I don’t think it is that people are tired as much as it is due to the fact that they’ve heard this all before- several times. I am talking about people who nod their heads and fall asleep in church. Another part of it is that more and more people are becoming turned off by what they hear served up that simply doesn’t happen. What miracles? and then there’s the massive hype and INFOTAINMENT that we all encounter every day of our life. How does church, religion compete?
My answer is that it doesn’t. It shouldn’t!
But because church-religion has attempted to compete on the commercial-entertainment turf, it’s a no win game. A semi paralysis has settled over much of the church as a result of hearing about how depraved mankind is, birthed in ugly original sin, and destined for an eternal hell if he or she doesn’t “believe rightly“. Who is to know what “rightly” is? Every denomination has a different take on that. There are even many distinctions within churches within a denomination.
And non-denominational churches are not exempt!
Christology (Jesus, the Christ) needs to be the focus of our locus.
There’s nothing boring in that discipline and there’s something new to learn each and every day we’re open to His Spirit. The incarnation is still “incarnating“. 
Take the approach that Jesus was fully human (He had to be) and all of a sudden you’ve got stuff to learn. Simply saying He was fully human and fully divine lets one off the hook and back we go to sleep walking through life. But say that Jesus was “totus in nostris” and now you at least have to wake up long enough to verbalize the question, “Say what”?
As Hugh Montefiore said, “If Jesus is wholly a man (and He was) all of His life must in principle be explicable in human terms”. Now I’m awake. And, help me Holy Spirit!
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