The Dallas Mavericks have advanced to the NBA Finals and will face off against the Miami Heat. We have designed a bookmark Gospel tract which is a commemorative souvenir. Trivia tracts have been popular throughout the regular season and playoffs. Commemorative Souvenir tracts have been popular at the Super Bowl Outreaches and other venues. So we have designed this tract to hand to people. The front lists the Dallas Mavericks road to the NBA Finals and some facts about the NBA championship trophy. The back has a Gospel message.
There will be two outreaches.
- Tuesday, June 7
- Thursday, June 9
Both nights we will meet at Houston and Olive on the SE corner of the American Airlines Center at 6:30PM. Please contact me to let me know if we should look for you. For more information on this witness venue, see our fishing holes site.
The back of the tract reads:
Here is another fact. Ten out of ten people die. It is the ultimate statistic. Roughly 150,000 people die each day. Could this be your last day? What happens when you die? The Bible says, “It is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment” (Hebrews 9:27). Based on the Ten Commandments, how will you do? Have you ever told a lie? Stolen anything? Hated someone? Jesus calls hatred murder (Matthew 5:22)! Ever used God’s name carelessly? That is blasphemy and is a very serious offense (Exodus 20:7). If God judges you by this standard, will He see you as a lying, thieving, murderous blasphemer at heart? Will you be innocent or guilty? Should God send you to Heaven or Hell? God does not want you to go to Hell (1 Timothy 2:4, 2 Peter 3:9). Two thousand years ago, God sent His only son Jesus Christ to earth. Jesus being fully God and fully man, lived a perfect life, fulfilled the Law and then willingly became the perfect sacrifice for the sin of the whole world. He died on a cross to pay for your sin (1 John 2:2). Jesus rose from the dead, defeating sin, death and the devil. God “commands all people everywhere to repent” because “He has set a day when He will judge the world” (Acts 17:30-31). If you repent and believe the Gospel, then God will forgive all your sin and give you eternal life (Mark 1:15, John 3:36). www.AfterLifeCatalog.com / 80-BEZEUGEN (802-393-8436)
Many thanks to Marv at One Million Tracts for his help in designing the front of the tract. If you are in need of custom tract design, I highly recommend you contact Marv.
I’ve often wondered about this but never asked. Now seems as good a time as any.
I often see the statistic that 150,000 people die every day. This does not account for the 115,000 babies who die from abortions every day. If those babies are people, (and, they ARE) then why don’t we say that 265,000 people die every day? We aren’t distinguishing on the manner of death: disease, war, famine, old-age, murder, accident – so why doesn’t abortion count? I ask because I think it shows an inconsistency in our speech or an acquiescence to the culture who would claim our statistics were wrong if we used the higher number. Since both numbers are equally unfathomable to the average mind, why not be more accurate?
Wayne – that is an excellent question/comment/observation. And it is very timely as I am working on a pro-life tract that should go to print in the next couple of days. The simply answer to your question, is that I simply quoted the 150,000 number without giving it much thought or researching it. One thing I can say though is that in the case of someone reading the tract, there is a zero percent chance the person reading it will be aborted, while there is a 100% chance that they will die. So they ultimately will be part of the 150,000 but not part of the 115,000. Now, whether that is good enough to justify this or not, I am not sure. I would appreciate some input. Although we have never printed that statistic on a tract before, we do plan to use that same back on another tract this fall. So if it should be changed or clarified we should do it.
With some quick searching, I found a couple of things of interest.
The 150,000 per day number is verified here. CDC data for 2009 mortality in the US does not list murder or abortion. This does not justify our use of any statistic. So I looked up the murder statistics and found that it is around 15,000 per year in the US.
With all that in mind, considering the abortion statistics worldwide abortion rate is 42 million a year and near 1.5 million a year in the US, it seems abortion must be the number one cause of death.