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To: daniel1212

I’ve given out a lot of the tract pictured, as well as of the version of it that has children with lovely choclatey complexion pictured. It is very effective, and I’ve never had a complaint from parents.


120 posted on 07/23/2014 9:39:56 PM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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I’ve given out a lot of the tract pictured, as well as of the version of it that has children with lovely choclatey complexion pictured. It is very effective, and I’ve never had a complaint from parents.

Nor should they, but another FReeper even complained that fixing kids bikes for free in the inner city here was encouraging theft.

I wish some caring soul had explained the simple gospel to when i was a kid. I did not even understand what a "sacrifice" was. I often just say in passing, "give your heart to Jesus who gave Himself for us." If things are conducive to say more, I basically tell them that we have all broken God's laws (naming a few), and cannot go to Heaven, as our sins would ruin it as God is holy, and so we need to be clean inside.

Which can only be done if someone who did nothing wrong paid the price for our forgiveness, which is Jesus Christ explaining how He came does from Heaven and never sinned, serving God and others day and night, doing nothing wrong but everything right, but then took responsibility for all that we did wrong, and died for use and rose again.

I then may ask them if they ever got blamed for something they did not do, and briefly explain how Jesus was, and that God looks at our lives and says the things we did will send us to Hell, but that He looks at what His Son did and says that is enough to send them to Heaven.

But that they need to decide that they want Him over sin, and a new life following Jesus, ask Him to save them, and that God will save them because of Jesus, as no one can earn Heaven.

I then urge them to do so, and to be on Jesus' side not the devil's, who comes to steal kill and destroy. But i rarely lead them in prayer to do so, as only a prayer out of a convicted needy heart will be efficacious, and if they are, then they can ask the Lord to save them. Praise God in Christ.

128 posted on 07/24/2014 3:28:47 AM PDT by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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