Battle Log

Thursday 15 December 2016

Posted by Posted 19 December 2016, 1:10 PM by Ryan Hemelaar. Permalink

It was another great night of evangelism during our third night of Christmas outreach in Brisbane city. We have been steadily increasing in team numbers. Four on Tuesday, five on Wednesday, and six last night.

By God's grace, we were able to hand out 2,000 Christmas gospel tracts and have some great one to one gospel conversations.

At one point of the night we had a professing Christian come up to us saying we shouldn't be handing out the Christmas tracts because God forgives everyone automatically. And when we said that the Bible describes how forgiveness is only available through Jesus, she responded by saying, "No, you're reading the Bible literally. God forgives all. You need to be spreading a message of love and joy." She said this as she ironically began to rip up the tract she had in her hand into tiny pieces and then scatter them on the ground.

The message of the gospel is a message of love and joy in that Christ came into the world to save sinners. But a person needs to realise that they are a sinner and deserve punishment first before the message of the cross will be good news indeed.

We had the council come by and tell a nearby musician and statue busker to move over to the side, which was great for us as then we had the footpath to ourselves, praise the Lord!

We'll be back in Brisbane city for our next night of Christmas outreach on Saturday night.

To God be the glory!

View previous Special Outreaches report (14 December 2016)


Special Outreaches

Special Outreaches (QLD, Australia)

Australia Day (26 January)
Easter Monday
ANZAC Day (25 April)
Labour Day
Riverfire Outreach

Queen's Birthday
Halloween
Schoolies
Christmas Outreaches (December)
New Years Eve (31 December)

Contact Ryan Hemelaar for more information.