In The Local

Harvest Fields

Dan Corner

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Dear saint, if you are interested in helping more SOULS find salvation, please read carefully and act.

Jesus said:

Do you not say, “Four months more and then the harvest”? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest. (John 4:35)

Many who want to do more for God are letting precious opportunities slip through their fingers. Those opportunities are gone forever, but don’t despair, Lord willing, more will come your way. Note these passages:

Be very careful, then, how you live—not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil. (Eph 5:15,16)

Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders; make the most of every opportunity. (Col 4:5)

It is shockingly easy to make more of an opportunity to help SOULS around you. Here is one of the chief ways we do that and have been doing it for decades. We distribute salvation literature wherever we go, and you can easily do the same! Not counting specific missionary trips, we distribute tracts at the grocery store, post office, bank, restaurants, doctors, public restrooms, etc. Just because the literature is Biblically sound, important spiritual things will happen. Sometimes spiritual eyes are closed and sometimes eyes are opened. (It depends on the hearts of the recipients.)

The following is one of hundreds, or better yet thousands, of experiences, which occurred because of handing out our Christian literature but could have been easily missed. A very strange conversation occurred.

On The Way

To Buy Groceries

While walking from the car to go inside a grocery store, I handed a gospel tract (our Salvation Plain and Simple) to a woman. Shockingly, one of the first things she said upon receiving it was:

I believe Jesus was a pot smoking hippie, who had multiple wives.

In over 30 years of soul winning and encountering many different types of people, I never remember anyone ever saying that before! I asked her, what was the basis of her statement. She was speechless. She could offer no proof.

It seemed that is what she wanted to believe and that was good enough for her. I told her Jesus was the sinless son of God and is deity, according to the only solid evidence that exists (the Bible). I further added that she was in the greatest danger that exists and she had just blasphemed by saying those untrue things about the Lord Jesus.

I found out she was raised Catholic and is now studying to be a Buddhist. Her view of the Bible was that it has to be accepted merely by faith and that is all any religious person has regardless what their belief might be. I mentioned that is not true and stated the Bible MUST be the word of God just based on the primary evidence—both the many fulfilled prophecies and the law of probabilities.

I asked her if she knew what the law of probabilities was and she said yes, but didn’t seem to know as I explained it. The law of probabilities would say if 1 out of 20 males had a mole on his face and 1 out of 10 men were shorter than 5 feet 5, the chances that a male having such a facial mole and being shorter than 5 feet 5 was 1 out of 200. That being said, if one would examine the detailed prophecies about where Messiah was to be born (Micah 5:2), how he would die (Psa. 22), why he would die (Isa. 53), the time frame of when he would die (Dan 9:26), etc. coupled with the law of probabilities, that that alone shows we are dealing with a Bible which can NOT be anything other than of divine inspiration, unlike all the other so-called holy books.

After sharing the above kinds of things she said truth was subjective. I responded:

If someone said, we are not standing in front of this grocery store in this town at this moment, but insisted it was in another state and attached the phrase that truth was subjective, what would you say?

I answered that for her, by saying:

You could answer there is clear proof that we are here in this town now. Streets, various businesses, river and highway intersections, etc. all prove our location. The evidence is clear. We are ONLY here and not in some other location. Similarly, that is how we KNOW the Bible is true and what it says about the afterlife and forgiveness are factual.

I mentioned that hell was a place of eternal conscious torment for the wicked dead and cited the Bible as the ONLY reliable source for spiritual truth. She seemed to be thinking.

Shockingly, she described herself as spiritual. I responded:

How can you be spiritual since you blasphemously think Jesus was a pot smoking hippie who had multiple wives? Instead of your view of Jesus he is the ONLY way to the father and your ONLY hope of salvation and forgiveness.

After giving her several other types of gospel tracts, I walked away. That unique witnessing opportunity opened up, because I first handed her a salvation tract. Many other unusual conversations have likewise transpired over the years. That conversation could have been very easily missed had no tract been offered to that person.

Sound tracts alone have done much good over the years. To just distribute them without conversing with anyone will do much good. Even leaving them around in public places will help to spread God’s word. You can personally help win the lost people in your area of the world by doing the same. It is easy and fruitful. Don’t be afraid or discouraged. You can do it and will get better over time. We have sound gospel tracts, which can be very conveniently ordered here https://www.evangelicaloutreach.org/sctracts.htm

or printed directly from your printer any time here http://www.evangelicaloutreach.org/printfreetracts.htm Here is another important link which will give you ideas about what you can do with gospel tracts http://www.evangelicaloutreach.org/tracts.htm

GOD BLESS YOU.

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