You can be ready “in season and out of season!”

“Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction.” (2 Tim. 4:2 NASB)

You never know when an opportunity to share the good news about Jesus will come along

You should be prepared to share your faith at all times, whether you feel like it or not. Jesus did so with a woman he saw drawing water at a well. He had stopped there to rest and to get a drink of water. He was hot, thirsty and tired from a very long journey, yet he recognized the opportunity and took advantage of it, to tell her about “living water.” (John 4:4-26)

Do you know how to share Jesus?

If someone handed you a Bible and said, “Show me what it says I must do to become a Christian.” What would you do? Unfortunately, most people cannot because they don't know how. That's unfortunate, because God’s followers should be prepared to share the good news at all times, “In season and out of season”. (2 Tim. 4:2)

You can share a Gospel Tract

Even if you aren’t able to show someone the way to Jesus by turning to verses in the Bible, you can give them something printed that has it spelled out for them.

That’s how I first heard the good news

I learned how to become a Christian from a little gospel booklet (gospel tract) I found in someone's glove box one evening. I was out partying with my buddies and we stopped at a liquor store. While waiting in the car for them, I looked in the glove box for matches to light a cigarette. I didn't find any, but I found a little booklet called, “This was your life”, by Chick Publications.” I don’t know who put it in there, my friends weren't Christians, but I’m grateful that someone did, because it told me how to receive Jesus. It explained how we are all sinners separated from God by sin and that Jesus had died on the cross to pay the penalty for our sins. It told how to pray a simple prayer to receive Jesus. I prayed that prayer and my life was forever changed! You can get gospel tracts like the one that helped me at www.chick.com/gospel-tracts, or from your Bible book store, or online from the American tract society. www.mwtb.org/pages/tracts. There are lots of different ones to choose from.

By the way, I created and printed a gospel tract a few years ago with the title, “People Can Be Recycled, Too!” Many thousands of them are printed and distributed each year. Some businesses even pack one in every shipment they send out. Who knows where they will end up, maybe even in someone's glove box! If you want a free sample of one, email me at mike@mikefrench.com, and I will mail you one.

You can also see an electronic version of it online

Feel free to send this link to anyone you wish to share Christ with.

www.mikefrench.com/recycledpeople