Sin No More

One afternoon during the last Christmas period, a man stopped by the local church and said to the Pastor, "Pastor, please pray for me. I stole a turkey earlier today.” Though impressed by the seeming repentance, the Pastor rebuked and told him, "That was a terrible thing to do." Remorsefully, the man said, "Yes Pastor, I now realize that. Do you want it?" The Pastor replied "No, go give it back to the man that you stole it from."

The man thought for a moment and said, "I tried to give it back, but he refused it." The Pastor then told him, "In that case, you can keep the turkey, but sin no more." The man thanked the Pastor and went away, happily. That evening, when the Pastor arrived home, he discovered that his turkey had been stolen.