Happy New Year! Did you make any New Year Resolutions? Do you know anyone who has made them? This is a popular question this time of year. The new year brings new beginnings. Many people reflect on the past and look forward to the future. They consider past regrets and hopes for a brighter tomorrow ahead. This can be a challenge and a blessing wrapped into a single season.
Take heart. God is good. He forgives. If you have sinned, confess, repent and know you have been forgiven. Look up, look forward, go and share Jesus with others! Here are a couple suggested goals for 2022. I call them goals rather than resolutions because we can strive for these goals daily, not just at the beginning of the year.
First, set a goal to read God’s word. Even one verse is a good start. But try for at least one chapter. Perhaps you can set your sights higher and set a goal to read through the Bible in a year. Perhaps this is a good opportunity to start a habit of reading through the Proverbs. Billy Graham had a practice of reading through the Proverbs and Psalms on a monthly basis. Just read the Proverb for the day of the month and 1-5 Psalms a day and you can do it. Acts 4:13 says “Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated, common men, they were astonished. And they recognized that they had been with Jesus.“ Being in God’s word is how you stay connected to Jesus. Then once you have been with Jesus through the Word, go tell others about him!
There are a number of plans to read through the Bible in a year. But if you’d like some ideas check the BLOG post linked at the end of this letter.
Second, set a goal to share the Gospel every day. By being a member of the Bezeugen Tract Club you are already equipped with 30 Gospel tracts per month. Simply share one each day and you are on your way! If you’d like some interaction with others (via social media) who have made the commitment, look up the Everyday Club on Facebook and MeWe at www.bezeugen.org/everyday/.
Third, make a goal to invite at least one person to join the Bezeugen Tract Club every month. Do you love getting tracts in the mail? Then why not tell someone else so that they can be encouraged to go share the Gospel too! We often hear people say “I don’t have the gift of Evangelism”. Well that’s okay. The gift of evangelism is given to those to train others (Ephesians 4:11-12) to share the Gospel. The command to go and make disciples (Matthew 28:18) is for all Christians. The enclosed bookmark is both a Gospel tract and an invitation to join the tract club. Hand it to a Christian friend and encourage them and remind them to go to http://enroll.tract.club/ to enroll in the Bezeugen Tract Club. Once they enroll they can share the tract with another believer to enroll, or an unbeliever to share the Gospel with them.
Are you feeling fearful when it comes to sharing the Gospel? Bezeugen Ministries provides a free two hour “Basic Evangelism Training Seminar”. If you’d like live or in person training feel free to call us and we can see about visiting you, or doing something live online. In the meantime, we have a recording of our seminar that you can watch on your own or with a group of friends. The recording can be found on Rumble or YouTube.
Fourth, pray! Matthew 9:38 says to pray to the Lord to send out workers into the field. Those workers are Christians. You and I! Let’s commit to pray every day for the lost and for their repentance. Since May 2010 we have also been hosting monthly “First Thursday Prayer” meetings for our Nation, Leaders, and Revival. Will you join us? Send an email to be added to a distribution list to receive notification of A.C.T.S. (Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving, Supplication) verses for prayer. You can host a prayer meeting at your own city hall, place of business, or church. More information is available online.
This months tracts include the “21 day challenge”. It is a challenge to read the Gospel of John a chapter a day for 21 days. Perhaps you’d like to take the challenge yourself. Or when you hand the tract to someone you’d could challenge them and then meet them for coffee once a week and discuss what has been read. We especially like to point people to the Gospel of John since as verse 20:31 indicates it is written so they may believe in Jesus. I like to read the Gospel of John every month so it is always fresh on my mind as I meet others. On the tract they can find the website where it has the reading plan. Or simply send an email to 21@AfterLifeCatalog.com with “subscribe” on the subject line and you’ll get daily reminders! The website has links to read, listen to, and even watch a movie of the Gospel of John.
Other tracts included this month are Thank You, Got Peace and YOLO. The Thank You tract can be handed to someone as a simple Thank You. Or perhaps you received a Christmas gift and you could include the tract in a thank you note. Got Peace has a winter theme and the message of how to have peace with God. YOLO is a reminder that you only live once. It’s Biblical, because Hebrews 9:27 says it is appointed once to die, and then the judgment!
We at Bezeugen Ministries are excited about 2022. We already have three new tracts designed that will appear in the February, March and April mailings. Additional new tracts are being designed. As it appears the COVID-19 pandemic is behind us, we hope to be able to resume outreach events, door to door evangelism, training opportunities, and the like. Check the BLOG, social media, and future letters for more details.
A few house keeping things to remember.
Please keep your address up to date. If you move you can update your mailing address by renewing your membership online.
If you are getting behind handing out tracts you can change your membership to bi-monthly or quarterly with the form online.
If you no longer want to receive tracts, you may unsubscribe by sending email.
