Not to mention the speaking style of most corporate executives. Frankly, most of them could use a public speaking course or two. So could many ministers.
Many people want a more direct and personal experience of God, and they see churches as attempting to manage that relationship and interpose themselves as the only channels, controls, and arbiters of it. And that turns people off.
Ultimately, the only God we can really know on a day-to-day basis is the God within, the One we can experience directly. While churches can point the way there, they can also impede that way, or at least appear to.
Striking the balance of guiding without seeming to demand and control (and intercede) is critical, I think.
Ultimately, the only God we can really know on a day-to-day basis is the God within,
The god within what?