Tracts left laying around... effective or just Christian litter?

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I've witnessed Christians giving their waitress a tract instead of a tip.
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They should only do this if the server gave them a picture of a meal instead of actual food.
 
A long time staff member at HAC was saved from reading a tract he found in a restroom at a rest area.
 
I have witnessed to people who I saw reading a tract and they got saved.
 
I know people who have held onto a tract for years, then, when life happened, found the tract, came to church and later trusted Christ.
 
A tract is litter when placed on empty apartment doors.  Managers hate it and it wastes tracts (money).
 
One of the best men in my church was converted by reading a tract while in the Navy.  Given to him by someone passing out tracts on the street in Chicago while he was stationed at Great Lakes Navel Base.

People can bang on Chick tracts all they want -- and some for good reason -- but the format works.  People -- especially young people -- will read them.  I have always thought it would be profitable to take their concept and produce something similar yet..............different. 
 
Ol' Carl Hatch had lots of stories of people being saved through a Gospel tract.  Of course, he had lots of stories!
 
My daughter uses Chic Tracts to witness to other kids on the playground - She is 10 - 3 have been saved and 2 families came to church.
 
I witnessed to a lady who had kept a tract in her purse for over a year.  She was saving it for when she was ready.  After a 30 minute conversation, she decided she was ready!
 
I knew a student in HAC who was saved after reading a Gospel tract.  He kept that one in his wallet all the time.  If nothing else, he would use it in soulwinning at impromptu times, but he would never give it away.
 
I think you see that I am a believer in the Gospel tract.  However, I do understand that they are very simplistic presentations of the Gospel.  I do believe that for someone to come to a point of salvation, there surely has been a drawing of the Holy Spirit leading up to that decision of salvation from the tract.
 
christundivided said:
Smellin Coffee said:
christundivided said:
Smellin Coffee said:
rsc2a said:
ALAYMAN said:
Any means of communication that results in people hearing and/or reading and understanding the biblical gospel is a good evangelism method.
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Remember this conversation from way back?

No, being relevant, as in having an understanding of what the moral pulse and zeitgeist of the culture is important, as I'm sure that most conservatives like the one in the OP and Carson would advocate, but bringing in questionable pagan philosophical practices into the body of believers in order to reach the lost is a backwards model for how to do church. - Alayman

Have you now changed your mind?
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Did Alayman really make that quote? If so, he had better give up on American Christianity as a whole as the majority of its practices has roots in paganism. Suggest reading this book:

http://www.amazon.com/Pagan-Christianity-Exploring-Church-Practices/dp/1414364555
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"American Christianity"? Really?

Christians in American have never done anything entirely "one way". To have a "way"...... you need consistency. You obviously have an agenda.
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Well, to have a pastor, priest, or cleric would be considered "one way" of the various deviations of "American Christianity". And other things such as offerings, performance music, rote communion exercises, though they may differ, conceptually are accepted by various "Christian" factions.
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Nothing you listed is unique to "America". So why are you targeting "America"?
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Because I know nothing about Christianity beyond our borders. I've never been out of our country so I have no knowledge of what is or isn't practiced elsewhere. Just keeping from broadbrushing to what I am familiar with.
 
How effective they are probably depends on the merits of the particular tract, and how well its message resonates with the particular reader. Chick has a few good ones, but also some that scream "tinfoil hat"!
 
[quote author=Frag]People can bang on Chick tracts all they want -- and some for good reason -- but the format works.  People -- especially young people -- will read them.  I have always thought it would be profitable to take their concept and produce something similar yet..............different. [/quote]

But if we are saying the same thing about music...well then...that's an entirely different thing, right?
 
Izdaari said:
How effective they are probably depends on the merits of the particular tract, and how well its message resonates with the particular reader. Chick has a few good ones, but also some that scream "tinfoil hat"!
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Agreed.  Be careful to avoid the wild ones.
 
I always thought a mini-cd with an audio message would make a cool tract.
 
ALAYMAN said:

Any means of communication that results in people hearing and/or reading and understanding the biblical gospel is a good evangelism method.

Which pretty much disqualifies the Chick tracts of the OP.
 
T-Bone said:
Seem to remember reading about the "foolishness of preaching".  :)
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I think we agree on this, but I cringe when I see this used an excuse for absurdity in preaching and gospel presentations.
 
Absolutely.  The foolishness (to the lost) is the preaching of cross.
 
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