I've sat in too many pews over the years and listened to clergy persons "preach at" the congregation, telling them they would have to change or get passed by - and yet, it was the clergy who enabled the laity to remain passive recipients of professional paternalistic services which inhibited spiritual growth and the "edification of the Body". The system is dysfunctional... and the people who have remained faithfully and ignorantly attached to it suffer as a result.