Promotions: Do they work?
I say if you do not have a regular bible study, personal prayer time and attend a Bible preaching church, you are a follower of Satan. I say if you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem!
Dear Editor,
In the early 1960s, I was working for Bill Phillips at his 66 Service Station in Muldrow, and Hastings Pontiac had a promotion. Marion Hasting offered 100 gallons of gas, FREE, with the purchase of a new Pontiac; well the buyer of this car got his gas at Bill’s. I remember they got FREE gas all summer long and they were very happy about it.
In Fort Smith, the stations and grocery stores gave S&H Green Stamps with every purchase, and the customer really enjoyed taking the saved books of Green Stamps to the redemption centers and getting FREE stuff.
Sociologists teach us that we enjoy playing the games while, deep down, we realize that the consumer pays for all that FREE stuff. Yet we must live in such a way that we feel that we are doing the best we can for ourselves and our family. Companies will pay big bucks to get the name of their product mentioned on the radio or TV, because they know promotions work very well.
Now I’m curious, what would happen to communities and society, in general, if church attendance was promoted by the popular actors and singers to help establish peace? What if bible study and prayer was promoted by all the elected officials to bring down the crime wave? What if the mayors and town councilmen had a two-hour prayer meeting before voting on a regulation? What if the judges asked the ones that come before him how often they read their Bible and attended church services, and those that did not attend simply get sentenced to 52 Sunday morning services? Would society benefit positive results from this? Why should pastors and church members be the only ones that encourage others to be concerned about their personal spiritual life?
The answer to these questions is – Satan and his followers don’t want it. I say if you do not have a regular bible study, personal prayer time and attend a Bible preaching church, you are a follower of Satan. I say if you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem!
Jesus said in Matthew 12-30, “He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad.”
Pastor Curtis Mitchell
New Home Baptist Church
