Tracts?

[janava]

We have gotten our tract from Christian Light Publications.
Where else are you able to get good tracts?
Also, when and how do you give tracts out?
I am so shy and afraid of people most the time i jsut don't know what to do or to know when God is opening a door for me to give a tract.

Thank you,
Jana

[qfmamato4]

My children this past Tuesday passed out tracts at the local farmers market.. We had proably 50 of them and they were all gone by the time I was done shopping. I do need to get more but I get them from church.

[christena]

Sister,

For the shy at heart why not place them under the windshields in parking lots..its legal and not personable if your not quite up to one on one yet.

Blessings,
Christena

[benshelpmeet]

Dear sister Jana,

We just got a new shipment from:

Fellowship Tract League

Po Box 164

Lebanon Ohio 45036

They sent us 2,000 tracts for free! We always send them a love offering.

We got 1,000 Where are you going to spend Eternity? ( my favorite!) It's has a medium blue back ground with planets on it. It is an excellent tract.

We got 1,000 Ten Commandments

Why did God give the Ten Commandments?

Can I go to Heaven if I follow them?

What if I break the commandments?

How can I be forgiven of my sin?

Look inside for the answers to these questions!

That is what the front of the tract says.

Also, when and how do you give tracts out?

You hand out tracts every time you leave the house.

At the gas station

At the stores

Put them in your bills

Give them to the meter reader man

Give them to repair men or anyone that comes to your door even Mormons and Jehovah's Wittiness! ;D

Leave them on the counter

Put them in magazines and books at the store or library

Put them in the bathroom

Put one in a bush (face up) or on the ground beside a car, or on a car ( make sure it doesn't have your church address, the person might get mad at your church )

I have even jumped out at stop lights and handed out tracts ( when prompted to ;D)

I've handed them out the window to people in the car next to me at a light.

A few times I have handed one out the window while driving down the hwy to a biker. ( they actually take it) ;D

Remember no one is to wicked to receive a tract ( they need one)

I usually hand the tract out to them saying with a pleasant look on my face...Will you read this when you get a chance, it's about Jesus!

You can quietly just leave tracts everywhere. God really uses them to save lost souls.

Love, ~ sister Darlene ~

We love to hand out tracts!

www.fellowshiptractleague.org/OnTract/Summer%20OnTract%202006.pdf

[Andrea]

The place in Lebanon is only about 25 minutes from our house.. .. it's a great place!!

[Donna]

I have begun to put good use of all the pre-approved credit card offers we get in the mail. They all come with a postage paid return envelope, so I send a tract back to them!!!

[hollydawnr]

We've actually written a few of our own and we publish them ourselves with help from Kinko's. We have done that because we have some unique situations and we like the custom-done tracts better.

DH likes car racing, and so as a family we spend many weekends at the local drag strip or the autocross course. It's really a great environment for witnessing. You see all kinds of people there, from older men racing their "mid-life crisis car" (as DH calls it--the sports car that men like to get when they hit their forties or fifties) to teenagers with nothing more than a driver's permit. You see men and women, families and children, and the great thing is that everyone is REALLY nice and friendly. I will often encounter people that I might not think of associating with in day-to-day life, but when we're at the races, I find myself talking to them and everyone is very open and friendly.

So DH and I have written a series of tracts that we use especially for handing out at races. We've got our drag-racing tract written up now ("Will you win the Great Race?") and I'm working on our autocross tract. I think the tracts are unique because they use a lot of racing and car analogies. To be honest, I've met some people who think that when they become a Christian, they have to give up their racing and "never have fun again". Sometimes when they see someone handing out tracts at an event like that, they are resentful, because they think that the person is handing out tracts because they think that auto races are a "den of sinners", so they'll avoid you. But I've had great success by simply having the tracts on-hand and ready to give out, and then giving them to people that I strike up a conversation with.

If you have a unique situation like that, go ahead and try your hand at writing your OWN tracts. But I have a few tips:

1. Don't try to write a tract about something that you're not interested in. If you know absolutely nothing about model airplanes, don't try to write a tract intended for the local RC airplane club. It's better to use a more general tract if you can't be absolutely sure of your expertise.

2. Don't hesitate to use lots of quotes from scripture, and I reccommend that when you write your citations, you do NOT abbreviate the ook name. Write "Genesis" instead of "Gen." Many of these tracts will go to people who may not be very familiar with the Bible.

3. Use analogies, personal testimonies, and creative writing techniques. If your goal is to give a tract to someone who is NOT a Christian, you have to remember that you're going to have to use more than just the Bible to convince him. As an example, here's a part of our drag-racing tract:
"The scientists would tell you that the entire universe is
one big accident. Don't you believe it! What if I took all
the raw components of a car (steel, oil, rubber, etc.) and
placed them all in a big vat and stirred them around? I could
stir for years and years, but I would never end up with that
beautiful piece of engineering that you're driving tonight,
would I? Your car was CREATED by someone.
"Friend, your body is far more complex than even the most
sophisticated example of automotive technology. The
marvels of the human body could not possibly have come from
some cosmic accident. It could only have been created.
"Anything that is created has to have a Creator. The Bible
tells us, "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the
earth (Genesis 1:1)."
The point here is that you shouldn't be afraid to make analogies--they can often teach very well.

4. You may disagree with me on this, but I believe that you HAVE to start with creation. In fact, I think this is the area where a lot of tracts fall short. We are dealing with a generation that by and large does not believe that there even is a God. They have been trained by secular schools to believe in evolution and the Big Bang lies. If they do not even know who God is, why would they worry about their sin offending him? A short section on creation is a good place to start, IMHO. Use a vivid, colorful analogy to drive the point home. You don't usually need to spend TOO long on it, because most people understand pretty quickly how ridiculous the "accidental" theory of creation is, but I think you need to touch on it.

5. But the real crux of any good tract is the section on sin, and how God cannot stand to be around sin. If a person is not convicted of their sin--if they still think that they're "an okay person", they'll see no need to repent and accept Christ.

6. THEN, you can preach salvation. Many people talk about the "Romans Road" to salvation, and I do think it's an excellent starting point. However, I do think that it is often a good idea to peruse Psalms and the Gospel of John for most of your quotes. Paul can get a bit difficult to read sometimes. He wrote like a scholar, and that can be kind of hard to handle in large doses. So I advise keeping a few sections in there from Romans, but the Psalms and the Gospel of John have more vivid and intriguing passages, I think. Remember that you're not talking to an established Christian, but to someone who's probably never heard of Christ, or if they have, they haven't heard the truth. You have to go slow and you have to speak to them on their level. Give lots of explanations and use verses and passages that are easy to understand.

7. At the end of the tract, you NEED to give them the next steps. I see so many tracts that omit this completely, probably because of the assumption that the tracts are given with a sticker with the church's name or something. But they need to be given a small set of instructions. We tell them to first e-mail us and let us know that they were saved so that we can pray for them. We tell them next to find a good, Bible-believing church and start attending regularly so that they can grow and be taught there, and that if they want a reccommendation to a church in their area, e-mail us and we'll help them out. Finally, we tell them to read the Bible regularly and even give them a few websites that contain the Bible in case they don't have one at home.

8. At the end of the tract, you'll want to put some kind of contact information. We always put our e-mail address, because we don't necessarily want hecklers calling our home phone! But you'll also usually want to put a statement that the tract may be copied and reproduced as long as it is reproduced in its entirety and credit is given to the authors. That allows others to reprint your tract, but it keeps them from making substantial changes without your permission.

[Pam]

Hi! I order my tracts from The Fellowship Tract League. They have many different ones to choose from.

I am not very brave at just walking up to a person to a witness to them but I am brave enough to put them all over the store shelves when I go to the store. There is a constant flow of people who are lost, picking up items from the shelves as well as stock boys and girls who are refilling those same shelves. You can leave them on the counter in restrooms, or just about anywhere you go - dr.s offices, dentists, you name it. Anywhere you go outside of your home, is a field white unto harvest. You can place a tract anywhere. I have even bought meals for those who are sitting by the roadside begging for food and have given them a tract. At one time, I was placing them on car windshields under their wipers until I was told that it was illegal to do so. I never really checked this out with our local police dept. though to find out if that was true or not. Other people put advertising things on my windshield so why not a tract? I just find it easier to place them all over grocery, department, fabric stores - anywhere I go.

Tracts are an easy way to plant a seed and perhaps be a help in preparing a lost person's heart to receive the Lord. If one person is saved by a gospel tract, and that person goes out and plants another seed for someone else, eventually, many seeds are sown and many are saved for God's glory.

[renakay]

I like everyones idea's on where to put the tracts..hee hee...some of them made me lol. Y'all are very creative people. I love that. My favorite place to put a tract is in the tube sucky uppy thingy at the bank...hee hee...Someone is going to have to take it out. Whether it is the person working there or the one depositing money. I have even rolled them up and stuck one in a package of beer at the grocery store. Lately the kids and I have been leaving them in the waiting area at the doctors office near the magazines. Once we place them, God can take over.