They were comments about the morning sermon, given at the door while shaking the the pastor's hand. I've never had any of those things said to me, personally. Most people don't say anything at all to me if they don't appreciate the morning sermon. And when I was a student pastor, down at Advocate-St. I've tried to follow her advice ever since.
Pastors work hard on their sermons- many hours that their parishoners never see.
I studied the field of homiletics in depth in seminary. I actually majored in preaching and worship. I'm fascinated with the question of what makes a good sermon good and a bad sermon bad, what communicates and what doesn't, how God's living Word comes down through the personality of a spiritually hungry human being and reaches out to touch the hearts and grasp hold of the minds of other spiritually hungry human beings. This preaching event is truly a great mystery. I've heard excellent sermons preached by people with monotone voices who stand like a statue, and been bored for 40 minutes by ministers who expend lots of energy waving their hands and shouting.