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Battle Log > Plymouth Team > Sunday, 27 June, 2010
Sunday, 27 June, 2010
Some lovely weather in PLymouth in the past couple of weeks has enabled me to be able to go out with the new Living waters million Euro World Cup tract which people have enjoyed taking as a souvenier which has been great, especially young people- even though England and Australia are out of the world cup :( .
One weekday afternoon I only had one million pound tract left, and so wanted to give it to someone, and saw someone whom again I wrongly thought may not be interested as he was listening to headphones by himself. Levi was 21 and was sat outside the Apple Iphone store on lunch break. I offered him a tract and we got into conversation- he turned out to be agnostic and was very open to talking and said he hadnt really thought much about where he would go when he died. He understood through the use of the Law that he would deserve hell, but then I went on to share the gospel with him and reason with him about the need to get right with God today as again showing the scars from my accident, explained that no one is invincible and 3 people a second die everyday around the world. He seemed greatful and gave me a great joy that God had set our conversation in place that day.
I went to help with a church youth group, and decided to take 3 of the lads on a drive to the seafront in my van, and we saw a group of kids 'tombstoning', that is jumping off a very high wall into the sea below which is extremly perilous and people have been seriously injured there before. I thought this would be a great opportunity to talk about what woulod they think may happen to them if they died, which could happen if they carried on doing this?
A curly haired kid said he had to rescue a girl who jumped and landed in the water wrongly, and so knew how dangerous it was. I again showed them the 'sharkbite' scars on my leg and went on to go through the 10 commandmnets, judgment and hell, and then asking them what thewy learnt about Christmas and Easter at school and shared the gospel with them. The curly haired kid said he was 'getting it' and said it mader sense what was said. There were about 8 13-16yr olds there and so was hard to get them to talk in front of their mates, but they all took a tract and said they would go home and read it again which was great.
One Saturday afternoon in town I bumped into 4 Muslims in the city centre who spoke arabic and broken english- they were students/ in the navy from what I could gather, and again the million euro notes were a good ice breaker to start talking. Again, they believed they had to be good people to get to heaven, but they believed that people who were bad would go to hell, bad muslims included, and so gave me an opportunity to use the law to show how we cant keep it, it was there to send us to Christ, not to try and make us morally righteous, explaining that breaking it just once means were guilty of breaking all of it (James 2 v 10). As is other conversations people may have had with Muslims, they didnt believe Jesus died on a cross as the Koran told them so, but I tried to reason how the Koran was written at least 350yrs after Jesus was crucified and so their information was not true. It was quite hard to get across what I was trying to say because of the language barrier, and unfortunatly the new GM28 Living waters evangelism application for the iphone does not yet have arabic, but I gave them tracts to take to read.
One sunday afternoon I went to a pub with friends from Church, and I left a million Euro tract with the lady behind the bar. A few minutes later she came out, obviously looking rather stressed, asking me what this was. I explained to her it was a gospel tract, and she said why I thought she needed it. I said that I was a Christian and that if she weas not a Christian, then if she died in her sins she would end up in hell, and becuase I cared for her thats why I wanted her to read it. She then said that she was a Christian, and was most distressed that it was pretending to be money, but was actually something else (even though it has a characature of David Beckham on the front and there is no such thing as a million euro note).
She then went on to say she had read the tract, but said she believed everyone went to heaven when they died (even Hitler I said?), andf that her God was a God of love. I then asked why she thinks she should go to heaven, and she said because God is her heavenly father anhd loves everyone. Then in the conversation she went on to say she thinks Jehovas witnesses will be in heaven, just bgecause they believe in God, and so I tried to reason with her about what Jesus said about there being only one way, and you having to understand who Jesus is rightly, which Jehovas witnesses dont. I then asked her if she was born again? This made her even more annoyed, and she splurted out no way was she born again, she knew some people who were and she would never associate herself with them. So I then said to her straight, that because I cared about her and wanted her to klnow the truth, she was not a Christian and was not saved- referring to John 3 v 3. In more of the converasation she said she thought the Bible was just guidelines and not to be taken literally. In the end she went back inside, but I asked what church she went to, and if weveryone there belived the same as she did, and she said yes, and that she attended an Anglican Church down the road, so I said one day I would come down and visit!
On saturday 26th August, I drove Shirley and her friend called Pat to Glastonbury festival, where we hoped it would be busy and could give out loads of tracts to people etc. We ended up just staying in the town centre and set up our table by a memorial where we had free tracts, ESV BIbles etc to hand out and people to take.
Throughout the day we all had some very interesting conversations with people- a group of 7 lads all the way from Liverpool , tracts given to every other shop which sold crystals, charms, offered healing, pyschic readings etc which gave us the creeps, and a group of locals who were getting drunk and laying in the flower beds, playing guitars and smoking weed. They were quite open to talking though, and took some tracts as we sat by them. It was a very interesting day, extremly hot, but we were an encouragement to a couple of people who walked past who were Christians in the area.
I went to get anot h e r t
icket on my parking, and saw a lady reading the stickers on my van. I asked her if she thought they made sense, and she said yes, so we chatted about things and she revealed she no longer went to Church as she used to attend a Roman Catholic school when a child, and some horrible things were done to her there by one of the Roman Catholic priests. I felt saddened, and tried to explain that Roman Catholicism and Christianity were different, but she would not take a tract and left.
There is a lot of darkness up there, and so hopefully we were some spiritual light to them that day. Next weekend were in Truro for a Noel Richards concery where we are part of the prayer team afterwards and giving out tracts and information so should be an interesting report next week.
May Jesus be praised and save some of the people who we spoke to that day!