Devo for May 1
A certain hog farmer refused to have anything to do with the church because all he ever saw was a bunch of hypocrites who belonged to it.
One day the preacher of the church came to buy a hog from him. After looking over the farmer’s entire swine herd, the preacher pointed to a scrawny, sickly, little runt and said, “I want that one.”The farmer protested vigorously, “Why, Preacher, you don’t want that one. He’s the scrawniest runt I ever saw. Look, here are some fine hogs over here.”
“That’s all right,” said the preacher, “I want that one.”After the purchase was completed, the preacher said, “Now I am going to haul this pig all over the country and tell everyone that this is the kind of hogs you raise!”“Hey, Preacher, that’s not fair,” the farmer protested. “I raise fine hogs. An occasional runt doesn’t represent my whole stock.”The preacher replied, “I am only following your example of condemning a whole church because of the actions of a few of its members,”.
The farmer got the point!
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A minute of mediation from the Camden Avenue Church of Christ