Being Reasonably Offensive?

"Today Christianity is largely inoffensive, and this kind of religion never will transform anything. Because you refuse to buy into “cheap grace” that keeps faith solely on the intellectual level, refusing to dirty its Christian hands with the messy problems besetting church and country, you will be called bad names and perhaps much worse. Jesus Christ offended the religious and political order of Palestine. The Christian, too, is bound to give offense, and if he or she does not, it is a bad sign—it means they cannot be very Christian."
(Brennan Manning. The Signature Of Jesus)