Featured Chick Tracts

Do you have any statical data conserning the ratio of people approached and people actually saved? What's your target audience and where a d when and by whom were they passed out. FYI....when I would do trade shows I would have to quantify all this stuff in reports to the bean counters in order to get the funding to do them the next year. I needed to show healthy return on investment. I know its not easy but you need to establish some criterion for both labor time and cost.

 

Are you saying passing out tracts isn't "worth it" unless we have data proving their effectiveness? If one person gets saved, it's worth the effort.

You can use a net to catch a lot of fish. You can also use a lowly earthworm and a cane pole to catch a fish in a small, secluded pond. Maybe the little fish from the pond isn't important to the big industrial fisherman, but it's important to the one who caught it, don't ya think?

We are commanded to go fish. In this day and age, I'm happy for any Christian who actually does this, despite their favorite method of doing so.

 

And this post reminds me of the state prison inmate serving life for murder who used the free Bible he got at a Bible study to roll contraband tobacco into cigarettes. He'd been doing that for years, but one day, something on the page he was rolling up caught his eye. It was from the gospel of John, and when he finished the page -- both sides -- he picked up the Bible and began reading what he hadn't already smoked.

A week later, he gave his life to Christ. You're absolutely right, God can use any tool, any method to bring His children to Him. But as you said, He does use us, and I think the more we do to put ourselves in a position to be used -- befriending the unbeliever as opposed to handing him/her an impersonal piece of paper, for example -- is far more effective in helping him/her to see Christ in us, and decide they want Him in them, too. :thumbsup:

 

I know something about fishing and if you want to catch trout you use a fly cause that's what they eat. Trying that with a worm and a sinker line only gets you a dead worm.:smilewinkgrin:

 

Are these those tracks....

....a cute girl leaves when a guy uses a bad pickup line? :smilewinkgrin:

Sorry, but I had to say that!

Now for the tracks....I used to use them a lot, as they served more as a silent witness. You could leave them, like on a restaurant table, and pray the next person picked it up; read it; and saw the need to come to Jesus!

Many of you do not know about a large hamburger chain [family owned, no franchisees] that been imprinting Scripture verses on the bottom, inside lip of their drinking containers. They have done this for years. They also have a verse on payroll checks!

This chain was founded by a Christian family, and my brother hung out and went to school with one of the two sons. Both sons died tragically; my brother's friend died in a private plane crash while returning from a business trip, and his older brother, died from overdosing on prescription pain meds!

The mother ran the chain up through her death a few years ago, and now their only granddaughter runs it.

The name of this chain is In-N-Out Burgers, and if you're ever on the West Coast, or Arizona, Utah, Nevada or Oregon, and I hear Texas may be in their sights, get a burger and see what the hype is all about.

This is a Christian company, that lets their love for Jesus's shine!

So, while tracks/tracts maybe be acceptable in some minds, or they may not be, but this company does share scripture with every soda of shake purchased, and many people have been surprised as well as blessed with their silent witness!

Sometimes, printed witnessing material can be used to let another know that Jesus loves them, althoough, nothing takes the place of face-to-face, one-on-one lip service for the Gospel! :type:

 

All I can say about Chick Tracts, is in truck stops I've seem more Chick Tracts read or someone takes it with them. Most tracts in trucks stops are use to write phone numbers on if used at all. I've read some Chick Tracts that I like and some that I don't care for.

 

Chick tracts...quite a few of those that I don't care for and wouldn't leave lying around. Some of 'em are way too propaganda-ish and conspiracy theory-ish for me and I have reason to definitely disagree with some as well. (I listen to Christian metal for gosh sakes, so I'm not going to go leaving tracts about how Christian rock is evil.)

On the other hand, the medium used is awesome and obviously works well. People like comics.
So those that actually stick to the gospel message are great and I don't mind using those.


My mom gives out tracts wherever she goes and some people who have seen her before will ask her for more.

 

I believe Chick woulda been all right if he'd stayed with tracts & comix such as "This Was Your Life". Not too many truck stoppers are interested in attacks on the RCC or boosting the KJVO myth. But the GOSPEL is another matter!


And I believe that placing tracts in such places as public restrooms & hotel rooms has worked very well. It's hard to witness in a restroom or similar, but often, a person being alone in such a place will pick up a tract and read it, thus sowing the seed. While a tract isn't a full witness, it IS a tool of witnesses which can steer a lost soul toward CHRIST and cause that person to seek a witness, or begin to read a Bible.

 

Come on!!!! REALLY?!? Does it come with a Holy Spirit scratch off for enlightenment? Personally, I am finding this just too incredible to believe or put much faith in. But there and again, I live in the North East.

 

My dad was KJO and somewhat of a conspiracy theorist and he even thought some of Chick's tracts were way out there, especially the RCC stuff. (Even though he wasn't exactly pro-RCC himself.)

 

God promised that His word would not return void. I believe God is powerful enough to reach someone with a tract. It isn't meant to be the sole witnessing tool of a Christian. It's meant to be a supplement to spread the seed in ways you can't do personally. IMO, anyone who is against the dispersing of tracts is lacking in faith that God can use his word.

Now, for Chic tracts, I share the same opinion as many here. There are some good ones, and there are some bad ones. Like the Halloween one. I know of a guy who was totally ignorant of the origins of Halloween, but upon reading that tract became interested in and studied Wicca. He eventually became a full fledged Wiccan, all because of a tract. Reminds me of Paul's words about being ignorant of evil.

 

You are entitled toyour opinion....but without the regeneration and indwelling of the HS these things are useless. Anyway these would be the last thing id ever use to spread the gosple message.

 

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But brother....there is no such thing as "Christian" ROCK! You can't purify something that even it's originators recognize as carnal and wicked simply by changing the words. God isn't within a million miles of that! Leave the things of this world behind and "seek those things which are ABOVE." (Colossians 3:1-3)

Now..that said...back on track...KEEP giving out those Gospel TRACTS!

Bro.Greg

 

Yea....keep killing those trees:laugh:

 

Whether they work or not, I can't say, but please, if you give out tracts, use some good ones.

I've always been a very avid reader, but other than Chick and Living Waters, most tracts are so boring even I won't read them! And I'll read almost anything with printing on it.

 

I would tend to say no, as their attitude seems to be much more strident then how we should be concerning sinners...

Not as bad as Westbory baptists, but seem to be outside "mainstream!"

 

Eh, I understand the views of both sides, having been raised anti-rock and only having changed my mind after careful consideration a few years ago. This isn't the thread for that discussion, so I'll leave it at that.

In any case Jack Chick's tracts do hold some very debatable at best views, even among some fundamentalists.
Flip, some are even plain ridiculous.