Battle Log

Wednesday, 19 May, 2021

Posted 19 May 2021, 5:51 PM by Hung Kwan. Permalink

Operation 513 Battle Log for Sunnybank on Wednesday May 19, 2021 from 1300 – 1500

It was a gloomy afternoon, but Gary and Hung still were called to serve at Sunnybank while Johnny was not available for personal matter. God also moved and called the couples Bill Bai and Sister Lan from Chinese Christian Church of Brisbane, St Lucia Congregation to join us at 1330.

Gary first set up his signs on the East side targeting the south bound traffic to see the signs. I went over to have the opening prayer with Gary and took a few of his conversation with passer by then I returned to the West side to wait for Bill and Lan. Before the came I started approaching two persons as recap below all with very in-depth chat. After Bill and Lan arrived, I briefed them again the things to take note and the mind set to engage into street evangelism conversation that it is purely through the work and guidance of the Holy Spirit, So feel no burden to open up oneself with our mind completely preoccupied by the Holy Spirit to do His work under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Praise and thanks God that both made the step of faith to start approaching many people. Lan mostly approached those Chinese speaking people because of limited command of English. Bill can speak better English so he did dare to preach the gospel to English speaking Local Aussie. Despite the courage of Lan to approach many Chinese, she received an almost one-sided response of rejection. We had to counsel her to neglect the response whether it is positive or negative, but just look up to God to make as many outreach contacts as God led you to have through the guidance of the Holy Spirit. As a result of the heavy counselling and mentoring need for Bill and Lan, I had relatively less time to do my only outreach but still I managed to have following conversation as recap below: -

1) Katherine is a Vietnamese born here. Initially she gave outright rejection to chat or accepting tract. But when I found out she is an UQ student , so the Spirit prompted me to identify with her as the Alumni then started sharing what subject I did and why leading to a personal testimony how God moved me to do this Master degree study for gaining an identity to join the 2008 Sichuan earth quake disaster relief team partnering the HKG Counselling professional to provide post traumatic counselling. From this profession healing I led her to see that our life is all full of hurt and ruin by bad relationship twisting the normal function of emotion affecting our character growing up as an adult. It allowed me to introduce the issue of sin we all are suffering hurting each other and without peace and sense of security. So the Spirit guided me to actually share the full gospel to her with time just right before her bus arrived. I was graceful for the Wisdom from the Holy Spirit to turn around most of the initial rejection lately back into an in-depth heart sharing opportunity ending with the preaching of Gospel with better life inspiring effect. Pray that the Spirit will do follow up work on the life of Katherine.

2) Then I approached an Asian looking old lady who pretend to speak neither English or Chinese. This is part of the normal scenario in Street evangelism so I gave up after speaking a short while in all three language to make sure she really did not want to listen to me anymore.

3) Then I turned to my left to catch up with a senior man named Shang Shu尚書 from Beijing北京. He is from a Christian family with parents graduated from Catholic University in China and lead a pious life. Yet Shang Shu have all along adopt a sceptical attitude toward faith even though he still has become a church goer worshipping at an English speaking Bible Grace Church. He politely accepted by tract but with no intention to chat with me. I offered myself to keep our conversation going and eventually I started to learn more about his life though initially he did not want to let me know he is a nominal Christian. After knowing that then I changed my tactic to help him to ponder if he really understand salvation and have accepted Jesus. As expected, he actually has no assurance of salvation because he thought he is still not good enough to qualify as a Christian. This is exactly what we want to address by the tract. At then end, he now know that even though now as a Christian he is not yet perfect, but his heavenly identity has already been guaranteed by the redemptive blood of Jesus. Then at this point in time, Bill and Lan arrived to join me. Gary also went over to team up with us to get more conversation before he left a bit earlier.

4) After having a debriefing with Bill and Lan, I turned around to share with an old English lady. She also preferred not to be disturbed, but some how the Spirit moved me to keep sharing the gospel to her. She turned her face away from me started soaking which I took a while to realize. Anyway, I trusted the work of the Spirit already touched her lonely heart turning her inner emotion being released in the form of soaking before God.

5) Then I approached a Filipino young lady whom Lan had approached without success. She also turned a cold face to me but I still managed to convinced her to take our tract when the bus came.

6) Christine is a local Aussie and Phoebe an immigrant from Vietnam. Both are high school student of Sunnybank State school. They did not feel offended when I interrupted their casual chat. It ended up they were both very open and receptive to the gospel accepting that they are not perfect and need Jesus’s salvation. Pray that the Spirit will do the necessary follow up work to guide them to make the final step of faith.

7) Then I turned to a Pakistan mum with her young son needing much care to stop making a nuisance in public. I pacified the anxious son by calling him good boy. It works to make the boy quiet down to behalf as a good boy I called him. The mum was happy and I followed along this line of “Is good person good enough for Heaven” She appeared extremely positive and responsive to my gospel sharing and admitted that she also need Jesus irrespective of her Muslim religions background. So, Prayer is needed for the final change of heart of this Muslim background mum.

( 8 ) Finally I caught up with an old CFC ex-members and invited her to come back to celebrate the 24th Anniversary of CFC with us this coming Sunday on 23/5/2021. It was all the work of God to enable me to have make so many contacts , connections and conversations for His Name and glory sake.