Church History in America...

I was reading an article about Christian Church history in America, the author states that in the mid nineteenth century, churches changed their path when they started focusing on loving Jesus rather than on listening to Him..The Bible slowly became a kind of ornament and a source of authority rather than a book you actually read..Sermons became more about ordinary life and less about biblical narratives..while Sunday schools focused more on morality than on learning about your own paricular denomination...................I have to agree with him on most of his findings, as the reading of the Bible was very rare in the Catholic Church that I grew up in...although learning about the Catholic denomination was constantly taught...Instead of the Bible, we had many other books that took quotations from the Bible,but we were never encouraged to read the entire Bible on our own......Perhaps, trying to keep us from coming to our own conclusions....