When dealing with Roman Catholic tracts,
the one issue on which Jack Chick is vilified
more than any other, he talks about the
precious Roman Catholics, because they are precious.
These are souls for whom Christ died.
Every one of those people, from all walks of life,
the homosexuals, those are people
for whom Christ died.
The atheists are people for whom Christ died.
It makes me feel bad about Madalyn Murray O'Hair.
I mean, the killing -- and all the things
that happened there-- I feel bad.
And ultimately, Jack does, too.
But I don't want to speak for him.
But the bottom line is, these are people
for whom Christ died.
It's awful to have a soul slip into hell.
And the reason the tracts were written
in the first place is because he cares.
If he didn't care, he'd just say
"Go to hell you dumb Catholic," but he doesn't say that.
There's no false decretal, that we want
Catholics to go to hell, or that we want
anything like that to happen.
We don't!
What we want is for them to be saved.
We want them to confront the truth
and want the truth to confront them.
Because the Way, the Truth, and the Life
is Jesus Christ.
The purpose for the Chick tracts is to bring them to God
--not to Jack Chick-- and for them to let God
bring them out of their sins --not the tract.
The reason the tracts are often pointed at
people with certain sins, is because
those people need Jesus.
Everybody is looking for a way out of the problems
in his or her life.
I do.
you do.
Everybody does.
But at the same time, there needs to be
some place you're directed.
So first, you start where the person is.
You know, we have a tract on racing,
called "The Wall."
It's not a tract about racing per se.
It starts with a racer.
What does a racer deal with?
Life or death.
Are we saying all racers are going to hell?
No!
It's not about that.
This is the situation we find ourselves in.
There's racers.
NASCAR's huge.
There's an awful lot of people who are going to hell
'cause they don't know Jesus,
or because they have made that compromise.
They decided, "This is more important
than that."
And in this tract, one has to decide
whether he wants his wife, who's a Buddhist,
or whether he wants his Lord and Saviour,
who died and shed His blood for his sins.
He has to make that choice.
The tracts are to bring people to that choice,
to make it conscious again.
They're not there to show hatred.
Again, the most hate-filled thing to do
is to let them die.
I guess you could say that in an ultimate sense,
Chick tracts are love literature, not in the
false, mamby-pamby feel-good kind of thing,
but in the "If I really love you,
I will tell you the truth.
If I really love you, I will help you,
in whatever way I can, to get out of your drugs,
to get out of your sins, to get out of your
bad relationships, to get out of the things
that are destroying you."
That's real love.
Some people call it, "Tough Love."
So you could almost call Chick tracts
"tough love tracts."
Not all of them.
There are some that actually take a different tack.
"Somebody Loves Me" -- that tract hits hearts,
because it shows that Jesus cares about
this individual who has been hurt.
And there are tracts also that hit at that level.
But there are a lot of tracts that are "tough love."
Because you love them, you will tell them
the hard stuff.