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Christchurch (NZ) Team

A fascinating series of gospel chats on Thursday morning:

• It started with a text chat with a guy from India, sadly he became resistant when he realised he would be guilty before God - rather than hearing the good news, he insisted on his innocence.
• The next chat was with a guy from Sweden who also insisted he would be innocent because, sadly, he considered all this as God’s fault!
• Yet another resistant guy - this time from the UK.  It was a wonderful chat because he heard the gospel and also because it went deep - we discussed the concept of biblical repentance and even on who chooses who in salvation.  Every direction he took the conversation there were biblical answers painting him into a corner where his only escape is Christ.
• Next up, I was connected with a kid who started the conversation by saying one word: cat.  People who know me really well will know why that is significant, for those that don’t, I like to use the word ‘cat’ randomly - so I felt like I had connected with a kindred spirit!  The kid heard the gospel.
• A girl who believed in God, heaven and hell.  But through her good deeds would get her to heaven.  She hears the gospel.  Amazingly, at the end of the chat I noticed a strap on her wrist that had the letter W on it.  Yes, it was a WWJD (what would Jesus do) strap!  I suggested she change it to WDJD (what did Jesus do).  So sad that these kids are being taught morals, but completely missing the gospel.  So, very, very sad.
• Next chat was great.  With a guy who seemed very interested in the conversation.  He grasped the gospel quickly.  But then he started asking questions about sexuality.  This led to a discussion about the reality of change in the life of a believer.  Suddenly he ended the conversation by smiling and saying: “I’d rather go to hell for my porn” and then disconnecting.
• Lastly, I connect with a guy lighting up a bong.  He came to hear the gospel and why it would cause him not to want to smoke a bong any more.

The gospel + abortion outreach went well.  A team of three.  Again, no counter protesters, and this gave us many opportunities to engage other people with abortion apologetics and the gospel.  The stand out conversation was with a kid who agreed with our stand.  He seemed to have a good grasp of the gospel, and so I asked him which church he went to.  It turns out he had recently stopped going to church and was now in a Bible study.  Sadly with the JW’s!  I was able to warn him away.  I gave him multiple tracts, and a card for my church.

Back online, the highlight chat was with a guy sitting in a Chick-fil-A drive through!  He hears the gospel between placing and receiving his order.  The great thing was that his wife (sitting next to him, but I couldn’t see her) became engaged, and started helping him with the checking questions I was giving him.  He had heard the gospel by the time he started driving out of the drive through.  I told him not to use his phone while he was driving and disconnected.

On Friday morning I was online, before heading into the city.  The online chats were difficult, lots of resistance.  It took me thirty minutes, and lots of false starts before I was able to share the gospel with my first person - and that person wasn’t interested.  I also had a fascinating chat with a Muslim who said he lied when he said he believed in God!

Andy preached in the city, there was a homeless guy on a bike who stopped to listen for a long time.  I was able to talk to him briefly, and later Andy must've handed him a tract, because at the very end of the outreach (hours later) we walked past him lying on the pavement reading the tract (pictured).

A team of five were in Cashel Mall - Bridge of Remembrance end.  Many good opportunities to engage people with the gospel.  But much resistance, sadly.

To end the day, I had a couple more chats online.  The first one was hard, and I gave up on it - I was tired.  But then, my last gospel chat of the day was one of the best I’ve had in a very, very long time.  It was a real divine appointment with a lady in a call center in the Philippines.  She came to tears as she slowly realised there was hope for forgiveness for a sinner like her.  The conversation went for 30 minutes as I was able to encourage her, answer her questions, point her to the Bible and a church.  What an honour to be able to bring such good news!  Thank you Jesus - you are amazing - all glory to you alone.
 

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Operation 513 Battle Log for Sunnybank on Wed April 28, 2021 from 1300 - 1500

Today we started with 3 team members Johnny, Gary and Hung. Gary still stationed on the East side where he had set up two gospel signs. Gary came over to the West side to join us in opening prayer then returned to the East side. I went over to check him out and took several photos of him chatting with various people.

Sunnybank used to be a harder land for street evangelism, but the Bus stop on the West side is always a blessed spot with many more chances of gospel chat. Johnny was very happy being able to be fully occupied in gospel chatting one after the other. He spent relatively a longer time to share with a Mun from Taiwan. I shared gospel with her couples of months ago. This was a very opportune time for Johnny to do a thorough follow up with her. Seemingly she was led to stay at the bus stop for just meeting and chatting with Johnny, as later I saw her leaving the bus stop for elsewhere in the shopping centre. God is sovereign and paves the way for us to minister to His elected ones. As for me I had seven conversations of varying length as recap below.

1) My first gospel target was a mid-age lady from Shanghai. She seemingly was checking out the bus info. I went forwards to render help and then kept sharing gospel afterwards. She politely listened my sharing before she left for her friend’s appointment. She did not showed rejection or even expression of indifference but neutrally on the receptive side possibly because of the friendliness and help I rendered to her beforehand.

2) Mr Chen a UQ student from Jiangso. Unlike most Chinese Mainlander. He listened to the gospel with patience and interest. When asked, he could not find any reason to reject the free gift of eternalize life offered by Jesus to set us free from the bondage of sin. So just pray that God grace be showered upon him when he read the tract at home.

3) Max , a Taiwanese ABC, listened to my gospel sharing also in a neutral and objective manner. He also admitted that the gospel is sensible and logical to accept. It is only a matter of time that he will make the last step of faith to receive Christ.

4) Then I picked up the head of the family of three Mr Wang from Beijing. I shared a bit of my memory at Beijing and hurriedly shared the gospel which was cut short by the bus. Mr Wang anyway took a tract and pray that it will bring impact to his life and his family.

5) Vienna is an Australian born Filipino with no faith background who never heard of the gospel. But she showed immediate willingness to accept Jesus after I shared the good news with her. She joyfully agreed to take a selfie with me to signify her appreciation for the gospel message.

6) A Chinese girl declined the tracts from another street evangelist but softened to take one tract from me. Pray for God's continuous work in her.

7) Joey an Indonesia Christian who has 100% assurance of salvation. He played trick on me pretending initially a non-believer and see if I preached the biblical gospel message. He also was willing to take a selfie with me to signify my first divine encounter with an Indonesia Christian.

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Christchurch (NZ) Team

Abbas (pictured) is now calling the western corner of Riccarton Road and Rotherham Street: Speakers Corner.  It’s right outside his shop: SoYo - a great frozen yogurt place (my family & I went recently)!

If you read this Abbas, we love interacting with you!  We are praying that you will come to know Christ as your Lord and Saviour. :)

On Tuesday, Roger, Roger’s friend John, and I were there to share the gospel for a couple of hours.

We have spoken with Abbas, a Muslim, about the gospel many times, he claims to have about ten of our gospel tracts at home.  Today the conversation continued.  I sat with him for a good long while, going over the gospel with him, listening to his objections, and doing my best to answer them.  I did a fair amount of listening, learning about the particular kind of Islam he follows, and a bit of his background on how he became more interested in Islam.  At times our conversation became quite animated, and it attracted others to come and listen as well - in particular, a couple of guys - one of whom I interacted with recently.  He is an atheist, and deeply dislikes religion.  It became an interesting three way exchange for a short while! :)

Eventually I left Abbas with Roger where they continued talking.

Later, two girls went past and I was able to fall into a gospel conversation with them.  Next thing I know, Abbas is next to me listening to the conversation (pictured)!

It was a wonderful, busy outreach.  Praise God.  May God continue to grant us favour at this corner!

The rest of my Tuesday and Wednesday was spent online with the team.

On Tuesday I was also in an email conversation with a guy I first started sharing the gospel with during the gospel + abortion outreach a few weeks ago.  He has left a cult, and is leaning towards becoming Greek Orthodox.  I’ve been labouring with him to help him understand the gospel, and answer his very good questions that touch on deep theology.  The emails on Tuesday ironed out his objections to the idea of limited atonement (believe it or not) - this was inhibiting him from understanding and accepting the gospel.  I had to carefully navigate some tensions in the Bible - too far one side and you fall down a cliff, too far the other and you fall down a crevasse!  It feels like I was successfully able to explain the narrow path between, and I was able to finish up by pleading with him to trust alone in Jesus alone for the forgiveness of his sins.

One of my online conversations that really stood out today was one with a Muslim guy.  He came to hear and understand the gospel, but he rejected it.  He liked to talk, so I let him.  When he stopped, I would gently ask him a question, like: “how can God be both just and merciful in Islam?”  He would then go on about how God is not like man, he is not a judge, he can just forgive - but you could see him hearing himself in light of the gospel message he’s heard and how it didn’t make sense.  Once he stopped talking, I simply asked, “are you saying God is not just?”  And then let him go again.  The power of letting them hear their own arguments next to the logic of the gospel.
 

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Toowong (QLD) Team

Operation 513 Battle Log for Toowong on Tuesday April 27, 2021 from 1330 to 1500

Praise and Thanks God that Jenna introduced a couples from CCCB St Lucia to join us and started serving with us on the Street right away after a briefing by both Hung and Johnny. It was a good challenge to Brother Pak and his wife Sister Lan as this is the first experience to sharing Gospel to a stranger by random as led and guided by God. Both had been faring very well especially Brother Pak. He made many contacts and had conversation with both Chinese and English speaking people. Sister Lan might have to take more time to get used to this sort of random gospel opportunity beyond our control but I assured her that nothing happened by coincident and serve no purpose even the gospel sharing time is short and incomplete. God is the real life saver and life changer to follow up on each and every divine encounter till the elected targets respond to the gospel with full conviction to trust in Christ.

The whole team of five worked credibly well with almost non-stop Gospel opportunity to minister to people of all nations (people Groups) Recap below are the battle Log of Hung and Winnie.

1) Delta is a young local Aussie UQ student who initially showed no great interest to chat. But I kept a friendly smile to break the ice and he eventually open up to the gospel. Though the bus came a bit too early, but the seed of Gospel should have been sowed.

2) Then I approached a matured student who also showed no interest to chat and refused to accept my tract. But I used his mature student status to introduce myself identifying with him as a matured student to do Master of Counselling in 2008. Then it followed with my personal testimony mixed with sharing of Gospel. So thanks God to inspire me to take this de-tour route to successfully shared full gospel to this initially stone heart man.

3) Then I was led to share with an Indian UQ student. She appeared very friendly accepting the tract and listening to the gospel willingly in receptive manner.

4) Then I caught up with an UQ student from Brazil who was very friendly to engage in conversation with me. He is a non-believer, but I associated with him the Brazilian Church in Japan that is now got infected with new break out of Covid-19 but the Church still managed to serve and helped people locally. It is all because they have a new life with a new overarching life goal to love the Japanese that they don't know but to share to them the gospel like what I was trying to share with him. He was moved and promised to read the tract and pray to God.

5) Stirling an Aussie UQ student who was born in Hong Kong as such he claimed himself Chinese (Hongkonger) . His family have Christian background and is church going but he does not fully understand the gospel. With my explanation, he admitted that the gospel is sensible and logical. So pray that our divine conversation will serve as a kind of push to bring him closer to the point of making his step of faith to receive Christ as his saviour.

6) Irvine is an UQ student from Ireland of Catholic Christian background. He has no assurance of salvation, but find the gospel message very appealing and promised to have ago to renew his Christian faith to biblically admit himself a sinner that need the redemptive grace of Jesus.

感謝主今天的带领，讓我遇到14 人傳福音的機會。

第一位 James, 澳洲青年，福音講了一半，巴士來到。

第二位也是澳洲人，Mark, 講完福音，巴士到來。

第三位也是澳洲人，George, 很喜歡聽到福音，願意信靠，及將聽到所有的福音傳给他妻子及兒子。感謝主！

第四位是印度青年，Greg. 我講述福音及最近印度發生的疫情。他説會想清楚宗教問题。

第五及第六位香港青年，女的是 Fiona, 而男的是 Tom. Fiona 接受單張，很留心聽我講的福音，而 Tom 不要單張，在旁聽我講。當我講完，巴士到達。

第七及第八位也是香港青年，Steve & Kelvin. 他們聽完我講的福音及印度最近的疫情，他們會認真的想想 信仰問题。

第九位，Sandler, 澳洲婦女。她到過很多基督教會，但都不能影响她回轉歸向耶穌基督。我請她解释，她説信有三一神，但不願意受規律限制，不介意落地獄，也不相信有天堂，她願意做很多善事，帮助其他人。我對她説，信靠耶穌基督，是免费禮物，不是靠行善，完全是靠恩典。但她一至顧行，不願信靠。我只好给她單張，讓她看淸楚。求主憐憫，讓祂的靈感動她。

第十位 澳洲人Ryan, 聽完福音，會想想信仰問题。

第十一位，Josher, 纽西蘭中學生。聽完福音，願意信靠主，找教會。

第十二位 印度青年，Oska我講及福音及最近印度疫情發生，還未講完，巴士到達。

求主怜悯，願今天聽到福音的人士，認罪，悔改，回轉歸向 神。阿們！感謝讚美主

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Christchurch (NZ) Team

Today it was good to get back on the streets: Cashel Mall.  Team of five.  Andy was doing “walk up”, Binu handed out tracts, and I ran a flip chart with the other two (relative newbies).

I had three main conversations.  One on my own, the second with the first newbie, and the third with the second newbie.

The one on my own was hard.  A girl stopped and came back to take a tract, but then she started grilling me on whether I or my church actually help people.  The insinuation really hurt me.  I took it for a while, but I couldn’t help getting defensive.  So once she’d finished telling me off for not being a good person, I asked her what happens after life.  Her answer was “nothing”.  So I challenged her on why we should help people.  I have a basis for that: God who is merciful.  What was her basis?  I held her to it.  She got angry, gave the tract back to me and stormed off.  I’ve reflected on that conversation.  Next time, I’m going to say, “you are right - I don’t help people enough, I’m a bad person”.  I know I fail, I can admit that.  But then I’ll say, “by the way, I know of some good news for bad people.  Are you a good person?”

The second chat was with a couple that had a dog.  It was a great chat where I was able to work all the way through the flip chart - it was a great opportunity for the newbie to watch it in action.

The third chat was with another couple.  I was surprised they stopped at all, and the conversation needed to warm up gently.  But they stayed to hear the law and the gospel - she was very resistant to the idea of someone else taking her punishment, and I was able to demonstrate a # of analogies: someone else paying her speeding fine, the ambulance analogy, the cure analogy - demonstrating the offence of rejecting a gift.  I even talked about the consequence of rejecting the gift of a king.  There was something deeper going on in her life that she wasn’t ready to discuss.  The conversation ended well, and they left with a tract.

I made it home for the last hour of the online outreach.  I had one great chat, with a kid who didn’t believe in God.  After hearing the gospel, he said he believed that Jesus died on the cross for him.  I asked him when he started believing that.  He looked at his clock and said, “about fifteen minutes ago”.  I challenged him on the cost (a change in this life) of the gift (eternal life).  His answers suggested that he wasn’t repentant, but he did say that he has talked about this subject with friends and they have never been able to give satisfactory answers, he said that this was the first time he had those questions answered.  We ended up connecting on Discord.  I leave him in the Lord’s hands.

On Saturday I was online once again.  I had some very encouraging chats.

My first one was a fail, but I didn’t let that discourage me and got straight back to it.  And my second chat was outstanding.  It was with a guy in India who was sitting at a Keyboard (pictured).  The longer the conversation went, the more engaged he became to the point where he adjusted his camera so I could see him face to face.  He was Catholic, and came to understand the gospel, he then had questions he wanted answered.  I also asked him questions to make sure he was understanding the gospel.

I had a bit of a crazy chat with three people from the UK.  They would resist, I would respond with reason.  They would try to shock me, I didn’t leave.  One of them even farted!  I laughed with them, and then went straight back to talking about the important question of life.  After nine minutes of this, they bailed.

An American kid with a big Trump banner on his back wall was next.  It was a great eleven minute chat where he came to understand the gospel, and professed faith even after counting the cost.  I pointed him to a Bible and a local church.

I connected with a guy from Iraq again - very curious.  I tried to engage with him, but it was difficult due to language, and him simply not responding to my questions often.

The highlight of the day was a chat with a Hindu guy in India.  It went for fifteen minutes.  I had to listen to myself via feedback through the whole conversation which made it very difficult, but I’m so glad I persisted, because this guy came to grasp the gospel, seemed blown away by it, and then professed faith, even after me extensively working with him to consider the cost of doing so.  I pointed him to the Bible and a local church also.  This one really warmed my heart.  Praise God.

Ironically, my very next chat was with another Hindu guy from India, but who was deeply resistant!  Some accept, some reject - that is out of my hands.

An Irish guy who’s mind was “blown” (in a good way) at hearing the gospel.

The last chat I’ll mention was a half hour one with a guy from the Netherlands.  A “Christian”, but full of doubt and troubles.  It was 5:30AM for him, and he was very tired and not taking it all in, but I laboured with him on his questions.  This guy touched my heart, and I pleaded with him to read through needGod.net once he had slept and to reach out with questions - this is so important.  I said I would be praying for him.  And I will.
 

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Christchurch (NZ) Team

Still recovering from my cold, so I wasn’t able to join Andy & the team on the streets for Thursday or Friday.  But I was able to be online (germs can’t be transmitted through the Internet)!

I’m not saying this to boast.  I have to write a report, and these are the facts.  Over the two days I had 38 conversations (2 minutes or more) with people all over the world, including with people in Kuwait and Iraq (don’t often connect with people in those countries).  The gospel is being proclaimed, one person at a time.  And it stacks up.  Apparently, in the last 30 days, I’ve spoken to 246 people for 2 minutes or more.  That’s just me, let alone all the others that are doing the same.  It brings me much joy knowing my king: Jesus is receiving glory through people learning more about him and hearing of his great justice and incredible mercy.  As a team, since we started recording, we have reached people in 99 countries (pictured).  I’m just sad that I can’t reach China, North Korea, or the Amazon Jungle in this way.  May God continue to raise up labourers to continue to reach people with the gospel (no matter the mode, method, or cost).  May Jesus be declared to the ends of the earth!

Of course, you get a range of reactions.  Open, closed, listeners, talkers, hostile, calm.  Here are a few of the highlights from the last 2 days:

• A kid who seemed to be in a hospital bed (yet said he wasn’t).  He stayed to talk a long time, but, as far as I could tell, I couldn’t get past his deep resistance.
• A guy from France - another long chat (Google Translate assist).  I asked him what he thought he had to do to go to heaven.  His answer: “Stop being gay?”  It turns out he is gay, so ignoring that, I took him through the law and the gospel.
• A Muslim hears the gospel and says: “I understand”.  But then seconds later he says: “It’s complicated I can’t understand it”.  I read that to mean: I understand, but I don’t like it.  I tried to reason with him.
• I was able to share the gospel with a PK, he was blown away, so he went and got his cousin who also heard the gospel.
• The conversation with the guy from Kuwait was great.  He was friendly and fun to talk to.  But, sadly, as his understanding grew, so did his resistance.
• A fascinating chat with two girls who were so obviously rejecting the obvious out of love for sin.  Actually, one of them opened up, but the other one fought to sway her away.  So sad.  I gave up on that chat, I wasn’t going to fight such unreasonableness.
• I had a rare reconnect with a couple of girls I had talked to five days prior!
• A guy from Germany, obviously on Omegle for no good, thought he was a Christian because he gave a percentage of his income away to charity!  I had to labour, but I think by the end of the conversation he was grasping the gospel.

From time to time, when people hear the gospel, they will say something like: “my mind is blown”, or “oh, I get it now”, or “wow”.  These are my thoughts on the gospel too.  I never get bored of sharing this wonderful news with people!  And thank you for partnering with us in this gospel work!  We value your prayer so much.
 

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Operation 513 battle log for Sunnybank on Wednesday April 21, 2021 from 1300-1500

Today, Johnny was not available so I supposed was to serve as singleton at Sunnybank. I have never done street evangelism just by myself, but I did not want to give up any opportunity to serve God while I still have my breath to do it. So I prayed for a gospel partner. God answered my prayer with another street evangelist turning up out of the blue after I had started for over half an hour. In Christ we backed up each other irrespective our human organizational affiliation. For instances, for some people who were willing to accept the tract but could not speak good enough English, I could do the follow up chat with success. Recap below were the six major conversation I had in that less than two hours ministry period.

PS. Afterwards, I just learnt that Gary was there from 1300-1345 but he did not bring any signs as he was with some of his family members. That was why I failed to spot him there when I drove pass the East side of Sunny Park as such I turned around to park on the West side of Sunny Plaza as the chance to get a chat is better than the East side especially if you serve on your own. So from hindsight, God answered my prayer in double sending two street evangelists to serve alongside with me.

1) When I arrived, the bus stop was fully seated with many people without any gap. It was hard and inappropriate to force my way in to share with any people. I actually did try to approach the girl sitting on the outskirt and got rejected. I could understand this as it appeared everybody else were listening to us in this crowded situations. Then I took a step back to wait for the bus come to take away most people. After that, only two people were left sitting there of which one was Mr Siu. He is from Swatow, Quandong China. I only learnt later he was there waiting for his wife so bus arrival did not bother him. I approached first the other Chinese lady but got rejected then I approached Mr Siu. His first reaction was still not willing to chat, but somehow God gave me giftedness to find an ice breaking topic to start our chatting in a casual manner first. Once connected the chat box was opened naturally and I had the chance to share with him the full Gospel. He was not rejective but rather showing interest and later he actually exposed to me he is church going with his son and grandchildren to CCCCB at St Lucia. I believe he is now more open to gospel and have a better understanding of accepting Jesus by grace through faith. Then his wife came and we kept connecting with things and people we know in common. Pray that this divine encounter will trigger Mr Siu to make his final step of faith to be in union with his son's family in Christ.

2) Linz is Filipino yet with no faith but showed great interest in the gospel. She admitted she is not perfect and has done punishable sin. But she needed some time to ponder if she should now receive Christ without any more wait or hesitation. So I asked her to read the tract at home and pray to God for guidance.

3) Then I approached an English speaking man who had just rejected the other evangelist. Yet curiously he was willing to chat a while with me. His reaction was basically negative against the need of God in his life. But he could not deny all human are imperfect with punishable sin that only Jesus can saved us from eternal death by dying for us. It was a pity our conversation had to cut off by the arrival of the bus. It anyway was still a worthwhile approach with gospel message having been passed on.

4) Another lady who is an employee of the Scape group specialized in student accommodation. She declined to accept a tract but still I managed to have a good friendly chat with her starting from her work with Scape. With some skillful exchanges of conversation, I still managed to share her the nutshell of the Gospel before the bus arrived.

5) Then I caught up with an elderly Chinese man. He appeared to be a bit old to give sharp response to my words. I did not give up but still managed to speak in a slow and clear tone about the gospel. His empty facial expression showed no clue if he really heard and understood what I said. I nevertheless honor my own personal standing ground that, I will still share gospel to all people despite there are all sort of barrier between us. Otherwise, they will lost their last chance to hear the gospel if everyone avoid chatting to elderly or people who has limited English.

6) Finally I did another follow up on a Chinese Lady who had accepted both Chinese and English tracts from the other evangelist but could not proceed because of complete lack of English speaking ability. This was of course not the major reason. Thanks God I still managed to get into conversation with that lady and shared the full gospel with not too many interaction from her. She showed reluctance to consider right away. I could only leave her to God to bear fruit in His time.

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Christchurch (NZ) Team

Well, I came down with a cold end of Friday, so I took Saturday and Sunday off (as well as my usual Monday) to recover.  It was nice to have some rest post all the recent special outreaches.  Not fully recovered yet, but I’m back to work (online only at this stage).  This report covers Tuesday and Wednesday.

Tuesday's Riccarton outreach went ahead with out me, led by Roger - he had a newbie with him, praise the Lord!

Pictured is a summary of my online chats.  Interestingly I had exactly 2 hours 21 mins in “decent” chats for each day.  (A decent chat is one that went for longer than 2 minutes.)

The first chat, with a guy from Scotland, was great.  His mind was blown when he first started grasping the gospel (his words)!  But I had to labour with him to get his understanding to stick (checking questions to the rescue).

A guy goes from thinking his good deeds will save him to Jesus will save him.  He then started talking about an addiction he was struggling with.  Honestly, I don’t think this guy was impacted at all - sadly.

A guy from India heard the gospel, but just wasn’t interested, he had to go after a fifteen minute chat.

The chat with the guy in New York was fascinating.  Jewish, he thought he would be going to heaven simply because he was Jewish.  He was deeply resistant, but using the examples of Abraham’s faith and Passover I was able to explain the gospel.  Sadly he bailed - not interested.

A girl in Texas who just didn’t care.  I was able to show how I knew she did care, and interestingly she didn’t bail from the conversation.  She heard the gospel.  Her key question was about LGBTQ+ which I addressed.

The second to last chat was with a guy from Morocco - he was lovely.  He had good English, and was keen to chat.  I think he understood what I was sharing, but he was resistant to it.

A Brazilian guy didn’t have good English, but came to hear the gospel via Google Translate.

By the way, I know I say “resistant” a lot - this is not necessarily a bad thing!  The gospel is the power of God for salvation.  The gospel can cut through resistance.  Salvation is from the Lord, in his timing!

On Wednesday, the Lord connected me with a lot of younger kids.  Sad, there are much much better places for them to be than talking to strangers online.  But, at least they get to engage with the gospel.

The first kid, from Canada, seemed to have a Catholic background (I later learned).  So he was familiar with some of the lingo, but obviously looking to his “goodness” to save him.  He really struggled to grasp the gospel, but he was willing to talk (by typing) so I laboured with him.  I lost motivation, because he just didn’t seem interested - bored even - I wondered what was keeping him in the chat.  After pointing him to needGod.net, I eventually moved on.

The chat with the next kid went faster - she seemed to grasp the gospel quickly.  But there was no penny drop and she suddenly disconnected.

My third kid in a row had a Christian background, and felt “caught out” when I pointed out what he thought would get him to heaven at the start of the chat, and compared it to what he now knew.

Next up was a DJ!  A Catholic background, deeply resistant to the gospel.  He kept cutting me off before I could finish a sentence.  He insisted that he would be going to heaven.  I slowly broke down that wall with the law.  But then he insisted he could never let anyone else take his punishment.  I gave up and left him to deal with his punishment himself.  I dropped a link to needGod.net a second before he bailed on me - I wonder if he saw it?

The chat with the guy in Brazil was frustrating, he would respond very slowly (via text) and insisted he was perfect.  I left him with the gospel, via text, before moving on.

Another kid!  This one: quite self righteous, but lovely to talk with.  He clearly went from thinking his good deeds would save him to clearly articulating that only Jesus death on the cross would save him.  He professed faith.  I pointed him to a Bible, and a good local church.  In the end he said, “I gotta go; have a good day and stay positive; I will remember this talk forever; bless you”.

The guy in Georgia, I had a delayed connection with, which made it difficult, but I slowly worked through the gospel with him.

The last chat was good.  Whoever it was was very intellectual (text only).  They came to hear the gospel, but they really enjoyed the conversation and started asking many questions.  Eventually I decided that they understood the gospel and it was time to move on.  I pointed them to the Insta DM if they wanted to continue the conversation.

So, a great couple of days of online gospel proclamation.  Glory to God alone for any fruit!
 

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Toowong (QLD) Team

Operation 513 Battle Log for Toowong on Tuesday April 10, 2010 from 1330 -1500

The weather turned continuously fine with a warmer sun this afternoon posing us a more challenging condition apart from the uncontrollable response from strangers. Yet our heavenly Father did work with us giving us inspiration and wisdom to use word of complement to gain trust with those initially reluctant or even rejective strangers. As a result both Johnny and Winnie had almost non-stopped chance to share gospel. Recap below are the battle log of Hung and Winnie: -

1) Judy a local Aussie UQ girl was very open and responsive to the gospel sharing and appeared very receptive to consider receiving Jesus as her saviour.

2) Then I approached another UQ student from Bangladesh who showed little interest to chat yet with my persistence to keep sharing to him the full gospel in a nutshell. Can only leave it to God for His continuous work.

3) Then I caught up with an UQ student from Taiwan. He was polite and showed great willingness to listen to the gospel.

4) James is an UQ student from Bundaberg. He is very tall but also very shy to have conversation with stranger. I nevertheless chatted with him about Bundaberg to help him relax and get a better grip of the gospel message.

5) Then I faced up approaching a not so welcoming person who had been approached by Winnie that I only knew after viewing those pictures. Actually, this person was behaving very nice and patience despite our repeated approach. He took his stand as a non-religious person denying the existence of God and Heaven. I could only speak skilfully not to deny his stand but kept pushing my message that as an imperfect person , we all have to face judgement after death which can only be pardoned by the redemptive grace of Jesus through his atoning death.

6) Then I had chance to share with a Muslim girl from Indonesia. She initially wanted to turn me down taking the excuse that she has got the tract an have chatted with one of us before. I took this line to ask how well did she understand the gospel which of course was still un clear for her. I thus had the opportunity to share again the core of the gospel and left everything to God.

7) I chatted with Satire a local Aussie UQ girl who had the greatest response of the day. She admitted she is not perfect thus needs Jesus to take her place for punishment. She promise to pray and think seriously to receive Jesus.

感謝主 今天的帶領。雖然身體不是一百分完整，眼睛及耳朵都是不完全康复，但是全能的 神，都讓我可以，向十二人傳講福音。

第一及第二位，分别前後是印度及中國少女，Lina & Helen. 她們聽完福音，需要時間想淸楚。

第三位是澳洲少女，當我講完福音，巴士來到。

第四位，Elaine, 中國來的UQ 學生，我講完福音後，巴士還未到，我再講了我的見證及台湾火車的意外發生。

她聽了，願意信靠主。

第五及第六位，分别前後是澳洲少女及中國年青人。當我講了一半福音给他們，少女有電話進來，所以要停止，她説會看單張。巴士來到，男士要趕上巴士，所以也要停止。

第七及第八位，年青人。Richard & Mary. Richard是澳洲人，Mary 是中國人.他們是基督徒，但不明白救恩，以為做善事便可以。我解释给他們。

第九位是中國少女，Judy，聽完福音，會看單張及想清楚宗教問题。

第十位是馬來西亞少女，Julie. 父母是基督徒。她間中都有跟父母去教會。我從新講述福音，她完全明白。會信靠主，跟随主。

第十一位澳洲女士，Janis, 天主教背境的基督徒。相信 三一神，但不能解释為何可以上天堂。我解释给她。

第十二位是印度人，講了一半福音，巴士來到。

感謝讚美主，賜给我能力傳揚主的福音。

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Christchurch (NZ) Team

On Thursday I was sharing the gospel online before joining Andy at Northlands for bus stop outreach.  Then on Friday I was online before heading into the city for outreach with Andy & Roger and then the gospel + abortion outreach outside the hospital with a team of six.  To finish the day I was online for a couple more hours.

At Northlands, the highlight was a great conversation that led from a rejection.  I was talking to a student when an old lady went past and gave me a bit of a dirty look.  The conversation with the student wrapped up and so I approached the lady and asked if she would like a tract.  She asked what it was, and I said, “It’s a gospel tract, I’m a Christian, I’m here today to share the hope of Jesus”.  She didn’t want anything to do with religion and refused the tract.

But another student close by had been listening, and she was intrigued by my open declaration as a Christian.  I know this because I offered her a tract next, she took it and said, “I’m a Christian too”.  “That’s great”, I said, “what do you have to do to get to heaven?”.  “Be a good person”.  And so from there I was able to share the gospel with her.  She was very thoughtful.  I challenged her to respond to the gospel, not by trusting in her good works, but by trusting that Jesus died for her sins - that would lead to good works.

This then rolled into another conversation with two other students, one who left early on, but the other came to hear the gospel for the first time.

We were in Cashel Mall & Cathedral Square Friday morning.  Roger had his flip chart out.  Andy preached in the open air.  I had a wonderful gospel conversation with a young lady who was making the most of life and not thinking of the afterlife - as she didn’t think there were any answers.  She heard the law and the gospel and was challenged to respond.  But the pleasures of this life seemed to sway her away - she was counting the cost of the change that faith in Jesus' sacrifice would bring in her life.

I fetched the abortion signs from my car and Andy and I headed to the hospital for the gospel + abortion outreach.  A team of six, which was great!  Another relatively calm outreach.  Kath and I had a lovely gospel chat with a lady.  She was familiar with Christianity, but not clear on the gospel, and not part of a church.  A long chat, she became emotional (in a good way, I think) which ended the conversation.

The online work was very rewarding, as always.  I had a long chat with a guy in Nicaragua who was familiar with the gospel, could even say the right words (‘repent’, ‘Jesus died for my sins’), but with some gentle probing it was clear he was subtly looking at his works to *get* him to heaven (‘we just have to try not to sin’, ‘obey God and his commandments’).  It seems he was getting his Internet connection from free WiFi outside a shop, he started to walk down the street and lost his connection - bringing the conversation to an end.

Amazingly my very next chat was with a guy with the same hang up.  Right from the start he had a flawless articulation of why he would be going to heaven: “believe that Jesus died on the cross for my sins”.  I checked if he thought good deeds would get him to heaven.  He thought for a second and responded with “no”.  So I asked how sure he would be of getting to heaven: “60%”!  Why?  “Because I cuss and don’t go to church like I should”.  Going from there I was able to share the law and the gospel.  By the end he seemed to be understanding and was very appreciative of the chat.  You can watch a short video of the end of this chat here.

A chat with a girl flirting with Satanism who came to understand the gospel and have many of her questions answered (including many on the issue of homosexuality).  A guy from Egypt who had seemed to reject Islam in all but name.  He heard the gospel, said it “made sense”, but is not currently willing to repent because “I’ll become faithless”.

Those were just the highlights from Thursday, out of time to summarise Friday’s online chats.  But many good ones, including with a guy from Spain with poor English, claiming to be Christian yet very confused on the gospel.  A frustrating chat, but I think he started to grasp the proper place of faith and works in regards to salvation.
 

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