Author: Bill

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Half-Price Million-Dollar Bills

Livingwaters.com has cut the price of its million-dollar bill gospel tracts from $6 for 100 tracts to $3 through the end of May. These may be the easiest tracts to pass out en masse or to start conversations. Here are a couple of lines you can use when passing them out:

  • Can you make change for this?
  • Thanks a million! (This is ideal for cashiers or people you tip.)
  • It’s great when you get the change.
  • Or the old standby: Did you get one of these?

Take advantage of the parades and festivals in the summer to hand these to people; you may be surprised how many you can give away very easily. Most people smile or laugh when they see the tract, and then become curious as to its purpose. Consider saying, “There’s a message on the back I’d love you to read.”

If an individual appears ready to have a conversation, hand him or her the tract and say, “The million dollar question is on the back.” Usually the person will read the million dollar question, but if he or she doesn’t, you might say, “You’re supposed to ask me what the million dollar question is.” The question—“Will you go to heaven when you die?”—can lead to a great gospel conversation.

You might wonder if tracts really are effective. Take a look at the video below. It’s an amazing story.

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Creation in the Park

Right across the street from the local high school is a city park, and every day after school there are 50-100 kids that go hang out in the park. My friend had the idea to make copies of some DVDs on creation by Kent Hovind (he encourages free distribution), and go hand them out. We also wrote a tract for the occasion concerning several questions that evolutionists can’t answer, and the gospel. We gave out most of the stuff and had a few good conversations. Hopefully the kids will watch their DVD and get interested in the topic and the Lord Jesus Christ.

A couple of things struck me about the whole thing. We would ask the kids if they believe in evolution, and one kid said that he thinks we’re going to evolve into gods. A couple of them thought God used evolution to create everything. The vast majority of them said they didn’t believe in evolution, but believed God created us. I’m sure most of them have some crazy ideas about God, but I was reminded that it’s obvious that there must be a Creator, and anyone who denies it is lacking the common sense of a teen-ager.

The other thing is that we invited our church to get involved, and they found an excuse not to get involved. I invited people from church individually, and none of them were interested. I continue to be fascinated that so many Christians just refuse to get involved in sharing their faith. Don’t they believe hell is real? Don’t they care to be obedient to the Great Commission? How much easier can I make it for them? I don’t get it.

It was a fun way to share our faith, and I would recommend it to anyone. We plan on returning on a regular basis. If anyone knows of other DVDs on creation that are free of copyright, I’d appreciate a heads-up on that.

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Only 144,000 In Heaven (Give Or Take a Billion)

Jehovah’s Witnesses believe that none of the Old Testament saints are going to heaven. Only 144,000 good Jehovah’s Witnesses (who have lived since Jesus’ death) will be in heaven. The Old Testament saints and today’s generation of JWs will eventually live on paradise on earth. If there’s one verse saying that anyone from the Old Testament will be in heaven, not only does the doctrine of the 144,000 crumble, but the entire religion crumbles and it becomes simple to explain how none of them will go to any sort of paradise.

Matthew 8:11 (NWT) says, “But I tell YOU that many from eastern parts and western parts will come and recline at the table with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of the heavens.”

Luke 13:28 says, “There is where [YOUR] weeping and the gnashing of [YOUR] teeth will be, when YOU see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but yourselves thrown outside.”

Hebrews 11:16, referring to Old Testament people says, “But now they are reaching out for a better [place], that is, one belonging to heaven. Hence God is not ashamed of them, to be called upon as their God, for he has made a city ready for them.

Matthew 8:11 is particularly clear. I really don’t think there’s any way around the plain teaching of these verses: The Old Testament saints are in heaven.

Jehovah’s Witnesses teach that only the 144,000 are are born again (based on John 3:3). Most JWs are not part of the 144,000, and will readily admit that they are not born again, and if someone says they’re not born again, I believe them. The only alternative to being born again (or raised from spiritual death) is to be dead in sin, and those who are dead in their sins are sadly going to hell. (I wrote a tract on this topic called A Choice For Life, which you can download.)

For a fantastic opportunity to witness to Jehovah’s Witnesses, check out their 2008 convention schedule. One of the reasons they think they are in the true church is because they think they are the only ones who are out witnessing. You can help refute that idea for possibly hundreds of them by showing up at a convention and passing out tracts or witnessing. Even if you’re shy, or don’t know what to say to them, you could put tracts on their cars while they’re all inside.

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Does Allah Think Mary is God?

According to Muslims, The Koran was spoken to the angel Gabriel, who gave it to Muhammad to write down. While I wouldn’t expect Allah to say the Trinity exists, I would certainly think he would be familiar with the doctrine. But, according to the Koran, apparently Allah believed the Trinity was the Father, the Son, and Mary.

Surah 5.116 says, “And behold! Allah will say: “O Jesus the son of Mary! Didst thou say unto men, worship me and my mother as gods in derogation of Allah’?” He will say: “Glory to Thee! never could I say what I had no right (to say)…”

I realize the Trinity can be difficult to understand, but how could the almighty creator of the universe be confused by it?

Muhammad was illiterate; even if he was not, he didn’t have a Bible in his native language. Maybe if he had a Bible in Arabic, and someone to read it to him, he could have been a little more accurate about what Christians believe when he composed the Koran out of whole cloth.

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Australians Arrested for Preaching the Gospel

Two open-air preachers, on Australia’s Gold Coast, who have been preaching in the same location for two years were arrested last Sunday, April 13. I certainly don’t intend to liken their situation to Christians in other countries who are being martyred, or have no freedom, but for this to happen in a free country like Australia is shocking to me. The men responded in a manner I could only hope to if I was in the same situation–witnessing to the police and fellow prisoners.

You can see their story in their own words here: Operation 513 Battle Log

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The Miraculous Evolution of Bats

Bats are the only flying mammal. Many bat species are also visually blind, but with echolocation (sonar), they can “see” better than humans.

Evolutionists have zero plausible theories about how bats evolved. However I have heard one rather silly theory that bats evolved from shrews. Did the intermediate species gradually grow really long fingers on their front feet, dreaming of the day when its progeny could gracefully fly? What advantage would really long fingers have? Why did the flaps of skin appear between the fingers? How did the bat learn to fly?

Why did the shrews lose their amazingly complex ability to see, and how could such an amazingly complex ability to use sonar come about? How long did bats live without their sight before they developed their sonar? Bat sonar is much more complex and powerful than any man-made sonar. No one has any idea how this could have evolved.

Atheists accuse creationists of having a God of the gaps—using God to explain the gaps in our knowledge. If an atheist persists in saying bats must have evolved when there is no evidence, or even a theory of how it could have happened, who is really the one with blind faith?