I’m glad to hear that you’ve both heard these passages in your church recently. Are there any areas of Scripture that have seemed to you to be missing, though?
On my own experiences, I don’t have a car so I’ve been limited to more urban churches where I can use public transportation. These are conservative, Bible-believing churches, but their location is urban, and seemed to be more influenced by their overall pretty liberal areas.
And despite these passages not being looked at in services where I’ve been, there have been many other similarly challenging passages that have come up. But maybe what more seems to be missing to me is the sense that these types of passages are very important in both the minds and actions of many and most in the Church. Like, one thing is said but another is often done. Most churches today seem to pretty frequently criticize church if it’s entertainment, and things of that nature, yet the entertainment mindset goes on even in many of those same churches that bring up the subject.
I would say that most sermons tend to be from the New Testatment. Our pastor did run through the minor prophets a few years ago but I don’t think he has ever preached from Numbers or Chronicles, etc. So, not much Old Testament.