Battle Log
Tuesday 28 May 2019
Posted 29 May 2019, 7:26 PM by Glen Richards. Permalink
I had one more outreach before going on leave for a week to attend a conference and get some R&R: the Tuesday afternoon outreach to Riccarton.
This location can be slow from an outreach perspective. Once I went for a whole two hours without having a single Gospel conversation.
But today, as soon as I set up my flip chart and looked up - a person had stopped and wanted to know what it was about. I was straight into a Gospel conversation! After that, I then had opportunity after opportunity to share the Gospel.
I had a Mormon lady stop for a brief chat. My first question to her was about what she had to do to go to heaven. Sadly, her answer included: “keep the commandments”, and “try”. It was a friendly encounter, but I knew she wasn’t going to hang around. So I was direct in challenging that she would never be good enough in her own effort, and that she needed to instead trust in Jesus to pay her fine by His grace. She took a tract and said she would read it.
Then a Buddhist lady stopped for a friendly chat also. My question for her was about where the standard for “karma” came from - which seemed to make her think. She had to go, bur refused to take a “Which one is Right?” tract from me.
I had two teens with a church background who didn’t seem to have a clear understanding of the Gospel - they stayed for the whole flip chart presentation, and both took tracts.
And I finished up with a very encouraging conversation with a young Christian where we were able to mutually encourage each other.
I also had two very brief follow up encounters with people I’ve talked with on previous outreaches at different locations.
I managed to finish the outreach before rain, that had been threatening, came to disrupt things.
I thank the Lord for a very encouraging outreach. May it encourage you!
View previous Christchurch (NZ) report (26 May 2019)
Christchurch (NZ) Team
Weekly outreaches:
Tue 3:30pm - 5:30pm - Riccarton (corner of Riccarton Rd and Rotherham St)
Fri 1:30pm - 3:30pm - City (Bridge of Remembrance)
Sat 11am - 1pm - Riccarton (corner of Riccarton Rd and Rotherham St)
Sun 1:30pm - 3:30pm - City (corner of Colombo St and Cashel St).
Contact Glen Richards or Andy Barlow for more information.