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The man referred to as "Jesus" here, is Michael Job. He is just an actor "Jesus" from a Florida theme park called "Holy Land Experience" owned by TBN, making some rounds about the world. He was in Kenya when these rumors started.

Michael Job has said of himself on his Facebook page: “Hey guys! Just to let you know there has been many false “fake news” reports here in Kenya about me,” He also denies the reports of him being "Jesus" and being told to leave along with the two pastors.

Unlikely that it is, he does see himself as a man with the gift of healing, up to 40 a day he states this article:

Follow a day in the life of a theme-park Jesus

He also considers himself an evangelist. Caution is advised, as Michael Job the "Jesus actor" likes Bill Johnson's "Bethel TV," sides with NAR's Todd White, and WOF Reinhard Bonnke.

- That being said, if nothing else, he has motivated me to look into using my "Evangicube" that is briefly mentioned in the above article.
I also have a "7 C’s Creation Evangelism Cube" that I've made little use of. Both I believe can instrumental in teaching children the Gospel message, and the 6 days of God's creation!

A few years ago, my wife and I attended a parade and town festival. This church had it's doors open for folks to peek inside, I believe it was a Methodist Church. I walked around a bit and took a few photos.

Psalms 23 comes to mind!

Largest area:

On 7/29/2019 at 10:13 PM, ReneeIW said:

What would you think of a Christian who goes around the country giving a testimony that Christ visited him in his home? 

 

He said that he was devastated that his wife had filed for divorce so he sought the advice and counsel from a Christian leader. The Christian leader told him to go home and meditate on Jeremiah 24. The leader then asked him if he had ever invited Christ into his home. He answered no and was told to invite Christ into his house that night. 

 

The next morning he said he opened the door and Christ was there appearing as a bright white figure and He  came into his home and walked from room to room blessing every room. After Christ finished blessing the last room, the man thought Christ had left so he sat down at his desk trying to process what had just happened. Then Christ appeared again and the man fell down to the floor and wept while grasping Christ’s ankles.

 

Thoughts about whether this man sounds sincere? He uses this story to recruit men to his Christian Fellowship.

No.
That "christ" whether real or imagined by him, was more along these lines:

2 Corinthians 11:14  And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.

Matthew 24:24-27  For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.  (25)  Behold, I have told you before. (26)  Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not. (27)  For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
 

On 7/20/2019 at 10:25 PM, TheBaptist said:

...I wish I had gone to Mission 20 years ago to be truthful and honest before God. I am 50 now, can I still make a difference? Does anybody have any scripture on this or some real-life examples? Thank you. God loves you tonight.

14 hours ago, Jubilea said:

Hmm . . . I wonder how God would answer this question? 

Like this!

Older, and walking in Christ and His ways:
Proverbs 16:31  The hoary head (older, gray hair on the head) is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.

Are you living and speaking sound doctrine? If so, pass it on!

Titus 2:1-2  But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine:  (2)  That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.

A lot of false doctrines out there these days. Preach the Truth concerning God and His ways!

2 Timothy 4:1-4  I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;  (2)  Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.  (3)  For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;  (4)  And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

When we love Christ first, and rightly use the Word, it yields a sword that is sharper than any worldly sword could ever be:

Hebrews 4:12  For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Paul preached right up to the end of his life, and there was a crown of righteousness awaiting him for being faithful.
It's believed he was well into his 60s at the time, and likely died a martyrs death. (Acts 21:10-13) Let us all that are His be prayerfully faithful right up to the very end of our lives as well!

2 Timothy 4:6-8  For I (Paul) am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.  (7)  I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:  (8)  Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.

Note by my front door, true for every Christian no matter where we're at:
"You Are Now Entering The Mission Field."
 

2 hours ago, ilovejcsog said:

I am concerned for my friend.  It seems he is moving to UNI.   Their argument seems to be mostly that what kind of a loving God would condemn his creation to Hell?  So they don't believe he is.   No one will go to H.  I feel a little ill inside.  Have they forgotten the God of the old testament?

Pray for your friend! Share the Gospel! Ask God to open his eyes to the reality that he needs a "real" Savior, the only Savior who can take away our sins, Jesus Christ!
Hell "is" real, Jesus loved us so much, that He died in our place that folks need not go there if they will repent and believe on Him! THAT'S the LOVE the WORLD needs to know about!

We have had "Unitarian Universalist" show up in force at public schools in our areas advocating for the sinful LGBT curriculum. And boy, did that "loving all" bunch look extremely angry. They are an off shoot of Univeralsist with similar thoughts.

A few tidbits from the book "Kingdom of the Cults"
"Unitarian Universalism:

Just what is the “saving message”—this Unitarian version of the “good news”? According to Harvey M. Joyner Jr., “The ‘good news’ of Unitarian Universalism is that it gives us a ‘safe house’ in which to wage our own heresy, whatever tradition we might have come from.” In short, the saving Unitarian message is pluralism—“a theology centered on tolerance, interdependence, and compassion.”

Concluding Thoughts on Unitarian Universalism:

“There is a Men’s Support Group, a Friday Morning Meditation Group, a Hatha Yoga group, the Wednesday Night Minister’s Class, a Parenting Class, a Spiritual Autobiography Class, a New Physics Class, a Neo-Pagan group, and several Women’s Spirituality groups. In addition, there are Saturday workshops, such as Living With Awareness and Compassion, Spirituality in the Workplace, and Chinese Medicine.”
Yes, the Unitarian Universalists have something for everybody.
The denomination is a one-stop spiritual supermarket. Through its adoption of church growth principles, it seeks to maximize its tremendous market potential, tapping into legions of savvy baby boomer consumers. Unfortunately, what the Unitarians cannot provide a generation of hungry seekers is the one food that will satisfy: the Lord Jesus Christ, the Living Bread from heaven. Christians must take this mission field seriously, holding forth the Bread of Life to a group that prides itself on knowledge but which never comes to a knowledge of the truth. May God cause many in the UU to buy that food without price, which only the Triune God of Scripture can supply."

A recent Killdeer "nest" in the midst of a parking area. These birds put their nest just about anywhere on the ground.

Alas, I was too close for the mother birds comfort when I took the pictures. God has created them in a unique way, in that she screeches loudly "Keeeee dee dee de!" and tosses out her wings as if wounded on the ground to distract me towards her as prey instead of her eggs. The male bird does the same, but from a distance, leading the would be predator even further away from the nest! They take off quickly as you walk in their direction.

This was the afore mentioned lawsuit that the lost atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair came out against as Genesis was read on this Apollo 8 mission. She knows there is a God now as she was killed in 1995 in a most horrible way. Ironically, her son William Murray became a Christian in 1980. Later he became a Baptist minister, and currently serves as the chairman of the Religious Freedom Coalition.

Christmas eve in 1968, many on television watched and listened to the three astronauts on the Apollo 8 mission as they took turns reading Genesis 1:1-10, while they orbited around the moon. 

Transcript:

 William Anders:

"For all the people on Earth the crew of Apollo 8 has a message we would like to send you".

"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.
And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness."

Jim Lovell:

"And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day."

Frank Borman:

"And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good."

Borman then added, "And from the crew of Apollo 8, we close with good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas, and God bless all of you - all of you on the good Earth."

18 hours ago, BeauJangles said:

Trying to imagine how one would partake the element of the cup in reduced gravity conditions...

According to this story of the Apollo 11 mission, there is 1/6 of the earths gravity on the moon, just enough to keep it in the cup!
https://www.foxnews.com/science/moon-landing-bible-apollo-11-buzz-aldrin-communion.amp

"...“I would like to take this opportunity to ask every person listening in, whoever and wherever they may be," Aldrin said, "to pause for a moment and contemplate the events of the past few hours and to give thanks in his or her own way."

Aldrin silently read from John 15:5, which he penned on a 3-by-5-inch notecard: “As Jesus said: I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever remains in me, and I in Him, will bear much fruit; for you can do nothing without me.”

In the radio blackout I opened the little plastic packages which contained bread and wine," Aldrin said. "I poured the wine into the chalice our church had given me. In the one-sixth gravity of the moon, the wine curled slowly and gracefully up the side of the cup. It was interesting to think that the very first liquid ever poured on the moon, and the first food eaten there, were communion elements."

He later wrote NASA requested he not read the Bible verse "because of the O'Hair lawsuit," after Apollo 8 read 10 passages from Genesis about the creation of the world and an atheist sued. Although the lawsuit was eventually dropped, the space program was nervous about including any more faith declarations. But Aldrin managed to get another verse in before once again stepping foot on earth.

At the end of the mission, when Aldrin was headed back to earth, he read aloud a second verse, from the Old Testament, he scrawled on the same notecard, Psalm 8: 3-4: "When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou has ordained; What is man that thou art mindful of him? And the Son of Man, that thou visitest Him?"

Is it okay to abort a baby? What would you say? People give many reasons why abortion is an acceptable choice, including:

- The inconvenience of pregnancy
- Incompetence of parents
- Infant disabilities
- It’s the woman’s body
- It’s not a baby
- Rape or incest
- She’s not ready to be a parent

Seeing those who are ardently pro-choice change their minds in moments is both compelling and convincing.

Instead of unlocking my vehicle with the key fob, I accidentally pushed the "panic" button as two ladies were walking directly in front of my parked vehicle. They were quite startled!
I apologized for scaring them half to death, and told them I was glad they were not dead yet. I used that as an opening for the Gospel, and followed up with a few Christian tracts!

On 3/18/2019 at 4:00 PM, bropro said:

If so, how is it going, and what kind of materials are you using?

I'm currently street preaching, whether it be 1 on 1 or speaking to a dozen. And I find Christian tracts as a great follow up, generally folks are thankful, and only too glad to read them. Some on the spot, others later as they put them away.

I find myself speaking towards many that have been hurt in Church. Others in cults, false religions. Reaching out to them with Christ and biblical truths hoping to point some back towards the narrow path, and others bring to the narrow path!
I use a good bit of "apologetic" material too, not just tracts. Pamphlets, CDs, DVDs, books, New Testaments, and full Bibles.

I continue to have a real concern for the Church to get back to it's foundation, Jesus Christ! And that which represents Him, the Bible!
The Christian needs to make the stand, either all of the Bible is true, or none of it's true.
It's not a smorgasbord, and it Words should not be wrangled out of context. 
It's got a first page in Genesis, lets not go before that. It's got a last page in Revelation. Lets not go beyond that.

So in that context, things are going great! Like many here, and Mr. Genor in the video, we do not usually "see" the results.
But at some point we will in the not too distant future with God in Heaven.

The Apologetic material I use would be from these Ministries in no particular order:

Berean Call
Christian Ministries International Dr. Ron Carlson
Light House Trails and their many authors
Good Fight Ministries
Mark Cahill
Answers In Genesis
The Institute for Creation Research
One can buy N/T and Bibles in bulk from a number of good resources online.
Full KJV paperbacks and small New Testaments are available at "Dollar Tree" stores for $1.

Ministries I've used for Christian Tracts:

Living Waters
Chick Tracts
Mark Cahill
Pinpoint Evangelism
Faith Prayer and Tract League
One Million Tracts
Vision Publishers
I've also had printers make some business sized Christian tracts. They can be pretty reasonable if you buy 1,000 or more.

Please note, I may not agree with everything the above teach, but overall great ministries, and I'm sure there are others out there as well.

I would add with all the above, I'm looking to keep God as my first love, pray, continue to grow in Christ, and just look to be available. Hoping to see Him, and Him alone glorified.

May we all with our varying gifts that He gives the Body of Christ look to do the same!
Honestly, when we are in Him, no part is any less important than the other as we should all be looking to see Christ our Savoir glorified!

Thankful too for a praying wife who supports me, who I love deeply. She has been with me on a few wild adventures along with her much desired input towards some I'm speaking with. Over the years, she continues to affectionately call me a "radical."

On 3/18/2019 at 4:00 PM, bropro said:

I notice that you are involved in street evangelism. Many years ago I was working with a ministry called Teen Challenge in down town KCMO.  We passed out thousands of tracts along with doing Coffee House ministry to people that would come in off the streets. It was quite a rewarding experience. Do you do tract distribution, street preaching, coffee house ministry, etc?

Hey Gary, Appreciate your working with Teen Challenge in the past! I had thought of working with Teen Challenge years ago, and passed it up. I do stop in thrift stores of theirs and look to reach out to those in the program, and we donate household goods towards their ministry. I really appreciate what they do, and many men and women come out "clean" and go on to live a godly Christian life. I look to encourage them and if they have time teach a few of the men and women if things are slow. I've given many of them a Ten Commandments Coin that Living Waters has.  Perhaps you could still reach out to Teen Challenge a bit too if one is in your area or any other similar ministries? As you know, they're in need of those who can encourage and disciple them in Christ.

I was at a Coffee House ministry of sorts for a while, would help there a lot, occasionally preach, and reach out to the lost and follow up with Christian tracts, Bibles, etc. It was a great time for a few years. The Coffee House went South though, and started getting into some flipping wiggy teachings well outside of God's Word. On looking to reach out to two of the main "preachers" with God's Word, I was met with scorn, and they continue to this day sadly deceiving folks who are looking for Christ with some off the wall preaching and "experiences" that they attribute to God.
These, and those currently like them will face God one day, and it will not be pleasant.

Worked with the homeless in a Christian shelter for some years, enjoyed reaching out to the lost, taught Bible studies there, prayerfully reached out to the down and out that are in society. Tough long hours too. None the less, a rewarding experience, saw a few come to the Lord and continue in the faith. Others would hear the Gospel and not respond, but we know the seed of His Word was planted.
On rare occasion, some would come and stay and hear His Gospel one last time. Shortly after they left they went back to their self destructive lifestyle and wound up in the obituary. Even in this "last call" we can see His mercy.

As a testimony towards prayer, I do recall one of the more extreme "hard cases" that stayed a few weeks. A street fighter, drugs, hard thug life.
Shortly after he left, I felt impressed by the Lord to seriously pray for him one day, thinking he was in some deep trouble. So much so, I marked the day and time thinking I would ask him what happened if I ever saw him again. A short time later, I did, and I asked him what happened on that date.
He looked at me kind of surprised at my asking. Turns out, someone, as he told it, came from behind him with a Rambo knife, and was going to lunge it into his head and he never saw him coming. He told me he did not understand why the knife stopped just short of his skull even though the killer was still attempting to thrust it in. He said the blade "just stopped." I went on to tell him of God having me pray for him that day, and noted he should have been dead letting him know this was his wake up call with yet one more opportunity to repent and believe the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I had no argument from him, and he was seriously thinking on the matter. I let him know he should not think too long on this, as there may not be a "next time." I never saw him again, and we can all hope he did repent and believe on our Savior at some point!

@bropro Thank God Gary for that seed planted in your heart by Jack Chick's first tract "This Was Your Life."
It was the first very first tract of over 200 various tracts they went on to print over the years and continues to be one of their top tracts. Jack Chick was 92 when he passed away just a few years ago, but his Christian Tract ministry continues to by run by a friend of his who has worked with him for some years prior named David Daniels. (Who was also Saved by reading a Chick Tract.) At the time of Jack's passing, the Chick Tract ministry had printed over 750,000,000 tracts!

Great little video on the recording of Mr. Genor passing along those little godly tracts that he had!
Looking forward to meeting that both J. Chick and Mr. Genor in heaven!

2 hours ago, JustPassingThru said:

Thanks bro, you wouldn't have any Tracts written in French?

My only tract in French is the A,B, C,s of Salvation.

Lord bless

I don't have any in French personally, but a number of ministries out there do. Will send you a PM.

45 minutes ago, JustPassingThru said:

Fantastic idea!

Our main problem here is everyone believes in baptismal regeneration, everyone, and I mean everyone has been baptized, ..so when talking about receiving Jesus into their hearts and being born again the response is always, "...I'm saved, I've been baptized!"

Reading a tract won't allow them to argue or give an excuse, ...thanks for the idea!

Lord bless

Yes, I understand completely.
That "water" does not wash away sins as they believe. And if they actually believe it does, they are not Saved.
They "wrangle/twist" a number of the Bibles verses to come up with this thinking.
A few of the Christian tracts I use point towards Christ shed blood for our sins. Perhaps this could get them "thinking" in the right direction!

It's ONLY the BLOOD of Jesus Christ that washes away sins.
Many good Christian tracts testify towards the same, hopefully they can get some of the "baptismal regeneration" people thinking!

Those folks miss these verses completely. Perhaps look to prayerfully expound on a few of them to reach out to these dry sinners who came up wet sinners out of the baptismal tank:

Ephesians 1:7  In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;

Colossians 1:13-14  Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:  (14)  In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:

Hebrews 9:22  And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.

1 John 1:7  But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

I noted her mention of it taking her 3 months to draw this picture of her father.
That is because for years now she has drawn all of her artwork with pencils and paint brushes between her teeth.

Talk about patience that the Lord has brought into her life! And what a testimony towards her Savior Jesus Christ!

Great testimony on Joni's life too in 1979 movie called "Joni" if some here have not seen it.
After breaking her neck in a diving accident in 1967, the movie shows how the Lord guided and comforted Joni through her rough time in therapy as she adjusted to life as a quadriplegic. Her testimony continues to reach out to the lost in our generation today including many with disabilities.

On 3/16/2019 at 1:06 PM, other one said:

? If you're on a highway and Road Runner goes beep beep.
Just step aside or you might end up in a heap.
Road Runner, Road Runner runs down the road all day.
Even the coyote can't make him change his ways.

Road Runner, the coyote's after you.
Road Runner, if he catches you you're through.
Road Runner, the coyote's after you.
Road Runner, if he catches you you're through.

That coyote is really a crazy clown,
When will he learn that he never can mow him down?
Poor little Road Runner never bothers anyone,
Just runnin' down the road's his idea of having fun. ? ?

The below are a few suggestions from Chick tracts with a few added comments.
I use several tract ministries, they all say similar things.
Also consider printing your own or getting a printer to work with you, I've personally done this as well.

-At the library: Place tracts in returning books. Leave a tract on the desktops. Leave a tract in the restroom.
-Restrooms: Leave in the stall, on the mirror, on the soap dispenser.
-Going bowling: Leave a tract in the rented shoes. Leave a tract at the lane. Place tracts on the video games.
-Taxis: Leave some on the seat. Don't forget the driver.
-Garage Sales: Set up a "free tract" table.
-Gas Station: On gas pumps, in a restroom. Give one to the cashier. A "business" size tract will fit into the gas credit card slot!
-Buses, Trains, Planes: Hand tracts to people and leave them on seats, in magazines and seat back pockets.
-Motels/Hotels: Leave tracts in the room, in the Gideon Bible or other literature.
-College Campuses: The ideas are endless!
-Halloween: Give tracts to trick-or-treaters along with a piece of candy.
-Police Officers: If you get pulled over, cheerfully hand one to the officer. Or just pass them to them in general, tell them your thankful for their being work.
-Your Home: Have tracts available for guests on your coffee table.
-Store Counters: Have tracts in a container with a "FREE - Take One" sign.
-Bills: Enclose tracts with payments.
-Bus Stops: Leave tracts on the benches for people to read as they wait.
-Fast Food Drive Thru: Place money inside a tract and give it to the cashier.
-Clothing Stores: In dressing rooms, in clothes pockets. Give one to the cashier.
-Christmas Caroling: Leave tracts at the homes you visit.
-Mailings: Send tracts to elected officials, celebrities, etc. Include tracts with Christmas, Easter and birthday cards.
-Schools: In lockers, library books, restrooms.
-Church Office: Give tracts to the mailman, phone man, delivery person. etc.
-At Church: Give everyone in your Sunday School class a tract and teach the lesson from it. Then send the tracts home for their parents to read. Hand out tracts along with the programs for your church plays.
-At the Bank: Place a tract in the drive-through cylinder. Leave a tract in the night drop box.
-Hospitals: Leave tracts on the waiting room chairs and tables. Place tracts inside the magazines.
-Stores and Markets: Leave tracts on shelves and bulletin boards. Hand one to the cashier. Set up a FREE TRACT rack.
-Elevators: Give to passengers, leave one near the control panel.
-Church Buses: Give every rider a free tract for coming.
-Public Parks: In restrooms, benches, picnic tables.
-Vending Machines: In the dispensing tray.
-Airports: Restrooms, lockers, phone booths, restaurants, seats.
-Hospitals: On waiting room chairs and tables, inside magazines.
-Restaurants: In the waiting lounge, restroom, by the phone. Hand one to the waitress and cashier (To add, if no tip was given, and the service was good, I've seen a waitresses cuss the customer & toss it away. For folks who don't know, waitresses and waiters generally are paid little per hour, and depend upon tips for much of their income.)
-Copy Machines: Leave a tract under the flap.
-Local Events Billboards: Pin one to the board.
-Cars: Under the windshield wiper, rolled up under the door handle, tossed in open windows.
-Break Rooms at Work: On tables, chairs, vending machines.
-Houses: Wrap a rubber band around a tract and place it on doorknobs or fences.
-Laundromats: Be creative, but don't put them in the washers or dryers. Pass one along to everyone there. I'll stop in them occasionally with no washing to do just to briefly pass them along to all inside.
-Neighborhood Kids: Give tracts when inviting kids to Sunday School.
-Escalators: Leave one next to the handrails.
-ATM Machines: Leave a tract for the next customer.
-Parades: Have a Christian float with people handing out tracts alongside. If watching the parade, just walk along and pass them to folks watching.

@bropro (And Others!) "Do Gospel Tracts Really Work?"

Yes, they absolutely "work."
Without thinking at all as a lost man, I would damn God with some regularity. Still recalling the first Christian tract I stumbled onto as a heathen in laundromat billboard years ago. The outside of it said "God's Last Name Is Not" and upon opening the inside said "Damn." On the back, it mentioned a verse on God's judgement and said "Your Judgment Is Coming Soon!" Kinda got my attention. Later a Baptist slipped a few Chick Tracts into my hand that I read. Not much further down the road, I read the Bible cover to cover for the first time. Upon finishing it, I knew it to be no normal Book, and went on to repent of my sins and believed in Jesus Christ who bore them on the cross for me.

For those who share the seed of God's Word in this fashion, start your day by prayerfully asking God to use them to His Glory.

Some brief thoughts on tracts:
Check their content and make sure they are Biblical and have a solid Gospel message.
Know your crowd, some are "adult" in content. Others, one could give to any, young or old alike.
Some Christians doubt there effectiveness. I've occasionally had some Christians and Non-Christians fuss at me passing them out. I just politely ignore them.
Folks who reject them? That's OK, pray for them and move along!

Last week, I suppose I passed out about 50 or more Christian tracts to adults or children going about their day as I passed by. I'll generally always use them for follow up after speaking to people about Christ.
With a fair amount of the Hispanic community about our area, Spanish tracts are great too. I'll pass them along to them as they do a much better job of speaking for our Lord than I do with my gruff Spanglish.
I keep a handful of Chinese and Russian tracts too, as I'll occasionally engage them.
Chinese take out? Their surprised when you pass one along in their language!

“Let each one of us, if we have done nothing for Christ, begin to do something now. The distribution of tracts is the first thing...When preaching and private talk are not available, you need to have a tract ready. Get good striking tracts, or none at all. But a touching gospel tract may be the seed of eternal life. Therefore, do not go out without your tracts.” C. Spurgeon

I saw a wood duck dive under the water today, and I never saw him come back up. He must of been quite the diver!
(Awaits for enoob's mallard to respond!)

On 3/12/2019 at 6:00 PM, Ella said:

there was at one point where i lived as male ( with a unisex name) i changed  my female name to a unisex name but i have OCD and voices telling me to do things...

Note this very next verse followed by your signature, it's highly likely where those voices are coming from:

Ephesians 6:12  For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

And what we as Christians put on that our Lord provides during these times:

Ephesians 6:13-18  Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.  (14)  Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;  (15)  And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;  (16)  Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.  (17)  And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:  (18)  Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;

Praying Ella, for you, and your husband.

Noah Webster's 1828 Dictionary

*Repent

1. To feel pain, sorrow or regret for something done or spoken; as, to repent that we have lost much time in idleness or sensual pleasure; to repent that we have injured or wounded the feelings of a friend. A person repents only of what he himself has done or said.

2. To express sorrow for something past.
Enobarbus did before thy face repent.

3. To change the mind in consequence of the inconvenience or injury done by past conduct.
Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return. Exo 13.

4. Applied to the Supreme Being, to change the course of providential dealings. Gen 6. Psa 106.

5. In theology, to sorrow or be pained for sin, as a violation of God's holy law, a dishonor to his character and government, and the foulest ingratitude to a Being of infinite benevolence.

Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. Luke 13. Acts 3.

REPENT', v.t
1. To remember with sorrow; as, to repent rash words; to repent an injury done to a neighbor; to repent follies and vices. [See Repentance.]

Repentance

1. Sorrow for any thing done or said; the pain or grief which a person experiences in consequence of the injury or inconvenience produced by his own conduct.

2. In theology, the pain, regret or affliction which a person feels on account of his past conduct, because it exposes him to punishment. This sorrow proceeding merely from the fear of punishment, is called legal repentance, as being excited by the terrors of legal penalties, and it may exist without an amendment of life.

3. Real penitence; sorrow or deep contrition for sin, as an offense and dishonor to God, a violation of his holy law, and the basest ingratitude towards a Being of infinite benevolence. This is called evangelical repentance, and is accompanied and followed by amendment of life.

Repentance is a change of mind, or a conversion from sin to God.

Godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation. 2 Cor 7. Mat 3.

Repentance is the relinquishment of any practice, from conviction that it has offended God.

On 3/12/2019 at 4:44 PM, Ella said:

thank you all for replying to me  the problem is i want to go to a catholic  church and live as female ( my birth gender ) but my husband wants me to go to the liberal church the minster of the liberal church and my husband  wants me to dress  male  and get surgery and be male  i dont want to 

my husband is saying am mentally ill and i have to go to the liberal church am forced to go there    

Neither of those churches you mention is an option for either you or your husband.

The RCC (and Episcopalians) feel they crucify and really eat Jesus body, and drink his real blood through Transubstantiation every week. Not so.

When the Christian breaks bread, and drink grape juice we do this in "remembrance" of Christ and His shed blood. But we know it is not actually His real body and blood.
Luke 22:19  And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.

Transubstantiation is false. Jesus Christ died died only once, and He said: "It is Finished."
1 Peter 3:18  For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
John 19:30  When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.

Never are any required to go to a second mediator/priest through a RCC confessional to have our sins forgiven by a man, and followed up by their works called "penance."
1 Timothy 2:5  For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;

"Pennance" is found nowhere in the Bible. (However, the word *"repent" is.) We do not get into heaven through any good works or penance.
Never are we required anywhere in God's Word to pray to the dead, Mary or otherwise. It's actually a sin to do so, God calls it "necromancy." Deuteronomy 18:11

Christ gift of Salvation is a free gift, no works required. However a huge price was paid for this  gift, Jesus Christ dying once on the cross and shedding His blood once for your sins. This is true for any and all who would call out to him!

The liberal church you mention sounds like a complete mess, God sees you as a woman, and always will. No need to dress like a man to go to a false church as your husband has suggested.

What matters, is are you and your husband Born Again though Jesus Christ and Him alone?
Have you repented of your sins before Jesus Christ, and Him alone? That's how we are forgiven! That's the Good News of the Gospel!

No need for liturgical works, forsake them!
No need to go to a false fellowship where you are asked to dress as a man. Don't go, God's not there!

On 3/12/2019 at 5:17 AM, Ella said:

whats the point ? who cares...ill just end it now 

On 3/12/2019 at 6:11 AM, Ella said:

i feel so far from God i feel alone in a crowd of people  i tried to become something am not i have no idea who i am 

am so closes to going to the train station and jumping on the tracks  then id be no more 

 

Others here care, I care, and above all else, Jesus Christ cares!
Humbly dear one, suicide is never an option, and the eternal consequences cannot compare to the pain this world has.

A nation without repentance is when God's judgment comes.

God brings judgment in order to get people to see their sins, repent, and truly turn to Him, or back to Him from their backslidden state.
In due process, for those who do not repent, they would become our persecutors during that time.
And who knows?
One of our killers could become a Christian at a later date, as Saul did. (Later to be named Paul) He was previously watching Stephen's killers, while consenting unto Stephen's death. -Acts 7:58-60, Acts 8:1

This diagram is pretty solid on that biblical thinking borrowed from Berit Kjos.
Personally where I see much of the U.S. on this diagram, is right in the middle of  "Apathy and Compromise, and Rebellion and Paganism."

"End time events fit the same Biblical patterns demonstrated in Old Testament history."