"Maybe you should bring up their failings to them instead of us?"
I'm working on it...but it't not an easy sale.
If it isn't an easy sale to the preachers who should be in tune with the Lord, why would it be any easier for them to be more confrontational to the general congregation?
I understand that there were times when Jesus would say provocative things to confront the crowds; he even points out that there is a time to prune the tree of dead branches, but he didn't do it willy-nilly. Perhaps these pastors are cowards; perhaps they are trying to walk circumspectly and do more behind closed doors than is apparent?