Getting too Personal
IllustrationStoryMy wife was once teaching my little boy a Sabbath-school lesson; she was telling him to notice how sin grows till it becomes a habit. The little fellow thought it was coming too close to him, so he coloured up and finally said— “Mamma, I think you are getting a good way from the subject.”
Also attributed to: Unknown
D. L. Moody, Anecdotes and Illustrations (©1898, public domain)
The point
Taught that sin grows into habit, a little boy squirms under the lesson's uncomfortably personal application and protests that his mother is 'getting a good way from the subject' - when in fact she'd landed right on it.
Audience
Adults
To tell aloud
under a minute · 55 words