[GraceChristianChat] Fw: The hog farmer & the pastor

[Charles Sawyer]

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Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 9:50 AM
Subject: The hog farmer & the pastor


"in a pig's eye"

  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.  He always named two or three.  One day the pastor of the church came by to buy a hog from him.  After looking over the farmer's entire swine herd, the pastor pointed to a scrawny, sickly, ugly little runt and said, "I want that one." 

  The farmer remonstrated 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 alright," said the preacher, "I want that one."  After the purchase was completed, the pastor said, "Now, I am going to haul this pig all over the counrty and tell everyone this is the kind of hog you raise!" 
"Hey, preacher, that's not fair!  I raise fine hogs. An occasional runt doesn't ruin my whole stock."
  "I'm only following your example of condemning a whole church because of the stunted spirituality of a few of the members," explained the pastor.  

The farmer got the point.
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