Battle Log
Tuesday 17 December 2024
Posted 24 December 2024, 8:59 AM by Hung Kwan. Permalink
Battle Log of Operation 513 at Toowong on Tuesday Dec 17, 2024 from 1330-1430
There was intermittent isolated heavy rain in Toowong area, it nevertheless posted no hindrance for Johnny and Hung to serve Street Outreach ministry as usual. The power of witness apart from the output of gospel sharing to non-believing people of all Nations was demonstrated. After sharing full gospel to a Malaysian Chinese with fruit bearing result, I was greeted by a Catholic Christian lady with a big smile. We met each other at this bus stop possibly 2 to 3 years ago, she is a serious Catholic follower who tried to debate with us on theology to prove that Catholic faith is orthodox when we challenged her that they do not have pure faith in salvation by grace through faith in Jesus alone and they tend to elevate Mary to a status equal to God. She wrote me long notes and even resorted to refer me to talk to her Church Father which I never have chance to do it but instead consulted many of my personal friend of Catholic background. So, our relationship becomes stranded because of all these differences as such she chooses to avoid or ignore me at the bus stop. But today, here attitude has made a 360 degree changes. She approach me to greet me with a broad smile and compliment me as a good person (in the sense of a good servant). I guess she might have watched and overheard my chat with Edwin the Malaysian and agree with my view of all the gospel sharing messages. So witness is also a form of Behavioral Art, your actions speak louder than words especially we are doing it in His strength. Recap below is the battle log of Hung for today.
1) Edwin, a UQ student from Sarawak, Malaysia. He is non-religious though from a Buddhist family, but he had Christiaan friend and has followed them to church. Thus God may have softened his heart and he also has mastered certain basic bible story teaching as such he appeared 100% open and receptive to the gospel and promise he will take it seriously to pursue to make the last step of faith accepting Jesus as his savior. I also referred him to get in touch with Power To Change for any further questions about the Christian faith.
2) Catholic lady brief encounter serving me like a cup of caffe experience the power of witness for Christ as described above.
3) An Indian parent of Sikh background come visiting daughter studying in UQ, the father could speak limited English, but I try to build rapport by telling him the early days policeman in HKG 80- 100 years ago are mainly by the people of Sikh with their head wrapped up with clothes, And parents used to scare their kids by threatening them to be obedience otherwise the Sikh Policeman will come to grab them for locking up. The bus came and our friendly conversation ended and i still managed to handed him a tract and pray that God will do His job.
4)Next I approached an elderly Local Aussie. I was inspired to use the Fair dinkum and Merry Christmas gag to introduce the gospel message. He was impressed I knew so much about Australian slang and culture as well as UK ancient English. It proved that his interest in gospel was low but the rapport I built with him through these two ice breaking measure earned me a bit more patience to finish the nutshell of Gospel to him.
5) Then I caught up with a Chinese looking Singaporean yet I had only barely enough time to start the gospel without finishing because of the quick arrival of bus. Any way, I still managed to pass him a gospel tract,
6) Last but not the least, I had a good chat with a Mainlander girl who was semi open for gospel message and happily took a tract to read afterwards.
View previous Toowong (QLD) report (10 December 2024)
Toowong Team (QLD)
Meets 1:30-3pm every Tuesday afternoon at the Toowong train station on the 2nd floor and splits into two teams, one at the main entrance of Toowong Tower on Sherwood Road, another at the foot of the pedestrian bridge across Benson Street.
Contact Johnny Hsieh for more information.