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To save you having to wait, let me tell you now that at the end we went home rejoicing! Think about it. What could be a better way to serve Him than asking for grace to glorify Him as we thankfully obey Him and then experiencing that grace as we tell forth His great good news? However, we have limits and we ask for prayer for Lee-Anne as she seeks healing for a pain. 

     Our 2 ladies had 2 highlights to share with us:

        - about 8 young adults heard God's standard of righteousness per the 10 commandments. They were able to see how desperately they needed the Lord Jesus alone "to save them from their sins" (- Mt. 1:21 part of the revelation dealing with Jesus miraculous conception)...

          - S. & S., a young couple, ended up agreeing that  this was God's appointed rendezvous. She received a Bible and what a wonderful Christmas present if they receive Jesus, Jn. 1:12,13 (A. W. Pink comments that receiveas used here has the connotation of saving faith). 

Fynn was treated to taking 2 of his former school acquaintances, L. & S., through the flip chart. They had heard the gospel previously from Fynn, but 'shelved' it. How blessed they were to hear it again - while they still have time to respond - favorably, we pray.

  As we were preparing to close in prayer, a man and 2 teenaged daughters started looking at the flip chart by themselves. Fynn returned and escorted them through. At the presentation of the consequence of their sin was hell unless... the man said it was a nice story as they walked away." Where can I flee from Thy Spirit "

In general, many received tracts and most were 'extra' polite.

Thank you Lord for equipping us and using us for Your glory and we humbly ask that you would continue to build Your church against which the gates of Hades cannot prevail - as You have promised- You cannot lie!

 

 

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On Saturday, as usual we gathered at the Starbucks to pray and share the words to get ready with evangelism. This week we focused on handing out Christmas gospel tracts as we had many of them left. 

But by God’s grace we had quite a few conversations that were interesting and God glorifying. I met four teenagers who were quite rough in their speech and did not concentrate well to the message but they found the gospel tract interesting. However, as conversation started, one teenager was very much engaged in conversation when other three were not. It seems she listened to every words that was shared very carefully and answer the questions honestly and appropriately, she even helped me to calm the other guy as he was disturbing the conversation and getting angry at me, she could see the need of our saviour Jesus Christ after the law of God was displayed. Please pray for all the teenagers so that they may repent and put their trust in Jesus Christ.  

One middle aged Muslim man showed interest in MERRY CHRISTMAS gospel tract so I had privilege to share the gospel with him. He was accusing Christianity’s legitimacy with very common objection including ‘bible being changed overtime’ & ‘Jesus not being God’. He was willing to listen to my answer for his objections and finally the conversation led to the main point of the gospel. He took the whole conversation seriously and it seemed like he was quite convinced on the point that if God is truly God of love and justice how can GOD reconcile those two character in pardoning the sinners without someone like 'Jesus Christ’. Please pray for him as you read the report. 

From Canaan:- 

I spoke to a Seik (I think that's how it's spelled) man who didn't know the Gospel or much of Christ at all. He didn't know of the virgin birth or much at all of Jesus dying on the cross. He believed in being good to go to heaven and that God would judge everybody when we die. As we spoke about sin and our own guilt before God he seemed to be thinking quite a bit on it and expressed that he didn't think he could ever stop certain sins and seemed concerned because he knows he will face God one day.

I shared the Gospel of grace and he was grateful to hear of grace instead of works salvation. We ended our conversation as his lunch break was over. Please keep him in prayer. SOLI DEO GLORIA ! 

              

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Christchurch (NZ) Team

A wonderful outreach to Riccarton, Tuesday afternoon.  Roger and I - as usual.  It was windy and cold, but we missed some rain either side of the outreach - thank you Lord!

Roger had a gospel conversation started before he had barely had time to finish setting up his flip chart.  It was a long chat, but a goodie.  He was clicking his heels afterwards!

I had four interesting gospel conversations through the outreach.  I was pacing myself again, but God was faithful and brought along these people who were very keen to chat.

The first was with a young man from Scotland.  He seemed pretty resistant to the idea that God exists, but he was curious about the flip chart, and so I took him through the law and the gospel.  It turns out that the guy he works for is a Christian, and had even had him along to a church event.  This guy was obviously processing the important questions of life before he even came to me.  He left with the tract: “How we know that God exists and why it matters”.

I then had two separate conversations with Catholics.  Both thought they were good people and going to heaven, but the law showed them how good they needed to be - before I showed them the way to heaven: faith in Jesus’ sacrifice for their sin.  With one of them, it was fascinating watching the guy try to avoid the difficult question: “if you were to die today, and be judged by God, by that standard, would you be innocent or guilty?”  Each time I would just listen to his answer, and then repeat the question.  On the third time, he admitted he would be guilty.

The last conversation was with a young man on his way to work.  I didn’t need to convince him to try the good person test, he wanted to do it.  It’s like he knew what it was about and wanted to talk.  And he seemed very open.  He said there would be nothing stopping him from trusting in Jesus' sacrifice to be saved - even after he considered the cost.  So I challenged him to do so, to start reading his Bible, and to get in touch to get connected with a local church.

Wednesday was four seasons, but it didn’t stop the outreach in the city from proceeding.  I ended up parking myself at the southern entrance to Cathedral Square (without my flip chart - too windy).  In spite of the weather, I had a number of good conversations.

The first was with a young, high school aged, couple.  They were not interested in the gospel.  They clearly loved their sin too much.  But they stayed to engage, and they heard the law and the gospel.  He sobered up a little bit, as he realised the logic of what we were discussing - but the cost was way too high (for now anyway).

I then engaged in a difficult conversation with a guy, who knew he was a sinner, had tried to get involved with a church, but didn’t see any change in his life and gave it up.  I tried to share the gospel with him, but he seemed hardened.  But he accepted an “After Life” tract, and I hope it does a better job of explaining than I did.  I hope to see him again to follow up.

The last conversation was with two young Indian guys.  One seemed quite sobered by hearing the law and understood the gospel.  The other understood too, but clearly rejected it - again, after counting the cost.

Tonight (at midnight) the new Star Wars movie will be showing.  Two of us are going to try running an outreach in the two hours leading up to it outside a movie theater.  We have special tracts for this.  God willing many, who wouldn’t have otherwise, will hear the gospel.  I'll write about it in my next log entry.
 

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On Tuesday in Melbourne city, three of us gathered to preach the gospel in this Christmas season. The weather was lovely and pleasant. It was joy to have my friend Joshua as a team who goes to reformed theological college with me.  

By God’s grace we had many good conversations. We met a person called Terun who was from hindu religion background but interestingly he told me “my family is hindu but follow Christianity but not me” so he was quite open to the chat about the gospel. Overall, he was polite and engaged in conversation really well. Please pray for him so that he may repent and put his trust in Jesus Christ. 

Kevin was a interesting person who was muslim but he was so open about the gospel although he shared that according to Quran good deeds will save him. When gospel was shared he saw the need for the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ and he said “yeah that really makes sense”. We also share that believing in Jesus Christ is not a ‘shirk’ (which is sin of idolatry or polytheism, unforgivable sin in Islam. We recently learned from Dr James White it is good to mention about this when evangelising to muslims) as Jesus is GOD himself, truly God and truly man and shared some bible verses to support that. He did not give definite answer about believing in Jesus Christ but he seemed very challenged with whole conversation. Please pray for Kevin.

Jay was the last person that I have talked to, He told me that he is suffering from Schizophrenia and many other mental issues. He was quite aggressive, loud and unsettled in behaviour I was little bit scared and afraid but God has given me a beautiful chance to share the gospel with him. He said he believe that we are energy and when we die we will become energy and meet each other he was very very firm with his idea of being energy but when I did shared the gospel with him, Jay said “I am surprised bro that you are still standing here and talking to me like this but I like how you stand firm in what you believe bro” and he showed me his ‘anti-cross’ Tatto on his face to show me that I am talking to a wrong person. As chat went on it seems like he was getting more agitated and made some threatening comment so I summarised the gospel and left. Please Please pray for Jay so that he may repent and put his trust in Jesus Christ 

From Huy Do : 

On the 17th of December, one eccounter was wrought with a person by the name of Sam, he is a Muslim, although not very devout, he has an idea of God which makes it easier for the conversation to be brought about. The law was gone over with him and he was convicted, he admitted to lying and stealing and lusting and premarital relationships and got quite angry. This reminded me of a quote from Paul Washer, that “no one has been able to bare the preaching of the Gospel. They will either turn against it with a fierceness of an animal or they will be converted.” Which brings up the next point, that while I explained the purpose of the law, was to expose his own sinfulness and the wrath of God due upon Him, he became a little more understanding, although angrily at that. But when I shared with him the Gospel, the cross that satisfied the wrath of God, he was very resistant to the message, although he had been angry at his sinfulness and overwhelmed at the wrath of God, yet the good news that should comfort him, he denied, this proves John 3:19-20. Either way, the Gospel was preached, please pray that God will change Sam’s heart and that the Cross will be preached in an uncompromising way as Luther put “preach the cross so that either they end up  hating sin or hating you”.

Soli Deo Gloria !!​

       

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Toowong (QLD) Team

Battle Log for Toowong Village : Tuesday December 17, 2019 1330-1500.

God vindicated our decision to continue serving at this chosen mission spot inspired by God despite the UQ school terms is over. Today three faithful members namely Col, Johnny who just came back from overseas trip and Hung turned up to serve. God was gracious enough to assign us ample divine encounter Kairos moments to share the Gospel. Johnny had at least four to five long chats with four groups of Chinese UQ students and one with a local Aussie boy. As for me, I got 9 chats of varying length with five Chinese, 3 Aussie and 1 Singaporean as recap below: -

1) My first gospel targets is a family of three from SGP by the name of Tsai, the parents came to visit their daughter and walking back to the daughter's apartment after finishing shopping. I Walked with the father for a distance long enough to share the gospel in a nutshell.

2) Franky is an UQ student from mainland China. He was in a hurry but I still managed to share him the gospel in a nutshell.

3) An English lady was greeted by me with the Merry Christmas card. She was given the explanation of the real meaning of "Merry" being the almighty power of God bestowed on us the sinners to be pardoned through the atoning grace of Jesus.

4) Kay is an UQ postgraduate from Xian, China. She stayed to do her summer study work and was on her way to meet a friend at a nearby mansion. She let me walked her all the way and listened to my sharing of full Gospel. She acknowledge Christianity has already become a thriving religion in China irrespective of persecution. Pray that God will get her over the line to receive salvation here in Brisbane.

5) Peter an UQ student from Beijing China, He got a Merry Christmas card from Col and I supplemented him with a full Good Person Tract. I walked him to the restaurant and gained enough time to share him the full Gospel which he appreciated and promised to ponder.

6) Joe , the Atheist I meet every Tuesday. I sang him the carol "God rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" to attract him with the question why Christmas alone is described as merry while all else are described as HAPPY. Successfully, he was given to know that Merry was an old English word denoting divine power given by God to us through the birth of Jesus giving us the Free Gift of Eternal Life up for us to grab by repentance and accepting Jesus as our personal Savior and Lord of our Life. Surprisingly, Joe found this factual and accepted this old meaning of "Merry' has given Christianity the right perspective amongst all other religions.

7) An UQ student admitting she is a Communist party member as such she could not accept my tract. But it shows that there is strategic prospective to one day used by God to reach out to these "Least Reached People Group"

8) Jenny was an English lady who was elegant and polite
enough to take my merry Christmas card and found interest to learn from me the real biblical meaning of the word Merry.

9) A old Chinese man claimed to be christian but was too arrogant to let me clarify his faith.

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On Saturday, we gathered at the Starbucks as always. We shared on 1 Corinthians 15:1-11 and 2 Corinthians 5:14-15 with Charles Spurgeon’s book The Soul Winner. As a team, we took time to savour the gospel first and thank God for His death and resurrection by reading the scripture and praying and we were all ready to share the gospel with right motives. 

We had many great conversations but here are few highlight conversations. 

The very first conversation we had was with Muslim couple (Nowadays, it seems like we meet Muslims quite often, praise God !). They were very polite, listened well and answered the questions with honesty, we actually did not know they were Muslims in the beginning as they did not openly told us. The lady respectfully answered us that she still thinks that the righteous acts will still cover her wrong doings that she has done and God is merciful to forgive. But we answered her that God cannot contradict Himself (It seemed like she agreed with this truth as a Muslim too), if God is just God could not just forgive and violate one of his main attribute ‘justice’ that is why the cross of Jesus Christ is so crucial for God to stay Just and Loving at the same time. Furthermore, we mentioned that if we truly believe in the death and resurrection the forgiveness, eternal life and reconciliation with God is guaranteed so we don’t have to live in this ‘uncertainty’ of ‘will i make it to heaven?’. Please pray for this Muslim couple whom we had conversation. 

We encountered Chinese student, she spoke limited english so we were worried about the language barrier but she understood the questions and engaged into conversation really well. ‘Are you a good person?’ questions were perfect for her as she found it really interesting. When we asked her “Have you ever hated someone?” she said “yes” and we told her bible says “hatred towards someone in heart is same as committing murder in the bible” and to our surprise she said “Yes I agree, I wanted to kill my ex-boyfriend” and she laughed but the ten commandment questions really opened up the conversation. We shared the gospel and ask her to repent and believe in Jesus Christ, she kind of said “yes” but without certainty so we asked her to think about this good news during this Christmas season as Christmas is about this news and she promised to do so. Please pray for her so that she can truly believe in Jesus Christ be saved. 

From Huy Do:

two important discussions were wrought that took a very long time. The first one was with a lady named “Gem”, who had grown up Italian Roman Catholic, but had since left the faith, she is now a “new age” person. During the conversation she was kindly confronted with the reality of man’s sins and the ineffectiveness of most religions to deal with this, on this she agreed on the unimaginable legalistic burdens that the world religion impose upon its followers. But she was surprised at the exclusivity of the Gospel, how it contradicts what she had learned in Roman Catholicism. That she does not have to, nor is she able to obey the perfect laws of God in order to attain for herself the necessary legal merits to inherit eternal life, but that God had already provided the perfect legal merit for her to do so, Jesus Christ. By the end, she was quite angry and convicted, may the Lord change her heart. The second conversation was with a man named Wayland, he states that he is an agnostic, afterwards, a lengthy intellectual discussion took place, by the end, the Gospel was preached, he was not convicted but still do pray that God would do so with his heart.

And Finally, this week we had 3 new people who joined us ! Please pray for them as you can see in the photos !

                                                    

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Christchurch (NZ) Team

Continuing from my last log entry, after the gospel + abortion outreach on Friday morning, three of us went to open air preach in Cathedral Square at lunch time.

Marty preached first and attracted an early heckler who was ignored.  But soon after, an old lady walked through and stopped to listen to the gospel.  She was bold, and decided to go to the preachers defense!  She took on the heckler (see photo) who soon left!  Marty was left to preach in peace.  :)

In the afternoon, another team of three were in Cashel Mall (Roger instead of Marty).  I had a stand out conversation with a young man who was with his parents (I suppose) - he was keen to try the flip chart, but his parents couldn’t stop.  The mum just smiled, and said for me to take him through it…  It turns out he had a church background, but he wasn’t right with God.  He became very uncomfortable when we were talking about hell (I was too when I was his age before I was saved).  And so this conversation was a wake up call for him.  And then he revealed that he was recovering from cancer!  No wonder his Mum wanted him to talk to me - his parents are no doubt praying for his salvation.  He understood the gospel.

I was exhausted and on my own for the Friday evening outreach, but God helped me through and I ended up having wonderful gospel opportunities, three in particular: two of which were follow ups.

One was with a young man struggling with addiction.  I was glad to hear he had been in rehab, but then sad to hear that he had just left.  He desperately needs the gospel and so I did my best to continue to share it with him.  I will continue to pray for him.

The last was with two catholic high school students who I shared the gospel with about four months ago.  It was a long follow up, where I continued to reinforce the gospel message they had heard.  They have contact cards for my church.

On Sunday a team of four were at the corner of Cashel & Colombo for a couple of hours.  But before I arrived, just after leaving my car, I had a wonderful opportunity to share the gospel with 3 guys.  They all got my checking question (so what do you have to do to go to heaven?) correct on the first try.  They each said part of the answer: “trust”, “Jesus”, “paid the fine for my sin” - I was impressed.

After the outreach had started, I had a wonderful conversation with two young ladies.  It turns out one of them was getting baptised tonight!  And she had a good understanding of the gospel, and helped me share it with her friend, who isn’t a Christian but didn’t want to go to hell.  She understood the gospel and took a follow up “After Life” tract.  She is going to church tonight to witness her friends baptism.  Oh that she understands and accepts the gospel message too!

Later I was able to catch up with yet another old workmate - his wife took tracts.  And then a conversation with a German tourist who appreciated the conversation and “found it really interesting”.

Well it’s been a really long week (for some reason) - really looking forward to a rest tomorrow!  Thank you Jesus :)
 

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Christchurch (NZ) Team

As per usual, the Christchurch (NZ) team were at the bus stops on Thursday: Eastgate then Northlands.

It was a difficult start with an older man dumbfounded that anyone would believe in God.  He was hostile.  And he denied that Jesus existed; but wouldn’t engage intellectually claiming I didn’t have the academic credentials!  Very arrogant.  We disengaged and he went to sit in the bus shelter.  About five minutes later, I had the pleasure of circling back to offer tracts to the others sitting in the shelter.  The lady sitting right next to Mr. Arrogant was very pleasant and appreciative of receiving the good news.

I wasn’t deterred and spent four hours at Eastgate having many gospel conversations.  I was very encouraged to have a follow up with a guy who had talked to one of the team about four months prior.

At Northlands, two follow ups also stand out.

The first was with a young man who seemed to be seriously contemplating the gospel.  He had questions about: what church services were like, how we talked to God, and how God spoke to us.  I encouraged him to start reading his Bible and invited him to church - but I made it clear that more important than that, he needed to consider the cost of following Jesus, and to place his trust in His sacrifice before it’s too late.

The second was with another young man who was very keen to talk.  He went through the law with me, and then I asked him if he knew anyone who was perfect and willing to pay his fine.  His face lit up and he said: “Jesus died on the cross to take away our sins” (or something like that).  I was surprised how perceptive he was and figured he had a Christian background, but it turns out that Andy had shared the gospel with him the week prior!  He had really good questions and he really enjoyed the “crossing the road” and “fireman” analogies - they really seemed to help his understanding of the gospel, faith and repentance.  He accepted a Bible and seemed really keen to start reading it.  Praise God.

Friday saw the usual four outreaches: gospel + abortion outreach in the morning, open air preaching in Cathedral Square at lunch time, Cashel Mall in the afternoon, and then the Evening outreach in the city.

The gospel + abortion outreach was very eventful.  There was a team of four.

I had a lady (and her husband, I presume) approach me.  She seemed upset, and calmly explained that she needed to vent.  I held my breath, expecting the worst - when she surprised me.  She started sharing about her grief of a loved one who was very sick in hospital - she simply needed to talk to someone to help process what she was experiencing.  I told her there was hope for eternal life, and she accepted a tract.  But, sadly, she didn’t stay to talk further.  May she read and understand the tract and get in touch.

But I was able to share the law and the gospel with another young man later on.

And Andy had a wonderful long conversation with a young man - he was sitting on the wall outside the hospital - and so Andy approached him.  After some time, he went into the hospital, but then he came back out and continued the conversation with Andy for a long time.  He accepted a Bible.

To finish off, we had some serious opposition.  A guy with a lady pushing a pram, came right up to me and wanted to know what we were doing - I was up front with him and he became very angry and mocking.  In the meantime, Sonya had started talking with the lady, and was offering her a tract, when the man grabbed it and screwed it up and threw it on the ground.  Everytime one of the guys on the team tried to engage with him, he became angrier.  He wasn’t being rational.  He came over to Andy and tried to take his tracts - which Andy politely refused him from doing.  He then had a go at Marty, swiping his sign out of his hands.  It was at this point that I told everyone to ignore him and stop responding - to allow him to vent and leave.  Which he did thankfully.  We were all safe and fine.  But it was a reminder of the strong feelings the issue of abortion and the reality of God stirs up.  This is why we are there!  It is encouraging to know we are reaching people and being effective.  Please continue to pray for the Christchurch (NZ) team as we bring the hope of the gospel to the issue of abortion outside the hospital.  All glory to God.

I will share about the other three outreaches in my next log entry (tomorrow).
 

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The weather was great once again !, It is truly God’s grace that the weather has been so good during outreach hours. There were lots of people despite being Tuesday evening. three of us gathered and shared the word and prayed for the evangelism. 

As it is Christmas season, we took the advantage of it by asking “what do you think about Christmas?” and also It gave us opportunity to easily start the conversation naturally.

One of the highlight was the conversation that I had with very devoted Muslim named Saat, he was about 25 years old and he was ready with answers and questions to prove that Jesus is not GOD and Jesus did not actually died on the cross by sighting Quran so I spent around 45 minutes with him where Jesus himself claimed that He was God and why the death on the cross and resurrection is so crucial for our forgiveness and justification and also for God to stay just and loving at the same time. Saat did listened carefully and read the bible verses that were sighted to him but at last he said "bible is not in its original language so it cannot be trusted” It seemed like Saat really dislike the idea of God being man becoming sacrifice and that it is not our righteous act but it is God’s grace that saves us so that God receive all the credit. It was clear that Saat was quite frustrated and at times raised his voice but he promised to think about it. So please pray for Saat. 

Finally, I met a lady called Mary, when I opened up the conversation she kept on mentioning “I am not the right person to talk to” but when her eternity was questioned she engaged into conversation. Gospel was shared and she said that she would think about it. So please pray for Mary as well.

From Huy Do who joined the evangelism:- 

It is nearing Christmas, people reacted better than expected, Christmas season provides a great opportunity to talk about why it is that Jesus was born and why was that birth so significant. One great highlight of evangelism was a conversation with a young student from Singapore by the name of Joseph. He was asked the question of “what makes it so significant about a man born in a manger that we have to celebrate His birth 2000 years later?”. The question, along with his answer provides a wonderful opportunity to share with him the Gospel. He was convicted of his sins and was provided with a way out of his sins, with salvation through the Gospel, please pray that God would change his heart.

Soli Deo Gloria ! who sustains us and give sufficient grace everyday to glorify and enjoy Him by preaching the gospel

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Christchurch (NZ) Team

I found the need to pace myself on Tuesday (Riccarton) and Wednesday (Cashel Mall & Cathedral Square) - only having the energy to let people come to me, rather than being as active in getting gospel conversations started.  So I was relying heavily on my flip chart and tracts.  But God was faithful in bringing people along who were keen to talk.  It was great having Roger with me on Tuesday, as per usual.

Two great conversations on the Tuesday.

The first was with a young man on his gap year away from home: the south of the USA.  He had a disdain for Christianity, which he grew up with a form of.  Yet he was “open”.  He didn’t appreciate the basic apologetics I used explaining why there must be an afterlife - it was too simple - and life is full of grey (or so the excuse goes).  But I took him through the law and the gospel as usual.  I was also able to mix in some of my testimony which had similarities to his life.

The second was with three kids from Christchurch Boys High School.  They all heard the law and the gospel too, and then we circled back to discuss the reality of God's existence - two of which were very resistant to.

I’m trusting that the gospel is the power of God for salvation in spite of the resistance encountered in these conversations.

The first outreach on Wednesday was in Cashel Mall.  There were lots of people out and about, and there was even a brass band playing Christmas carols further down the mall - very pleasant.

I had a wonderful gospel conversation with a young kiwi guy sandwiched between two conversations with guys from India.  The first Indian guy just couldn’t grasp that salvation was a gift, and kept reverting back to thinking he had to be a good person to go to heaven.  In contrast the second Indian guy understood grace clearly from the get go.

But the conversation with the kiwi guy was special.  He had a catholic background and was confident he would be going to heaven until he tried the good person test.  I could tell he was quite impacted by the law, and it was a joy to share the good news with him.  For some reason I told him I had been to Pakistan to watch cricket, and this accelerated his interest, as he is a budding cricket player and had recently been in Sri Lanka for cricket.  It turns out that, not only had he been in Christchurch when the Mosque shootings occurred, but he was in Colombo when the church was bombed!  He explained how he had to move south and go into lock down for three weeks!  He has been close to the stench (figuratively) of death, and now he has heard the hope of eternal life, only found in Jesus.  I hope to see him in the Black Caps one day - more importantly, I hope to see him in heaven one day too.

The Cashel Mall outreach ended with a difficult conversation with a very drunk homeless guy.  In the end, I was keen for him to move on - but he took tracts.  I hope he reads them when he is sober.  And I hope to see him again soon to follow up with him.

After lunch, I was in Cathedral Square.  I set up my flip chart, but I noticed a (homeless) guy I’ve talked to multiple times before sitting in the distance - so I went over to follow up.  I’m glad I did, because not only did I have an opportunity to get to know him better, but he had multiple sets of friends come past and I had opportunities to share the gospel with all of them (some of them pictured walking away after the last conversation).  And the original guy took keen interest every time I did.  I pretty much spent the whole two hours with these various groups of people - except at one time where two girls were working their way through the flip chart on their own, before I headed over to explain it to them (they seemed quite impacted).  One of the groups were also friends with a whole other group of people I regularly have gospel opportunities with.  I’m really starting to get to know certain people out on the streets of Christchurch.  Plenty of fuel for my prayer time.  I wish I could convert all these people - but that is out of my hands.  All I can do is share the gospel, pray, and continue to be friendly and meet them where they are at.  Salvation is of the Lord.
 

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