David Bragg Via Bulletin Gold
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.
Groveland, FL