Those tracts are only sharing the gospel when the gospel is communicated. My bible is nothing but a book unless it is read.
This is why I don’t like money tracts. The goal seems to be tricking people into taking them rather than effectively communicating the gospel. The gage of success is not the gospel shared but how many people actually took the tract. I relate this to pastors who manipulate people to come forward. It is not the act of taking a tract, nor the act of walking an aisle, that is important. It is the gospel communicated and the power of that Gospel that is important.
I could use tracts that simply explained the gospel message through Scripture as the one I was witnessing to could have something to take home. In the past, I’ve used Bibles. I don’t know what became of most of these, but I did take the time to explain the gospel.
I do know of one person with whom I had several conversations and left him with one of those bibles. I did not see him for a couple of years, but when I did he told me he was saved, that God reached him through those conversations. He had been an atheist, but the last time we spoke he was the youth minister at his church. I don’t think that this would have happened if I had just tossed him a Bible or a tract. I don’t think this would have happened if I just spoke passages to him. Maybe I think this way because that was how I was. When I was lost I needed someone to reach me with the gospel message, not just give me a tract and let me fin for myself. But maybe I’m just uncommonly thick headed and stubborn.
Do you know of any tracts that are just presentations of the gospel message (without the gimmicks or cartoons)? I may be interested in that.
