Battle Log

Wednesday, 5 May, 2021

Posted 6 May 2021, 12:01 AM by Hung Kwan. Permalink

The weather made a sharp turnaround from a sunny & warm late Autumn Tuesday to a gloomy chilling & rainy near winter Wednesday. If not because of the passion to work with God in delivering our commitment to spread the Gospel to people of all nations, we might be tempted to stay at home for a break. Johnny originally could not come as he had a trade man job appointment to do some renovation job at his home. Yet the job was finished earlier as such he could rush to re-join me at the very last moment. The light drifting rain did not pose difficulty against our street evangelism but rather rendered us help to drive people gathering at the undercover bus stop. Yet our start was not all smooth, or in reality we faced initial rejection or no interest responses most of the time. Yet, in the Spirit and in His strength, we were both given wisdom to find the leeway to soften the cold heart and changing the negative attitude to a receptive gospel sharing happy ending. Recap below is my divine encounter with or without a conversation.

1) An elderly Chinese Diaspora man who was born in East Timor 東帝文 華僑 but with parents from the Plum Province of Quandong. 廣東梅縣，He quickly declared he is an anti-religion atheist and refused to chat anything about religion.反宗教無神論硬心. God gave me wisdom to identify with him as a Diaspora Chinese so as to keep the conversation going. Instead, I shared my testimony to have the gospel message chipped into the story of my life.

2) Then I chatted with a Muslim lady who appeared very friendly 友善回教女子 though initially declining to accept my tract, But as the conversation went on along the line of ""are you a Good Person" she came to the same understanding that no one can go to heaven by good deeds. 知非靠好行為，I told her that is exactly the message of the tract so at the end, she delightfully took a tract from me when the bus came.

3) Then a Chinese lady initially rejected my tract as she claimed she got one from one of us before.中女拒絕，曾接單張，But when I asked her to share what did she get from the tract , she admitted she had not yet read it. So, I offered to brief her about the tract and God changed her heart to listen the full gospel and turned more receptive at the end.

4) A Chinese couples boy and girl friends appeared very fearful when approached by me, They chose to move a distance away to avoid me. It just served as a reminder that people like them more so need the gospel to restore peace and remove all the fears in their lives by receiving Christ,

5) Then an elderly Chinese man mistook me as someone call Elder Ong when I approached him claiming he had got our tract before. Quickly I know he might have been approached by the Mormon æ‘©é–€Evangelist who like to give themselves the title of Elder. This brief encounter also served as a reminder for me to be more diligent in spreading the gospel then those cult group.

6) Then I was greeted by an Aussie Couples Harry and Olivia. I thought we might have chatted before but it was not the case. So I could only give credit to God granting me with this special divine appointment with them. I wasted no time to share the gospel with him and found out a bit later that Harry actually is an Orthodox Greek Christian yet with poor if not no bible knowledge. So naturally he also has no assurance of salvation. I am glad I helped him to re-establish assurance in the redemptive grace of Jesus alone. I encourage him to bring her atheist girl friend to Christ.

7) Then I approached another Chinese lady who also show initial lack of interest to chat. But I did not give up and switch to share my testimony how the gospel changes my life. She ended up deeply drawn by my testimony and the power of the gospel that she almost missed her bus which had come and stayed there already a while and was about to leave. She only came back to here sense at the last moment to get on the bus with a tract she originally rejected.

Crystal is a Griffith University student from HKG. She also chose to refuse to have a chat initially. But when I found out she is from HKG and can identify with her as a Hongkonger , her defense system was disarmed and we have a very good chat on the gospel and my testimony till the bus came.

9) Joey has just migrated from Tasmania to Brisbane and lives in Brown Plain. She check the bus route number at the bus stop but messed up with the direction. God moved me to find out her need for the right direction to go back to Brown Plains. I took this as an analogy for right direction of life in Christ. I ended up walking her cross the bridge to the right bus stop on the other side. I could managed to finish the nut shell of the Gospel and finding out that her husband is a Christian. So I encourage her to take it seriously to read the tract and make the right decision to receive Christ to make her family complete in the grace of God.

10) Wayne a lady from Taiwan who initially also showed no interest to the gospel but ending up agreeing the message and guidelines is good for everyone.

11) Finally, I approached Susan who also said she got the tract but has not seriously read it. So I offered to share the nutshell of the gospel to her in case she forget to read the tract again at home. It turned out she was impressed by the message as well as my passion to testify for God.