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Date Posted: 20:15:58 04/06/08 Sun
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gavyn
's message, "Re: Please consider this!!" on 20:14:06 04/06/08 Sun
>>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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