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Date Posted: 20:14:06 04/06/08 Sun
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ryan
's message, "Please consider this!!" on 23:27:37 05/07/02 Tue
>If God cannot lie. Then he means that every time you
>spread his word he will honor your efforts and use
>them for a purpose. No matter how you do it as long as
>it is not illegal or disrespectful I know of alot of
>people that think that tracts are ineffective and just
>a waste of time. My hope is that after reading this if
>you are one of those people that you will change your
>mind and be encouraged to pass out tracts. .
>Sowing the seed of the gospel.
>A student at Jacksonville University in Florida was
>given a tract. The student crumpled the pamphlet up
>and tossed it into a trash bin in his dorm. Later, his
>dorm mate picked it out of the trash, read it, and was
>soundly saved. He is now a pastor of a church in
>Florida. “A Christian I met in a home group said his
>job was raking litter off the Avon River. It was dull,
>boring work and he often wondered what life was all
>about. One day he raked a soggy piece of paper off the
>water and decided it was interesting enough to keep,
>so he carefully placed it in his bag and took it home.
>That evening he dried the paper in front of a heater
>and carefully unfolded it, then he read it . . . it
>was a gospel tract. He became a Christian that
>evening.” Richard Gunther
>Gospel tracts-how to use them. If Paul meant “by all
>means,” he no doubt would have used gospel tracts as a
>means to reach the lost. A Christian book relates the
>true story of a diver who saw a piece of paper
>clutched in the shell of an oyster. The man grabbed
>it, found that it was a gospel tract and said, “I
>can’t hold out any longer. His mercy is so great that
>He has caused His Word to follow me even to the bottom
>of the ocean.” God used a tract to save the man.
>Why should a Christian use tracts? Simply because God
>uses them. He used a tract to save the great
>missionary Hudson Taylor, as well as innumerable
>others. That fact alone should be enough incentive for
>a Christian to always use tracts to reach the lost,
>but there are even more reasons why we should use
>them. Here are a few: Tracts can provide an opening
>for us to share our faith. We can watch people’s
>reaction as we give them a tract, and see if they are
>open to listening to spiritual things. They can do
>the witnessing for us. If we are too timid to speak to
>someone about the things of God, we can at least give
>them a tract, or leave it lying around so that someone
>will pick it up. They speak to the individuals when
>they are ready-they don’t read it until they want to.
> They can find their way into people’s homes when we
>can’t. They don’t get into arguments; they just
>state their case.
>
>Dr. Oswald J. Smith said, “The only way to carry out
>the Great Commission will be by the means of the
>printed page.” Charles Spurgeon stated, “When
>preaching and private talk are not available, you need
>to have a tract ready . . . Get good striking tracts,
>or none at all. But a touching gospel tract may be the
>seed of eternal life. Therefore, do not go out without
>your tracts.” If you want people to accept your
>literature, try to greet them before offering them a
>tract. If you can get them to respond to a warm “Good
>morning,” or “How are you doing?” that will almost
>always break the ice and they will take it. After the
>greeting, don’t ask, “Would you like this ?” They will
>probably respond, “What is it?” Instead, say, “Did you
>get one of these?” That question has a twofold effect.
>You stir their curiosity and make them ask, “One of
>what?” That’s when you hand it to them. It also makes
>them feel as though they are missing out on something.
>So they are.
>Perhaps you almost pass out at the thought of passing
>out a tract. Don’t worry; you are not alone. We all
>battle fear. The answer to fear is found in the prayer
>closet. Ask God to give you a compassion that will
>swallow your fears. Meditate on the fate of the
>ungodly. Give hell some deep thought. Confront what it
>is that makes you fearful. Do you like roller
>coasters? Some Christians want to try bungee-jumping
>or sky diving. Isn’t it strange? We are prepared to
>risk our lives for the love of fear-and yet we are
>willing to let a sinner go to hell for fear of giving
>out a tract. Ask yourself how many piles of bloodied
>stones you can find where Christians have been stoned
>to death for preaching the gospel. How much singed
>soil can you find where they have been burned at the
>stake? Part of our fear is a fear of rejection. We are
>fearful of looking foolish. That’s a subtle form of
>pride. The other part of our battle with fear comes
>directly from the enemy. He knows that fear paralyzes.
>We must resist the devil and his lies. If God is with
>us, nothing can be against us.
>Never underestimate the power of a gospel tract. After
>George Whitefield read one called “The Life of God in
>the Soul of a Man,” he said, “God showed me I must be
>born again or be damned.” He went on to pray, “Lord,
>if I am not a Christian, or if I am not a real one,
>for Jesus Christ’s sake show me what Christianity is,
>that I may not be damned at last!” Then his journal
>tells us “from that moment . . . did I know that I
>must become a new creature.”
>If you have never given out tracts, why not begin
>today? Leave them in a shopping cart, or put them in
>the mail when you pay bills. Then each night as you
>shut your eyes to go to sleep, you will have something
>very special to pray about-that God will use the tract
>you put somewhere. You will also have a deep sense of
>satisfaction that you played a small part in carrying
>out the Great Commission to reach this dying world
>with the gospel of everlasting life. Don’t waste your
>life. Do something for the kingdom of God while you
>are able to. Always remember: treat every day as
>though it were your last-one day you will be right.
>
>Charles Spurgeon on Tracts:
>“I well remember distributing them in a town in
>England where tracts had never been distributed
>before, and going from house to house, and telling in
>humble language the things of the kingdom of God. I
>might have done nothing, if I had not been encouraged
>by finding myself able to do something...[Tracts are]
>adapted to those persons who have but little power and
>little ability, but nevertheless, wish to do something
>for Christ. They have not the tongue of the eloquent,
>but they may have the hand of the diligent. They
>cannot stand and preach, but they can stand and
>distribute here and there these silent preachers . . .
>They may buy their thousand tracts, and these they can
>distribute broadcast.
>“I look upon the giving away of a religious tract as
>only the first step for action not to be compared with
>many another deed done for Christ; but were it not for
>the first step we might never reach to the second, but
>that first attained, we are encouraged to take
>another, and so at the last . . . There is a real
>service of Christ in the distribution of the gospel in
>its printed form, a service the result of which heaven
>alone shall disclose, and the judgment day alone
>discover. How many thousands have been carried to
>heaven instrumentally upon the wings of these tracts,
>none can tell. “I might say, if it were right to quote
>such a Scripture, ‘The leaves were for the healing of
>the nations’-verily they are so. Scattered where the
>whole tree could scarcely be carried, the very leaves
>have had a medicinal and a healing virtue in them and
>the real word of truth, the simple statement of a
>Savior crucified and of a sinner who shall be saved by
>simply trusting in the Savior, has been greatly
>blessed, and many thousand souls have been led into
>the kingdom of heaven by this simple means. Let each
>one of us, if we have done nothing for Christ, begin
>to do something
>now. The distribution of tracts is the first thing.”
>Just a few Ideas on where to put tracts
> At pay phones In shopping carts In clothes pockets
>in stores In letters to loved ones With a generous
>tip even if the service wasn't the best. On seats in
>restaurant lobbies With fast-food employees,
>cashiers,flight attendants, cab drivers, and gas
>station workers. In restrooms At rest areas On
>ATM machines and bank counters In envelopes with
>bill payments. Please make sure the bill is on time
>In elevators On hotel dressers for the maid and in
>the dressers On ice machines
> On newspaper racks In waiting rooms of doctors’
>offices and hospitals On seats at airports, subways,
>and bus stations In plane seat pockets Inside
>magazines In cabs In laundromats
>At truckstops in the lounge In canisters at the
>drive-up tellerand in night deposit box In the
>postage paid reply envelopes you get with Junk mail
>Mail tracts to families that have just lost loved
>ones look through your papers obituaries. You can also
>mailthem to people convicted of DUI or other crimes
>Put some in a plastic brochure holder by your door to
>give to anyone who comes to your door, and as a
>reminder to bring some with you when you leave the
>house. In open car windows To people you see waitng
>in their cars at parking lots. At libraries in books,
>magazines etc. If you rent videos put one in the
>movie you are returning. Leave them on video games
>in the arcade
>Basically anywhere you go. Just pray that God will
>prepare peoples heart and open doors before you leave
>for the day and trust God to do the rest. Remeber it
>is God who does the saving not us. We are merely
>planters and waterers.
>If God is speaking to you about your lack of
>evangelistic concern, pray something like this now:
>Father, please forgive me for my lack of love for this
>dying world. From this day forward I
>will strive to be a “true and faithful witness.”
>Please give me the wisdom to know what to
>say to reach the lost. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.
>I hope that this will encourage some if not all to
>consider tracts. May God bless you.
>Taken from the evidence bible www.theevidencebible.org
>
>Intersted try
>www.fellowshiptractleague.org
>www.raycomfort.com
>www.chick.com
>www.av1611.org
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