“Honk if you love Jesus. Text if you want to meet him” (bumper sticker)

“Honk if you love Jesus. Text while driving if you want to meet him” is a popular bumper sticker to discourage texting while driving. “Honk if you love Jesus” has been on bumper stickers since at least 1971.
 
“Honk if you love Jesus…Text while driving if you’d like to meet him!” was cited on Twitter on October 8, 2009.
 
       
2 January 1971, Los Angeles (CA) Times, “‘Jesus People’ Adopt Underground’s Tactics” by John Dart, pt. 1, pg. 26, cols. 5-6:
Other resources, besides individual donations, are ads in the paper by Christian organizations and sales of posters and bumper stickers (“Honk If You Love Jesus,” “All Power Thru Jesus”).
 
OCLC WorldCat record
The burning bush and other stories
Author: Robert Drake
Publisher: Nashville : Aurora Publishers, [1975]
Edition/Format:   Print book : Fiction : English
Contents:
Honk if you love Jesus.
 
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Honk if you love Jesus…Text while driving if you’d like to meet him! LMAO
8:33 AM - 8 Oct 2009
 
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“honk if you love Jesus…text while driving if you’d like to meet him.” -email from grandmother
5:31 PM - 28 Oct 2009
 
10 November 2009, Atlanta (GA) Journal-Constitution, “The Vent,” pg. B2:
Honk if you love Jesus! Text while driving if you’d like to meet him!
 
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Honk if you love Jesus! Text while driving if you want to meet Him.
 
5 February 2010, Des Moines (IA) Register, “Your 3 Cents’ Worth,” pg. 6A, col. 1:
I can see the bumper sticker now: Honk if you love Jesus. Text if you want to meet him!
—DM southside
 
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