I am deffinitely in agreement with you. It seems like the "hard" stuff of the gospel is omitted these days. Hard texts of Scripture are ignored; that probably explains why I had such a hard time with that passage I quoted above. In my 21 years of being in churches, I have NEVER heard a sermon on that passage. In fact, I've rarely even seem someone write on it.
It's a scary time for Christianity when Christians don't want to think about the book that they claim to believe.
