"People have gotten into the practice of following private religious hunches rather than learning of God from his own Word."

"People have ceased to recognize the reality of their own sinfulness, which imparts a degree of perversity and enmity against God to all that they think and do; it is our task to try to introduce people to this fact about themselves and so make them self-distrustful and open to correction by the word of Christ."

To which I would add, "starting with our eye beams first."