While an amusing anecdote, it also teaches an important lesson. There WAS something wrong with this minister, and the way he conducted his church! While I was sitting in that church, I noticed up front there was a lady flashing what looked like gang symbols to the front few rows, with each person in turn flashing back symbols as if they were some sort of demented air traffic controller! It was very distracting to those of us wishing to sincerely praise the Lord. My host next to me explained their church offered service for the "hearing impaired" as if it were something to brag about. I was unimpressed.
Next, and most shocking, towards the end of the service when the minister offered communion to the servers, I noticed one of them was a little off-kilter... to say the least. Shorter than the rest of them, with sloped shoulders and a bowl haircut which barely was able to contain the large cowlick in the back of his head, he wore unfitted clothing which went out of style over a decade ago. Worse still, a large, silly grin beamed on his face from ear to ear below his upturned nose and his out of place eyes on his tiny little head.
It was clear this boy was a retard.
Well, I had just had it! Even if I had not already been planning on refusing to take bread and wine from this apostate church, I certainly would have avoided it upon seeing this drooling fool! Was this minister wrong???? Goodness! He could only get MORE wrong by inviting a busload of rapists and drug pushers from the local prison into his church!
I stood up from my seat, addressing the minister so that all his congregation could hear his iniquities, and rebuked the SNOT out of him, so that all that was left of him was a stuttering schoolboy (and I do believe that young retard wet his pants) when I exposed this mockery for what it was!