One Month Report!

Over the past month as I’ve started to obey the Lord’s command to share with others, I’ve been keeping track of some numbers. The numbers have been overwhelmingly encouraging (very few rejections, and even those were minor ones where a person would usually say “ No thanks” when offered a tract).

Here is the good news:

Total:

Tracts: 155
Individual People: 97
Led to witness: 6
“Thank you”: 84
Simply accepted: 9
Rejected: 4

Phone Sharing (with telemarketers or customer service reps)
Open: 17
Closed/cold: 1
Plan of salvation: 8
Already saved: 6

Complete strangers who heard the entire gospel plan (most would first admit they were headed for hell, some were phone based, some were simply conversations): 20

The bad news is that, as a result of not being faithful, if I were to total up how many months have passed since I turned 18 and was somewhat an adult, the following numbers represent about how many people didn’t hear the gospel because of me:

Total: (from the time I was 18 through 26 – about 100 months of not faithfully sharing)

Tracts not given: 15,500
Individual People: 9,700
No witness: 600
Not thanked: 8,400
Not accepted: 900
Not rejected: 400

Phone sharing that never occurred
Open: 1,700
Closed/cold: 100
Plan of salvation: 800
Already saved: 600

Complete strangers who DIDN’T hear the gospel plan: 2,000

What an amazingly convicting set of numbers.

I wonder how many people will read these numbers and yet continue to build up numbers in the “tracts not passed out” section.