So this one day we're having the usual encouragement from the platform to beat ourselves up following Paul's example, and as part of that we're all reading along with the "I pummel my body and lead it as a slave" scripture.
A brother puts his hand up and starts waxing lyrical about how this scripture always reminds him of how his mother used to use a pummel stone to take off the hard skin on the bottom of his feet. Cue general confusion, followed by a helpful member of the congregation pointing out that perhaps he meant a pumice stone?
From that point on, the pumice stone in our house (for we had one) became the pummel stone, and whenever the scripture above was read, I could be found sniggering and reading in my head "I pumice my body and lead it as a slave". It helped to make Paul a bit less scary.
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