Matthew 28:19

I was listening to Mark Cahill’s sermon called give while driving to the mall to meet a friend for lunch. Mark was talking about how it is more blessed to give than receive. He talked about buying lunches, subway tokens and the like and giving them away with a Gospel tract.

So after I placed my order at sonic I prayed and decided to try it. A guy had just ordered at the next register. I said I’d like to buy your lunch. He asked why and I told him that the bible says it is more blessed to give than receive. He said thanks. I handed him a football trivia tract and said there is a gospel message on the back. He said thanks again and said wow it even has football on it.

Sure feels great to serve our awesome God!

This was also my first time to take the Pocket Lie Detector out to the mall. Read the Bezeugen BLOG to see how some conversations went using this new witnessing tool.

It’s a good thing that there are plenty of Starbucks locations. I’ve been to a number of different ones this week. Today I ordered a latte, then gave the cashier a “good card“.  He said “thanks” and gladly took it.

Have you noticed the response that people give when you hand them a tract. I think the common misconception is that people will not be interested in the tract or that they will be offended that you offered to them. My experience is the opposite. The overwhelming majority of people will take the tract and when they do say “thanks”! Try it! The tract you give someone could save them for all eternity.

Not convinced? Please check Brady’s testimony and the Frank Jenner story.

Craig, Todd and I met for lunch at the mall. I was handing out Dallas Cowboys Trivia tracts as I entered the mall and while ordering lunch at in the food court. I would simply ask “do you like the Cowboys” and if they said yes, I’d give them the tract. One guy said “no, I like the Steelers” so I gave him a different tract.

While waiting for Terriaki Chicken to be grilled, Todd and I had a good dialog with the cook. I started by asking what came first, the chicken or the egg. Even though I did not have any of our “which came first tracts” with me, it still made a good discussion starter. When I shared with him that Genesis 1 indicated that “God created everything according to it’s kind” he got very interested. He handed me a piece of paper and asked me to write down the verses that said that. So I did. I gave him the paper and a tract. The conversation was edifying to both of us.

After lunch, I talked to a guy named Masu. He was from Napal and had just graduated from BYU. He had some interesting stories about how the Mormons tried to convince him to get baptized and so forth. I asked him what he would be doing next. Graduate school, he said. I continued on that line of questioning through marriage, having children, retiring, moving back to Napal and eventually death. This is a line of questioning that Mark Cahill talks about in his book “One Thing You Can’t Do in Heaven”.

Masu is a hindu. I got to share the Law and Gospel with him. I asked if he had a Bible. He said, no, but I have a book of Mormon. I went to my car and got him a Bible and gave it to him. Please pray that he reads it. I put a bookmark at the Gospel of John for him.