Powerful stuff

Does anything stand out to you in this excerpt from Kent Carlson's account of shifting the preaching emphasis at the large, growing church where he ministered?

We became convinced that we—and much of the evangelical entrepreneurial subculture—were extremely consumeristic. We realized our ministry was oriented around providing religious benefits for people, and that we'd been encouraging people to choose the church they wanted to attend based on those benefits. So we pulled away from consumerism and became enthralled with our own process of formation as leaders. We began to attend to the details of our own lives, and then had to try to communicate this new focus to the people in our church. Sadly, the church did not respond very well to the shift of emphasis, and we witnessed [a mass] exodus from the church during this time. But we continued to stay faithful to the vision we believed God had given us for the church.

It's rare to find a preacher that frank and determined. I don't know anything about Kent Carlson, but I hope his account is for real.