Battle Log

Friday, 10 July, 2020

Posted 10 July 2020, 8:02 PM by Glen Richards. Permalink

Today I’ve spent most of my report time writing about a difficult gospel + abortion outreach we had.  So this report is going to be short.

Thursday we were at the bus stops again.  Not many people out, I guess due to school holidays.  I wasn’t able to get into my usual run of gospel conversations.  Yet Andy seemed to be having long conversations: one after the other.  Praise God for that!

Yet I had two highlights:

The first was so shocking, I didn’t know how to react.  I had two Christians approach me to share the gospel with me!  Praise God for that!  They were Uni students who can’t be on campus due to Covid-19 restrictions, and so they were venturing out!

The second was an odd pair of follow up conversations.  I approached a guy who looked vaguely familiar - he smiled and said he had talked to me before in Riccarton.  Him being a satanist, we fell into an interesting conversation when we were interrupted by another guy I’ve talked to before.  It became a three way discussion that, frustratingly, I couldn’t bring any gospel focus to.  The first guy's bus came, and then the second guy's bus came straight after.  Lord willing I will have another opportunity to talk to them again.

On Friday, the sun was shining bright!  After the gospel + abortion outreach, we were in Cathedral Square - it was nice to see lots of people out and about.  And there were lots of Christians around engaging those people in gospel conversations!

Later, a team of five were at the corner of Cashel and Colombo.  Most of my time was dominated by a long conversation with a Muslim girl I had talked to before at Northlands bus stop.  I was on the flip chart sharing the gospel with two people when she walked up and waited - obviously wanting to talk with me.  Sadly, she was as resistant as the last time I talked to her.  And yet, I was encouraged that she wanted to talk again.

Very grateful for all the opportunities God gave us over these two days.  May we continue to grow in our ability to represent Christ well.  And may He, in His grace, use our feeble attempts in the meantime.  Soli Deo Gloria.