People avoid judgement because they don't want to repent and receive forgiveness. And so churches in many places, in their mad frenzy to be relevant and give people what they want rather than what God wants them to have, have stopped preaching judgement and repentance entirely. As a result, these same churches also withhold forgiveness from the very people who need it most. Increasingly, churches even within our denomination are skipping the Confession and Absolution at the beginning of the service. Worship services are created to give people a spiritual high without requiring anything of them.
People walk in, are amused for a while, and then walk out unchanged.
Nothing has upset them. Nothing has disturbed the status quo . Nothing has been said or done to hold them accountable. The peace they feel afterward is only a kind of spiritual icing poured over their otherwise crumby cake of life. Later on, they are haunted by something, a vague sense of emptiness, but they can't quite identify it.