Christian Tracts — Are They Really Necessary?

   I have had many conversations regarding Christian tracts, with professing Christians, pastors and elders and even evangelists who are out preaching the Gospel regularly and “rescuing those being led away to death” — the “few” who actually seem to be on fire for the Lord.

   Ironically, it is the Evangelists who will almost always have tracts and it is the professing Christians, pastors and elders who will almost always not have tracts.

   One pastor last week told me he hands out Bibles and to have Christian tracts is a waste of time.

   But, here is the problem with this. First of all, I can hand out, or drop, a hundred tracts within a couple hours while I am doing my everyday business. I can put 30 tracts in my pocket and, everywhere I stop, I can hand out or drop a tract in gas pumps, doorways, parking lots and sidewalks, through car windows or on windshields under wipers, on bulletin boards, under products or shopping items, drive through windows while getting food, doors that are locked and nobody is there, in magazines and books, etc.

   There are so many places that we can put tracts that we cannot share the Gospel and the key example is when the person you want to share the Gospel with is not present when you are!

   To argue this obvious truth is to show that you are either, still on “spiritual m ...

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