Million dollar bill tracts are our absolute favorites for general use because they’re just so easy to give away. In fact, they almost give themselves away. It’s not uncommon for people to chase you asking for more for their friends.
In this video, my daughter Bethwyn demonstrates just how easy it is.
Ewan and I had some fun together yesterday for Day 1 of our S.O.S. 31 Day Challenge. Watch the video for how to keep your car Challenge-ready AND tract placing idea #1.
Yes, the day has arrived; it’s October 1st. Over 180 people have made the commitment that every day this month we will share the gospel – either personally or by giving / planting a gospel tract – with at least one person. As we all keep that commitment, a minimum of 5580 people will receive a gospel presentation – perhaps many more than that.
It’s not too late to take up the challenge with us. CLICK HERE for full details.
I encourage you to do 2 things …
1. Pray for your own efforts, and for everyone else who is participating.
2. Share with us your testimonies, stories and ideas. Either leave a comment right here on this post, or leave a wall message on our Facebook Event Page.
With one week to go, we have 139 people signed up ready to start the S.O.S. 31 Day Challenge on October 1st. Already that means a minimum of 4309 people will be presented with the gospel in some form in October. Even more importantly, we’re believing for all the believers who are participating to be mobilized to make witnessing a part of their lives after the October challenge is finished.
139 people deployed. Exciting! … but we still have another week to increase the size of our army. YOU can help us!
To spread the word, just do one or both of the following:
Spread Truth Ministries have just released an excellent resource called “The Story”. It’s a 12-page tract (booklet) in a very striking and contemporary design that gives a good, accurate presentation of the gospel. It would be really great one to order and hand out in October as part of our “31 Day S.O.S. Challenge”.
But in addition to the printed version, Spread Truth are making “The Story” available for FREE in an electronic format which you can embed straight onto your blog or web page (check it out over on the right hand side of THIS blog right now.) Not only that, but they provide full tracking so that you can see how many people are reading it on your site.
What a great, easy way to preach the gospel from your site! You can set it up in minutes.
Check out the promotional video below, then sign up for a free account at Spread Truth Ministries and get your embed code.
Phil
My copy of this much anticipated DVD finally arrived in the mail Friday. It was worth the wait.
Go Stand Speak: The Forgotten Power of the Public Proclamation of the Gospel is about the too often neglected evangelistic method of open air preaching. In many quarters of the church today this DVD will unfortunately go down like a lead balloon. There is a widespread inocculation against all forms of confrontational evangelism; “soft-sell” is the order of the day. Add to this the common idea that our generation is somehow uniquely different from all that have gone before (in spite of the fact that every single generation in history has believed this about themselves).
So let’s just understand up front that this DVD is not likely to outsell “Your Best Life Now” any time soon. But if, by God’s grace, it can be used to stir the hearts of even a few more to join the ranks of faithful street witnesses, it will be a great blessing and of eternal value. I thank God that these ranks ARE swelling today. God has been raising up an extraordinarily vibrant and robust movement to once again faithfully proclaim the gospel.
This video has been around for a while, but it’s well-worth posting it again here for anyone who hasn’t seen it. It’s an extraordinary challenge to Christians. This young man has uncommon clarity – he understands what a life consistent with a profession of faith in Christ must mean. Watch it:
Why don’t so many Christians get it so plainly?
What’s in a day? Have you ever really thought about it? What did we do with the time we were given by the Lord yesterday? We all were allocated the same amount; 24 hours, 1,440 minutes, 86,400 seconds, and in that time we needed to take care of sleeping, working, eating, shopping, etc. Oh yeah, and 150,000 people will have to take care of dying today, and tomorrow, and the next day, and the next, well, you get the idea. That boils down to about 104 per minute!
What can WE do about it? It is a shocking reality that most of those who went off into eternity yesterday went down the broad road to destruction. We can’t stop the onward march of souls that perish, but we can do something about where they go to spend eternity when they perish. We can follow the example of one the great evangelists in American history …
When I start talking about a ship called the R.M.S. Carpathia, a lot of people look at me blankly. “The Car.. what?”
Never heard of it.
On the other hand, if I say “Titanic” there is immediate recognition. Probably the most famous, or infamous, ship in history. What if I told you that the story of the Titanic can never be fully told without talking about the Carpathia?
Come back with me to that fateful night when the Titanic, the ship that had been claimed “unsinkable”, went down in the freezing waters of the Atlantic Ocean. April 14th, 1912 …
This October, we’re challenging everyone at our church (First Assembly of God, Brookfield, CT.) to come on a thrilling, fulfilling, adventurous, dangerous, liberating campaign. If you’re not a part of First Assembly, keep reading anyway because we challenge YOU to join us as well. If you’re the leader of a church or other Christian group, why not bring your people along.
Every Christian knows that we have been commissioned by Jesus to go and preach the gospel as the main calling and priority of our lives (Matthew 28:18-20). Jesus sent the Holy Spirit specifically to empower us for this one task (Acts 1:8). And yet the percentage of professing Christians who actually share their faith on a regular basis is pitifully low.
Last Summer, 4 guys from our church hit the streets of New York City with Change Collegian Network’s “Repent And Witness (R.A.W.)” They had a great experience for 4 straight days witnessing, and open air preaching on the streets and subways of the Big Apple.
Well, this year they’re going even BIGGER … and YOU’RE invited to join them! New York City, Philadelphia, Washington DC and Baltimore.
I caught up with Paul Cortese and Dave Hawkins to find out what’s driving them, and how others can get involved.
Each Sunday we post a short classic piece from someone signally used by God down through the history of the church. Today it’s a challenging call to soulwinning by William Booth (1829-1912), Founder of the Salvation Army.
By William Booth
On one of my recent journeys, as I gazed from the coach window, I was led into a train of thought concerning the condition of the multitudes around me. They were living carelessly in the most open and shameless rebellion against God, without a thought for their eternal welfare. As I looked out of the window, I seemed to see them all… millions of people all around me given up to their drink and their pleasure, their dancing and their music, their business and their anxieties, their politics and their troubles. Ignorant– willfully ignorant in many cases– and in other instances knowing all about the truth and not caring at all. But all of them, the whole mass of them, sweeping on and up in their blasphemies and devilries to the Throne of God. While my mind was thus engaged, I had a vision.
It’s been quoted so often in Christendom that it has achieved the status of a proverb, almost as though it were part of Scripture: “Preach the gospel at all times, when necessary use words.” (I can almost hear the Amens!) The popular saying is usually attributed to St. Francis of Assisi, although he almost certainly did not say it.
At the risk of offending Christians who have accepted this as some profound truth, I have to say that I cannot agree with it at all. The way it is used is very unbiblical, and is just one more thing used to justify many Christians’ unwillingness to obey the Great Commission.
Like all such false teachings, the statement has a little kernel of truth to it. Obviously the testimony of our lives ought to be consistent with the gospel we have believed, and even ought to be remarkable to the point that it arrests people’s attention in a sinful world.
But let me point out what is wrong with the saying.
Oswald J. Smith was the Pastor of The People’s Church in Toronto, Canada.
He had a burning passion for evangelism, and over the course of his ministry raised millions of dollars for the cause of world missions. He popularized the Faith Promise system of prioritizing missions giving that is still used in thousands of local churches.
“The Madhouse of the Universe” is an evangelistic sermon he preached on the subject of hell. Based on a simple idea and outline, Smith’s imagery is vivid and compelling. CLICK HERE to download this classic sermon from my download page.
Phil
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