Weekend Read: THE USE OF TRACTS

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This article by R. A. Torrey, pastor, evangelist, missionary, founder of BIOLA, and the right hand man of D.L. Moody, provides wonderful insight into the the correct and effective use of Gospel tracts. Nearly everything Torrey wrote about this witnessing tool has proven true in my own experience. You will want to make a copy of this and distribute it among your fellow church members. I did. 

THE USE OF TRACTS

By R. A. Torrey (1856-1928)

Comparatively few Christians realize the importance of tract work. I had been a Christian a good many years, and a minister of the Gospel several years, before it ever entered my head that tracts were of much value in Christian work. I had somehow grown up with the notion that tracts were all rubbish, and therefore I did not take the trouble to read them, and far less did I take the trouble to circulate them, but I found out that I was entirely wrong. Tract work has some great advantages over other forms of Christian work.

I. Importance and advantages.

1. Any person can do it. We cannot all preach; we cannot all conduct meetings; but we can all select useful tracts and then hand them out to others. Of course some of us can do it better than others. Even a blind man or a dumb man can do tract work. It is a line of work in which every man, woman and child can engage.

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Death at the DMV?

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“A lady had a stroke right in the line at the DMV!”

That was the message of the breathless call I received this morning from Val Scott, one of our local DMV evangelists who preaches nearly every morning to those waiting in line before the office opens.
He told me that just before he was about to speak, a lady had a stroke while standing in line, fell over unconscious, and an ambulance took her immediately to the hospital after a few other people tried in vain to resuscitate her. Val said he will never forget this experience as long as he lives. When he recites the death statistics before each morning’s sermon he will always bring this event to mind as a warning to everyone that no one knows when their time will come.

Read the email he sent me along with his message here:

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