "bite" out of the Bible?

Go back to my "tickling ears" comment.

Either preachers aren't preaching it, saints aren't living it, or a combination of both. Why?

It's both and the reason why it's that way is that too much of the Church has become corrupted by the world. We try to conform the Bible to the values of the world and try to make excuses as to why particular commands or principles in the New Testament just can't possibly be applied to us today. Two examples of what I'm talking about are the way some Christians don't take the Creation account in Genesis literally (and, in so doing, they're accommodating evolution) and the way so much of the Church today has brought wicked worldly philosophies like psychology into the Church (actually, all worldly philosophies are wicked simply because they're of the world).