Carrollton for Christ!

The Lord has given me a vision to take the Gospel to every household in Carrollton, Texas. From my research this appears to represent about 40,000 households. Yesterday I got started. I started from my house, turned left up the street and went around the block.

• I went to 35 houses.
• Talked to 10 people.
• Gathered 8 prayer requests.
• Collected 8 food items for Metrocrest Social Services
• I left a Gospel tract with each person and put one on the door if there was no one home

I have posted a video on YouTube with some thoughts about how the time went on my first time out door to door to reach Carrollton for Christ!

The conversations went basically like this. I knocked on the door and waited for an answer. When someone would come to the door then I would say, “Hi, My name is Carl. I live here in the community. I have three reasons for coming to your door today. The first reason is that I am conducting a food drive for Metrocrest Social Services.” I showed them the list of items that I am collecting and then asked, “do you have any of these items that you would be willing to donate? They will be distributed to those less fortunate right here in Carrollton.” At this point they would say yes or no and possibly go get some food to donate. I thanked them for their donation. Several people were not able to donate at that time. They said they would like to donate later. So I gave them my business card that contains my phone number and email address and asked them to call me when they were able to donate.

I then proceded saying, “the second purpose of my visit is that we are having a prayer meeting and are wondering if there is anything that we can pray about for you and your family?” People were very receptive to this question. Eight of the ten people that came to the door gave me prayer requests. One did not speak English and the other had no specific requests at the time.

Finally, I said, “the third reason I am here is that I am taking a spiritual survey. Do you believe in God?” The conversations then went to spiritual things and gave me a chance to share the Gospel with each household. These conversations need to be tailored slightly to each person based on their beliefs, questions and background. My general outline follows the Way of the Master WDJD as follwos:

• Do you believe in God?
• Do you believe in Heaven and Hell?
• How do you get to Heaven?
• Do you consider yourself to be a good person?
• Have you kept the Ten Commandments?
• Have you ever told a lie, stolen anything, used God’s name as a curse word, looked with lust? You know, walk through some of the Ten Commandments.
• Would you be innocent or guilty?
• Would you go to heaven or hell?
• Does that concern you?
• Then share the perfect life, crucifixtion, death, ressurrection of Jesus
• Share that if you repent and trust in Christ alone for salvation then you will have eternal life

Finally, I would thank them for their time and hand them a Gospel tract. I am using the Good News / Bad News tract that we developed.

If no one came to the door, then I left a Gospel tract on the door and moved on to the next house. The three pictures below show three ways that I was able to leave tracts on the door wihtout using any tape!

The simplest case is that the tract could just be slipped between the door and the jam like this:

Some houses have storm doors. These doors did not allow simply putting the tract into a slot. In this case, if the door was not locked, I could open it slightly, stick the tract in and then close the door against the tract to hold it like this:

Finally, some doors, neither of those methods would work. In this case, since the tract is made of a heavy business card stock, I could put a slight bend to it and then put it into the handle. The pressure of the bend would hold the card in place like this:

I calculated at the rate of 35 hours every hour and forty five minutes that it will take approximately 2,000 man hours to cover the entire city! Please keep this effort in prayer as we reach Carrollton for Christ!