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Toowong (QLD) Team

Battle Log of Operation 513 at Toowong on Tuesday April 9th, 2024 from 1300-1500

It was a cozy autumn afternoon with the sun shining lazily without the usual heat. We waited for a while to let the long queue be dissolved by the quick arriving bus. It was a normal day that our outreach face rejections but still many other targets elected by God had been approached with mixed result. We simply humble ourself to do His work.

1) I was led to approach Two Pakistanis of bad English. One of them actually came for the TESOL study while his friend simply cannot speak English at all. But I still managed to chat with the one who speaks limited English and explained the gospel to him with the help of the tract and cover picture of Jesus' crucifixion. I trusted that God still used this divine encounter to shed light on their lives.

2) Caroline is a girl from Columbia who has no religion following despite her country is majority a Catholic one. She nevertheless appeared quite receptive to the gospel message that we are all good but imperfect persons as such a sinner in God's eyes. Thus, we all need a Savior to save us from eternal death.

3) Hannah is from Brazil who has already graduated and is staying here for work. He claimed himself non-religious. He is open mind to believe there is a God but don’t think he needs to affiliate with any particular god possibly he thinks he is a good enough person. So, my gospel presentation really gave him a big alarm shock that he cannot claimed himself righteous because of his own good deeds but must trust and rely on Jesus to take his place to receive the eternal death punishment of sins. He was happy to take a selfie with me to show his appreciation.

4) Then I was led to approach Deed a young lady from UK and is in here 2nd year study. Again, she was very sincere and humble to listen to the gospel and show great receptiveness to accept Jesus as her Savior.

5) Then I caught up last with a girl form Tianjin, China She is studying business but claimed she heard the gospel before in Singapore and did not think she need to listen one more time. I switched to share my own testimony to show how I was once like her dismissing the need of salvation by Jesus

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Christchurch (NZ) Team

I love climate change marches.  Or any kind of gathering that brings people passionate about some form of justice.  Because I always end up getting to talk to a lot of young, intelligent, people about Jesus - who makes so much sense!

 

It was no different on Friday, with a climate change march just getting started as I arrived at the bridge of remembrance.  It was interesting profiling all the people there (gay rights, palestinian rights, animal rights) and seeing a common thread: hurt people with no answers, who need to hear the answer: Jesus.

 

Anyway, after the march, young people would be moving through the city in little groups, and I could hand out tracts, or get into gospel conversations with them.

 

There was one young man, in his last year in high school.  We started by talking about the march and what the ultimate goal / solution of the march was.  I was then able to gently swing the conversations to deeper things.  Interestingly, his parents went to a good local church, but he was at a crossroads with Christianity.  He reminded me of me at his age.  I wanted to save him some pain, and so I pleaded with him about Christ.  But I could tell he wasn’t interested.  He was being polite in continuing the conversation, and so I respected that and wrapped it up.

 

By this stage, Roger had engaged his friends, who didn’t want to engage with me.  Rogers' chat seemed to be going well, so the kid I talked to went down a bit to wait for them patiently.  That was good, but sad that he was rejecting Christ himself at the moment.

 

I ended up finishing up the outreach in an unusual way.  There are usually Jehovah’s Witnesses about, and I normally leave them to themselves, but today I decided to approach them.  Usually when I approach people in cults, I take a non standard approach, them being prepared for a frontal assault.  And today was no different.  I started by asking them about another cult that is rampant in Christchurch at the moment: World Mission Society Church of God (the mother god cult).  I was curious on how 1 cult deals with another cult.  Interestingly, they didn’t know much about it.  But we ended up getting into a friendly conversation and getting to know each other better.  We talked about things we believed, without ever directly attacking each other.  I guess it could be considered a ‘waste of time’, as I never got to work on sharing the law or the gospel with them.  But at least I know them better as people - I know their names.  God willing that will lead to more conversation opportunities in the future - if not with me, with another Christian who will be able to bring truth and clarity to them.

 

On Sunday, I had Joseph and Elijah - from my own church - join me for the afternoon outreach.  They are familiar with the flip chart, so I decided to bring that with me for this outreach.  We prayed, and then set it up on the corner of Cashel and Colombo.

 

The first 15 minutes of the outreach was slow.  No takers.  I was concerned that my boast about an outreach always ending with at least one meaningful conversation would fall flat!  Yet, God was faithful, 2 young ladies who had gone past earlier, came back and were keen to engage.  It was a set up: they were there for a fight.  It became clear early that climate change was something they were passionate about.  But I was able to swing the conversation away from that and to the question of how we know what is right and wrong.  That led to the Building / Builder analogy.  They fought hard, but I didn’t back down, just answering their objections and sticking to my main point: there must be a universe maker.  It was interesting to watch the main opponent eventually concede the point (without actually saying so), I was then able to move into the law and get to the gospel.  It was a great chat, but sadly they had to go.

 

From here the outreach was busy.  If we weren’t in a conversation, sharing the gospel, I was debriefing and training with Joseph and Elijah.

 

Next we had another 2 girls there, this time not to attach, but just curious.  Sadly, they weren’t really engaging, so I touched on the law and the gospel before giving them tracts.

 

There was a young Catholic guy, who was also in it to fight.  That was a great chat, as we got to wrestle with the tension of repentance (that our deeds don’t save us, but deeds will follow our salvation).

 

There was a young couple who didn’t believe in God, but when they heard the building / builder analogy, he said, ‘that makes sense’, and they opened up to hear the law and the gospel.

 

These chats would often draw others to find out what was happening.  And tracts were able to be distributed.

 

God truly answered our prayers.  I was encouraged, because I so want Joseph and Elijah to have a good experience and be willing to come again and to grow in their ability to share Christ, for God’s glory alone.

 

We ended the outreach with a chat with one of my regulars.  Sadly, he knows about Christian things, but is clearly trusting in his works for salvation and now willing to reason - just wanting to joke around instead.

 

No outreaches on Tuesday or Saturday.  I decided to work online instead, and regather my strength.  God willing I’ll be able to do a full week of street outreach next week.

 

Please keep the team in prayer.  Soli Deo Gloria!!

 

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday April 3rd, 2024 from 1300-1500

It was two hours of journey of grace today, as the street outreach time was overlapped with the spinal surgery of Ling which started a bit late roughly towards 1300 and finished by 1433. In between, my prayer networks were fully mobilized to pray for Ling. God even summoned a student nurse doing her placement at the Brisbane Private Hospital to meet me at the Sunny bank bus stop. She was dropped off by friend at the bus stop waiting for connection to CBD. And at this time, Ah Lee and Billy turned up again so Ah Lee led the four of us including the student nurse Esther that I had just met into prayer. Then when we were about to finish the street outreach, good news from the hospital came telling us the operation is finished and all went well. So, it was a great experience of mobilizing all saints to pray for Ling leading to the smooth completion of the operations, Need continuous prayers for recovery and rehab. As for the street outreach, God also connected a couple of people I had a conversation 2 weeks Patrice the Columbian and Niroshan the Sri Lankan even 3 years ago. But through their feedback, our ministry has been under constant surveillance as such we really have been used by God as His witnesses to reflect commitment loyalty and perseverance.

1) Patrice the Columbian girl that I met 2 weeks ago reaffirmed her assurance of salvation.

2) Bianca an aborigine from Ipswich who claimed to be a Christian but only has 90 % assurance of salvation but 10 % uncertainty as she still could not get rid of smoking cigarette. I clarified that we are all saved by grace through faith and because of only the work of Jesus that we are firmly saved and be given back our Heavenly Citizenship. She was all happy and thankful for this clarification and teaching

3) Rejected by a Chinese

4) A couples from Shanghai who have already been migrated to Australia they were friendly and had courtesy to listen to the gospel Yet at the end they did not take a tract.

5) Esther a student nurse doing placement at Brisbane Private Hospital of Catholic background. God just sent her to sit beside me and brought Lee and Billy together we formed a on the spot prayer groups for the operations of Ling at that time was still undergoing at Brisbane Private Hospital.

6) Billy and lee meeting them in just 3 weeks’ time. As said Lee organize a prayer group on the spot with Esther invited to join us.

7) Next was a Mainlander of UQ who was not interested but still had a causal chat investing for next chance.

8 ) Niroshan Sri Lankan Carindale Shopping Mall manager who admitted we chatted 3 years ago and since then he has been watching over me as such any one can become and object of surveillance. Niroshan is religious but did not want to committed to any religion.

9) Then came a Sudan woann living in Australia for 20 years. No time to share the gospel but successfully handed out a tract.

10) Lastly, a girl by the name of Chang from Sichuan have a long chat with me after wondering around for an hour. She studied speech therapist that led our conversation to the volunteer work of ICC in China and finally hitting the note in sharing Jesus through the counselling class. .

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Toowong (QLD) Team

Battle Log of Operation 513 at Toowong on Tuesday April 2nd, 2024 from 1300-1500

It was by grace that I could still manage to deliver my committed duty of street gospel outreach at Toowong today, as God let the pre-operation procedure of my wife Ling be long enough to leave a break between the dropping off and picking up time from the hospital. So, we started normally at 1330 but had to finish earlier at 1430 to rush to hospital to pick up my wife. The sun was a bit scorching hot, but we nevertheless still managed to make many conversations.

1) First I was instead invited by Yvone Chan of CCCB St Lucia Ryans congregation. She thanks God for our steadfastness to serve Him as she never fails to find us there at the bus stop week in week out.

2) Then I caught up with an Aussie middle age gentleman who is non-religious, however, he had little disagreement to the gospel message and admitted every one need Jesus.

3) Shih a Fijian Indian person who claims he has studied all religions out of his only personal interest. I stressed to him what made Christianity stand out from the rest is the way it addresses sin and the wrath of God against sin.

4) Then I had a long chat with Jun?from Wenzhou he is non-religious materialism . He does not believe in any supernatural thing but he also could not reject the gospel message that we are all sinner that needs God to forgive our sins through the self-sacrificing atone death of Christ.

5) Joseph from Cairo Egypt was well aware of Christianity spreading in his country with all the good impact though himself is still regarded as Islamic by birth. He holds an open and assertive attitude towards Christianity.

 

 

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Christchurch (NZ) Team

Happy Easter!  It’s been a busy week, with 2 special outreaches over the Easter weekend.

 

I took last week off (hence no report), but partly in preparation for this big week of outreach.

 

The Sunday afternoon before Easter I was able to have the opportunity to deliver a 1 hour lecture on ‘the bones of a gospel conversation’ to those in my church in preparation for the Easter outreaches.  Much thanks to the elders of my church for giving me this opportunity.  If you’d like to see my lecture notes, you can find them here.

 

So, Roger and I had our standard outreach to Riccarton on Tuesday afternoon.  So much has been going on, I can’t remember any of my chats from that outreach!

 

We didn’t do any street outreach on Friday, because it’s a public holiday, and all the shops are closed, there are not many people out.  I worked online in the afternoon, after a Good Friday gathering with my church family in the morning.

 

Saturday was the Oxford A&P Show outreach.  I have to admit it’s a bit of a blur for me.  I left home at 7am to be there by 8am, and set up by 8:30am.  My daughter Dani was with me with a solid team from my church (the Brown’s, the Linton’s and Jordan) plus Mike & Rebecca Ryan.  It was so great catching up with Sam Linton and Jordan the next day and to hear of how encouraged they were from the outreach.  Thanks for your support team!

 

We had a bit of drizzle (rain) during the day, which was a bit annoying, but we all were still very busy in gospel conversations.  We finished up at 4pm.  Great outreach, glory to God.

 

On Sunday, I spent a couple of hours in the city in the afternoon.  There was a Christian dance conference on during the weekend, and they were going to be doing some street dancing.  I was asked to share the gospel with those that passed by.  The dancing caused a lot of people to stop, which was great!  I handed out a LOT more tracts than I normally do, with a cheery “Happy Easter”.

 

I also got into a conversation with 3 young people who recognised me.  They said one of their friends loves our tracts and follows the content online - which is very encouraging.  But sadly, these young people weren’t really interested in the gospel.  While I was talking to them, I got pooped on by a bird!  I think that’s a first!  (I’ve had a few near misses).  Luckily it only hit my hat, which I sweeped off.  I didn’t let that kill the conversation, we moved and continued chatting.

 

On Monday, we ran our yearly Hot Cross Bun & Gospel Tract outreach in Cashel Mall.  We had 3 tables set up and gave away 1,200 hot cross bun halves (minus about 50 eaten by the Christians in the team!) over the 2 hours of the outreach.  It was a lot of fun.  A bit slower than previous years, maybe because the weather was cloudy?  But that was okay, I had opportunities to get into conversations, and give away hot cross buns and tracts myself - which was great.

 

So, no details of my actual conversations for this report.  But needless to say I had many interesting conversations.  God knows the fruit it will bear.  Thank you for your prayer and support.  Glory to God in the highest alone!

 

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday March 27th, 2024 from 1300-1500

It was consecutively yet another rainy day with soaking rain. But God's grace was sufficient to make a break with no rain as soon as we prayed and start the outreach ministry. Then, as soon as we finished by around three pm, the rain came again. In rainy day and gloomy weather, people used to be impatient for chatting with strangers, we nevertheless followed the guidance of the Holy Spirit to reach those elected lost souls gospel and those claimed Christian to clarify their status of faith and assurance of salvation. Recap was the Battle Log of Hung:

1) Danny an Irish descendant was open and receptive to let me share him the full gospel. He is a concreter as such having a break because of non-stop rain and I was led to approach him as my first gospel target. He admitted he is not religious despite his parents and family are of Catholic Christian background. But he thanked me for explaining the gospel and God's salvation plan so plainly and understandable to him. He admitted he is not a perfect person as such he has the need to be redeemed from his imperfection. He promised to seriously ponder and rejoin his family to profess this Christian faith.

2) Rejected by a mainlander, but then God compensate this with the next target.

3) A lady by the sure name Li? from Taiwan wasted no time to declare herself a Christian of the Presbyterian denomination . But she failed the assurance test having only 80% certainty to go to heaven. It was clarified to her that she should have 100% assurance of salvation solely because of the work of Jesus dying for us taking our place to receive the punishment of sin making us a sinless new creation. She was appreciative for my clarification.

4) Then encountered several rejected with people even pretending to be friend to interrupted our conversation.

5) I nevertheless still approach yet another Mainlander who listened but not seriously. He also did not take a tract just thank for my sharing afterwards when the bus arrived.

6) Then I was led to chat with yet another concrete who was off the job because of rain. He claimed himself an Atheist but I emphasize to him he has all the right to choose his faith with or without religion, I just still managed to share the concept and logic that even people without faith still think being a good person and doing a lot of good things will be fine. I change tactic by using myself as a witness for God that with a right mindset of faith that give me peace and direction of my life, I could live an active and energetic life for God as such I look much younger than my ages. He guessed I am about 50, when I said I am 72 he still mistaken I was born in 1972 and said he is 74 which I in turn thougth he looks even younger than me at the age of 74. Once clarified, he was really surprise to see the effect of leading a godly life in Christ make a big difference in your appearance and mood. He thus appeared much softened to listen to the gospel. I later found out from the Battle Log in Sunnybank that Shu I chatted with him in January. So, it proved that he is still on the radar of God searching him out from the world.

7) Then I was led to approach a South African woman of Indian descendant yet already called Australia home. There was limited time to share and I had just barely almost finished when her bus arrived.

8 ) Next was an elderly man from Hong Kong yet originally from Mainland China whom I had a chat before. He obviously has not yet got the message of the tract still repeating that being a good person is good enough. . His bus came and could only pray for next time.

9) Jay a Filipino that I had chatted before still lack of assurance of salvation which I just touched base briefly last time. I could only still just briefly explain and must wait for next divine encounter.

10) Then I was lewd to approach a Sri Lankan lady Sissell who listened with difficulties because of English level. I still managed to share the full Gospel to her.

11) Kim a local Christian passed the test with100% assurance of salvation.

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Toowong (QLD) Team

Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday March 26th, 2024 from 1300-1500

2 Timothy 4:2 2 Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction. 2

There was incessant soaking rain whole day, but it did not deter our burden and commitment to preach the gospel to the lost souls. Rather the rain kept every one crowded under the bus stop booth. The number of chats were more than usual though many were brief and short. Amongst all these divine appointments, there were a couple stand out ones with persons from Mainland China but their hearts were extraordinarily softened and open for the Gospel. Recap below is the Battle Log of Hung:

1) Aden from Northern California is church going but not sure if he is a Christian. He is a person of righteousness coming to UQ for Study of Conservation. He listened the nutshell of the gospel and appear very receptive to the need of salivation by Jesus as he admitted human are bad beyond redemption exerting all sorts of damage to the nature out of selfishness and self-centeredness.

2) An Unknown country guy listened but not willingly hearing the gospel message and took no track at the end.

3) An UQ Lecturer lady claimed she had had a chat with us and was not interested to chat any more.

4) Three mainlanders with one from Suzhou who alone was willing to chat but was shy of making assertive expression about what he heard as two other mainlander friends were besides.

5) An India young lady with no umbrella as such whole body was wet and felt uneasy & embarrassed. Spent needed time to show my empathize but then no time to share the gospel but she willingly took a tract to read, so God still has His way for this Hinduism person.

6) Sarah is a member of CCCB English congregation. She is from Singapore and has 100% assurance of salvation. She took many tracts from me to give away to her gospel caring group possibly her classmates in UQ.

7) An Aussie young man chatted many times and did not feel

like chatting any More.

8 ) Then I was led to have a long chat with Hu ? from Kwai Lin he has just come to Australia for half a year He actually already did his undergraduate in Singapore . With so many years of overseas living experiences, he appeared very open and receptive to the gospel admitting every one including he himself is not perfect as such we all need Jesus. Recommend him to look for Power to Change if he wants to pursue the Christian faith.

9) Then a quick chat with a young man from Xinjiang and he took a tract as his bus arrived right away.

10) Then I was led to approach a young lady by the name of Lee ?from Guangzhou , her Cantonese is no good but willing to chat in Mandarin. She studies Marketing and showed great openness top listen to the gospel.

11) Masa an Iranian young lady who has been in Australia for 1 year studying Management. Despite still of Muslim background, but she also is very open to the gospel and is also aware of the quick and phenomenon growth of Christianity amongst the Iranian in overseas. She also showed open and receptiveness to the gospel especially to Jesus as our Savior and our Lord God.

12) Sarah an American girl from Midwest Illinoi for Medical study with a first degree in Biology back in USA. Time was not enough to find out if she is a Christian, but nevertheless still share the nutshell of the gospel and giving her a tract.

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Today was certainly memorable. It was Election Day and we had three new members who were keen to learn how to share their faith on the streets. After a time of prayer, we set off towards the Toowoomba CBD in pairs.

 

Sarah teamed up with one of our younger “first-timers”. Together they chatted with Mr J-. He was sure that he would be good enough to get to heaven, and if he wasn’t, then he decided that it was God’s choice.

 

They also spoke with D-- a young man on his push bike in his 20’s (?) and a former Mormon. He had sadly experienced domestic violence as a youth and was questioning where God was during all of that. He was familiar with some parts of the Bible and had many questions about what he labelled “contradictions”- like the character of God in the OT vs NT and why no one has found any fossil of Noah’s Ark if we knew roughly where it ran aground.

 

Our “first-timer” did an excellent job at answering these questions. Sadly, we didn’t exchange numbers, or get to pass on any church details, but apparently D-- is often in town and has connections with a SDA church for work. He believes there is some sort of spiritual being/higher power, but not the God of the Bible. Pray that we would encounter him again or that God would put genuine Bible-believing Christians in his life to encourage him in his journey to find Truth.

 

Barry and one of our “newbies” met a Fijian visitor who expressed faith in Jesus and articulated the gospel. He was encouraged by what we were doing and hung around to ask God’s blessing for those who received Gospel tracts (mini-booklets). The team also met a youth who expressed faith in Jesus and answered yes to the tract question ’Are you a good person’. Together they went through the tract and he changed his mind. He seemed to be convicted and open and willing to hear the gospel message. Praise God for these opportunities and more.

 

During this time we also met L--, who is currently homeless. He had been sleeping under a house recently and had multiple white-tailed spider bites. L--’s bites were heavily inflamed and appeared to be rotten and black. He was in a significant amount of pain and one of our team members drove him to the Base hospital.

 

Meanwhile, two of our other team members were able to engage in a discussion with a former Catholic. He is now heavily into the New Age and believes everything is God. He was very angry and closed off to discussions regarding Christianity. This sort of anger is common among young men who have recently moved away from Roman Catholicism and they are not open to exploring how Christianity is different. Generally, it takes a few years for them to “cool off” and to be open to exploring the differences between what they grew up with and what the Bible teaches about salvation.

 

Tim and I (Doug) set up at the intersection of Ruthven and Margaret street. Since it was election day I had prepared a talk on “Who Do You Trust?” on a whiteboard. I preached the same message at two separate times and I was struck by the different reactions of passers-by.

 

Some people laughed, others encouraged me and one particular lady was not-so-quietly swearing under her breath as she passed me. Two homeless men sat down and listened to the message.

 

The reaction of the motorists waiting at the lights was similar. Some mocked, others cheered but most simply rolled down their windows and listened One particular bloke in his twenties opened his passenger window and looked intently at me. It was clear he was paying close attention to the message which I found to be a great encouragement.

 

At the end of the outreach, we met to debrief and to share stories about all the good things God had done. It's an exciting privilege to share the Good News about Jesus with others. It’s very similar to a few beggars showing other beggars where to find Bread. Jesus is transforming people’s lives all over the world in real time and we look forward to seeing His continued work across the globe and in the lives of all those who call our region home.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday March 20th, 2024 from 1300-1500

Ann Yeo has faithfully and regularly joined the Sunnybank Team for Gospel Outreach. I was surprised to find out she went back by herself alone to Myanmar for the 2nd time lately even venturing into unstable war zone area. So, she is really a natural itinerant evangelist and gospel warrior. For her age, she normal serves just for an hour while Johnny and Hung will do the full 2-hour shift. Today the number of conversations were more than usual of medium length. Some were of follow up and reinforcement nature. all orchestrated by God by His predestine election. Recap below is the Battle Log of Hung.

1) First was a Christian from Taiwan caught up by Ann first. Just a brief exchange on his faith.

2) Next, I was led to approach a young man from Chengdu . He was a primary school kids at time of 2008 but the school in Chengdu was more solidly built not like those bean curb substandard school that all collapsed right away in the earthquake zone resulting in great casualty of school students. He could not agree more but time was up as his bus came.

3) Then rejected by two Mainlanders as the bus was coming too quick for any more effort to keep the conversation on.

4) Then I was led to catch up with a Columbia Catholic Christian lady. She came for English study so her English level is not that good. But still managed to clarify with her the need to have 100% assurance of salvation.

5) Then came across a Filipino lady that I talked before and her bus came too quick to leave no time for any form of follow up and reinforcement effort.

6) A lady from Shenyang, Liaoning by the name of Yu?. She has already migrated to live in Australia. Basically finished sharing the full gospel and she showed openness and reception to the message.

7) Another woman that Johnny approached claimed there is no church near her home at Wynnum I told her our church address and location which is nearest to her home, but she still has difficulty to come with a car.?

8 ) Then I was led to approach a Thailand lady who lives near Lao in the South eastern area. In her mind there is no heaven and no hell so she doesn't care about faith. I anyway guide her to establish that there is no perfect person in the world in human history. Even we basically are good person but imperfect. That mean we will also be subject to judgment and punishment after death for our sins. And Jesus is the only way for salvation. She seemed waived a bit to rethink her ground of being a good person is good enough.

9) Then I was moved to approach a couple by the surname of Chen ? from Shanghai that Johnny has shared the gospel many times and has now even given up to chat with them. Nevertheless, I was moved emphasize on the sinful status of all human that no matter we are good or bad, in God's eyes we all need redemptive by faith thru faith in Jesus, who take our place to receive all the punishment of our sin. It seemed that he was moved to response repeating our gospel message that Jesus is the real scapegoat who is perfect by sacrifice to die for us and make us cleansed of our record of sins. Although he still thought only those bad guys including those corrupted Chinese officials need Jesus. He is a good person so he is all right. I reiterated that no one can avoid hell unless that person is perfect. Pray that it is a new starting point for that Shanghai couples.

10) Then I was led to catch up with an Argentina girl who is a Catholic Christian but without assurance of salvation. She anyway was humble and took a tract to read.

11) Then I approached a Girl who was on the phone. Waited for a while but finally had to let go and switched to the next person.

12) Next was also a Mainlander girl from Yunnan who is studying at UQ, she seriously rejected to have conversation on religion despite I still shared her the nutshell of the gospel.

13) Next was a gramma from Guangzhou. . Had a bit of casual chat but then not time to dwell on the gospel.

14) Finally, I caught up with yet another Thai people lives near Lao. To my surprise, he claimed himself a Catholic Christian but know nothing about the gospel and thought he can go to heaven by doing a lot of good works. . He appeared a bit upset when knowing that good deeds is worthless for receiving salvation. Accepting Jesus as our Savior and lord of Life is the only way to heaven. He simply cannot accept this doctrine of salvation by grace through faith and ran away awkwardly for the incoming bus.

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Toowong (QLD) Team

Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday March 19th, 2024 from 1300-1500

It was yet another typical day of outreach. We were led by the Spirit to approach people randomly but actually with the predestination of God. They were either people we met before for a follow up chat, or first timers or first timer as led by God. Amongst all these people, I did catch up with an local Aussie girl of Irish descendant who has never heard of the gospel before as there is not Christian in her own life circle. So, the tasks entrusted to all Christians to reach out non-discriminatory is with a reason. There is still someone who has never heard the Gospel out there waiting for us to be the messenger passing on to them the voice message they need to hear.

1) Clair a Scottish descendant local Aussie girl who claimed she has never heard the gospel before. She shared the view that as long as we are not perfect in our human character, we are subject to judgement after death as such there is urgent need for all the good but not perfect persons to repent and seek salvation from Jesus. It is very weird for anyone who will have no Christian friend or Christian influence in their life circle, but God let this happened to show us there is really the need to keep reaching out to look for those least reached lost souls.

2) Arian the Iranian lady in full Muslim dressed but turned out to be a very open and receptive Gospel hearer. I concentrated in sharing the full gospel that met full consent by Arian. I just fell short of asking if she is readily a messianic Christian as God did great thing converting a lot of Iranian when they go overseas as refugees.

3) Danny an Indonesia first year UQ students. He was also open for chat about religion and seemed to have no negative opinion against Christianity. Time was not enough for me to finish the full gospel but he took a tract to read.

4) Then I caught up with JJ a Filipino of protestant background. whom I met few weeks ago on 27/2. Last time, I actually did finish my diagnosis on his assurance of salvation. He has 100% assurance but the reasons is not yet 100% because of Jesus redemptive work. Finally, it was all cleared that his assurance is not from how good and obedient he has been but 100% because of the redemptive work of Jesus.

5) Then I was led to have a long chat with Amelia who is an ABC Christian with Parents from mainland China. They once were all church going but not any more now. and She is lack of assurance of salvation because of the wrong idea that she has to behave good enough for heaven. I pray that after my clarification, she will revert back to trusting in Jesus and alone.

6) John is a Catholic Christian of Irish descendant. He has spiritual pride and is 100% sure he can go to Heaven but because of his goodness in leading a good Christian life style. It was a pity he did to want to go on with the conversation as such I failed to clarify with him the truth of salvation by grace through faith in Christ alone.

7) Liam a Kiwi but Filipino Catholic Christian. Again, he did not have assurance of salvation and thanks for my clarification.

 

 

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