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Balanced Scale?
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 13, 2009 (message contributor)
BALANCED SCALE?
I read that years ago in England when they still used the balanced scales that a baker sued a farmer over the pound of butter that he was buying. And he said that when he first started buying butter from the farmer, it was a full pound. But gradually the farmer was selling him less and less, until now he was only giving him about three quarters of a pound of butter and still charging him for the full pound. And so he sued him in court.
The farmer in his own defense said to the judge, "Sir, I only have a balanced scale to measure the butter." And he said, "I always put the baker’s pound loaf of bread on the other side of the scale and that’s how I know when he has his pound of butter."
(From a sermon by c vincent, "Changing Church, Changing Culture wk4" 7/6/2009)
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