Battle Log

Operation 513 Battle Log for Sunnybank on Wednesday March 17, 2021 from 1330 to 1500

Rain continued to fall since yesterday almost non-stop. Johnny and Hung had to move over to the West side to serve at the undercover Bus stop. We started at 1300 while Andrew and Martin joined us at 1400. Basically all of us got almost full occupied to have a chat with someone gathering under the roof of the bus stop. God continued to lead us to break down initial rejection barrier, using some soft spot of the gospel targets to keep our conversation alive and eventually had chance to loop back to gospel sharing. There were cases that someone rejected the chat but taking the tract yet ending up chatting with another team member afterwards. So the sign of God's hand was prominent. Recap below were the 8 conversation I had to day: -

1) Sri Lanka lady was very receptive to the gospel despite she is Buddhist. She now understood that being a good person is not good enough that everyone need Jesus including Buddhist people like her.

2) Then a Chinese middle age lady got to the bus stop. I only had time to stop her for a brief chat before the bus came. Thanks God that she was willing to take the tract to read afterwards.

3) Bailey a local Aussie was very talkative and positive to whatever I shared with him, though not fully receptive to the core gospel message. His indifferences to the offer of salvation might have many deep life factor that only God can unlock.

4) Jeff is a timid young guy. He was very quiet in contrast to Baily and lent his listening ear to hear all my Gospel sharing. I asked what did he think about the message then he said he has listened to same gospel message many times before. Then I kept on asking him what held him back from responding if not accepting the message of salvation. He turned silent again giving me no answer. The arrival of the bus broke that moment of embarrassment. I can only pray that God only knows his heart and what was the hurt in his life that held him back from embracing love and care from someone else like Jesus. God will melt his heart in His time.

5) Liza is an ABC coming to Australia at the age of 1 year old yet she could speak perfect Chinese. She initially did not want to chat but I used her good proficiency of Chinese to identify with her family upbringing. It made her becoming receptive to the gospel message I shared later on though she claim herself a Buddhist. I do pray that the tract will keep her attention to ponder upon this invitation to accept Jesus as her saviour.

6) Diane an India middle age woman with bad English but showed great interest to gospel message I shared. She got the tract from Andrew but did not stop for a chat yet she had no hesitation to let me share with her until the bus arrived. It showed really the guidance of the Holy Spirit and the work of God behind.

7) Another ABC but appeared very rejective to gospel. He speaks no Chinese and did not want to chat but took a tract instead. So God still has work on him.

8) Sam Lin from Taiwan but can speak good Cantonese as he is a real estate agent. He is member of Logos Church but have no clear understanding of salvation. It may be his occupation did not allow him to have good Bible study and home group spiritual growing time turning him into a nominal Christian. Hopefully my brief clarification of the Gospel message and the reason Christians should have 100% assurance of salvation may helped him to develop more interest to study the bible and know God better.

Battle Log of Johnny Hsieh

一位王姓老先生97歲，是我傳福音以來遇到過年紀最長的，他很耐心的聽完主耶穌十架救恩的福音。祈求上帝開他的心眼，讓他信耶穌得永生。

Battle Log of Andrewalkington of OAC

On Wednesday in Sunnybank I spoke with Jay who is from the Philippines and attends a large charismatic church here in Brisbane from time to time. When I asked him about the afterlife and the core message of Christianity, he was completely clueless. I took the time to share with him what the Bible says about salvation and explained how we need to respond to what Jesus has done for us. He seemed to grasp the message well and gladly accepted a gospel of John and a tract.

There were several other short conversations as well (including the young man pictured), but as is often the case at a bus stop, many were cut short by an arriving bus, but each received a tract to read. Please pray for them that God would draw them to himself. See less

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