Monthly Archives: September 2010

Day 12 – waiting in line

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I was waiting in line to use the rest room at a gas station. The guy in front of me had been there awhile when I walked up. He said he’d been waiting for over five minutes already. I said, “did you get one of these” and handed him a “reject the Gospel” tract.

He took the tract and said thanks and immediately began reading it. He read the front and the back. As I was about to ask him what he thought about it, he turned to me and said, “I guess I’ll use the rest room somewhere else down the road.” He put the tract in his pocket and left.

Interestingly, about 30 seconds after he left, the rest room freed up!

Day 11 – tracts

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Handed out a number of tracts today. Gave a “Mormon/Muslim” tract to the attendant at the car wash. Then left a tract for the waiter at lunch.

I had to run to the grocery store to pick up a few things. Put tracts in the six packs of beer. Gave tracts to both people in front of me in the check out line.

Sometimes people I’ve talked to indicate they are afraid to give tracts to people in line. I gave the tracts and said, “there is. Gospel message on the back.” You know what happened? Both people said thank you for giving them the tract.

While waiting in line I put tracts in several of the magazines on the end cap. I figured that readers might need a bookmark.
Finally I gave a tract to the cashier!

Day 10 – hotel newspaper

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At the hotel they put newspapers in front of each guest room. So I put a million dollar bill with each newspaper.

While at the hotel I also left tracts on the table and trash can on my floor. See pictures.

I love putting the reject the gospel tracts on trash cans.

Day 9 – running

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When I went running this morning, I put a tract in my pocket. Determined to hand it out before I finished my run, I pulled it out, asked a guy “did you get one of these” and he took it.

Also gave tracts to the cashier at breakfast and another guy at the restaurant.

Want a good discussion starter? Ask people what they think about “the mosque at ground zero” or “the pastor who wants to burn the quran”. Everyone seems to have an opionion. The conversation inevitabily leads to the spiritual!

Day 8 – football trivia

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I got up and walked to a place for breakfast. As I left my hotel room, I put a tract on the table near the elevator and one on the elevator. Standing in line at a place to get breakfast, two guys were debating football between Jets and Patriots. So I gave them each a football trivia tract. The guys behind the counter were wondering what I had given out. So I gave them each one too. One of the guys was reading the tract as I left. I could here him reading ,”Jesus says lust is adultery” and then make some crack about this being some “religious thing.” At least they received the Gospel.

After lunch I left a football trivia tract on the table.

Day 7 – travel

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I was traveling on business. Gave tracts to at least the following people

Driver on bus from parking lot
Guy on bus
American self check in helper
American baggage check guy
Couple guys in line at security
Flight attendant
Couple guys on plane
Both pilots
Guys at burger place at lunch
Taxi driver
Hotel check in.

Day 6 – FedEx Kinko’s

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Only went out for a short time today. Gave a tract to the cashiers at FedEx Kinko’s and at Home Depot!

Then we got a group of 11 together tonight and packaged 18,000 tracts for the October tract club mailing!

Day 5 – Classic 50’s

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I spent most of the day at my mom’s house, so didn’t have a chance to hand out a tract until we stopped at Classic 50’s on the way home to pick up snacks and drinks for the drive.

I gave an Oklahoma Football Trivia tract to the car hop.

Later at a stop for gas, I put a tract in the credit card slot at the gas station, gave one to an employee inside and gave tracts to several of the other customers at the gas station.

Day 4 – OU outreach

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Today we drove to Norman, Ok for an outreach at campus corner before the Oklahoma football game.

The morning started off handing out three Dallas Cowboys trivia tracts at a gas station near home.

At the outreach the team handed out about 4000 tracts.  Brady and Shane also did some open air preaching.

I had a conversation with an atheist / agnostic. He agreed with the recent hawkin quotes about the universe spontaneously happening from nothing. He readily admitted to breaking five of the ten commandments (all of the ones I asked about)  He even swore to a god that he does not believe exists. When I called him on that he wanted to high five. He later agreed it would be better to discuss when he had not been drinking.

I had another good conversation with a college student as I walked to the stadium. He claimed to be a believer and even named Christ as the only way to heaven. However he readily admitted to not following Christ. I encouraged him to surrender his sin to Jesus.

At the stadium while walking to my seat, I was going up the ramps on the east side of the stadium. There must be 15 or so ramps to get up there. Chatting with some of the others that were walking, one guy complained how boring the walk was. So I handed him an OU Football Trivia card. He said, he’d need his glasses. So I offered to read it to him. As we walked we went over each of the questions. Some other people around us also heard the conversation. After question five, about what we all have in common, we discussed Heaven and Hell and I got to share the Law and the Gospel with him. Everyone in the group got a tract!

Day 3 – a curious man

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I met Todd at the mall for lunch and then we talked to some people and shared the Gospel. Probably had at least a dozen conversations and handed out even more tracts than that. I want to focus on just one conversation.

We were at a kiosk where they sell personal massage units that do deep muscle massage with electric pulses. It is similar to a TENS unit. They put the unit on me and show me how it works. Feels pretty good. But I told them I was not interested.

So I ask one of the guys there, “what do you think happens when you die?” He had no real strong opinions either way and said, “when I die, I’ll let you know.” So I took him to the commandments which he admitted to breaking the fourth, seventh and ninth. But then he said he was not subjected to them because he is not of the tribes. Turns out he is from Israel. But, not religious. I tried to explain that everyone will be subject to the judgment. But he dismissed it.

So I asked to have the massager removed from my back and turned to Todd so that we could leave. When I did, he got very interested in what we were talking about. He started asking “what kind of Christian are you” and “where do you go to church?” We explained that there is only one universal church of which Christ is the head. We asked him to read the Bible, starting with Matthew and he said he would check it out.

It was very interesting, that the conversation was seemingly going no where until I excused myself, then he got very interested. I pray that he will read Matthew, then the New Testament. But, above all, I pray that God will save him.