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Battle Log > Plymouth Team > Saturday, 15 May, 2010
Saturday, 15 May, 2010
Friday 14th May
I hadn't been out on a Friday night doing evangelism for a few weeks because of bad weather and other commitments, but was able to go out tonight by myself to the Plymouth University for an hour or so to witness to some students
I had a great chat with a tall lad called Henry who was studying to do electrical engineering. He was eager to stop and chat, and we went through the 10 commandment test, sin, judgment to come and Hell, then we went through the gospel, Jesus and the cross. Everything seemed to be going well and he seemed to understand and acknowledge what was being said. At the end I left him with the question
''So Henry, if you were to die today, according to the Bible, where would you end up?"
He readily admitted, 'Hell'. I then said, 'so when do you think is the right time to get right with God'?
He then said, he didnt see the need to, as didn't believe in what the Bible said. We then had another 5 minute conversation about the Bible, its authenticity, validating the scriptures and the words of Jesus. He did seem more open at the end of the conversation, and did leave saying that it had left him with something to think about and took some tracts. At the beginning of the conversation he seemed so eager and yet after the sudden halt, it turned out with him at least understanding his fate unless he repented and trusted Christ, and so yet again have to leave it up to God for his hopefully conversion some day.
One more great chat was with a young student called James.After offering him a tract and chatting, it turns out he was in the C/U at the University there and helped with 'Tea & Toast' whereby the C/U opens from 11-3am and students give out tea and toast to students coming back drunk from the clubs and talk with them which often involved sharing the gospel and giving out tracts etc.
I asked him some basic questions like why did he think God should let him into heaven, and how would he try and share the gospel with me if I wasn't a Christian, just to clarify what he believed and understood.
This then led onto me going through the good person test with him, explaining what the Bible said about sin, and how using the 10 commandments makes it more understandable and reasonable, including a bit of my testimony.
He said he was greatly encouraged and thought it made lots of sense, took lots of tracts and email, and especially liked the idea of the million pound notes. He said there may be an opportunity for me to come in and share with some of the others in the C/U about the way of the master teaching principles and how to start a conversation with someone, as he was on the committee there, and so will wait to hear back from him and see if this bears any fruit!
Saturday 15th May
It was a lovely sunny day in Plymouth today, and although numbers keen to come out on Friday evenings seems to have dropped at the moment, were still having fairly good numbers for the fortnightly outreaches around Devon and Cornwall. I Met with Shirley, her daughter, Pete Squires from Open air mission, my good friend Wayne who runs his own small Church, Russell and Sheree.
Whe setting up, 2 students came over to the free Bible stand and got talking with us. One of them called Lucy said she wasn't a Christian, and although her parents were not Christian, she wanted to know more about God and was thinking about attending a Christianity explored course in the future at a Church near her.
Her friend Ben was a Christian, and so I shared the good person test with her and the gospel, and she seemed to understand and be encouraged by the good news offered through Jesus. They took some tracts and Lucy seemed keen to want to find a Church to go to, and so will wait to see if we hear back from them.
Just before I preached, I got into a conversation with 5 lads from Launceston college. Things seemed to be going well in the conversation, until one of them realised I was with the other Christians behind me and the banner and people preaching. Then one guy tried to persuade the others to leave as he didn't want to know about it. However 3 of them seemed keen to take tracts, and I gave another 2 tracts to them to give to the other 2 who had left, saying that they may have been a bit embarrassed tpo chat because they were in front of their friends.
I then preached about the person in the news who had won about 85 million pounds on the lottery the day before, and that riches profit not on the day of wrath, but righteousness. It turned out 3 young Jehovah Witnesses had heard the message and then engaged with Pete, and he said he had an interesting chat with them, as they believed that Lucifer didn't fall just before the Garden of Eden, but in 1914???
When I had finished preaching, the guy who was with the group of 5 and at first didn't want to know came back with his mate, saying that he was not embarrassed to talk about things in front of his friends, but that he didn't believe the Bible and the claims that Jesus was the only way to God.
So this led to a good discussion for about 10 minutes again on the authenticity of the Bible, the amount of manuscripts, when it was written and by whom, the supernatural prophecies in it, and how the whole theme through out the Old Testament was Jesus, as the promised Messiah. He was also a bit adamant that Christianity claimed to be the only right way and all other ways wrong, and so we talked about how other religions are works based, and how just doing good works, praying and attending Church cant pay for your sins, but how Jesus had accomplished this all in dying on the cross, as he was fully man yet fully God.
I again shared my testimony at the end, and showed them by scars, and the seriousness of the message and how we need to get right with God in this life time, and they both seemed a lot more open at the end, and thanked me,m and at first he had been reluctant to take any information, but this time took a couple of tracts to read which was great.
Was a great day, lots of tracts handed out and quite a few people stopping to listen to the preaching right in the city centre, a few of which were Christians who were encouraged, so again leaving the results to God!