Battle Log
Friday 24 April 2020
Posted 24 April 2020, 3:02 PM by Glen Richards. Permalink
Online evangelism just keeps getting better. Our latest tweaks involve giving people more access: Christians to be encouraged in evangelism, Unbelievers to hear the good news of the gospel.
Firstly, the team is now staying together in our Jitsi meeting found here: https://meet.jit.si/Operation513 throughout the outreach. It’s an open meeting room, anyone can join or leave as they like. But we will stay hanging out here for mutual encouragement. Also, as much as possible, one of the team will always be sharing their screen and audio into this meeting room, so those that join can come and listen to a gospel conversation: Christians to be encouraged through observation and by asking questions, unbelievers to hear the gospel and be able to ask questions.
For Christians, the objective is ultimately to encourage you into more evangelism: online or otherwise. For unbelievers, the objective is to allow them to hear the gospel, that God would save them, and then ultimately to encourage them into discipleship & evangelism: online or otherwise.
There should be something happening there at these times:
Sun 1-3pm (Practical Training Outreach)
Mon 1-5pm, 7-10pm
Tue 11am-5pm
Wed 11am-5pm
Thu 11am-5pm, 7-10pm
Fri 6:30-10:30am, 11am-5pm
Sat 6:30-10:30am, 1-5pm
These times are all in AEST (GMT+10), so adjust them based on your own timezone (e.g., add 2 hours if you are in NZ).
The other addition is that we are going to start live streaming these gospel chats on YouTube. This means anyone can go to this URL to just watch what we do: https://www.youtube.com/user/Operation513/ - subscribe to get notified of when the live stream starts.
We pray that God would use these feeble efforts for His glory alone.
We will continue to make changes to the way we do things, as appropriate.
So this report is covering the online evangelism for Thursday and Friday. And there has just been so much happening, just for me, let alone everyone else in the team, I can’t talk about it all, or barely remember it all. Praise God for that!
The highlight from Thursday was a conversation I had with a young atheist - he was wearing a cool hat with horns. He had been a Christian up to 5 years prior, but a Christian camp (which he said was cultish) had put him off. But it was clear he had never understood the gospel, and although he initially wanted to leave the conversation, he became engaged, and then genuinely impacted as I explained the gospel to him. In particular, the fireman analogy (explaining the fruit of repentance) brought the balance he sensed was missing - yet he now understood that the sacrifice of Jesus, and his faith alone in that, was the only thing that would save him.
Friday was a long day of outreach. Here is what stands out:
Conversations with four young men who were all open, and all came to grasp the gospel. For example, one of those kids, who said he was a Christian, said that before our conversation he thought he had to trust in Jesus AND do good deeds to go to heaven. But he came to grasp the gospel and said, “I'm going to talk to my Dad about this, you've made my week!”
I had a conversation with an intelligent young girl who was very resistant. She said that someone from my team had already talked to her! But she said it was an American, so maybe it was another team? I wasn’t able to share the gospel with her, sadly she didn’t want to hear it.
I finished my day with a great conversation with an open Muslim guy from Morocco.
Thank you so much for your continued prayer and support of the Operation 513 team, we are in awe of God at the opportunities he is giving us online. All glory to Him for any fruit. Come, join us! :)
View previous Online Evangelism report (22 April 2020)
Online Evangelism
Here are the tentative weekly outreach times for online evangelism:
Sunday 1-3pm (Practical Training Outreach)
Monday 9am-5pm
Tuesday 1-5pm
Wednesday 1-5pm
Thursday 9am-5pm
Friday 1-4pm
Saturday 1-4pm
These times are all in AEST (GMT+10), so adjust them based on your own timezone.
How to take part
To watch any of our online outreaches, you can watch live on our YouTube channel or Facebook page.
Or to take part in any of these outreaches, email us for the virtual room meeting link.