Matthew 28:19

I have found that going to the grocery store can be a lot of fun even if it is just to pick up an item or two. If I need to get milk or cheese, I’ll put tracts in the six packs of beer and the twelve packs of soda on my way back to that section of the store. Have you noticed on the 12 packs, the vendors has put a little slot right on the top. Some people think that is to carry the twelve pack. Actually, it is designed just to stick a business card tract in there!

On Saturday night it was the night before Easter. My wife needed some powdered sugar to finish up some frosting for the carrot cake she was making. So I drove up to the grocery store. While on the sugar aisle trying to find what I was looking for, a woman came down the aisle who looked kind of depressed. I smiled, handed her a tract and said, “Happy Easter!” She got a big smile on her face, took the tract, said thanks and immediately started reading it. Sometimes just a simple smile or saying hello can make a persons day. Why not also make their eternity by sharing the gift of eternal life with them.

At the check out line, I gave more tracts to each of the people waiting in line as well as the cashier. They all said thanks and started reading the tracts while waiting in line.

It’s two days before Easter. School is out. So I took my youngest son to the mall for lunch and to take him to the Lego Store. The line to see the Easter bunny wraps around the entire area. No, we were not in the line. Just observing it.  A friend also met us there. He and I were commenting that the Easter bunny has nothing to do with Easter and started joking about the saying “Hoppy Easter!” Of, course, I figured there is probably a tract in that saying someplace. So look for a new tract next Easter. Anyway, it turns out that if you walk up to someone and say “Hoppy Easter” and hand them an Easter tract, they will take it and say thank you. So we handed out a number of them as we were leaving the mall.

I really wanted to share the Gospel with the Easter bunny. My son said he would not do it. And the line was real long. We did the “Hoppy Easter” line to the couple at the end of the line. Turns out he is in missions ministry at DTS. After talking for a few minutes we told him about wanting to share the Gospel with the Easter Bunny. He agreed to do it. So we gave him an extra tract to give to the Easter Bunny!

We joked a little more saying things like “hop on down to the cross and repent!”

As I pondered  this on my way home, I realized that it is not “Hoppy Easter!” but rather “Hoppy Easter?” The question mark asks if it really is about the Easter Bunny. No! Easter is about the ressurrection of the Christ. Jesus is the way, the truth and the life. He is the king of kings and Lord of Lords. No one comes ot the Father except through Him!

Happy Easter!

A friend sent me a message with an idea she tried at Sam’s to distribute Gospel tracts:

Looking for a good place to place Easter tracts at Sam’s, I discovered in the Easter candy display this year there are packs of plastic hollow eggs, filled with gum and hard candies. One pack is a large set of egg-shaped sports balls — another pack is pastel colored flowered eggs.

I discovered that if you turn the packs over, there is a flap and a piece of clear tape holding the box closed, at the center of the flap. The flap is just the right depth to hide an Easter tract which you can slide gently under the piece of tape so it stays in place…

…one way to help people remember WHY they are buying egg-shaped footballs filled with candy!!

Thanks, Nita, for sharing the idea with us!

All of my March tract club tracts had already been handed out. So since the month has 31 days, I just used different tracts. My son and I were playing racquetball, so I left a tract in the storage box in the court. See picture below.

I also gave tracts to the guy working the front desk and four others that were playing racquetball.

As we left, I put a tract in the bulletin board.

I set out at the beginning of the month to hand out all 30 tracts in the tract club mailing and document it here in this blog. My son and I went to the recreation center to play racquetball. As we were walking into the rec center a group of about 8-10 teens were coming out. I said to my son, “they are getting tracts.” I reached into my gym bag and grabbed a stack of tracts including my last microwave oven tract, the last of my March tract club tracts and handed them to the teens as they came out!

Do you need tracts to hand out? Please enroll in the Bezeugen Tract Club.

Since I work from home, I actually managed to not go anywhere all day. Makes it tough to hand out a tract if I don’t leave home. After dinner my wife and youngest son wanted to walk to the park.  So I went with them. While at the park I was able to hand out a number of tracts including a “where will you spend eternity” tract to a couple.

After church we went out to lunch. Then we went to the sporting goods store to get our boys some new shoes. While we were there, a young man assisted us with finding some shoes. Turns out they did not have the shoes we were looking for. I said, “thanks anyway, you still get to get out of hell free” and then I gave the guy that helped us and the gal that was working there too Get Out of Hell Free cards. Now, I know you tract club members will be saying, “wait a minute, Get Out of Hell Free cards were not included in the March mailing of the tract club.” I know! Read on.

I went back to helping my son find some shoes. Standing down the aisle, I could here the guy and the gal reading the tract and talking about it. The guy started talking about how he is agnostic and even said he figures a god exists, but not sure who he is. My son wondered off to another aisle to look at other shoes. So I went back and engaged the sales guy in a conversation. I took him through the ten commandments. Then he had to “do some work” and the conversation ended. I chatted with the gal for a few minutes. Turns out that she is a Christian. I spoke with the guy a little more and offered him a DVD or book to answer a number of his questions. He declined. As I left, I handed the gal a “Where will you spend eternity” tract. I asked her to look for an opening to talk with him more and if the time arose to give it to him and ask him to order the “One Heartbeat Away” tract.

I had lunch out with my son. I asked the cashier if they had a microwave oven. He said yes. So I gave him a Microwave Oven gospel tract!

I just boarded my flight. One of the airline baggage handlers was standing by the door to the plane. I handed him a “Final Four” trivia tract. He said thanks. The guy in front of me said “my team is playing tonight.” Turns out he is a Michigan state alum. So he got a trivia tract too!

In addition to meeting fellow academy #13 alum, Stan, for dinner and a night of witnessing, I also gave out some tracts in what I’d consider “as you go.” for instance at lunch, I left the waitress a “microwave oven” tract. I also handed a number of tracts to the people I saw waiting in line at the resaurant for dinner.