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Battle Log > Plymouth Team > Saturday, 14 August, 2010
Saturday, 14 August, 2010
-Last Saturday night I was coming back from a friends and was driving through the city centre about 11pm and so thought it may be an opportunity to give out some tracts to people who have not had much to drink. I knew I would definatly need Gods help in finding people who were sober down town!
God heard my prayers, andI managed to start a conversation with the trusty MPN again. Richard and Ollie and their friend Lisa were from Plymstock school and had left now and wewre 18yrs old. They were pretty open to talking and had not really had much to drink at all and so managed to go quite in depth with what the MPN actually said.
AS usual though a few of their more intoxicated friends came along and wondered what was going on, and so the conversation got harder to keep on track. However one of the girls did recognise me that I had witnessed to her before. They all took tracts, and one of the lads that came along later took one and he was much quiter than the rest after listening and so hopefully something was stirred in his heart.
I then saw 2 girls sitting by themselves called Billy and Grace. They were absolutely sober and had been out and were about to get a taxi home. They took some tracts and we had a great conversation for about 15 minutes, and they were both pretty responsive. However at the end when I explained to them that if they were to die in their sins today they would end up in Hell, they were concerned, though when I said about repentance and turning from sin, one girl saw the urgency, but didnt want to do it today. I said about counting the cost and weighing up our love of sin compared to eternity and what Jesus has done for us on the cross, and explained the million pound note anology for one of their eyes.
Hopefully they saw the necessecity and urgency that was at stake and read the tracts when they got home.
-On the way back to the van I came across 3 street pastors walking past. I thought twice about it, but started a conversation with them about evangelism and what they were doing. I tried to explain that in my opinion what they were doing is great and I wanted to do it as well, however when I heard that you cant purposefully give out tracts and share the gospel with others unless they ask you first, I tried to explain why this didnt seem to make sense.
A gentleman in the group said they didnt want to be pushy with people and only talked about these things when people wanted to. One group of girls walked past and the street pastors gave one of them some flip flops. The girls thanked the man, then carried on walking. I said that would have been a great opportunity to talk with them or give them a tract to take away. I also gave them a tract each to take and read and to give to someone, but one of the ladies gave it back as she didnt think she needed it and would be more useful for me.
They also said they would not feel comfortable going out there talking to people and sharing the gospel, and I tried to explain how loving people is great but thats not the gospel. I tried to stay calm and not get angry but its so frustrating when although going out and serving and praying for others is great, a lot of the Christians doing street Pastors surely cant believe in a real literal place called Hell where the people they were out helping will go unless they have a chance to hear and respond to the gospel.
On the following Saturday I joined an outreach organised by friends and chatted to with a few people as the city centre was very busy with lots of food tents and samples. One good conversation was with the GM28 app on my iphone wherte the gospel can be shared in 12 different languages. A group of 6 French students walked past and so I wanted to try it out on them for the firest time. It worked, and I went through the questionaire with them and they all understood and took a million pound note each which was great.