Warning

In 1986 two electrical engineers in the control room at the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site were ‘playing around’ with the machine in what the Soviets later described as an unauthorized experiment. They were trying to see how long a turbine would ‘free wheel’ when they took the power off it. In order to perform the test they were interested in performing, they had to override manually six separate computer-driven alarm systems. You know the results: nuclear fallout that was recorded all around the world, from the largest industrial accident ever to occur in the world. The instructions and warnings in Scripture are just as clear. We ignore them at our own peril, and tragically, at the peril of others. (Tom Tripp, Colusa, California, quoted in Leadership, Fall Quarter, 1993, p. 56)