Battle Log
Tuesday 24 December 2024
Posted 27 December 2024, 10:18 AM by Hung Kwan. Permalink
Battle Log of Operation 513 at Toowong on Tuesday Dec 24, 2024 from 1230-1400
Johnny decided to change the Toowong outreach time an hour earlier from 1230 to 1400. On Christmas eve, the people flow was more than normal and parking as well getting a bit more difficult. Nevertheless, Johnny and Hung still made it as the final rush outreach before Christmas Day. Obviously, both of us used the Merry Christmas gag to attract interest for a more relaxed and causal chat. People do not reject Christmas as a festivity and our aim is to drawn their attention back to Jesus as the reason for the season, and His incarnation birth has brought life transforming power to set us free from the bondage of sin and regain eternal life as well as heavenly identify as God's people/children through His sacrificial death on the cross. Recap below is the Battle log of Hung:
1) Sri Lankan in Woolworth uniform misled me as a migrated local worker, but he actually is an UQ student doing part time job. He is a Muslim but with open mind to listen to the full gospel.
2) Next was another UQ student from Indonesia also declared himself a Muslim. He typically thinks all religions are the same as long as we abided by the teaching of the religion to be a good person. So the tract and the gospel hopefully will give him a new dimension of thought about the grave impact and consequence of sin imposed on all human life disqualifying all of us to be reconnected with God unless our sin is cleansed and pardoned by Jesus.
3) Then I was led to approach a local Aussie girl who claimed to have chatted with me before. Surprisingly I could not find such battle log entry after going home, but I did not give up sharing or revising the full gospel with her again.
4) Next was a local Aussie handy man doing Christmas shopping. He was attracted to the Merry Christmas Gag and thanked for my illumination and explanation. He is non-believer but appeared receptive to the gospel message that all human though good but not perfect as such they all need salvation by Jesus as our savior and our Lord of Life.
5) Then I connected with an ABC with parents from Hong Kong and he could speak reasonably good Cantonese, and is now a High School teacher. He also is non-believer but appeared open and receptive to the gospel message.
6) Then I came across a young man from Wuhan武漢, he appeared comparatively open than most of the Maninder and was willing to chat even religious issues. He had been baptized by the saga of pandemic leading to a long complete lock down of the city as such he experienced the dark side of human sin in flesh. His heart has been softened for the gospel message.
7) Olive from a small town in the Southern part of UK and near London. He is non Christian but hold and open mind to Christianity and he felt more clear about the need for Jesus after the gospel sharing.
View previous Toowong (QLD) report (17 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.