Battle Log

Tuesday I was online with the team before heading to Riccarton for a couple of hours in the late afternoon.  And Wednesday I was online with the team.

I turned up in Riccarton wondering, for the umptenth time, if anyone would stop to talk - and wondering if I should have brought my flip chart or not.  Well, for the umptenth time, God answered my prayers and I had a very productive outreach!

After some initial chats, I had a school kid walk up keen to give the good person test a go.  This usually means one of two things - they are there to give me a hard time, or they are really interested.  It turned out to be the latter!

He went to a seventh day adventist school, didn’t understand the gospel and enjoyed his sin.  He heard the gospel, and was challenged to respond in faith, knowing this would change his attitude towards the sin he loved.

Near the end of the conversation it was interrupted by a guy walking past heckling “You don’t want to talk to him”.  Ignored we continued chatting, but then the heckler came back.  The conversation switched to being between me and the heckler with the student happy to stick around and listen (our conversation had pretty much wrapped up anyway).

The heckler wasn’t really interested in engaging honestly.  He had preconceived thoughts he wasn’t willing to let go.  The student got bored and moved on after shaking hands.  And so after, the heckler gave up and left as well.  But it was actually a very encouraging couple of conversations.

The last chat of the day was a long one.  It started with the guy coming past on a Lime scooter and being stopped by the flip chart.  He had done the flip chart before (in Blenheim).  He had obviously played on his mind, as he sat down to talk.

We went through the gospel multiple times, he was struggling to understand, but he really wanted to!  He stayed till the end of the outreach.  He ended up downloading a Bible, and was interested in going to church.  He friended me on Facebook and said he would be in touch if he had any questions.

So a wonderful outreach in the end - Praise God.

Eighteen recordings from the two days of outreach online.  Here are some of the highlights:

A catholic kid who wasn’t sure on what to believe came to grasp the gospel.

Another kid who just didn’t get it at all.  I would share the gospel, and immediately get him to share it back - over and over he couldn’t do it.  He disconnected :(

A Christian kid from Trinidad and Tobago who insisted that obedience was required to be saved.  A rather frustrating conversation - but I laboured with him for a fair while, and I think he was starting to see my point before he had to leave.

A text chat with someone from the Philippines - Catholic background, but seemed deeply impacted by the gospel - praise God.

A trio of Muslims from Egypt who heard the gospel but fought against it - insisting that they would be good enough to get to heaven.

A chat that started out with the other person pretending to be neo-Nazi :(  But by the end of the gospel they were stoked by the gospel and were asking good questions.

And the day ended with a streamer coming to grasp the gospel.

SDG!
 

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