Yep, nothing says Salvation like a handy-dandy tract strategically located on your basic “American Standard” wall urinal.
Here we have your basic Semi-Pelagian* religious tract attached to a “Pisseth against the Wall” toilet device.
Doing one’s soul winning doody.. er.. I mean duty, by trolling public restrooms with religious tracts will earn you points with gid in heaven… you have his Word on it.
*http://the-highway.com/pelagian_Sproul.html
The Tract text can be referenced here:
http://www.fellowshiptractleague.org/tract_html/english/134/page_flip/134.html
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Had to laugh.
Over the years, I’ve come to conclude that soul-winning is for losers. I truly believe that a life of submission and love of God – which we’re ALL called to- is the most powerful testimony there is. When others see your life and the fruit of it, their hearts can be pricked and their minds convinced. God may prompt us to speak to someone about salvation at his appointed time, but it must be God’s timing and not our sense of duty.
The scripture makes it plain that evangelism is a gift. Not everyone is called to do it- but any one us could be recruited at any time.
Jesus taught that the kingdom of God was like a farmer who sowed seed. Seed fell on soils in different states, an allegory for the life stages hearers may be in when the truth is introduced to them. Some are too concerned with this life to receive it. Some get excited but life circumstances overwhelm and they abandon ship. Still others receive it and it takes hold.
Jesus will telling us that everybody is not ready to receive it. In mercy, God may send someone to cast seed anyway, but that’s a call God needs to make- not us.
When I realized what my gifting is -and that evangelism is not one of them- I became free of the guilt of not telling EVERYBODY about Jesus. As a result, I learned to walk in what God has for me and I’ve become far more effective at discussing truth with non-believers- in God’s time. I had to be free myself before I became better at helping others receive God’s freedom.
Whoda thunk? 🙂