This Was Your Life Tract Review

This Was Your Life is a tract available from Chick Publications. Chick Publications designs and publishes tracts that are like mini comic books but they deliver a powerful message. All Chick tracts end with a presentation of the Gospel. Tracts themes cover everything from bikers to gunslingers to convicts to Halloween. There are also tracts written for children and tracts written particularly for African-Americans.

            This tract, This Was Your Life, is a take on the Parable of the Rich Fool. In it, a rich (or well-to-do) man has a heart attack and dies. He is then cast into hell. From there, He later stand before the White Throne Judgment Seat of Christ and his life is reviewed. It is shown as flashbacks as it is projected across the backdrop of the cosmos. There everything is laid bare—his history, his actions, his thoughts. My favorite part is when after all is revealed, including the many times he had opportunity to accept Christ and didn’t, he says, “I must have been insane!” After this story comes a parallel story, This Can Be Your Life. This one depicts what would have happened to him had he made better choices.

            The tracts are simple and easy to read, reminding us that the Gospel is not complicated. At the end of the tract is a prayer the reader can say to receive Christ as Lord and Savior. Chick Tracts can be ordered either individually or in bulk. I’ve also found that you can click on a tract on the website. When it opens up, you can print the whole thing. The only negative of that is that it all prints on one page instead of the booklet format the tract comes in.