Tracts?

:-? Does anyone know where I could find some good solid Christian Evangelical tracts? It would be nice to have something to give someone in the Grocery store or the such like. I am looking for ones that are not humanistic in their approach to the gospel! Thanks!Philip

I use a lot of Ray Comfort's tracts, I think they may be what you are looking for, very reasonably priced also. There are 70-80 of them to choose from. Some of my favorites are the Giant Money, Are You Good Enough to Go to Heaven?, The Good Test, and the Intelligence Test tracts. I also like to use the Pressed Pennies he sells for conversation starters. I have also written a few tracts on my own. I try to leave them wherever I go, restaurants, banks, business offices, in my bill payment envelopes, etc...Here is a link to Ray Comfort's site:Living Waters PublicationsIn Christ,Ron

The best, most ready available tract you can find is "yourself". A walking, talking, breathing example of Christ. No tract can do that. As long as "you" are a living testimony in word and deed, you won't need any tracts. :-D I know I'm not really answering your question but it just came to me right away.It is time that we become so much more of the Lord and less of ourselves that the dew of the Holy Spirit is left where ever we have been (at the grocery store too :-) )In His love, Chanin

I like Nicky Gumbel's "Why Jesus?" and "Why Christmas?" I like the fact that he began with the deep longings for relationship and eternity that is set in the hearts of everyone, believers and non-believers included. We all have a void--a "God-shaped vacuum" according to Augustine--in our hearts that only God can satisfy.C. S. Lewis says, "If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."

Here's something a bit unusual...since we've all got Internet-access (seeing as how we're all on sermonindex.net...) you probably have connections with others via the Internet. Maybe even some people you've never met face-to-face.You might want to look at DigiTracts which has good resources for E-vangelism, too. :-P

There is something being called "tracts for a new generation." Although they can be totally custom made, the ones that I have typically seen consist of a mix of music, testimony, Scripture, and other such ingredients made accessible in CD format. They are extremely powerful. Two complete ones, as well as instructions on how to create your own and other things concerning them, can be found at www.fireonthealtar.com. For a good introduction I would recommend listening to the first clip from the "Freedom" tract (which can be accessed simply by scrolling down on the first page you are taken to when you click on the link). These are not typical or conventional tracts at all. Maybe "tract" isn't even the most accurate name for them (I don't know if anyone can claim an absolute and exclusive meaning for what a "tract" is- anyone want to try?). THey don't necessarily present the gospel message. But whatever you call them, they do get you to think about important, life changing, eternal kinds of things.

My experience with tracts has led me to belive the following. Naturally I have been wrong sever times in the past but this is my opinion as it stands:A. Tracts remove some of Christian's responsiblity. "By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another." John 13:35 [NKJV] Tracts produce more Christian culture than they cultivate love for our brothers and non-belivers.B. I have yet to come across who has shared their testimony with me saying that they recieved Christ through a tract.C. Tracts are [typically] very humanistic in nature and place an amaing amount of weight into what the individual can to to attain God.This quote may have become cliched but it stands true. "Preach Christ. And if you must, use words."--St. Francis of AssisiAlso, "Out of 100 men, one will read the Bible, the other 99 will read the Christian."--D.L. MoodyI pray this has been useful in some way.

Joel does make very good points.I think many times tracts are given out when the tract-giver is too ashamed or "shy" to actually tell the person themselves.I do, however, give out tracts every now and then. I find that they prove to be useful in three cases:(1) when I've already shared the gospel with them, and I give the tract as something they can look at should they forget something that I've said(2) when circumstances prove that there isn't time to verbally share, and I may never see them again(3) if they're not willing to listen at all -- before I shake the dust from my sandals, I want to know that I did make every effortI mean, if I want to witness to some who lives in my dorm or who I see in class everyday, or the cashier that's been working at my grocery store, or my co-worker...a tract is out of the question.If God has placed someone in the path of our life, that we regularly see them or even speak with them, why are we going to hand them an impersonal folded piece of paper to convey to them a message of great import that we personally experience daily?

Thank you C7S, I see no fault in handing out tracts in those types of situations. There are lots of areas where things need to be examined on a case by case basis.

Here's a link to some comments written by R.A. Torrey concerning the use of tracts, it's worth reading;The Use of TractsMay God's grace abound in you,Ron

I've liked Ray Comfort's tracts. On one of his video's, he has a picture of the Titanic sinking, where he goes around and hands them out to people and says "you might want to keep this, it'll be worth a lot in 100 years." Some reply "but i won't be alive in 100 years." And his reply is "exactly."

I really like some of the tracts from Ray Comfort. They are bold and their message is very clear. I think that they are available at www.livingwaters.org. I believe in tracts -- that they are usually meant to enhance something that God is already speaking to someone. However, I know several people who gave their hearts to Jesus after reading a tract.I also like the tracts available from Last Days Ministries (Keith Green and Co.). They have several tracts available from Leonard Ravenhill, David Wilkerson, Charles Finney, William Booth, Catherine Booth, among many others. These are more or less articles about numerous topics -- but they are very good. Alot of these are actually meant for christians. They are available free for download at http://www.lastdaysministries.org/articles/articleindex.html :) Sometimes, I print them out and leave them at ideal places around my campus (where people are prone to read them). I leave an email address at the end, and I have been contacted several times by people who read them. I also copy them into Microsoft Word, and then enlarge the font. I then take them to several nursing homes in this local community.