"Nobody gets saved with Chick tracts!" Is that true?
Or is there another side to the story?
Hi, I'm David Daniels from Chick Publications.
I got a letter from a brother in Christ. He sent some tracts to a prison ministry
and got this letter back.
I want to read part of it to you.
It says, I'm returning your money order for $25, and I'm returning the tracts,
saying, "The tracts you enclosed, including the Chick tract,
do not glorify the Lord Jesus Christ.
They glorify only your mistaken version of truth."
Then they say, "The KJV is no more the word of God
-and no less- than many of the newer versions.
"In my opinion, the Revised Standard Version
is the gold standard. But the English Standard Version
is equally anointed. And there are others."
"But I would never stand on the street corner
passing out tracts to that effect. It doesn't lift up Jesus.
It only brings dissension, and there's enough of that in the ranks
of the Church today."
That's pretty heavy.
"But here's the point: stand on a street corner in any big city
in America and pass out the tracts you sent to me by
the tens of thousands for years on end, and you will never bring one man or
woman lost in sin closer to Christ. "You will never comfort
one hurting human soul. "There is no compassion in those tracts.
"While they may present grains of truth (so does Satan),
all they really do is bring dissension and sow discord.
And that is not your commission. Your commission -and that from Christ-
is to let your light so shine before the world that you glorify God
and draw the lost and hurting to Him."
Page two:
"Go down to the 'ghetto' and put your arm around some vagabond;
tell him God loves Him; give him a tract that tells him about
that great love and how it was demonstrated in Jesus Christ.
"Never mind how bad the Catholic Church is.
Bible him a Bible if you can afford it. (Start with the $25 money order.)
"Give him a sandwich and a cola. And toss the tracts in the trash.
God will bless you. And souls will be added to His kingdom."
"In the Savior's mighty name,"
I will not tell you who sent this letter.
Is it true? Is it true that nobody
get saved with Chick tracts?
We have a semi-monthly Battle Cry. This is free.
You can ask for it when you order from Chick. Just like YouTube,
it's all free. All we do is provide information
for you, and notify you about stuff that's going on.
In the Battle Cry here: "A drunk just read
Just One More and got up and poured all his booze
down the sink. He said, 'My father is a preacher, and
I'm a preacher's son. I really messed up.
I'm going to change my life.'"
That's from Las Vegas. Here's one.
"I was raised a Roman Catholic by my parents. I grew up
not believing in God, and later considered myself an atheist.
I left for a job out of state, where I felt lonely,
without family and friends. I smoked dope and drank
to cope with anxiety attacks. I stopped at a doughnut shop
and came across a Chick tract in the washroom!
Sitting there I started to read it. When I got back home
I knelt down and poured out my heart to the Lord.
I had been wrong all those years before not to believe in God."
That's a couple, but you know, this is a prison ministry, so
maybe it's prisoners who aren't going to be reached?
How about this, from a chaplain, name withheld:
"Just got into the office and received your call ....
I was about to send you an e-mail to say thanks for the Chick Tracts..."
He wrote this to the guy who sent them.
The Guys are loving them and we are running out about a week to 2 weeks
before they come again.... If we could up them by 100
it would be great.... I can't begin to tell you how
revival has broken out here and you have a huge part in that! ....
The Inmates are showing up now just to see if we have more, and
different tracts! .... its an awesome thing to see the Lord
open up doors with our Chapel Clerks (they are inmates themselves) and
talk to the guys about the tracts. This one ministry alone has brought
over 200 inmates to the Lord since we last communicated.
They want to come into my office and talk about the things they are
reading about! ...You and your ministry are truly sent from God
for a time such as this! .... I have no doubt that when you get to heaven,
some Inmate from here will walk up and say 'Do you know why I am here,
it's because you sent some tracts to Chaplain ______ and he gave them
to me to read and led me to the Lord!' .... My Brother, you will see
fields of harvest that will be as far as the eye can see! ....
Thank you so much for listening to the Lord and your Heart for us
here at _____.... I can't find the words to tell you the Blessing you are.
Your Brother in Battle .... I love making WAR with you! ...
We are winning!"
Or another one. This is from Glendale, California:
"People are getting stirred up over 'Smokescreens'..."
That's the book that Jack wrote about Roman Catholicism and the
compromise of the Whore of Babylon.
"...and the Catholic tracts."
Again, here they are.
"Thank you for the truth and your faithfulness to speak the truth.
I've started sending a little at a time to prisoners. One inmate just wrote that
he had sent 'Why is Mary Crying' 'into the flow' and Catholic eyes
were opened. One inmate, turning from Catholicism to Islam, turned to Jesus
after reading that tract."
"A prison chaplain referred to Chick tracts as his 'Little Soldiers.'
The inmates hold on to them and don't want to let them go."
And one more. It says:
"I just wanted to let you know your tracts go over very well
in our jail/prison ministry here in Wisconsin. We deal with
different types of people every week, so any type of reading material
they get that has a Biblical influence to it they really enjoy."
Seriously. "Nobody gets saved"?
I got saved because of Chick tracts! You can see my videos
on the YouTube channel.
This is why I wrote, "Who's the Real Hater?"
and Jack so kindly illustrated it.
The point of this tract (and if you order any tracts,
you can get this for free) the point of this tract is:
the real hate is to let people go to hell. The real hate is not to give them
the gospel of Jesus Christ.
That is why we have tracts on homosexuality.
That's why we have at least one (and I keep on checking it and
updating it with good information) on Mormonism, "The Visitors."
This one, a compassionate one for Jehovah's Witnesses.
And yeah, this one about the Bible, because you know,
if you don't have God's holy words, you don't have God's holy authority
in your life. And someone can come in,
reinterpret God's words, and pull you into a cult, or Catholicism,
or any other number of things.
We have our tracts that are compassionate to Muslims.
"Is Allah Like You?" is often picked up by the women,
even when the men walk by. They sneak their hands in back
and receive a copy.
This is all real.
If you don't believe that, I've got a few more testimonies here,
and one or two more testimonies in here. And how about the testimonies in here?
These are just filled with people's testimonies, so much so, that
we had to do computer documentation of it, and just list them.
And on and on and on.
"Nobody gets saved with Chick tracts"? Chick tracts are one of God's methods.
They got me! They got my own daughter!
Come on, man! These things make a difference.
If you want to make a difference, get hold of some Chick tracts.
What if you don't like one? We have a cornucopia of them.
Pick them. Pick the ones you like. Or if you like something else,
get something. Do something!
Get your Bible. Make sure you have something with you,
big or small, so you can answer those questions
to the lost.
The comforting, yeah, and give them a sandwich.
Put your arm around them. But don't leave them without
the only means of the true salvation, eternal life, and true deliverance
from whatever their troubles are.
God bless you, and have a wonderful day.