Soon after the United States officially entered World War 2 printed leaflets were given to the Royal Air Force by the British government to be dropped over France. This was propaganda of the right kind.
Although Webster defines propaganda as "any method for the propagation of doctrines, principles, etc., religious or secular," the word has borne a bad name because of the subtle and often false "propaganda" used to defeat whole nations. Every government knows that propaganda plays an increasingly important part in war.
After World War 2 the London Times printed the following sentence from a letter written by a high German officer: "What caused the most damage to us was the 'paper war' waged by our enemies. They daily flooded us with hundreds of thousands of leaflets, well arranged and well edited."—Reuter.
Quoting from the Times of even later date: "Propaganda has been one of the greatest forces of the world, and Napoleon was a master of it. But there was no comparison between its force in Napoleon's time and that of the present day. They had it on authority of the word of Kaiser Wilhelm that Lord Northcliffe had done more to win the war by his propaganda than any other force used."
Long before Hitler, Northcliffe or Napoleon, God was propagating the greatest story ever to fall upon human ears. Sometimes it falls upon ears that are indifferent or careless. Sometimes it is ridiculed. Many times it is denied. But that does not change this grand message. Millions have read it, believed it, received it, and have been eternally saved through it.
This greatest of all messages has been told in a hundredfold ways. "God is love," and He is anxious that men should know of His great provision for them. These are some of the invitations He is extending to you.
"The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." Rom. 6: 23.
"This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners." 1 Tim. 1:15.
"Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow." Isa. 1:18.
This is God's propaganda: the words and promises of God. You have received it because God is interested in your soul's salvation and has used one of His instruments to give you this message. As you consider these quotations, and as you realize that your sin has separated between you and God, can you not see that the Son of God was sacrificed for your sins? Will you not believe?
"The Word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the Word of faith, which we preach: that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved." Rom. 10:8, 9.