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Christchurch (NZ) Team

It’s been a month of gospel chats with those that have been open - praise the Lord, may his mercy be magnified.  It’s been a month of gospel chats with those that have been resistant - praise the Lord, may his justice be magnified.  Yet, it may be those that are initially resistant that end up accepting the mercy of God; and likewise, it may be those that are initially open that end up rejecting the mercy of God.  Who knows?  God knows.  But either way, he will be glorified in him becoming more known through our feeble effort.

 

Often when people ask me how the street evangelism is going, I’ll tell them about a recent chat I’ve had where the person was resistant.  In my mind, I’m just excited that I had the opportunity to talk to them, and bring glory to God in the process.  But then the person I’m talking to will misinterpret that into thinking I need encouragement.

 

Now, don’t get me wrong, I do need encouragement, and I need the prayers of the saints, as we all do.  But, I’m content in my labour, without that allowing me to become slack in my labour.  I have the sufficient encouragement of scripture and the sound theology that comes from that.

 

Our job is to plough, sow and water.  It’s God’s job to bring the increase.  It’s hard work, and yet, the burden is light.

 

And when you are persistent, then the reward comes.  Yes, there is a lot of rejection and indifference from those walking past, but then someone will stop and you will have a gem of a conversation!  And so, to you: reader, I want to encourage you!  Don’t go soul winning once and give up!  Make a commitment to go regularly, and be persistent, and before you know it, years will have gone past and you will have memory after memory of God honouring gospel conversations where those you talked to may have been resistant or open, but you know God was glorified either way.

 

The opportunity for the gospel is unlimited.  And it’s been very encouraging for me to have a couple of the young men from my own local church joining me in outreach this month.  Rovin has been joining me on Sunday afternoons, and Toby joined me on a Saturday afternoon.  I’m loving having you guys join me!  And, if you are in Christchurch, I’d love to have you join me too.  Get in touch.

 

Here are a couple of highlight chats from the last month.

 

I’ve been working on being more disciplined in my personal devotions, prayer and Bible study.  One of my constant prayers is that, in my evangelism, I’ll be faithful to the word of God, and not compromising out of fear of man.  And yet, I pray that I’ll be gentle and respectful in my communication.  Now Society is fickle.  In one season, a particular issue (e.g., gender identity, or climate change) will be hot, but then the next, it’s not.  I’ve been through seasons where everyone will be asking / challenging me about homosexuality, but currently, it’s not an issue that comes up often.

 

But, two Fridays ago, I got into a gospel chat with four young people from Perth.  They were all in different spaces, and most of them were not taking the chat too seriously.  But, as the chat progressed, one lady did become serious.  She initially denied that God is real, but as she came to realise that it didn’t make sense that God was real, she challenged me: “well, I wouldn’t be welcome at church”.  “Why not?”, I responded innocently.  She shot back: “I’m gay”.  Faithful, yet gentle and respectful.  My initial response was to play neutral, “we are all sinners” - which is true, and yet, I knew that wasn’t faithful, and so, I had to be honest.  “Yeah, homosexuality is a sin”.  The air became icy.  It was uncomfortable.  But we must be faithful.  The conversation continued for a bit, but there was no real engagement at this stage, and so it was natural to let the chat wrap up.  As the four young people moved on, I offered follow up tracts, 2 took one, and to my surprise, the girl who claimed to be gay took one.  From her own mouth, her reason for saying God is not real is because she is gay, and yet, I made it clear that that didn’t make sense.  God is real, we all know it, yet we suppress that truth because we love our sin.  If we humbly face the truth of our sin, then there is mercy and forgiveness - because of Jesus.

 

Later on the same day, an older man went past.  “Excuse me sir, can I ask you a question?”, I say.  He was initially surprised by my question “What do you think happens after life?”, and yet he stayed to talk.  Yes, although most have their head in the sand, many want to talk about this - esp. with someone who is safe: that is, a stranger.

 

It turns out this man was Jewish.  As we chatted, he felt he trusted me enough to confess that he was grieving the loss of a close relative in Israel, he was a soldier who had been killed in Gaza.  He, like everyone else, is trying to process the evil and suffering and reconcile it all.  Glory to God!  I was giving the privilege of ministering to him.  Sadly, he was resistant to the gospel - it was like all his reasoning ability was turned off.  And yet, soil was ploughed, seeds were planted, questions were answered.  Although he was rejecting the gospel for now, nothing is wasted: God’s mercy or justice will be magnified.  As the conversation wrapped up, I was again able to express my sympathy over his loss. He teared up again in grief as he moved on.  God, have mercy!

 

On the following Sunday, I had a wonderful chat with a young lady, very resistant at the moment, and yet she was challenged by the reality of God’s law.  She moved on before I could share the gospel (although she did take a tract).

 

As I looked up, a lady was sitting on the bench across from me and watching intently.  She recognised me, but I didn’t recognise her.  I approached, and it wasn’t long before I remembered exactly who it was.  It was a young lady that I’ve been praying for.  I had a long chat with her, maybe a year ago(?).  She had opened up about some very painful and difficult situations at the time.  Things were no different now, and so I was able to continue the chat.  Amazingly, in spite of all the terrible things that had happened to her, she had no conception of her own wrong.  She seeked to justify all she did, to the point of absurdity.  She insisted on her goodness.  So I patiently laboured with her.  Although she is not outwardly open at this stage, I know there is something in her that is honest about the things we were talking about.  I gave her a gospel of John to read.  Pray that she does.  I hope to see her again and continue the conversation.  Or maybe you will be the one to continue that chat?  Come join us in the harvest!

 

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday July 30th 2025 from 1030-1200

Praise be to God, that the three Street Gospel Warriors , namely Johnny, Edwin and Hung, assembled again to team up to preach the gospel at the Sunnybank Bus stop.

It is a fine day for outreach though with mixed results. We faced many rejections or reluctant listeners, but in the meantime, God also led many willing souls to listen to the gospel with open mind and general receptiveness to the gospel message and the logic behind. For the former group, they were in majority people from mainland China or even including some Hong Kongers. For the more receptive groups, they includes people from Pakistan, local Aussie mature woman and young Aussie girl doing Uni study , and girl from Africa. May God Will be done through all these divine encounter and gospel sharing conversation.

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Toowong (QLD) Team

Battle Log of Operation 513 at Toowong on Tuesday July 29nd, 2025 from 1030-1200

Johnny joined me again at Toowong after his overseas trip back to Brisbane. It was a fine day to Johnny as compares to the hot and timid whether in Taipei. Both had many divine appointments sharing gospel to people of all Nations including New Zealander, Mainlander Shanghai girl, Hong-Konger cap, Malaysia Girl , James from the Gold Coast and Carolina from Portugal. All of them appeared open and receptive though all of them are non-believers.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday July 23rd 2025 from 1030-1200

Hopefully, today is the last day I will have to do street outreach solo by myself and Johnny is coming back next week. It was though a very pleasant outreach experience having quality conversations with three open and receptive non-believers: first Adrian a half Aussie and half Japanese young man, than an Australian born Pakistan young man, and then an elderly Vietnamese lady who speaks good English having migrated to Australia for 50 years. They all were impressed by the logic of the gospel message that as long as we are not perfect in our human characters/natures, we are all subject to God's wrath and judgment unless we accept Jesus as our Savor taking over the punishment as well as consequence of eternal death or disqualification to rejoin God's kingdom. With such needs clearly established, all of them will ponder deeply to respond to the calling of God, in His time.

There were some other shorter conversations as such the gospel message was not fully preached. There was only one rejection of Gospel by a Congo couples. Nevertheless, all of these encounters should be regarded as divine appointments serving God's purpose in His Will and Plan.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday July 23rd 2025 from 1030-1200

Hopefully, today is the last day I will have to do street outreach solo by myself and Johnny is coming back next week. It was though a very pleasant outreach experience having quality conversations with three open and receptive non-believers: first Adrian a half Aussie and half Japanese young man, than an Australian born Pakistan young man, and then an elderly Vietnamese lady who speaks good English having migrated to Australia for 50 years. They all were impressed by the logic of the gospel message that as long as we are not perfect in our human characters/natures, we are all subject to God's wrath and judgment unless we accept Jesus as our Savor taking over the punishment as well as consequence of eternal death or disqualification to rejoin God's kingdom. With such needs clearly established, all of them will ponder deeply to respond to the calling of God, in His time.

There were some other shorter conversations as such the gospel message was not fully preached. There was only one rejection of Gospel by a Congo couples. Nevertheless, all of these encounters should be regarded as divine appointments serving God's purpose in His Will and Plan.

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Toowong (QLD) Team

Battle Log of Operation 513 at Toowong on Tuesday July 22nd, 2025 from 1030-1200

Not sure if UQ finished the terms break. There were not many people flow but still managed to catch up with several persons including a longer chat with a Japanese girl, a couples from Taiwan and one from Mainland China. Others were just short chats interrupted by the arriving buses. Qin Hao was not available today due to academic appointment with Lecturer and Johnny is yet to come back by week end.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday July 16th 2025 from 1030-1200

Edwin teamed up with Hung today again to do street outreach. It was a fine day with warm sunshine. Yet the hearts of many of the people we approached were a bit cold and not receptive to the gospel. Nevertheless, there were still exceptions of several good chats experienced by Hung.

1) First with an senior man from Toowoomba who was just discharged from a day surgery at Sunnybank Private. It gave me to lead to stress life is vulnerable beyond our control that we must make the most important decision to straighten out the issue of our eternal being whether with God in heaven or apart from God in Hell.
2) Then I spotted a Filipino lady standing besides the dangerous spot at the bus stop where once a bus hit and smash on to a light post with its tail when leaving the bus stop. It again led to the issue of vulnerability of life that we must understand that all human will go to hell in doom day if our life is not perfect.
3) Then I caught up with another girl of Filipino dad and Aussie mum. She is very open and receptive to the gospel.
4) Last but not the least I spent the longest time with a Chinese Mainlander women who believes in fortune telling. She initially bound off to avoid me but the Spirit moved her to come back to me for a chat. I was led by the Spirit to spin around the conversation back to the gospel and showed her the only way to have eternal peace and hope is through Jesus.

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Toowong (QLD) Team

Battle Log of Operation 513 at Toowong on Tuesday July 8th, 2025 from 1030-1200

It was a chill winter morning. People flow at the Toowong bus stop was low. I anyhow managed to chat with a couple of Indian origin people including a Singaporean and Islander plus first an Indonesian Muslim girl. They were all open and receptive to the gospel message from a non-religious point of view admitting that all human are not perfect though in general good, but has already been disqualified by the rule of zero record requirement on Crime by secular government and on sin by the spiritual heavenly kingdom. The only one can save us isSon of God Jesus Christ who incarnated as a perfect human being but not of the fallen human race. He died for us all and has vowed to take our place to receive the eternal death punishment of our sin, yet he rose from death three day afterwards showing he has conquered the power of death and defeated Satan as such he has the capacity to forgive our sin by issuing a sin free certificate that in effect clean our record of sin to zero making us a new creation to be right with God right away. This is a logical inference that no one can rebuke. Pray that those who heard this version of gospel will be moved to accept Jesus as their Savior and Lord of life.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday July 9th 2025 from 1030-1200

It was a good day for street outreach especially with Edwin joining me again reaching almost every one who come to the Bus Stop. For me, it was a special day for reaching out to seversl elderly mainlander males and or with their couples. Surprisingly they were all open and receptive to the Gospel and enjoyed the free chatting with me and ending up with selfie with me. God is amazing in His salvation plan for individuals.

I also had another chat with a Christian lady who is an ABC from Adelaide to come for a Christian conferences. Surprisingly , she does nit have 100% assurance of salvation which was clarified with appreciation shown by a selfie photo.

1) Approached an elderly lady from Nanjing sharing gospel half way then her husband and friends came to join her thus chatting switched to be with the husband.

2) Caught up with Cecil who is an ABC of Malaysian Chinese background but is from Adelaide to Brisbane for conference. Lack of 100 Assurance of salvation but clarified easily

3) First with a Mainlander male of my same age but was waiting for friends to bring a lady for dating first appointment. Good rapport build and that man has history of going to church but not fully understand gospel, later his friends came also with Christianity and bible knowledge though still a non believer. Through conversation, clarified a lot of their misconception on salvation and knowledge about Mormon and JW. Appeared a big step closer to accept Jesus.

4) Follow up chat with Mr. Chang from Hebei , Boding waiting for wife who gone shopping. Edwin had approached him with a quick gospel sharing. But I was moved to continue with deeper chat which really appeared making good sense to him and later her wife, so again they were happy to take selfie with me.

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Toowong (QLD) Team

Battle Log of Operation 513 at Toowong on Tuesday July 8th, 2025 from 1030-1200

Today, I still did my Toowong street gospel outreach by my self instead of with Edwin who originally was free to come due to term break but suddenly became unavailable due to unexpected kid's medical appointment. I also had to cut it short because of my wife medical appointment in the noon time.

Nevertheless, I still had a couple of good and long enough chat with an Indian couples and a young man from Hebei. They were all open and receptive and shared the point I explained to them that even one record of crime will disqualify us for migration to Australia, likewise even just one sin record is enough to set us apart from God losing our heavenly citizenship. As long as we admit that we are not perfect, there is an established need for us to seek help from a perfect being which does not exist in the fallen human race. So it could only be Jesus Christ the son of God who came by virgin birth to incarnate as a perfect human but does not belong to the fallen human race. His mission as planned and prophesized by God as the offspring of woman will come to defeat Satan, by dying on the Cross to be the sacrificial lamb to take our place to receive the eternal death punishment of our sin. Thence the moment we accepted Him as our savior our sin is deemed punished and the record of our sin is reset to zero making us look as a sin free new creation to be right with God and be granted back our long lost heavenly citizenship. The three gospel targets all found no reason to repudiate this Gospel message or rationale to transform us back to a pure and sin free new creation to be right with God and become His children again.

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