Ananias and Sapphira

Here's an amusing little blurb from a preacher about the story of Ananias and Sapphira:

Preachers don't like this story, apparently. I once spent a morning in a large seminary library hunting for sermons on Ananias and Sapphira and couldn't find any. The two most read preachers' magazines - Expository Times and Pulpit Digest - didn't have a single sermon on this passage. Folks dropping dead in church (it happens occasionally) isn't nice.

There are some big questions here. Why did they do it? How did Peter know? Why was the punishment so severe - and so swift? Why did God deem this sin so bad? "Did they go to heaven?" one woman asked after I'd preached on this passage.

There are no easy answers.

I think there is an easy answer to the question of why Ananias and Sapphira doesn't get mentioned -- it's because it hits too close to home.