Halloween was amazing.
My wife Deborah and I gave out more gospel tracts on Halloween
than we ever have.
It was wonderful.
Even precious people with disabilities were lovingly wheeled
up to our house, and we got to give them chocolate
that we ourselves like, and Chick gospel tracts.
The very first girl Deborah gave a tract to
was SO excited!
"Mommy!
Look what they gave me!"
I'll be that girl's mom read that tract to her.
Neither of us knew any of the people who came by.
So that is a bunch of families reached that we would not
have come into contact with.
Praise God!
We've also gotten testimonies from some of you,
telling about how fun it was to give the gospel to thankful families.
Isn't it wonderful, how we all got to ruin the Devil's night?
Shelia and her husband Jerry passed out over 3,200 tracts
to over 1,000 kids!
Think of the souls and families that were touched
by that act of kindness.
Now that Halloween is past, some of you are no doubt wondering
how to give out the other tracts that you have,
or the new orders you've just placed or are wanting to place.
Let me offer you a little perspective.
Hi, I'm David Daniels from Chick Publications
How we think about giving out tracts is crucial.
If our mind is filled with, "You dirty, rotten sinner,
you are going to hell."
That attitude will probably leak out.
And I suspect the unsaved person might not want to
receive a tract from us with that attitude.
It's a very good idea for us first to think about the unsaved,
and of their need for Jesus.
Then we need to pray that God will use the tracts
and give us wisdom when handing them out.
And we need to hand them out.
When we give out a Chick tract, we are like ambassadors,
and we are inviting people to a meeting.
The tract is the invitation.
Everyone will eventually meet Jesus.
He will sit on His throne as Son of God and judge every one of us.
But we have the opportunity to connect with Him
before that Day, by receiving Him through
faith in His shed blood to pay for our sins, while we are still have time on the earth.
The tract has the information.
I'm passing that information on to another person.
I want that person to receive the tract and read the tract.
The Lord will do the rest.
That is their appointment.
When they read the tract, just them and God,
he or she will respond to it.
They are responsible for their response.
I'm not.
I am only responsible for arranging that opportunity.
That's why giving out tracts is so important.
Aren't you amazed when people say, "I was raised in church
and I never heard about Jesus."
Well, that's me.
Bethel Congregational Church.
The only time I heard about Jesus was the baby in the manger thing
at Christmas.
Bethel was a member of the World Council of Churches.
They never preached the gospel while I was there.
That's me in 1966.
Right next to it, that's me in 1976, about to graduate from junior high.
I'd been a Mormon almost 4 years by this visit.
But no one even asked me about my faith or shared with me
the gospel message.
Not even my Grandma, who prayed for me during those years.
The gospel was preached in the church in early 1984.
I know, because
I did it!
The other "church" I went to as a child was the Church of Religious Science.
I don't remember ever hearing the name "Jesus" there.
My brother and I were the only kids I know at school
whose parents were divorced.
But I was brought up around Christians.
I went to church.
I had "Christian" friends.
We sang Christian songs in public school.
-- In fact I memorized the Christmas story, from the King James,
for our 5th grade Christmas program!
But I learned zero Bible anywhere else.
And nobody I knew told me the basic gospel message.
It was a stranger I'd never met and never saw again,
who changed my life, by giving me This Was Your Life
and asking me to read it out loud, then asked me
if I would like to receive the Lord Jesus as my Saviour.
A Chick tract!
From a stranger!
And I biked, skate boarded or walked all the way across town
to the Christian Light Bookstore to get the latest Chick tract
whenever I could.
The only words that taught me about morality, Ouija boards, praying,
what God wanted, were found in the Chick tracts I bought.
So in a real sense, Jack Chick is my spiritual "father"
on this earth.
The only place I ever heard about the Lord Jesus as the King
and Judge of the world -- was in the Chick tracts.
Never underestimate the power of God to use Chick tracts.
So read the tract.
Check the scriptures.
Be ready to answer questions.
Have some kind of Bible, in your hand or on your phone.
There's a lot of people who were churched,
just like me,
and yet never given the gospel.
And you might be the stranger who makes a world of difference
by offering that precious soul God's forgiveness of their sins
and eternal life with Him.
God bless you, and have a wonderful day.