Certainly not everyone who claims to be ‘preaching the gospel’ is preaching what I think is the Gospel. In fact, what many folks preach who claim to be ‘preaching the gospel’ is contrary to what I think is the Gospel. A third party, trying to discern who is preaching the correct Gospel might have many criteria by which to judge. I suggest that offensiveness, whether of the preacher or the message, is a poor criterion for such judgment.
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And that would be the wrong criteria. It isn’t what you or I THINK, it is what the Bible says.
And your non answer spoke volumes. I honestly don’t care if you think I am arrogant or not, I only care what Christ thinks. I preach to please HIM not you or any other man.
What does the Bible say? Look around what passes for Christendom these days, and you'll find numerous contradictory answers to that question. How is a third party to distinguish one from another, to find the "correct" message of the Bible in the competing fray of contradictions? By mere offensiveness?
I honestly don’t care if you think I am arrogant or not
Again, I have accused you of nothing. Furthermore, my particular beliefs are of precious little interest on this thread; I'm far more interested in the topic of how beliefs are presented, whether or not misrepresentation of other folks' beliefs is acceptable, to what extent humility should be a characteristic of Christian witness, and the extent to which folks should take care that they themselves are behaving as Christ would have them, rather than worrying about others' behaviour.
The problem being, of course, that what the Bible says, is not always clear -- well-meaning people disagree, often vehemently, over the meaning and application of this or that passage of Scripture.
At which point, unfortunately, "what you or I THINK", begins to matter quite a lot.
What criteria do you propose, for deciding between those different points of view?