Here is a simple outreach card challenges people to think about life after death. This card can be printed quickly and easily on church copiers, digital duplicators, home inkjet, or laser printers. It is designed to be a give-away, a leave anywhere and everywhere, and as an opener for conversation. At the end of this blog is a zip file with an editable text file, editable MS Publisher files, ready-to-print PDFs and hi-res image versions of the cards.
There are two versions of the card:
1) ALL in One: the message is on one side and on the other side you could print contacts from your church or invitations to events to begin a discussion about the truth of life after death and the only person who conquered death: Jesus.
2) Two-sided version: If your church does not have Halloween evangelism events (many churches don't for various reasons), you can still put these on your website and encourage people to print them at home and distribute them. These double-sided cards have both the challenge and websites for people to check out the truth about Jesus.
One of my personal favorite guerrilla gospel-sharing tactics is to make up lots of these at home and then stash them in pumpkins, costumes, restrooms, or wherever I can in the Halloween super-stores or places like Target or Walmart.
You never know how God might use a little card to get someone to check out a website about Jesus.
Below is the text for the card. Below that is a PDF you can click to download and print out.
Text on the front of the card
Halloween, a fun time for tombstones, ghosts, and all things scary. . . . .
We can laugh at death when it’s part of a Halloween spook house, but we don’t laugh
when it touches someone we love or when we must face it—and that’s ahead of us all.
This Halloween, check out the one person in
all of history who conquered death—Jesus.
On the back of this card are resources to help.
Halloween is fun, but it’s also time to consider eternally serious and truly scary questions.Text on the back of the card
Life is short; eternity is not.You owe it to yourself to carefully research what happens after you die. We believe your choice is between a literal, real heaven or hell—not a Halloween fantasy.
The sites below are about Jesus and the truth about life after death. Check them out—
http://www.whoisjesusreally.com
http://peacewithgod.jesus.net/
http://www.leestrobel.com/channels/Christ.php
A PDF you can print out
The PDF below can be downloaded by clicking on the image. Both versions of the card above are in this file. To get access to an editable MS Publisher file that you can modify (if you want to add church info for example) you must be an Effective Church Communications Member and at the end of this article is the link to a ZIP file containing Editable MS Publisher files, the print-ready PDFs, a text file of the contents, plus the images in hi-resolution.
ZIP file of MS Publisher original files, images in hi and low resolution, and ready to print PDFs.
This file is free and is a great example of the flexibility you have in how you can change the templates to suit your church and the time you can save in creating communications.
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD the ZIP File. Save to your desktop and then click to open.
As a college-age woman of my acquaintance asked, “If Jesus rose the dead, does that mean he’s a zombie?” Shock, a laugh, and a recognition of a great conversation starter: “No, because love is greater than evil . . . “
That is a great question!
Could make for a wonderful outreach piece–seriously.
But the thing about zombies (not much of a fan myself, so need to do a bit of research here) is that when Jesus rose, he was not half dead and rotting……(going here on the television shorts I see). When he rose–he was totally, fully, amazingly ALIVE–he rose with power.
In all honesty that is one of the most extraordinary things about the Christian faith is the totality of the resurrection–like Christ we will be raised imperishable.
Zombies are the best humanity can do with life after death–reality in Jesus is far better!
Thanks so much for the comment.
Yvon