"When preaching and private tale are not available,
you need to have a tract ready...get good striking tracts,
or none at all...therefore, do not go out without your
tracts." -Charles Spurgeon "The only way to carry out the Great Commission will
be by the means of the printed page."
-Dr. Oswald J. Smith "Fifty-three percent of all who come to Christ worldwide
come through the use of printed gospel
literature." -Joey Hancock "Nothing surpasses a tract for sowing the seed of
the Good News." -Billy Graham Leaving A Tract For A Waitress Sumner Wemp is a widely known Baptist evangelist
who has been a steady advocate for the use of Gospel
Tracts for decades. During one of his trips, Sumner
had stopped in a restaurant in Salt Lake City, Utah
for lunch. As was his habit, after the waitress took
his order he shared a Gospel tract with her and politely
asked her to read it when she had the time. A short time
later she brought his lunch and then left to wait on a
few other tables. Later she came by to check on Sumner,
and she said, "I read your little paper." Sumner said,
"Great!" "I did not know that," she said. "You did not
know what?" Sumner asked. "I did not know that Christ suffered for my sins," she
said with her eyes full of tears. Sumner’s heart leaped
for joy, and he quickly said, "Christ really did suffer
and die for your sins. He took the punishment and paid
the debt for all we have ever done wrong and then rose again from the grave. He is alive today, and
we can know Him personally." Then he carefully explained
the Gospel and how we are not saved by our works but by
what Christ did on the cross. When Sumner asked if the waitress understood what he had
told her, she said, "Yes, I see that now." He asked her
if shed wanted to trust Jesus as her Lord and Savior.
Almost crying now, she decided to Trust in Christ for
eternal life. She had assurance that now she was truly saved. She had served Sumner a meal that would
feed him for a few hours, but he had introduced her to
the Bread of Life (John 6:35) that would save her for
eternity— all because he shared a simple Gospel Tract.
When we Truly care about seeking to save that which is
lost, we will do ALL that we can to get the Gospel Truth
into the hands of the lost. This includes doing things as
simple as leaving a Gospel Tract with a waitress (along
with a generous tip of course)."
