The foundation of Christ's teachings

I don't normally spend too much time reading creationist literature from creation scientists, because I prefer to believe that God made it happen somehew, but I came across an editorial from a guy called Don Batten http://creation.com/revival-what-is-missing

This is a cut and paste of his main points:

Throughout history, revival occurred with the faithful preaching of righteousness, sin, and judgment. Central to all biblical preaching is sin and judgment. Why? Because the sinner needs to know he is in trouble before he is likely to have any interest in being saved. Jonathan Edwards’ famous sermon was titled, ‘Sinners in the hands of an angry God.’ Wesley, Whitefield, Finney and Moody all emphasized that their listeners had broken God’s Law, were guilty before the Righteous Judge of heaven and earth, and deserving of His wrath. These great revivalists knew that the Good News of God’s forgiveness in Jesus Christ would not make much sense unless people understood the ‘Bad News,’ the full impact of their lost condition in Adam, and would cry out to God for mercy.
In Finney’s day, over 90% of those counseled for salvation persevered. Today it is apparently less than 5%. Why?
In today’s evolutionized world, unlike the world of the revivalists, most no longer believe in Creation and the Fall, as recorded in Genesis. So there is no longer any basis for understanding the meaning of sin, namely rebellion against our Creator. So sin has been variously re-defined—loss of self-esteem, or left-over aggression from our animal ancestors. So, when evangelists try preaching about sin, instead of having people call to God for mercy, they get a confused, even hostile response.
So evangelists have tended to minimize talk of sin and judgment, offering instead happiness here and now, rather than rescue from eternal damnation.

His point on the preaching of happiness in the here and now, rather than being rescued from eternal damnation is a good one. Churches have lost their power, in my opinion, because they ignore the basic tenets of biblical truth. Even Paul recognised what the foundations of Christ's teaching were:

Hebrews 6: 1-3: Therefore let us leave the elementary teachings about Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again the foundation of repentance from acts that lead to death,[a] and of faith in God, 2instruction about baptisms, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.

Paul knew that among the foundations of Christ's teaching was repentance from sin, resurrection of the dead and eternal judgement. Most of the churches I have been too in my life have ditched these teachings and have placed too much focus on doing good or how to look like Christians in a secular society. Sunday mornings can feel like a gathering of socialists trying to bring equality, acceptance and tolerance into their world. These socialist ideals are important, but they are not the foundation of Christ's teaching and without it, the gospel is not getting preached. You have to go to Church for many Sunday's to hear anything about the Gospel of salvation (sin, repentance and eternal judgment). Without the gospel, we are all damned, no matter now socialistic we are.