This story comes to me from my oldest son, who teaches the adult Sunday school class involved. Names have been changed)
Wilber and Lucy had attended other churches in town, but no one knew that when they started attending Sunday school. From the first Sunday they (especially Lucy) were a problem. She insisted on dominating the entire class with an apparently endless litany of woes about finances, health (she was in a wheelchair), and injustice. The members of the class tried to be sympathetic, but lots of irritation began to show. Subsequent Sundays were repeats.
What to do with Lucy? Several members of the class talked privately, and decided to take the [ More ... ]