THE POWER OF A GOSPEL TRACT Maybe you’ve thought about handing out religious tracts, but then thought, they don’t do much good. The devil would like to make you believe that, but God says, “Preach the word, be instant in season, out of season...” (2 Tim. 4:2). Yes, many people can testify that tracts are effective tools for spreading the gospel. Many have been taught the truth by the power of the printed page. Sister Buford Malone, a member of the Eastland church in Nashville, Tennessee, had to take off from her work several years ago for surgery. Her last day on the job, she left some tracts in her desk drawer. When she returned to work about ten weeks later she found a note written by the young lady who had taken her place while she was off work. It said that through reading and studying the tracts she had learned God’s plan of salvation and had determined to be baptized into Christ. In 1973, Harry Persuad was working in the Dept. of Security for the Metropolitan Museum of Arts in New York City. Gene Mabry, a gospel preacher, happened to visit the museum one day and leave a tract. Harry found it, read it, and contacted Gene, who was working in the Washington, New Jersey area. Harry had been born a Hindu and later became a Roman Catholic. After finishing a correspondence course from brother Mabry, Harry obeyed the gospel. He worshiped with the Fair Lawn church in New Jersey and studied the Scriptures diligently with brethren James Finney and Glen Jones for three years. In October, 1976, Harry resigned his job with the museum to preach the gospel full time. [The tract that got him started was “Why I Am a Member of the Church of Christ” by L.A. Mott.] These are just two examples showing the good being done with religious tracts. If a tract has the gospel plainly taught in it, it has the power of God behind it, Rom. 1:16. Through tracts, souls can be taught the way of the Lord more perfectly, the church can be edified and strengthened, and those in error can be warned about the deceitfulness of sin. A “faith only” radio preacher says that 100 times more people tell him they are converted by reading his literature than by listening to his radio program. We have no way of knowing who will be responsive to the word of God but we can know that it takes little effort to encourage someone to read a tract. It may lead someone to Jesus. Why not give someone a tract today? --author unknown
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