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Come and See




          A point I often hear from members is that they have heard countless sermons on telling them the need to evangelize and bring others to Christ but no one ever give them a way to do it. Well, here is a way.
  Starting this week on the stand in the foyer we will have a stand for the tract of the month. Each month we will put out a new tract. First, we ask each of our members to pick up one of the tracts and read it for themselves.  The tract will be well written, eye catching, and full of good information. Second, sometime that month we ask you to give that tract to one person. You can so directly but there are many other ways to do it as well. Leave them in areas where people read things i.e. waiting room, lobbies, welcome counters. Set them out on the counter of your business. Have them on your desk.  Third, if a person that takes the tract, inform them that we will be having a series of sermons based on similar subjects this month at church and invite them to come to worship.  It is as simple as that.
Sometimes all it takes is to pique peoples interest is a simple invitation. In John 1:45-46,  Philip tells Nathanael about Jesus, that he thinks is the Christ. Nathanael is unsure about it but Philip replies to him, "Come and see."  That is exactly what we want everyone to do with this. Give people some information about Christ and his church and tell them to Come and See. This something everyone us can do to help spread the gospel.

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