Why do some churches in the world today refuse to preach the true Gospel of Jesus Christ and choose to adopt their own false doctrine?

I have been attending a church on and off for the past year and a half. At first the head pastor seemed to be preaching God's Word to the best of his ability, but it seems that now he is allowing false doctrine to dilute the Word by leaving out the fact that Jesus Christ died for us. 

The true Gospel has become more of an offense to people and I fear that the church today is in such depraved condition because they are giving people a false sense of salvation. For example, the preacher of this church recently preached a message on Romans 6, which is a chapter about how not to let sin rein in the Christian life. But, the pastor completely eluded the fact that we should keep our faith in Christ and what He accomplished on the cross and went on about how we need to devote time out of our day to our Heavenly Father by spending time in prayer. 

While I believe prayer is vital in forming a relationship with Christ, I believe that if a person does not know that they must not place their faith in how much religious activity their involved in because that only results in self-righteousness and pride which God hates. Pride and self-righteousness nailed His Son to that cross. My concern is that those in the congregation that don't know that they should not place their faith in simply reading God's Word or how holy they seem to appear and forget that ...while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. (Romans 5:8)

By doing what this church is telling them to do, they are trying to earn grace. Grace is not something to be earned, For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. (Ephesians 2:8, 9) I feel the burden for souls that Jesus has because when the pastor stands behind the pulpit and says that we must spend time in prayer and he doesn't make it clear to the people that salvation is a gift of God and not of works; he not only tells the people this but he also is preaching in order to please man and not God by being all smiles and no grit. That is not the true preaching of Gospel of Jesus Christ. 

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