As he looked up from scanning our table of tracts, a gentleman asked, “Do you have something that tells me about your church?”
I had to pause.
Unlike other church tables, our fair booth was not focused on convincing people to come to our church. Our goal at the fair is the same as our weekly church meetings: communicate sound doctrine.
And we had that plastered all over the place.
The back wall of our booth was covered with posters about the gospel and studying scripture.
We had three tables full of free books, brochures, and tracts about Jesus Christ, salvation, God’s will, and understanding your Bible.
There were a half dozen volunteers from our church that enjoy talking about Bible questions and the gospel.
What we believed was printed in black and white. We care more about getting the truth out than getting people to come out to our weekly meetings. What we were doing was evidently different than other church booths.
At the fair, businesses, organizations, and churches put on display what they have to offer.
(I’ll let you decide what that means for the booths with the free popcorn, games, and dunk tank.)
Our booth is full of Bible study material and doctrine.
Apparently, this is unique in church evangelism.
It is not our church’s recruiting table. We don’t market programs, church activities, or give invitations to come out.
The people of our church were there, our doctrine was there, ministry was being done. Our church was on display at the fair.
But our booth does not promote our church. It promotes the Bible (something we preach at our church, too).
Thanks to our volunteers, many were exposed to the word of God and encouraged to study the Bible for themselves.
(The gentleman who asked about our church received a handful of tracts.)
In His Service,
Justin “on display” Johnson