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YOU CAN'T EAT JUST ONE

Lays® Potato Chips uses the slogan "You can't eat just one." They know a secret: most of us will lose self-control and give in to temptation if they can get us to just eat one. One gives in to two; two in to five; and before you know it, you've eaten an entire bag of chips!

Sin is like that, too. If the devil can get us to even think about something, he knows we are likely to lose self control...

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