Battle Log

Battle Log of Operation 513 for Toowong on Tuesday Dec 12th, 2023 from 1330 – 1500

Today was another very hot summer day, UQ is currently in graduation mode with ceremony held for different departments and discipline one after another throughout the week. Student flows is diminishing, but God still provide many divine encounters for us to preach the gospel as usual and many were first time listeners. Recap below is the Battle Log of Hung.

1) I was led to approach Daksh, an Indian of the faith of Zain. after learning form him the what -about pf Zain, I direct him to think if there is anyone perfect in the world and he said no. Then I asked him how Jain resolved the sins we all have committed in our earlier life. We will still be held responsible and subject to eternal dead punishment. No matter how hard we tried, we are bound to be a non-perfect human being. So any religion are good to restrict people to do bad but good things instead. But it provides no solution to past sins. Then I introduced Jesus as the only saviour to set us free from the bondage of sins and make us clean again. He at the end was convinced that pure self-perfection by any human being is not feasible or practical. Good persons, bad guys, as long as we are not perfect, we all need a Saviour like Jesus. He was thankful for our chat and took a selfie at the end.

(*) Jainism is an ancient religion from India that teaches that the way to liberation and bliss is to live lives of harmlessness and renunciation.

The essence of Jainism is concern for the welfare of every being in the universe and for the health of the universe itself.

Jains believe that animals and plants, as well as human beings, contain living souls. Each of these souls is considered of equal value and should be treated with respect and compassion.

Jains are strict vegetarians and live in a way that minimises their use of the world's resources.

Jains believe in reincarnation and seek to attain ultimate liberation - which means escaping the continuous cycle of birth, death and rebirth so that the immortal soul lives for ever in a state of bliss.

Liberation is achieved by eliminating all karma from the soul.

Jainism is a religion of self-help.

There are no gods or spiritual beings that will help human beings.

The three guiding principles of Jainism, the 'three jewels', are right belief, right knowledge and right conduct.

The supreme principle of Jain living is non violence (ahimsa).

This is one of the 5 mahavratas (the 5 great vows). The other mahavratas are non-attachment to possessions, not lying, not stealing, and sexual restraint (with celibacy as the ideal).

2) Next, I was led to chat with a Singaporean Indian origin person. He was very open for the Gospel and took a tract to see the full version of Gospel.

3) Then I was moved to greet John a good old person. He was surprisingly open for chatting of life issues.

4) Weiss, a very slim and small built Norwegian girl. We had a good chat why she as a Norwegian is so uniquely thin and short. Just the rapport was built and even no time for sharing of Gospel, she delightfully took a tract to read. Perhaps she is readily a Chrisitan as Norway is a Christian country with many legacies of mission to the East.

5) Then I was led to catch up with a Westernized face girl whom actually is a Han girl but lives in Ning Sha. She came to do her Master degree on TESOL and is preparing to return to Chine to open English language school helping people to pass the Englis test for migration and overseas study. I still managed to share the full gospel to here and leave a tract. She showed interest and paying full attention to the Gospel.

6) Then I caught up with a Guy from Jiangxi whom I had caught up before. It was a pity his bus came far too quick.

7) Order is a Nepal student to UQ doing a summer Honor program. He claimed to be nonreligious worshipping no God. On the one hand he admits there is no perfection in the world. But in the meantime, he opines, there is no unique definition of perfect. Every one sticks to their own version of standard so that they all feel good to be the one approaching perfect. I led him to think is standard is to be set by individual, it rightly shows we are far from perfect as such we all need the redemption of Jesus, who is the only perfect person to die for our sin and coop to take our place to receive punishment of our sin. The bus came by that time, so though we don’t have time for a conclusion, but I did feel that God will forward

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