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Battle Log > Plymouth Team > Saturday, 3 July, 2010
Saturday, 3 July, 2010
On Monday I had finished my Bible teaching course at a Church and so went on lunch. There were lots of Kids at Plymstock broadway from the local school- sixth formers, about 20 all eating lunch in various places. So I went up to a group and offered a million euro note to them and starting going through the intelligence test and good person test questions. The crowd increased with more students wondering what was happening, and as I went through the Law, judgment and Hell before going onto the cross, one girl got upset and angry as she though God was love why do bad things happen if there is a God- she ran off angry and upset as it turns out her uncle had recently died after being hit by a drunk driver at Christmas. As I tried to explain to the group who were now a bit more hostile, another girl was upset that there was only one way to God and I tried to explain to her we all agree there are some things right and wrong in life, one way is true and all others are false, like me believing 1+1= 3, am I wrong? If I believed the sun was square, blue and cold, am I wrong?
This has been effective in getting people to understand about the nature of valid objective truth vs subjective personal beliefs. We can all hold dear to our beliefs, but it doesnt make them necessarily true. She reluctantly took a tract and a few others did, and my heart was sinking inside as a few people around in the area were now looking at me wondering what was going on!
However after the group dispersed, 4 lads were walking towards the area, some with their shirts off, wondering why all the other kids had been around talking to me. They were really open to the message and took tracts for them and their friends after one shared he had an accident on his bike and almost fell off and could have died, and again I reasoned with them suign my scars on legs about how important it was to get right with God today, because we all assume we are going to die when were an old person, but unfortunatly that might not be the way.
On Saturday 3rd July I was meeting Shirley in Truro to do an outreach and also to go to Noel Richards concert at a local Church. Whilst there I asked 4 Kids at Truro train station for directions for the skate park I had seen on the train, they told me, then I had a chance to speak with them and they were very open as well and took the million eeuro tracts offered to them.
I met Shirley and we went to the skate park- it was packed with about 50 skaters and teenagers hanging around the sides talking and eating, all secondary school kids aged 11+.
The first group I spoke with were all very open to the message, they had lots of questions about creation, heaven and Hell, and some Bibles handed out. I also spoke to some of the girls about what they were wearing and how boys can sometimes go after girls for all the wrong reasons, they understood and covered up a bit more!
The Second group in the skate park sitting down to the sides went from about 10-20 in a short space of time. There were some angry kids there who claimed to be Atheists, I tried to reason with them about creation through their skate park, that it didn\\\'t evolve, was purposefully built, then showing creation is intricatly detailed and designed, there is no way it could evolve no matter how long a a period of time you had.
They got more annoyed, so they called over the Park worker who was a big guy and complained to him. Shirley had already given him a tract which he had looked at, unknown to me, and he said to move on your annoying the kids and scaring them, if they want to hear about God they can go to Church. He was an Atheist as well and believed in evolution and scoffed when I said the world was only about 6000 yrs according to the Bible. He thought this to mean I therefore didnt believe in fossils, but I reasoned I did, it was the supposed age of them I had issue with. I said I was not breaking the law standing there speaking with them, it was a public place, I was a youth worker and the kids had the whole park to skate if they wished, as most had been listening before 2 or 3 got more irate. As I was handing out more tracts and answering questions getting thrown at me like \\\'who made God, where did Cain get his wife- was it incest, and is Homosexuality a sin\\\', the park worker phoned the Police saying I was causing a disturbance and scaring the kids, I think because I had mentioned Hell and showing them scars on my leg and talking about when they thought they may die and about the seriousness of life.
So when Shirley and me left the park, the Police drove past and stopped to speak to us about what we had been saying, and we said we had freedom of speech, the kids didnt have to crowd around and listen if they didnt want to, and we were just talking and giving out tracts etc. They said that was ok but just to be careful in the future.
At the Noel Richard\\\'s Concert in the evening, lots of people came and there was some good worship there- I managed to give some tracts to people leaving to read and to give to their non Christian friends. On the Train on way home- I met Anthony, a student from YMCA where I work. We chatted about the football and world cup etc, and then I managed to Share the gospel with him, gave him lots of tracts and a lift home. I explained that repentance would mean not sleeping with his girlfriend until they got married etc, wghich he seemed to understand. While in the van on the way home, he said his Mum could have died a few weeks ago- she left something in oven and fell asleep, she felt something poke her to wake her up, but when she awoke, no one was there? But she went into the kitchen to discover the oven almost catching light. Hopefully Anthony therefore understood the need to get right with God and then start sharing this message with others as we all dont know how long we have.
I dont know what woke his Mum up- was it the dog, or an Angel? Whetever it was, hopefully the message sunk in to him and he managed to talk with her.
Yet again God answered my prayers by putting people into my path to speak to and share the gospel and my testimony with, praying for those kids who had the tracts at the skate park etc, and that they took them home to read away from the scoffers and that a seed was planted that in time may grow. Yet again we may not ever see the growth of the seed or the fruit of the labour but know that God will give the increase as his word never returns void!