Well-intentioned Dragons
Acts 5:1-16
Dr. Jim Denison
This week I found this list of actual label instructions on consumer goods:
On a Sears hair dryer: Do not use while sleeping.
On a bag of Fritos: You could be a winner! No purchase necessary. Details inside.
On some Swanson frozen dinners: Serving suggestion: defrost.
On Marks & Spencer Bread Pudding: Product will be hot after heating.
On the package of a Rowenta Iron: Do not iron clothes on body.
On a Korean kitchen knife: Warning, keep out of children.
On an American Airlines package of nuts: Instructions: Open packet, eat nuts.
On a Swedish chain saw: Do not attempt to stop the chain with your hands.
Good advice, all.
There should be a warning label over the doors of our church buildings as well: Warning: unity attacked here.
That’s an odd warning, isn’t it? But the word of God says as much: “Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour” (I Peter 5:8). And being a great economist, he always attacks us first at the point of unity.