Tract Writer

KARL'S TRACT WRITER
Karl's Tract Writer is designed to help you write a Personal Testimony Tract.
My sample tract is already loaded so you can see how it works before you type your own.

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The Story

It all began with my going to church. I was going for quite a while (about 20 years). I heard the message of Salvation, went forward in church, asked Jesus into my heart. One year I got over one hundred glass mugs and used my sand blaster to etch God Loves [The person's name] and a Cross on each mug and gave them out at Christmas.

Yet, with all this, I didn't know where I would go when I died. How often does it happen that someone from church comes over to you and talks to you about getting to heaven? Not too often. And how sure are you that the person sitting next to you will go to heaven?

I felt, how nice it would be to have a tract rack that is designated just for personal testimony tracts from the congregation. Or even a Web Site from people all over! (The webmaster of your church is welcome to use this program for your church's web site, or for a tract rack in your own church.)

Practice Directions

As you type your input you may want to use some HTML tags to improve the finished look of your tract. HTML Tags usually include an OPEN Tag and a CLOSE Tag. The close tag looks like the open tag except that it has a forward slash "/" inside it. You will see in the examples below.

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The tag has several attributes which are

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The Double Quotes are needed if the name of the face is more than one word. The Double Quotes are needed if the name of the face is more than one word.

If you want extra spacing use the OPEN Tag
Karl's Tract Writer is designed so when you use the ENTER Key it automatically inserts a paragraph and indents the first line.

 
Will add space      between words
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Using the space bar repeatedly will only add one space.

Type some text with font tags of your choice in the Text Area Box below, then click the Test Your Tags button.

Practice HTML

Big Red Text See The Break Here is Italic <HR color=yellow>This is a Horizontal Rule <HR color=lime size=6>This is a Horizontal Rule <HR color=pink width=100 align=right>This is a Horizontal Rule

As you are typing you may have to turn off your computer. The only way to save what you have already done is to click the Save Work button at the bottom of the page. Then the next time you open it the text boxes will be already filled in with what you typed.

When you are finished save the Code in NotePad and change the txt extension to html.

Some Options

If you would like you can send your tract to me (with the image file) and I'll decide if I want to put it on my Web Site. It would be nice to have a place for viewing several personal testimony tracts and see how the Lord works in the lives of others! Any tract that I put on my web site I will also convert it to a Microsoft Word Document that can be folded into three like a normal tract.

There are checkboxes below that you can use to let me know your wishes should you send it to me.

If you send your tract to your Church Webmaster, also send them the image file.

A red Asterisk * means if you don't fill it in you will be prompted to, but you can over-ride it.

* Type Your Name.

* Type a Title for your Tract. No HTML Tags in the Title

* Type a Summary for your Tract. Two sentences that will make someone want to read it.

* Select or type up to 10 words that will categorize your tract.

* Choose and Image for your Tract Cover

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* Type a paragraph of one time when you knew God was trying to reach you.
My name is Karl Garlick. The first time I can remember hearing someone try to explain the gospel to me was during VBS when I was about 10. They where sharing how, even if we tell one lie we deserve to go to hell, and that Jesus offers us eternal life as a gift and all we have to do is receive it. I imagined that I live my life and when I die Jesus asks me if I want eternal life and if I say yes He hands it to me. Of course, I didn't know what it would look like.
Type a paragraph of another time when you knew God was trying to reach you.
The next thing I remember is a time when I was in church with my parents during the Lord's Supper. They were drinking the grape juice and I couldn't. I asked my Dad why I couldn't drink the grape juice. He said I had to accept Jesus as my Savior. "I do I do", I told him. Then he said I had to go forward at the end of the service. That week the pastor didn't give an invitation, but the next week he did so I went forward. Then the pastor had a special meeting on baptism. I decided to wait until I was 30 to be baptized like Jesus did.
Type a paragraph of another time when you knew God was trying to reach you.
I had a miserable year when I was in eleventh grade. I became very withdrawn. I'd get up in the morning, go to school, come home and go to bed. I couldn't handle all the fighting, yelling and cursing of my brothers and sister. I'd get up when my mom came home from work. Things would get a little quieter then. Things weren't good at school either. The other students were vandalizing my Votech projects. I spent a lot of time thinking of suicide. As I did this, it led to a major question. What would happen to me when I died?
* Type a paragraph describing your Response to God's calling.
I attended church pretty regular. Anything to get out of the house. I remembered hearing a preacher say, "If Jesus is in your heart you'll have joy. Well I didn't feel any joy. I use to pray the sinners' prayer repeatedly trying to get joy. It didn't work. I would close my eyes, pray the prayer, open my eyes, and still feel the same. I didn't know what to do. I remembered hearing a preacher say, "If you read the Bible cover to cover, you'll know the way to heaven." I told myself, "If I could live through this time in my life, I could live through anything, and later, I may learn how to get to heaven. I decided I'd better wait.
* Describe what you realize as you reflect back on this time.
Something I didn't realize then is that God knew what I was going through. He heard my prayer and was answering it. That year He sent two people into my life to try to witness to me. The one was from church. I don't remember ever seeing him in church until the day he introduced himself to me. He came over to me after the service and said he was praying, and asking God who he should talk to and all the sudden my face came into his mind. He told me God has given him a special love for me. He talked to me for a while, but that's all I remember him saying. He gave me some booklets and tracts. I read them and I helped him split firewood and clean his chimney. He left the church that year also. The other person who witnessed to me was from Votech class. When he started telling me about Jesus, I asked him why he doesn't tell the others? After all, they were the ones cutting my wires. He didn't have much experience and didn't get very far. I was being self-righteous and didn't realize it.
* What happened on the time when God finally won you over?
About 10 years later I was working in a woman's house and she invited me to church. The first night I was there the pastor asked me if I was saved. I said, "I think so, but I'm not sure." We talked a little, then ended up talking about needing help cutting the church lawn. I volunteered to help. After the work was finished the pastor and I would sit down and talk about salvation. I knew the whole salvation outline before he started sharing. But Through my life experiences I had been programmed to believe it was for others and not me. I was so withdrawn that I never felt included. And I never thought salvation was there for me too.
* What specifically prompted your decision?
One day he was sharing with me from John 3:16, which I knew by heart anyway. The Bible says, "For God so loved the world...." And he asked, "Well, you're part of the world, aren't you?" After thinking about it I had to agreed. Then he added, "God's not a liar, is He?" After hearing this I was able to accept salvation. I couldn't call God a liar.
* Write about an event that happened to strengthen your faith.
I had a struggle after that. I wasn't sure if I was saved when I was younger and just didn't realize it, or when I finally understood. I use to think it was when I was younger, but at which time in my life, I wasn't sure. I didn't know what my testimony was. The pastor told me I wasn't saved back then. I started praying about it. After two years, I got an answer. Can one be made clean and not know it? Can a person take a bath and not know it? Can one be born and not know it? No, they can't. I was saved when the pastor said I was.
* Write something that would encourage your reader to trust Jesus.
So how about you? Do you know where you'll go when you die? If I ask you to meet me at a particular place, would you be able to? First, you'd have to want to meet me there. Then you'd have to realize you couldn't get there on your own. You need the directions to the place we're to meet. Without them, you're lost. Then you need to commit yourself to going. So, do you want to go to heaven? Do you realize your need of the directions? Do you understand that you are lost without them? Heaven belongs to God! No one knows the way to heaven better than God does. And He wants us to know it too! So He gave us the Holy Bible, the Word of the Lord. These are the directions to show us the way. In John 14:6, Jesus says, "I am the way...." The Bible also says in John 1:29, "Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world." Our sin is what makes us feel uncertain of getting to heaven. Actually, it is condemning us to hell. But Jesus, shed His blood, died on the cross, and rose from the grave to take away our sin and give us eternal life. God's not going to lie to us. He said in Romans 6:23, "For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." Will you believe God? Will you commit yourself to Jesus, who "is the way?" Will you "Behold the Lamb?" If you agree you can pray a prayer like this:
* Type a prayer that you feel would be best to lead your reader to accept Christ.
Dear Jesus, You were there all the time and I never saw You. Thank you for revealing yourself to me today. I confess that I don't deserve heaven. My only reason for being able to obtain it is because of your love for me! One way you shown your love is when you came from heaven to earth, dwelt among sinful men, and let them put you to death on a cross for my sake. By which, you offer me the gift of eternal life. I receive this gift right now. Thank you for taking away my sin when you shed your blood on the cross. You died for me Lord; now help me to live the rest of my life for you.
* Type a couple lines that would encourage the reader to contact you.
It's okay to be uncertain. But it's not okay to want to be uncertain. If you are having trouble believing please e-mail me! You have nothing to lose, but may gain eternal life, security and the peace that passes understanding.
* Type your contact information. Using this TextArea will encode your user information so a robot will have a hard time finding it and sticking you on a mailing list.

Type a Dedication Sentence

Options

Check this box if you intend to e-mail your tract and would allow others to freely distribute it.

Check this box if you would like your tract put on the Web, either my site or someone else's.

Check this box if you intend to be the Sole distributor of your tract and would NOT want others to distribute it.

Type an additional note for the Web Master.

Now that you have completed your tract click the button below to view the finished product and save the code for your tract.

To edit your tract simply make the changes in the text boxes above and click the button again.

If you aren't finished you tract and want to save your work for another time click the Save Work button.
You will need to copy and paste the text from the TextArea below into Windows Notepad and type the Orange Text in the File Name part of the Save as dialog. Also include the Quotes. When you start this again it will appear on it's own. Each time you work on it you will have to save the changes.
"C:\Karls Files\KarlsBiblePower\Extras\MyTestimony.js"
There will be more directions on the text in the TextArea below.
You can also Save Karl's Tract Writer Program to your computer through the File Menu's Save As dialog box. Then you can work off line at any time.