Do Not Read This Article

By David Bragg       The HOP Shops Food Marts and Truck Plazas in northern Kentucky is a popular destination for visitors. Specifically, their restrooms! Select locations feature a button on the bathroom wall with a "Do Not Push This Button" sign. Those who push it are bathed in bright colorful lights reflected in a mirror ball with upbeat disco music playing over the PA system. The “Home of the Famous Disco Bathrooms,” HOP Shops boast online of their status as “America’s Cleanest Restrooms” (hopshops.com). Their attraction is built on the proven strategy that the best way to get some people to do something is to order them NOT to do something.     It is significant that the New Testament closes with a dire warning to not twist and transfigure God’s inspired word (Rev. 22:18-19). It is a huge “Do Not Push This Button” sign that is ignored by many professing Christians in a multi-denominated religious world.     Biblical Christianity is under siege in a modern world that rejects God’s truth for human desires. This is the very thing Paul warned about in 2 Timothy 4:3-4, “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires … they will heap up for themselves teachers; 4 and they will turn their ears away from the truth.” Jude recognized our need to possess, proclaim and preserve the one, only and forever “common salvation” (Jude 3) presented in God’s inspired word. That is the truth God wants us to preach and practice.

- David Bragg is co-editor of BulletinGold. He may be contacted through his blog: http://davidbragg.blogspot.com/

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