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  At our last outreach, the team met for a time of evangelism.  While only a few people were open to actually talking, we were encouraged by the number of Gospel tracts distributed.  As some of the team wandered around to hand out tracts and talk to anyone interested, others of us manned the literature table, or positioned ourselves near the flipchart to pass out literature to passers-by.

  There were several encouraging conversations throughout the afternoon, including one with a young Asian woman who read a tract given to her and then came over to do the Good Person test.  There were also some young people with whom a team member was able to engage, as well as a Syrian gentleman.

  While the afternoon appeared to be quieter than usual, we do pray that God would use our efforts to grow His church.  We pray for results to spring from that scattering of the Gospel seed through tracts.  We pray that hearts will be touched, especially those who have now heard the Gospel or received tracts numerous times.  May many of our “jetty locals” be brought to faith through the power of the Word of God, and may Christ’s kingdom spread here at Bribie Island.

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Operation 513 Battle Log for Sunnybank on Wednesday Dec 2, 2020 from 1300 to 1500

It was another day of grace to serve God without the usual team support by Johnny as he is still away on a family leisure trip. Instead, God moved Andrew to keep joining me at Sunnybank. We formed great teamwork by taking different strategic positions. Andrew stationed at the foot of the pedestrian bridge where he can get longer conversations. I take position at the bus stop with more chances to share but are of short conversation because of the frequent arrival of buses. Some people took a tract from Andrew but did not stop yet coming directly to the bus stop. I can then target them especially those who were moved to read the tract immediately at the bus stop. Another thanks giving point was that there was shade and good breeze on the eastern side of the foot bridge despite weather forecast projected a higher temperature over 35c. Recap below are the 10 divine appointments I had today.

1)Mr Fong 方 whom I met frequently here at Sunnybank, but I never was told he is a Christian as my question for him about salvation shows he was alost ignorance about salvation. But today I greeted him and care about the scar line on his head caused by a open head operation. I induced him to think about eternal life issue as temporal life is vulnerable. 動頭手術, 更珍惜生命

Then he told me he is a Christian of a very prominent denomination in HKG (The Evangelical church of HKG香港播道會)，He had to attend a medical appointment so I had to let him go and pray for next time to strengthen his faith.

2)倚綺 Ekky is a Malaysian Chinese 馬華 from KL. She could speak 5 language including Cantonese, so we can have a very stress free chat in our own local dialect. she has no faith and seemingly first time hearing the gospel. But she found it sensible and logical. She did not rush to leave even when her bus arrived and let me continue to do my wrap up. As a result, I had more time to share with her and hopefully, God will move her to take her first step of faith in no time.

3) Then I was rejected by an old and young man which was also within our prayer that may the Spirit lead us to waste no time on those who overtly reject the Gospel.

4) Then I shared with Ah Lin 阿琳 from Hong Kong 香港. So again I can speak in my mother tongue. She showed no obvious sense of rejection of the Gospel despite she very soon indicated she is a Buddhist. 佛教徒. The bus came very quickly 車到太快, so I only managed to share her the nutshell of the Gospel.

5) Then came two young man 兩青年，one of them took a tract from Andrew . So I hook up with him and volunteer to discuss the tract with him. He showed genuine willingness to listen but the arrival of the bus cut short this divine appointement.願意聽但車很快便到了. Trust God may have His follow up work.

6) Lee, possibly from Taiwan was polite when I approached him. But again there was not enough time to share as his bus came very quickly. Pray that God has His follow up work.

7) Rebecca is from Eastern Malaysia. She has no faith but show interest to listen. Again just have limited time to touch on the nutshell of the Gospel.

8) Stephen has an Indian look but he has a Filipino Mum and an Aussie Dad of Christian Family ground. But he doesn't go to church any more hope being discouraged by below par Christian witness. At the end, he joyously decided he should attend church again. It is a new start for him.

9) An UQ student Zhang 張，from 東北 China ，He said some OPN 513 guy talked to him at King George Square. I went through the gospel message with him again and introduced him to join Power to Change.

10) Finally John a big guy but behaved politely. He listened to my gospel sharing with patience, but at the end he told me he was once Christian now Muslim. It was a pity I did not have any more time to clarify the reason of the switch and bring him back to the core message of the Gospel.

Battle Log by Andrew 

On Wednesday at Sunnybank, there were a couple of great conversations where people grasped the gospel.

A pair of 17 year old young guys who attend a Christian school stopped to chat. They knew a lot about the gospel but were very unsure why God should let them into heaven. I took them through the law and was just starting to go through the gospel when their bus came, but both took tracts and thanked me for stopping them.

Declan called himself a Christian but when I asked about what would get him to heaven, he appealed to his own good works. I ran him through the gospel at length and eventually shared that I was very concerned that he was not saved because he was trusting in the wrong thing to save him. He admitted that even though he used the label, he was not a “good Christian” and had not been to church in a long time and no longer owned a Bible. I was able to provide him a Bible from the Bible Society Australiaand also pointed him to a good church.

Francis was raised a bit religious but admitted he was pretty sceptical about it all. We talked through how we know that God exists and then through the gospel at length. After I took him through the law, he agreed that we are all not good enough to get to heaven. I shared what Jesus had done and about how he calls us to surrender to his rule. He seemed to grasp the gospel well and said that he now had a lot to consider.

Please pray for these guys and the many more who received tracts.

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On Tuesday I was online before joining Roger in Riccarton in the afternoon.

My first chat was with a lady who was mildly intrigued by my question about what comes after life.  She tracked with me all the way up to the point where I explained that Jesus died on the cross for our sins - and then she suddenly disconnected.  I’m sure she had her reasons - I hope it wasn’t because of rejection, but that’s what it seemed like.

My very next chat was with another lady - similar age to the previous chat.  There seemed to be a resistance about her, but she didn’t bail on me, she stayed with me to the end - she seemed deeply challenged, but thanked me.

Next up was a young man who said I was the first over 40 (yes, he did a good job at guessing my age!) that hadn’t skipped me.  He was glad, because he wants to talk to everyone.  I was glad too, because I wanted to share the gospel with him.  It was a great chat.  He had a Catholic background and came to grasp the gospel of Jesus and justification by faith alone.  Praise God, he said there was nothing stopping him from accepting the gift of Jesus - through faith alone.  I left him in God’s hands, after pointing him to the Bible and a good local church.

A young man, very postmodern (what’s true for you is true for you, what’s true for me is true for me).  He made it through the logic for God and justice, but couldn’t cope and so disconnected.  May he ponder this and have future opportunities to engage with the gospel - maybe from you?

Yet another young man.  Was being a bit silly early on, but he sobered up as the conversation progressed.  He came to grasp the gospel and seemed genuinely appreciative for the chat.

The final online chat was with a young lady - potentially a Catholic background. She answered my initial question by saying that nobody knows what happens after life - but then she mentioned she was a Christian.  I slowly started introducing logic for her to ponder, and she became engaged, although distant.  Her facial expressions confirmed her surprise at the gospel.  She understood, but was her thinking positive or negative?

The outreach at Riccarton was wonderful.  One of the people working for Unicef was at my usual spot, so I went and set up at Rogers usual spot.  Roger and I ended up working together at the same spot - which was a nice change.  And we had a busy outreach.

I had quite a few good conversations early on.  The first I’ll mention was with a young lady studying criminal justice (I think it was).  So the logic of ultimate justice clicked with her - even if she disagreed with it!  She was very pleasant, and stayed to hear the gospel.  She left with a Christmas tract.

Later we had two young men stop to chat.  Both with a Christian background.  One was very resistant to the gospel - arguing with Roger.  While that was happening, I engaged the other guy, who had a reasonable grasp of the gospel.  But it was clear he wasn’t a Christian - even to him.  He wasn’t trusting in Jesus, he was trusting in himself.  Sadly, he seemed quite dead to the conversation - so after a good discussion, I decided to back off.  Yet, with a fresh reminder of the gospel, may he be made alive in Christ.  Such a miracle is possible for God!

Another guy came past who seemed very happy to see me.  I remembered that I’d talked to him a couple of weeks prior.  I remember that he had wanted to talk, but his friends left him and he had to catch up.  The same thing happened today!  But he was really keen to talk.  I told him how he can contact me - and pleaded with him to do so, because my checking question confirmed that he thought good deeds would get him to heaven.  God, may I have a follow up opportunity with him where he will come to understand the gospel!

On Wednesday I was online again.  And my first conversation was gold!  Pure gold.  He really appreciated my opening question.  And he said, “I’ve been thinking about that for years - I really don’t know”.  Based on that, I decided to go right to the start.  He believed in God - but I still gave him the building / builder analogy.  He was very sharp, and understood the whole analogy before I’d even quarter explained it.  He was an open mind from then on, he followed the logic from there flawlessly, and he perfectly understood the gospel - checking questions confirming.  So in the end I simply asked him what was stopping him from accepting the gospel right now.  He seemed to have an epiphany and then disconnected before I could give him any follow up information!  He is totally in God's hands.

A great chat with a Christian kid who was clearly not a Christian.  He came to understand the gospel, and indicated that from now he wanted to be one!  During the conversation I was trying to work out what kind of church he was a part of.  He couldn’t remember, but the church building was two minutes from his house, so he ran down to check - while I was talking to him!  It was Presbyterian.  I encouraged him back to his Bible and to talk to his Nana (who he lived with) and his church leaders.

Next up a fantastic chat with a Muslim from Dubai.  He was also very open to the gospel.  Checking questions confirming.  He had a lot of questions around how we know God exists.

My last chat was with a girl who’s issue was why is Christianity against homosexuality.  I was able to address the question without compromise, and yet get her to open up to a great gospel chat.

I’m very grateful for all the opportunities to share the gospel - I have mentioned all of them from the two days.  God you are so good.  Lord, save your elect, and demonstrate your mercy.  Either way, you will do right by demonstrating your justice.  Your name will forever be praised.  You, alone, are good!
 

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Operation 513 Battle Log for Toowong Village on Tuesday December 1, 2020 from 1330 - 1500

It was a challenging day with Hung and Winnie only to serve at Toowong while Johnny was on family trip at interstate. The temperature soared up to 33C or even higher around our street evangelism venue with lot of concrete building around. It seriously affected the mood of the pedestrians to stop for a chat. Every one wanted to hide and stay under the limited shade behind the Bus stop. But the grace of God was sufficient that some rejected us initially had changed their heart to have a chat with us with mixed result in God's hand according to His plan. At the end, I have 8 conversations while Winnie had 6 as recapped below.

1) Middle Eastern young man who claimed to have chatted with me before, but I nevertheless still made a revision on the Good Person issue with him to refresh his memory on the need to trust in Jesus.

2)Woman in red reject to chat but later soften to take a tract to read.

3)Teresa a local Aussie lady immediately recognized me and even repeat the question I asked her as a Christian. So there was not much need for a revision as the bus came soon.

4) Sarah a Vietnam/ Australian cross breed from a Christian family of Anglican background. She was approached by Winnie first. She has the basic understanding of Christian faith though still falling short of 100 % assurance of salvation. But she got the point after my minor effort of clarification.

5) A Muslim Couple with Husband called Mohammad who appeared friendly for a chat. He has some trivial knowledge of Christianity, as such he expects us to have basic knowledge of the Islamic faith as well. I admitted this attitude of openness but after all there is absolute truth that cannot be comprised. Then our conversation was ended at this point in time when the bus arrived.

6) An Indian UQ student named Sign stopped for a short chat under the scorching sun. THe heat really did not good for mood to learn and share. He after all was patience enough to finish hearing the gospel.

7) A Chinese couple were happy to chat which was rare. But by the grace of God, I finished the sharing of the nutshell of Gospel emphasizing that the ultimate requirement for heaven is perfection.

8) Finally, a UQ student Jia Jia, who was born in Beijing China but has been brought up here as an ABC who took a tract and read it immediately despite initial rejection to chat. After he finished reading, I was able to connect with him to have a chat to go deeper in the issue of sin and judgement. He ended up greatly impressed by the message.

感謝主 今天的带领，讓我遇上六人傳福音的機會。 Amy, 土生華人，初時不願意聽，我問她認識耶穌基督嗎？跟着傳福音给她。她很留心聽着每一句話，相信聖靈的話語，已经觸動她的心，相信很快她會回轉歸向神。Sarah 是基督徒，初時覺得自己未夠完美，未必可以上天堂。但我説信靠耶穌，祂保血能洗淨我們的罪，绝對可以上天堂。跟着關牧師來 再詳述给她。Sandra 中國少女，聽完福音後，會想想。澳洲少女，不想聽。在她看單張時，我在她身邊講述福音，盼望聖靈躅動她。Vivian, 印度女子。講述全福音给她。于燕，中國少女，聽完全福音，她會细心想想，自己是否真的需要耶穌基督。

盼望今天聽到福音的人，求主憐憫他們，打開他們的心門，接受主耶穌基督為救世主。阿們！感謝讚美主！

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On Saturday, by God's grace, we had 4 laborers. Melbourne team normally meet from 3pm to 6pm but for this Saturday, we outreached from 5:30pm - 8:30pm, Suprisingly, there were lots of people and they were willing to engage in conversation. 

As expected, there were people who were drunk and tipsy as time went on. Many people showed interest in doing 'Good person test' , some laughed at gospel, few believed the gospel and some opposed the gospel but praise God for His faithfulness for giving each one of us strength to boldly proclaim the gospel for His glory and people's salvation. 

I met quite a few couples who were interested in doing Good person test, I remember a tipsy couple, who took the test and the lady was drunk and very honest with her sins as i went through the law.. as i shared the glorious gospel and asked her when she is going to believe that Jesus died she answered "Now" and she answered the checking questions well even her boyfriend seemed very convinced and grasped the idea of justification by faith. please pray for this couple as you are reading this 

There was another couple (in the main photo) who were kind and there were very reactive (also, lots of very cool hand gestures :) ). As I shared the law and the gospel, they came to understand that we are saved by grace through faith in Christ and they told me that they are church goers. And through this conversation, they understood the gospel clearly and properly praise God for that !. Funny thing was that, as they realised i was from originally from South Korea, they gave Korean style 'Heart' gesture as you can see in the photo. Overall, What a joy it was !!! 

I also met a married couple who were very kind and gracious in the way they approached me. They showed much interest in doing 'Good Person Test' so as I shared the law, both of them answered honestly to the questions but when I was about to share death of Jesus Christ on the Cross, the lady said "but.. grace" and hinted about Jesus and that point I knew that they were Christians after I did checking questions. They said "This was the best gospel sharing method I have heard so far" and they told me that they attend City on a Hill church !. They gave me great encouragement and appreciation. I pray that this couple will be encouraged to share the gospel where God has place them. 

 

 

From Huy Do:- 

This outreach has been tremendously blessed by the Lord, during this day, God has showered me with countless blessings, so much so that I cannot exhaust it in this report alone, I will only then in this report focus on evangelism with the team. The Lord in the past weeks has drawn crowds, but not as many and the crowds that were drawn were rather small, but this week, He has blessed us with much. The first conversation God drew quite a crowd and many came to hear and they understood what was spoken, I beseeched them to repent and believe and they understood that it was a free gift. Yet during it all a man walked passed with his friends and I asked if he wanted to take the test, he was quite reluctant, but decided to talk anyways. I took him through the chart and by the end I asked him “if Jesus pays for all your penalty, then can God let you go?” - he replied “yes”, then I asked “if God lets you go then where do you go” - he replied “heaven”, but the honey is in this, I asked him “when will you trust that Christ alone died for your sins?” - he replied “right now”. Praise the Lord, I asked where he came from and he said that he lived in Bundoora, I curiously followed up and said “that’s where La Trobe University is” - he said that he goes to La Trobe University, the same university I go to. I traded numbers with him and we went on our ways, Praise the Lord for He has provided this man the opportunity to hear the Gospel, but also provided me the opportunity to follow up with him, his name is Ash, please pray for him that his profession is genuine. The next situation came when I preached to some kids who gathered, at first it was just three friends, around 12-14 years of age, they came and heard, but strangely, as I was taking them through the commandments a small group of kids, around 7-10 years of age were drawn and they flocked to the chart to listen. This was strange because of this, there was one particular asian kid, I know not his name, and it is as if he walked across, saw the cross on the chart, fixed his eyes on the chart and flocked with his friend to the chart. Usually when people see the cross, they flock to it to mock it, yet this young man flocked to it to listen and hear. After the conversation with the original 3 young men, this boy asked “so how does one go to hell?” - not out of mockery, but he was genuinely curious. I answered that “you continue on your way and there is where you will go” then replied that “yet if you run to Christ then He can save you”, to my heart’s joys, he replied “how must I run to CHrist?” - I said “believe that He died for your sins”. I asked if he understood, he said that he understood halfway, then I asked if he had a Bible, he didn’t so I ran and took a Bible to give to him and he left. Praise God that He has drawn people, pray for this young man, that he might be saved.

 

Overall, 

I want to give all the glory to God knowing that it was HE who strengthened and enable us to do evangelise.

We are just unworthy servants that did what was commanded by our gracious King who saved us by Jesus' death and resurrection 

SOLI DEO GLORIA ! 

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The team (of there) from up North were with Andy and I again on Saturday - in Cashel Mall.  There was some kind of Santa thing going on and there were lots of people out and about.  We had some Christmas tracts - and they were all distributed in the morning.

But it was actually a surprisingly slow outreach.  People were focused on what they were doing!  In spite of this, I was able to have two solid gospel conversations in the morning.

The first was very interesting.  A young guy in a hurry whizzed past, but stopped to take a Christmas tract.  I didn’t think he’d stop, but I asked what he thought happened after life.  To my surprise he did stop.  He had a Hindu background and ended up staying for a long chat.  What was interesting was that I had other people stop and take interest in the conversation (I was using the flip chat).  Suddenly, one of the bystanders - a Christian - got involved.  He was lovely, and very well meaning, but he had actually jumped in just as I was explaining the gospel and steered the conversation down a bit of a rabbit trial.  I was able to gently take back control of the conversation and get it back to the gospel.  I was then able to work some objections the guy had - I actually learnt some things about Hinduism in the process.  The guy grasped the gospel well, but wasn’t ready to respond - yet I challenged him to do so.

The other chat was also very interesting.  This time it was because the lady of the couple struggled to let go of the idea of her good deeds saving her.  She was very attentive and engaged.  But just didn’t grasp justification by grace alone through faith alone.  Checking questions came to the rescue, so I continued to re-explain.  She’d indicate that she understood, but another checking question and she would revert back to good works.  Sadly, I’m not confident she was grasping it by the end.  The guy with her was.  Gladly, salvation is not dependent on me.  May God use what I said, and may she have other opportunities to engage with the gospel.

After lunch, we spent another couple of hours in outreach.  Emma had a fantastic conversation with two kids (pictured).  I also had a long chat with two young Catholics who came to understand the gospel.

We finished up in Cathedral Square.  I managed to engage with a young couple.  The guy was giving pretty good answers to my initial questions: “believe in God” and then again later in the conversation after I’d been through the law and the gospel.  I sensed that this guy had maybe been to a Christian camp, or been involved with a church - so I asked him about it.  He looked at me and said, “Your name is Glen, right?”.  I was shocked.  It turns out I had talked to him before!  Oh Lord, save people, for your glory.  I can’t.  I leave them in your hands.  Lord, please help me to get better at explaining your gospel and representing you well.  I need your help Lord!

On Sunday Andy and I had a couple of new church members join us in Cashel Mall for a couple of hours of outreach.  One spent the time joining Andy to listen in on his gospel conversations.  The other did a fantastic job handing out Christmas Tracts.  Near the end of the outreach I fell into a great conversation with a young lady who had just received a pile of Hare Krishna books.  The two church members were able to listen into this long chat (a friend of the young lady joined in as well.)  After the conversation we were able to debrief and I got some fantastic feedback on how the young lady was misunderstanding something I was saying - and I didn’t even realise!  The church member giving me the feedback had said she had wanted to jump in quite a few times!  Now that I do so much evangelism on my own - I’m aware that I now find it hard to involve and encourage others.  We talked about this.  I gave the church member permission to jump in next time!  It was so encouraging seeing the insight that others have that I don’t necessarily have.  I want to encourage all Christians to get involved with the great commission - I can’t do this on my own, together we can do this. :)
 

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Thursday morning I was online with the Aussie team.  I had seven solid gospel conversations - glory to God.

An interesting chat with a lady who was very interested in the question: “What happens after life?”.  I was able to share the law and the gospel.  And she rejected it.  As I was talking she typed: “I still don't believe in him tho”.  I asked why, and her excuse was that it was all confusing.  So I asked what part was confusing, and she said, “I don’t know man… It just doesn’t add up”.  But then she said, “but your explanation was very well made, I have to admit that”.  Something was missing.  But I persisted by re-explaining the gospel - her response showed that she was gaining clarity.  She then asked me more about hell.  Thank you Lord for the opportunity to share with her, I leave her in your hands.

Later I had a good chat with a young Catholic guy who loved his religion.  He came to grasp the gospel - but he didn’t want to give up his religion.  He was left counting the cost of the gift.

I then joined Andy at Eastgate.

I had an encouraging short encounter with a lady who accepted a Christmas tract from me, I gave her a brief explanation of the gospel emphasising justification by grace alone through faith alone.  She interrupted the flow to tell me a bit about herself - she is currently going to a church, but had come from a background of drugs and alcohol.  She said that she often feels confused, but that my simple explanation had really helped her - she thanked me.  She needed to move on.  Thank you Lord for the brief opportunity!

Andy had a long chat with a lady (pictured) who is getting mixed up by the cult: World Mission Society Church of God.  Andy has learned some really good background information on this cult and so was able to have a good gospel conversation with her.  Oh Lord, rescue her!

We moved to Northlands, I was able to have a long follow up chat with a young Muslim girl among many other gospel chats.

On Friday it was great to have a team of three join us from up north!

We started the day with the gospel + abortion outreach outside Christchurch hospital.  In contrast to last week, where we had a lovely counter protester that we were able to engage with, this week we had one very nasty counter protester.  Rude, insulting, abusive even.  As I write this on Saturday, I’m still feeling the sting of her cutting words - and I didn’t cop the worst of it.  Her words and actions were a glimpse of her world view.  At one point she was attacking the older members of our team saying they were less evolved (probably meaning social evolution).  Later she was abusing my Mother who refused to respond.  The girl ended up by saying my Mum was meaningless.  And this girl ended up stirring up the hatred in two other of the counter protesters.  It was a really tuff outreach.  I lost my cool at one point, and had to work hard to gain it back and continue to ignore the insults.  Later I had an opportunity to tell of my care & love for one who had just told me she hated me.  We love, because He first loved us (1 John 4:19).  But, in spite of this - or more likely - because of this, many many opportunities for conversation with members of the public occurred.  I had two great opportunities to engage with people - one of them I was able share the gospel with (he understood the logic, but sadly resisted it).  Andy and Emma were very busy in conversations with people.  Andy ended up staying to well after the outreach was over in conversation with one guy.  We are encouraged to continue to stand against this modern day holocast of abortion and bring the hope of true forgiveness - even for murder - found in the sacrifice of Jesus.

We headed to Cathedral Square where I and a number of others preached before we headed to Cashel mall where the team was busy in one to one conversations.  The weather turned to rain thirty minutes before I was scheduled to finish, so we decided to head for a coffee early.

I made up the time while I was online in the evening.  It was one of the best periods of online outreach I’ve ever had.  Seven solid gospel conversations.

I had a 25 minute chat with a Muslim from the UK (based on accent) who was resistant, but actually came to grasp the gospel.  He then started counting the cost - it was too high for him (for now).  Lord, he is in your hands.

I then had one of the best conversations I think I’ve ever had.  40 minutes.  The guy I was talking to was so open, I wasn’t having to fight, and I could just teach.  He came to grasp the gospel and there was nothing stopping him from accepting it.  He had many good questions.  I leave him in the hands of the Lord, but with pointing him to the Bible and a local church.  He has a friend who is getting mixed up with a cult, I think some of his questions were so he could help his friend.

I then moved straight into a 15 minute chat (almost as good) with a young Christian guy who wasn’t a Christian.  He was not expecting someone to be talking about the gospel - but it seemed to be just the right time for him to hear it.

Oh Lord, please give us strength to continue sharing your gospel with people.  Help us do this in love, in spite of the opposition and hatred we face.  Save people for your glory Lord.  We leave these people spoken to in your hands.
 

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Operation 513 Battle Log for Sunnybank on Wednesday Nov 25, 2020 from 1300 -1500

It was an eventful day but also full of wonder and grace. Johnny initially planned to come a bit later but he got a flat tyres on his way to Sunnybank. So I was left alone but God was good to send Andrew to come to partner with me at the Wes side of the foot bridge. It was a very good partnership, starting with a good opening prayer and later on rendering mutual support including the photo shooting.

Today I had a very smooth day, apart from a very first rude rejection by a mainlander woman, all my subsequence approach are friendly, receptive and fruitful proven by three selfies with my three gospel target. ONe of these were a couples who are a known friend of my brother -in -law and heard of my existence in Brisbane as a pastor. So all encounters were really a divine appointment with God's hidden purpose behind.

Here are the recap of my

1) Madam Wong from Guangzhou 廣州 knows Hk very well. I wasted some time to serve as ice breaker and was only able to share the nutshell of the Gospel to her before the bus came.

2) Elle a young lady from Beijing doing UQ study. She was very polite and receptive and listen to the gospel with full attention and great interest. She did not even want to get on the bus that had arrived only after I asked her if her bus had arrived. Certainly, I could see and feel a ripe soil for the gospel to bear fruit in here heart.

3) Tony and Sinfonia look like Chinese from Indonesia. But I overheard them speaking Cantonese so I approached them and found they are also from Hong Kong. They seems to be religious and showed receptive attitude to the Gospel. So I asked if they followed any religion and they said yes and is a Japanese kind of Taoism called 天理教. This is the religion of my brother-in-law who became a pious follower after this Japanese faith organization offered him a scholarship to study Japanese in Nagoya. The couples responded with great astonishment that they are good friend of Perry my brother-in-law. With this miraculous encounter, I wasted no time to share the gospel before the bis arrived. Let's pray if God will give me another divine encounter with this couples in the near future or perhaps in the next visit of Perry to Brisbane.

4) Eric a UQ student from Taiwan who was very receptive to the Gospel. I referred him to Power to Change no matter if he may wish to accept Christ now or not.

5) An Aussie Mum Cherry also appeared very friendly. It was a pity my sharing was cut short by the timely arrival of the bus.

6) Mr Li 李 from mainland China. But he exceptionally taking the initiative to pull me aside to let me share the gospel to him. He admitted the message is very sensible, logical and convincing but I let him make his decision at his private time. I also referred him to join "Power to change. I met him a bit later when he finished his errand and wait for the returning bus. I took his photo there.

7) An old lady from Hongkong who showed half heart at the gospel message. She came to Australia around 80. Pray that God keeps giving her divine encounter before she run out of time.

8) Keane another genuine abc whose parents are from Taiwan. He has Christian back ground and know all Ins and Outs about Christianity. He agreed with the gospel I shared just falling short to let the seed to grow and budding.

9) Nelson an Sri Lanka man who appeared very polite and was positive to gospel. It was a pity the divine encounter was cut short by the bus but I am sure God's work on him will not be in vain.

Battle Log of Andrew: 

On Wednesday at Sunnybank, I initially found the afternoon discouraging, as many people I tried to speak to would not stay and talk, however, as the afternoon progressed, there were two brilliant conversations that left me rejoicing!

One young man whose English was very poor used Google Translate's image software to translate the tract so that he could read it!

Jackson was the only decent conversation of the earlier part of the afternoon. He was not religious at all but listened really well as I shared the message of the gospel with him.

Emily is 20 years old and is here from China studying nursing. She had heard of some Christian ideas before and said that her housemate has a Bible, but did not really know much about what Christians believe at all. She listened very carefully as we talked through the gospel at length and grasped clearly what the Bible says about our eternity. She understood that we are not good according to God’s standard and that Jesus died for sinners like us. The expression on her face as I shared what Jesus had done indicated that this was impacting her deeply. She thanked me for taking the time to share the gospel with her and gladly took a couple of different tracts.

When I asked Carla about where she would go when she died, she said she would go to heaven and that she was a Christian. She joked that she didn’t look like one because her arms, legs and even neck were covered in tattoos! She was going to keep walking, but I asked her a follow up question or two and it quickly became obvious to both of us that there were some really big gaps in her understanding. While she knew many facts about Christianity, her trust seemed to be primarily in her self-identification as a Christian. I stepped through the gospel and she had no issue identifying herself as a sinner but then as we talked through how Jesus’ death on the cross saves us, she seemed to grasp the message. We then talked about how receiving the gift of forgiveness means that we must be willing to surrender rule of our life and place our trust not in our good works or religious activities, but only in the finished work of Jesus. I asked her again where she would go if she died today, and she admitted that she had not understood and that to this point, she had not surrendered and placed her trust in Jesus. I pleaded with her to consider the urgency of being made right with God and she said that this was something that she desperately needed to do. She allowed me to take a selfie with her and told her that I would use it to encourage people to pray for her, so please do pray for her to surrender to Jesus!

Pray for Carla, Emily, Jackson and the many others who heard part of the message or received tracts.

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Roger got free treats again!  If I heard him correctly, he gave some tracts to a family that went into SoYo (frozen yogurt place) - the kids came out with some for him!  How nice. :)

This was at the Riccarton outreach on Tuesday afternoon.

When I turned up, there was a guy sitting down eating pizza.  I approached, and I was surprised how keen he was to talk!  He drilled me with question after question.  With him taking the lead like this, I was able to share the gospel with him.  Unfortunately his (late) lunch break came to an end and he had to go, but he had a Christmas tract with a way to get in touch.

Throughout the outreach I had many opportunities to talk to people about the gospel and hand out tracts.  All of whom had some religious instruction but were misunderstanding justification by grace through faith.  The last guy I was talking to was Coptic Orthodox (and who also didn’t understand justification) he seemed to appreciate the good news!

Earlier I was online.  I started with a difficult chat with a girl who dug in and refused to let go of her self-righteousness!  But then moved into a chat with a very cheeky guy who was very upfront about the reality of his deserving of hell (although it was hard to gauge his seriousness).  He seemed to be impacted (even deeply, but I couldn’t work out if he was playing with me or not) by the logic I was sharing - he came to hear the gospel.

Next up I had a guy who claimed to recognise me!  He is a Muslim from Saudi Arabia.  He said I skipped him last time and pleaded with me not to skip - I was happy to talk.  But after fifteen minutes with this guy I could see why he was skipped previously, hard as rocks, not open to reasonable and logical dialogue.  I skipped him.

The weather forecast wasn’t good for Wednesday, so I decided to join the Aussie team online again.  But beforehand I spent a few hours studying the book of Romans - so good!

My very first chat was with a lady from Brazil.  I could tell English was her second language - but she did a great job tracking with me as I explained the law and the gospel to her.  She seemed to grasp the good news.

Next up was a couple of guys who were fairly resistant.  But the main one warmed up to what I was saying.  He came to grasp the gospel before I left him to mull on it.  Lord save them!  Then it was a couple of younger kids who also came to grasp with the gospel.

The next chat was excellent.  Initially I thought the guy would bolt early - he seemed to be an Atheist.  But he also warmed up and really engaged.  It was like he was getting information for the first time ever.  He grasped the gospel, and then launched into questions.  Unfortunately the video link was not so good, so I had to revert to text chat - but he hung in there.  He had a link to needGod.net as well.  Sadly the video link eventually died.  He is in God’s hands.

By this stage I was live streaming, and I fell into a great chat with a guy who really liked to talk.  There was a girl sitting next to him using her phone.  I was just about to get to the gospel with this guy, when the girl found the live stream on her phone!  Sadly, he ended the chat.

My final chat was with a guy who loved my opening question (what do you think happens after life?)  But didn’t like the logic I gave him.  I started working through the gospel with him, and he resisted strongly - avoiding my questions.  I wrestled with him for a while but decided to leave him to it - he wasn’t open to the gospel at this stage.

So grateful for all the opportunities I have to share the hope of eternal life with people.  Thank you so much for your prayer and support - I REALLY appreciate it!  God bless.
 

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Operation 513 Battle Log for Toowng Village on Tuesday Nov 24 2020 from 1330 to 1500

It was a very warm Summer afternoon. By the grace of God , Johnny, Hung and Winnie can manage to turn up to serve the Lord as a team despite both Winnie (hearing aid needs adjustment) and Hung (has to avoid scorching sun after having begun the Narrow band light treatment for skin problem). ON top of the personal weakness, Hung forgot to bring his iphone. So only very few photoes had been taken for Johnny and Winnie while both of them had opportunities to take photo for me. The progress and pace of out reach was much slow due to the scorching high noon sun. But we all had managed to get into conversation with around 7 persons as recap below.

1) Tom - after several rejection by several Chinese students, here came Tom who also showed initial resistance to hear the gospel. Actually he refused to take the tract which was offered first by Johnny at the traffic light , then me at the bus stop. But God still softened his heart to let me chat with him as an Alumni of UQ and my life witness how I came to Christ. So gospel was also shared before the bus arrived. Trust he will bre in God's good hand closer to the D day of his salvation.

2) Oliver was once approached by Winnie some weeks ago. I still took the chance to revise and review on his status. I also introduced him to join Power to Change week day physical meeting on the campus.

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Sarah

is a Christian, but she failed the test of assurance of salvation by 10%. She only have 90% assurance which is because she though she is still not yet perfect. After my explanation of the 3 fold deliverance as God's package deal for salvation. She now understood after receiving Christ and be saved as a born again Christian, we are yet to be perfect by the work of God through the Holy Spirit. This as this work in progress stage, it is normal that we will be seen not perfect and will failed the test of God committing sin. Yet this is within God's plan as such it will not affect the 100% assurance of salvation by Christ that changed our identity from enemy of God back to Children of God or His heavenly citizen. Sarah was delighted to be able to have 100 % assurance of salvation as the bus came.

4) Lily is an UQ student as well as Migrant from Afghanistan. Winnie first approached her and did the Are you a Good Person Test. I followed up to reinforce the power of Jesus salvation. She did show pressure from Muslim faith that is too hard for her to change here faith from Islamic to Christianity. But I advised her in some Muslin Country, missionary was successful to convert Muslim to Christians with culture of worship remains unchanged but with the God head changed to Jesus. Pray for God's continuous work on Lily.

5) John is a senior person on wheel chair. He is a typical country Aussie with humor. When I asked him as a Good Person, can he go to heaven. He asked me back if General Secretary Xi can go. I took the chance teo say yest if he has a moment to repent in his life time. He switched to a place with more shade to continue with our conversation till the bus came. I stayed with him to get him on to the bus together with the bus driver lady to show him the love of Jesus.

Here is the recap by Winnie for the 7 persons she contacted to day.

感謝主 今天的带领，讓我有機會 傳福音给七人。有印尼的女士，兩位印度女士，中國少女，台湾少女，澳洲男士及少女。他們都聽了全福音和接受單張，要時間想想。願神 打開他們心門，接受主耶稣基督為救世主。阿們！

感謝讚美主！

 

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