Handing out tracts

[Armywife Jane]

I hope I posted this in right spot. I have tons of tacts , I dont know how to use them really. I have been placing them in Library and putting them in stuff like the hubbard teachings. I got that idea from someone on the board. But I need ideas where to place them. I have 3 small kids with me all the time so ideas that are realistic to that senario. I have placed some in airport,library,rest area on interstate and hospital waiting room. Help on using these tracts would be great.

[CarpeDiem]

With a little help from gravity, any two-dimensional surface will work. Seriously, there are a multitude of places, such as rest rooms, restaurants, public benches, in books at libraries, parking lots (on the surface where people get in and out of their cars and can see them), elevators, stores (tucked out-of-site under and behind produce and merchandise), and in some churches teaching false doctrine. You can even mail them anonymously to people. Although many Christians share a negative view of track ministries, I do not.

The Bible teaches that God will use the “foolish things of the world” to confound the wise, including some Christians who view themselves above such simple approaches to reaching the lost.

Tracks (the good ones) are nuggets of truth we scatter through life never knowing the effect each will have on those read. In this life, we will never know or see the precious souls saved by its content. Sure, most are thrown away but for every one hundred tossed, one person is saved (my estimate).

So, I encourage you to leave tracks wherever you go! The Lord knows where the tracks you “left behind” are located and can, has, and will lead people to them.

[Joyfull]

Here are a few of the ways I have distributed tracts:

I scotch-tape one on the inside of the stall door in public restrooms. Just carry some tape in your purse.

I have put one between the pages of books in bookstores. Especially books about witchcraft and astrology, etc.

I have slipped one into the pockets of jeans and jackets hanging in stores

I have left them lying on the table in the doctor's waiting room among the magazines

I have pinned them to the bulletin board at work

There are probably many other more imaginative ways to distribute them than I have thought of. Also before I leave a tract, I pray that the Lord would use it to bring someone to Jesus.

[Big Daddy]

I do all of those suggested, and since I travel alot by car, I leave them at the rest stops.

I come across some homeless men who stand at certain corners with cardbord signs waiting for cars to stop for the light, and panhandle.
One time I asked the old guy if he would like to make 20$. I handed him a twenty spot and a large stack of tracts, and asked him to hand them out at the light, even if no one gave him money.

I wonder how he made out?

[barb43]

I toss them in open car windows; also leave them under the windshield wipers of vehicles with pagan stickers or offensive bumper stickers. :):

[Violet]

put them in the shoes in the shoe department of your local Walmart, Target...give them to the person next to you at the gas station, when you fill up your gas tank.
Go to the park and hand them out as you stroll along. Stop at a laundromat and hand them out. Leave them on the table (with a good tip) if you eat at a restaurant. Give them to the person in the drive up window at the fast food place.

[inHisarms]

I tape them to gas pumps when I'm filling up.

And I tuck them in the pockets of clothes at stores.

[Armywife Jane]

Thank you for the response.. I cant believe my mind was so blank when there are tons of places I could of been using them.

[Armywife Jane]

Although many Christians share a negative view of track ministries, I do not.

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I believe the Lord has lead me to do this, leaving tracts. Even though its something simple and easy.

[Transformed]

I've made my own "home grown" tracts on my computer. Using my business card setup, I've made up two cards that have sin/salvation, scripture information, front & back. Those are just the right size to slip in the sugar-packet containers on restaurant tables, or anywhere else. I also made up a brochure (text below) based on a book by Donald Whitney, "How Can I Be Sure I'm a Christian?" and accidentally-on-purpose leave them lying around town. Probably the City calls it littering, but I call it seeding!

Attitudes and actions in 1 John that characterize Christians (versus non-Christians):

1. Do you share the intimacies of the Christian life with other believers? ("have fellowship with one another" -- 1:6-7)

Believers: praying, studying, ministering, talking about spiritual life with other Christians

Unbelievers: emphasize how faith is a private thing; too personal to discuss openly; rather talk about secular things than Christian living

2. Do you have a deep awareness of your sin against the word and love of God? ("if we claim to be without sin" -- 1:8, 10)

Believers: see their sin in everything, the selfishness in their heart; Spirit illumines God's pure Law, and believers see their inconsistency in keeping it; recognize God's holiness and how far they are short of it

Unbelievers: not aware of sin violating God's revealed Word; do not grieve when they sin; do not realize they disappointed their Father

3. Do you live in conscious obedience to the Word of God? ("we know Him if we obey His commands" -- 2:3-5)

Believers: Christians make conscious efforts to obey Him; become learners of His Word and set out to obey it

Unbelievers: do not make an effort to learn what God expects; or if they know, deliberately disobey Him

4. Do you despise the world and its ways? ("do not love the world or anything in the world" -- 2:15)

Believers: feel less at home in this world the more they grow spiritually; look increasingly toward true and eternal home

Unbelievers: love the world because it's all they have; greatest loves are in things where God is not central; finds the church and the things of God to be boring

5. Do you long for the return of Christ and to be made like Him? ("when He appears, we shall be like Him" -- 3:2-3)

Believers: can hardly wait for Jesus to fulfill His promise to return; like a bride anticipating her wedding day, so do believers (the bride of Christ) expectantly await their union with Him; anticipate the final deliverance from sin's presence

Unbelievers: do not often, or seriously, think of these things; may not even believe in His return

6. Do you habitually do what is right more and sin less? ("he who does what is right is righteous ... he who does what is sinful is of the devil" -- 3:7-8, 10)

Believers: can still sin, but does not actively practice sin; habitually does what is right more and sins less; overall tendency toward obedience

Unbelievers: may believe they are righteous because some things they do appear righteous; reject God's authority and don't care what God thinks about their habits

7. Do you love other Christians sacrificially and want to be with them? ("we know we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers" -- 3:14)

Believers: not just a fondness or preference (limited by convenience); a sacrificial love (liberated by sacrifice); giving up privileges and preferences for others in the Body

Unbelievers: have been deluded about thinking they love others, when they prove they don't by relinquishing little or nothing for others

8. Do you discern the presence of the Holy Spirit within you? ("we live in Him and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit" -- 3:24; 4:13)

Believers: discern the fruit of the Spirit's presence within them, i.e., love and joy -- sheer delight in the Triune God

Unbelievers: can observe no fruit of the Spirit; have no moments of joy in knowing God

9. Do you enjoy listening to the doctrines the apostles of Jesus taught? ("we are from God, and whoever knows God listens to us; but whoever is not from God does not listen to us" -- 4:6)

Believers: love their teachings from the heart and listen to them so they can be obeyed

Unbelievers: maybe take mere academic and philosophical interest in doctrine; don't care to listen to these things

10. Do you believe what the Bible teaches about Jesus Christ? ("everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God" -- 5:1)

Believers: believe all that the Scriptures (Old and New Testament) say about Jesus, "the way and the truth and the life" and there is no other way to God the Father but through Him

Unbelievers: believe Jesus was merely a "great teacher" or an "ascended master" and that there may be other ways to heaven

[A_AmericanSaint]

God uses tracts. He uses the simple to shame the wise. You don't need to put on a huge seminar and really even do much talking with someone with the right tract (or heck, even no talking). Most of the time people think that their five dollars worth of self righteousness will get them into heaven and don't realize that God has a perfect standard that He will hold everyone accountable to. With the right tract, fear can be used properly to drill their concience to working on them and perhaps will lead them to someone who can help. I know it sounds simple, but I leave tracts all over the place. I leave em in resturaunts, pin them up next to the mailboxes at my apartment complex, drop em on the floor in supermarkets, hide them in places people look like in magazines, etc. I've found that I need to carry tracts on me all the time- I have somewhere between 20-40 in my wallet all the time. Some are simple, and one is pretty precise, but all are good. One is simply an ice breaker that lets me talk to strangers about God. I just need to pray that God will give me compassion enough to swallow my fears and hand em out. My worst case scenario: whoever I give them to will think im a religious nut and forget me 5 minutes later. Their worst case scenario: they die without Christ and end up in Hell for eternity in everlasting anguish. It's really a no-brainer. Show God your grateful for His gift of salvation and get out there. If you are having trouble finding places to leave em, SEND THE TRACTS TO ME, I'll use em. You'll also find that most people will thank you for giving them a tract and caring about them enough to do so.

Here's an awsome website where you can get some really awsome tracts. My favorites are 'The Bible Is Full Of Mistakes', 'Million Dollar Bill', and 'IQ Test Greater than God'. Those are the ones I use often. I also have the illusion tracts, the ten commandments coins, and money Gift For You Tracts. http://www.livingwaters.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=CTGY&Category_Code=gospeltracts

Saint

[Armywife Jane]

I have ordered $60 worht of tracks, so I got plently. Actually I didnt really have the money but felt the Lord leading me.
I remeber a story my sister told me, she said before she was saved a man handed her a tract. She sat there wondering "why would he spend his Saturday handing out tracts?, Why would someone risk looking silly to do this?". She said that man planted a seed in her mind, and that moment was part of what lead her to Christ. She said something about that man and his devotion always stuck with her.