That rattled many people who didn't know what to say. The next time I preached, I brought new gospel tracts they hadn't seen before. This time, they came up to me to get them. The third time, they came running and I had a homeless resident helping me to pass them out. In three visits I have given out over a thousand gospel tracts and nearly created a riot with one in particular . A good gospel tract is like that – people will run up to you and beg for more.
Although I don't have much to give, I do have the ability to give out and plant in conspicuous places, gospel tracts that will make people think, laugh and hopefully, change the direction in their lives. It's not hard to plant tracts, either – it only takes a little bit of creativity. For instance, this gospel tract fits nicely in gas pump credit card slots (I wouldn't try it in ATM machines because it shreds the card and since there's a camera recording it, you potentially could be charged). If I'm in the drive up lanes and they have the suction carriers so they can service up to five or six lanes, when I'm done with my transaction, I slip big money tracts in (which cannot be misconstrued as passing counterfeit cash) so the car behind me gets something to read. When I go through drive up windows, I wrap this one up in the bills I had the cashier. I love to go to the post offices and leave these three tracts [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] behind for people to find. Sometimes I go into stores and leave this tract inside their money cards section because I know there's always someone giving money cards as gifts. When I go out to a restaurant, I'll leave several tucked inside different pages of the menus, and when the bill comes, I always slip a million dollar bill tract in with a regular tip. You could also resort to picking up the phonebook, picking addresses at random and mailing out a few each week. There's no end to the creative ways in which you can paper the world with God's Word.
In the end, the church I teamed up never did take up the evangelization call. They simply fell back on the classic excuse of, “we don't feel led to do that”. I tried to get them involved, gave them tools, and tried to pull them over to at least hand out tracts while I preached. They couldn't be bothered. One woman said to me, “I can't commit to anything right now.” It took all the Christian love inside me to not say, “I'm not asking for a regular commitment, I'm asking you to help me NOW, not next time!”
I made several CD's with evangelization material from my favorite ministry (“duplication encouraged” is their motto, so I'm not pirating) and paired each CD with A Letter From an Atheist hoping that would move them into action. I had given a couple of copies to a receptionist who was supposed to give it to the pastor as well as handed copies to several prominent members of the shelter feeding team, who seemed to enthusiastically welcome a root canal over the prospect of sharing their faith. Considering nothing came from them in subsequent visits, I can semi-assume they went into the trash.
What good is it if you've got the love of God in your heart and soul, but you're gripped with fear? “ For God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. ” (2 Tim 1:7)
If you're a Christian and reading this, what's the comfortable excuse you use for not spreading God's word when you've been blessed with so much? The poorest in society aren't always the homeless; there are many very rich and spiritually bankrupt souls in this world. Charles Spurgeon, the prince of preachers, once said (paraphrasing) that if you're not on fire for the lost in this world, be sure you're not saved yourself. Does that scare you enough to go to the least in this world and share the great wealth of the Lord's love? If not, what would it take for you to obey His command? “ And why do you call Me Lord, Lord, and do not do what I say? ” (Luke 6:46)
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