5. What advice can you give to families who want to spread the Gospel?

First and foremost… just do it! Ray Comfort has great training materials that can equip anyone to share their faith Biblically. I’ll write more on those in the next section.

Be prepared to face persecution for your faith. Often this comes from an very unexpected group of people… professing Christians.

Whenever I am afraid or have doubts about my abilities, Gene always shares this scripture with me:
“And I, brethren, when I came to you, did not come with excellence of speech or of wisdom declaring to you the testimony of God. For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling. And my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.” 1Cor 2:1-5

If you don’t have great speech, or wisdom and if your weak, fearful and trembling… you are qualified to share your faith. The power of the gospel isn’t in our words, it’s in the Holy Spirit. He gives us the words to use, and He is the one who draws the sinner to Christ.

I can’t emphasize enough the importance of children seeing their parents put their faith into action. What are we saying about our faith if we keep it to ourselves, hoping that one day someone will walk up to us and say, “I want what you have, can you tell me about it?” I don’t know about you, but in 23 years of being a Christian, no one has ever asked me that question.

Let me share something Gene heard an atheist say one day.

“Christians don’t really believe what they say they do. If they believed there was a literally hell and that everyone who wasn’t a Christian was going there; they’d be on every street corner telling people about it.”

The question begs to be asked, “Do you really believe? If so, what are you doing about it?”

6. What resources do you suggest?

[1] Living Waters & [2] Way of the Master, which are Ray & Kirk’s ministries, have everything you need to get started. They have videos and audios online that will help you. They also have an awesome store where you get books, cds, dvds, and tracts.

[3] Way of the Master Radio is a 2 hour daily radio program where you can hear people doing one to one witnessing (phone fishing) and get lots of great information. They have archived all of their shows and you can download any of them. I can’t emphasize enough what a great resource this is.

We have another friend who makes tracts and they are wonderful! [4] Custom Tract Source

On our ministry site, we have article, newsletters, some videos that will help you along the way, keep checking in, as we are always adding new things. [5] Master’s Key Ministries

We will personally help you in any way possible. Simply drop us a note if there is anything at all we can do to help you in your desire to reach out to the lost.

8. How can we help your family ministry?

Prayer is the most important thing that you can do for us.

We do accept donations, but I want to let you know, we will never ask you for money. That is something Gene and I feel very strongly about. We are working on getting our non-profit status, but that’s not all worked out as of yet. Most of our money for ministry goes to tracts (we go through 200 or more a week), other ministry related props, and putting on classes. We don’t charge for our classes and we pay for the printing, food & supplies. We rely on the Lord to reimburse us for our expenses.

If you are interested in making a donation or subscribing to our newsletter, you can e-mail me at Lora@masterskeyministries.com and I will send you the information.

R.A. Torrey wrote of the importance and advantages of using tracts.

1. Any person can do it. We cannot all preach; we cannot all conduct meetings; but we can all select useful tracts and then hand them out to others. Of course some of us can do it better than others. Even a blind man or a dumb man can do tract work. It is a line of work in which every man, woman and child can engage.

2. A tract always sticks to the point. I wish every worker did that, but how often we get to talking to some one and he is smart enough to get us off on to a side track.

3. A tract never loses its temper. Perhaps you sometimes do. I have known Christian workers, even workers of experience, who would sometimes get all stirred up, but you cannot stir up a tract It always remains as calm as a June morning.

4. Oftentimes people who are too proud to be talked with, will read a tract when no one is looking. There is many a man who would repulse you if you tried to speak to him about his soul, who will read a tract if you leave it on his table, or in some other place where he comes upon it accidentally, and that tract may be used for his salvation.

5. A tract stays by one. You talk to a man and then he goes away, but the tract stays with him. Some years ago a man came into a mission in New York. One of the workers tried to talk with him, but he would not listen. As he was leaving, a card tract was placed in his hands which read, “If I should die to-night I would go to ______ Please fill out and sign.” He put it in his pocket, went to his steamer, for he was a sailor, and slipped it into the edge of his bunk. The steamer started for Liverpool. On his voyage he met with an accident, and was laid aside in his bunk. That card stared him in the face, day and night. Finally he said, “If I should die tonight I would go to hell, but I will not go there, I will go to heaven, I will take Christ right here and now.” He went to Liverpool, returned to New York, went to the mission, told his story, and had the card, which was still in his pocket, filled out and signed with his name. The conversation he had had in the mission left him, but the card stayed by him.

6. Tracts lead many to accept Christ. The author of one tract (”What is it to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ?”) received before his death upwards of sixteen hundred letters from people who had been led to Christ by reading it.

In closing, I’d like to leave you with a few quotes from Charles Spurgeon to think about.

“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.”

Have you no wish for others to be saved? Then you are not saved yourself, be sure of that.

If sinners be damned, at least let them leap to Hell over our bodies. If they will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees. Let no one GO there UNWARNED and UNPRAYED for.

Answering a student’s question, ‘Will the heathen who have not heard the Gospel be saved?’ thus, ‘It is more a question with me whether we, who have the Gospel and fail to give it to those who have not, can be saved.

We are not called to proclaim philosophy and metaphysics, but the simple gospel.