What do you think about gospel tracts? Has your life been changed by one? Do they do more harm than good?

Question

Gospel tracts are those little booklets that have a message from the bible or about God in them.

I always wonder - are gospel tracts doing any good or are they annoying the people who find them?

Have you ever been positively impacted by a gospel tract? Has a gospel tract ever made you angry? I know not all tracts are the same and some are more offensive than others. I'm just curious to know how you or someone you know have been PERSONALLY impacted by tracts.

Answer 1

I'm a waitress. Tracts frequently get left along with tips. I'm always glad when I receive them, but not because they're so life-changing. It's because I'm a Christian. I grew up in church and I know the people who leave them mean well. When my co-workers receive them, it doesn't have a positive effect on them. But they are very ineffective today. Most of the time all they get is a snicker out of the people who receive them. They're also so vague. When you boil them down, all they do is say "pray and ask Jesus in your heart". But thats not what becoming/being a Christian is about at all. It's life and trust and love and so much more. You can't even begin to package that in a tiny piece of paper. A personal relationship is what it takes, not Christianese on a colorful sheet.

Answer 2

I was in a park once and some bikers came riding in, they sat a bench and opened bibles and read them for awhile. Later they handed us some tracts that were really good. Homelessness can make you lonely and depressed at times. It is always a good thing when you get a lift from the Lord. That is what happened that day for my family and I. So yes, tracts do help, at times.

Answer 3

No, in my experience, all they do is turn people off. They typically come off high-handed and superiuor or they are openly derogatory, threaten the non-believer with hell and damnation and make grossly inaccurate assumptions about people of other religions. Chick tracts are the worst offenders of all.

I'm not Christian (hence my username), but I'd be more inclined to listen to a Christian who not only *practiced* love, tolerance, honor and respect than one who shoves a religious tract in my hand while screaming at me so vehemently, they spray me with spittle. (Yes, it has happened - during a daytime trick or treat session no less!)

Answer 4

I have to admit that I have, and in a positive way. I don't recall which one in particular. I know that when I am ready to hear something...that something finds its way to me. I have had that happen with Jehovah's Witness Booklets, and some other religions. I don't think it matters what reigion it is, it's the message that is important. I think the most powerful message behind all of them is to have faith that someday we will find out what this life was all about.

Answer 5

no I have never been influenced by a tract given out by religious groups of people who think they are spreading the word of God.

Answer 6

They are an excellant tool to distribute the gospel. We just sow the seed. It is God that gives the increase.



1Cr 3:6 I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.

http://www.biblebelievers.com/AllThis.html

Answer 7

They are seeds planted. When ever The word of God goes out it never comes back void

Answer 8

acceptance & Nail shops, loos & eating places, on an same time as you meet human beings on the line & shops. everywhere your spirit leads you to leave them. I easily have made up tracts of my personal, employing pictures & scriptures from the cyber web.

Answer 9

I think they r awesome we have passed then out in our neighborhoods and have gotten positive feedback and have seen souls saved. They if used properly can help open doors.

Answer 10

Part of the problem is that I get someone's "interpretation" of what they mean, instead of allowing me to make my own conclusion.