a Gospel tract

Rocky, one of the full-time staff at the Oasis, came up with an inspired tract today. For the past weeks we have been collectively thinking of ways to better soul-win. One of our passions is to produce attractive gospel literature that can be distributed when we hit the streets to evangelize, as we are already in the habit of doing on a weekly basis. We do not want people to receive something and feel like they are being petted or pelted. We want them to see and meet Jesus who yells at the hiding Zacheus (yelling at them too!), who has embarrassingly climbed a tree, "Hey! Lets go hang out. I have a few things to share with you." While I have struggled writing anything other than cheesy tracts that sound like a android trying to explain systematic theology, Rocky went on Holy Spirit inspiration and wrote an incredible piece of literature. Rocky has been a believer and for a little over 5 years and is now recognized throughout the Church and ministry as being a leader. Though he has been saved for many years he still has the movement of language that is easily recognized on the streets as being normal and natural. The tract is one guy explaining to another what he has read in the Bible. Not a Q&A session with one Holy whiz-kid explaining predictable answers to predictable questions, but rather a genuine interaction of two dudes figuring out life. I'll stop writing before it sounds dull, being put into my way of speaking. Please pray that this tract is powerful in reaching kids on the streets. That many hear and respond.

As I prepared to finish my day today I thought of Ananias and Sapphira in the beginning of the book of Acts. Ultimately they bore the price of a divided life. God does not take part in something. If something is only partly consecrated it remains unholy. For example: what if you decided to use your bicycle and it decided to keep a piece? As you speed down the road you realize that it decided to keep the both the back and front brakes. All goes well until you realize that there is a need to stop, perhaps a barrier of monstrous proportion is in your way, and you can only toss yourself carelessly onto the gravely side or collide at full speed with the immovable obstruction. If you are making an effort to give only a portion of your life to God--trying to tithe your life--then you are bound to crash. God will not share the title to your heart. Dare to test and see if Christ is in you reigning as Lord and King. Or have you erected a bobble head figurine in you heart? Is there power, vigour, and love in your relationship with God? Or have you kept back the best part? He is a good King that rules with fairness and watches over those that are His with a jealous eye. One beckons our hearts who is fairer than ten thousand (Song of Solomon 5:10).