Gospel Tracts and How to Use Them.

Many people in the church today cringe at the thought of handing out gospel tracts? I have never actually understood why until I got a good look at some of the tracts that their church makes available for the to pass out. Such tracts have titles like "Turn or Burn" or "Jesus is Better Than Beer" are obviously lacking in reader appeal.

But I don't think that should discourage anyone from handing out gospel tracts at all. After all, sometimes we don't have time to talk and share the gospel with people, but we don't want to leave them without the gospel at all, and a tract is very useful for this purpose.

You can hand out tracts to cashiers at grocery stores and drive-thru windows, leave one at a restaurant as part of a good tip (not instead of a good tip), leave some in places where people are bound to find them and read them (if they are good and well written), and you can even just stand on a street corner handing them out, provided they look good and are well written people will take them.

You can even use them in a conversation with someone to move the conversation from the natural realm to the spiritual realm, and share the gospel with that person. I do it all the time, and it is very helpful and effective. Lets face it, talking about the weather and then saying ,"you know God made the weather", is pretty cheesy.

Living Waters produces some great and well written tracts (you can see them here). I get most of my tracts from them, and they are so good that people often ask for more. You also might want to try and write your own tract. Make sure it has all the elements of the gospel in it; the law (10 Commandments), man's sin, God's Judgement, His punishment, and what Jesus did so that we wouldn't have to be sent to Hell.

Currently we are in the process of making a gospel tract of our own, we'll update you when its done and give you all a preview of it.

FYI: One of the great preachers/evangelist in history, George Whitfield, was saved by a gospel tract. Just think of the fruit produced from the gospel seed planted by that tract.

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