Battle Log

Wednesday, 3 February, 2021

Posted 3 February 2021, 5:14 PM by Hung Kwan. Permalink

Operation 513 Battle Log for Sunnybank on Wednesday Feb 3rd, 2021, from 1300-1500

After a gloomy overcast Tuesday, God gave us a sunny Wednesday afternoon. Again Johnny, Andrew and Hung team up on the East side (Sunny Park) to share the Gospel. God gave Johnny and Hung several gospel opportunity with some fruit bearing ones. But for Andrew, he had a record breaking long chat from the beginning to the end of our service hour meaning lasting over 1.5 hours. The hearer was a Christian, so possibly they had engaged in deep doctrinal exchange. For Johnny he had several success including with a Chinese Couple who are attending the Hope Community church but have not received Christ as they have not heard the holistic gospel yet. After the gospel sharing they joyfully have received Christ. For me, God gave me variety of gospel audience ranging from self righteous atheist , Christian without assurance and a young man from a Christian family as such having illusion he is a Christian already but actually still a nonbeliever. Details are recap as below: -

1) Laura is a high degree paralyzed lady but is still managing to be independent on her motorized wheel chair. She could not speak smoothly at ease so I chose to give her the tract first and ask her to read at home when she is fully settled down. I could not speak much as the bus came quickly for her but still I assured her salvation is from Jesus. The Bus driver did not see her as such I had to signal him to open the front door for releasing the ramp for her to board the bus. Laura thanks me for that little help in action love and pray that the tract will be a tool by God to convict her to receive Christ.

2) An arrogant lady from PNG believes in reincarnation as such she has all the time and 2nd chance to do good deed to compensate for bad deed. She thought God is just a referee to watch on the sideline how we play the game of life. Win or loss are in full control of us. I patiently counteracted her wrongful thought to show that our sin cannot be off set by good deeds and all human are sinner that need the salvation of Jesus. Pray that God will soften her hardened heart to accept the gospel.

3) Matt from China and Christian from USA took the tract but did not stop for a chat. So instead I walked them across the bridge to share the nutshell of Gospel which was regarded as sensible by them.

4) Jack and Briski from Thailand are high school students. They are both very receptive to the gospel I shared with them.

5) 尚恩 is from a Christian Family as such he also claimed himself a Christian. But he actually has no concept about gospel and lack assurance of salvation. More serious is that he actually has never been a Christian with a personal moment of repentance accepting Christ. So I encouraged him to read the tract and surrender himself to God and accept Jesus as his personal saviour and new Lord of Life.

6) A lady from Taiwan called Celine Ning凌 claimed herself a Christian after hearing my gospel sharing. Yet she failed both diagnosed question and seemed to have very little understanding about what a Christian should behave.基督徒觀念薄弱 Even worse, she has not been attending church since came here to Australia. So I gave her my recommendation and prayed that God will let us meet again for mutual edification.

感謝天父上帝的帶領和祝福，今天有許多人聽到了福音，祈求天父打開他們的心眼，讓他們因信耶穌，罪得赦免，得永生。其中有寧姓中國中年夫妻，蘇丹的Sono，還有三位本地青年人和台灣台北木柵的陳弟兄。請為他們禱告。

On Wednesday at Sunnybank, I had a few small chats with people, but one long conversation dominated the afternoon.

Jesse is 23 years old and had been raised “a bit religious” by his mum. He had also been connected to some churches and been baptised as a young adult years but had largely walked away over the hypocrisy that he had seen. He knew many of the right answers to the questions I was asking, but other things he said gave me the distinct sense that something was not right in his spiritual walk. We worked our way through the gospel and at each step, he affirmed the truth of what I was saying about our sin and what Jesus did for us. However, as we talked about the need to repent and surrender to Jesus, it became clear that this is where the problem had been. It was obvious that he was living entirely for himself and as such, there was a distinct lack of fruit in his life. At this point, I was able to challenge him about the fact that there was little evidence that he was saved and that there was a need for him to repent and trust in Jesus. He agreed and stated that he needed to very closely examine where he stood with God. I pleaded with him to not delay because he did not know the date of his death and he thanked me for taking the significant time to speak to him about this.

Please pray for Jesse that God would grant him repentance.