Battle Log

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Sunnybank Team (QLD)

Meets 10:30am-12pm Wednesdays at the Sunnybank bus stop on Mains Road.

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Operation 513 Battle Log for Sunnybank on Wednesday Dec 30, 2020 form 1300 -1500

The Sunnybank team original planned to stop for two weeks during the Christmas and New Year period. But Andrew still felt the urge to come to do street evangelism therefore I went as well to form team partnership with Andrew. Despite of our enthusiasm or apostolic passion to serve the Lord, God did not stop the down pouring of rain in the beginning hours with lighter rain lingering throughout the whole afternoon, possibly it was a special training for both of us to live out the teaching of Paul in the Bible of 2 Timothy 4:2 "Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction."

Apart from the bad weather condition, the reaction of the targets were predominantly cold and rejective. Brother Andrew and I got many rejections. By the mercy of God, Andrew finally got several long talks. As for me, I had many short and scattered chats amidst the major trend of general rejection as recap below.

1) God led me to locate the first person being a young man from Hong Kong who has no faith but an open mind to hear the gospel. He found it logical and sensible and promise to take a serious thought of it.

2) Then I was able to chat to a Chinese girl who initially appeared reluctant, but still took the tract. But my gospel sharing was cut short by the arrival of the bus.

3) Then I noticed a Chinese couple trying to check the bus schedule on the hard copy list as such they originally have not heart to listen to the gospel when approached by Andrew. But did them a favor to guide them to check up the schedule on the electronic board . I gained flavorsome to share gospel to the man while the woman show great non-interest. Thanks God that the man politely let me finish the sharing until the bus came.

4)Then an English lady rejected me first but after sitting down then I could have a chat sharing teh nutshell of eh gospel to here before the bus came.

5) Then Isiah got off from the bus but took his seat to wait for the easing of the rain so I had a chance to chat with him. It was found that he is a far dinkum Christian who have 100% assurance of salvation.

6) Sirus from HK also showed great receptiveness to the gospel.

7) I shared with the mum of the Hung Family (洪家) from Taiwan with all other members including the dad and two daughters on watch listening.(光聽) She at the ned claimed she is a Buddhist, but I appeal to them that Buddhism is good but stop short at teaching people to be a good person but  not resolving the issue of sin. She politely promised she will ponder on this issue later.

8) Another Taiwanese woman 另一台灣婦 saw me doing street evangelism so she looked at me as if asking me to share the gospel to her. I did, but once touched on the subject of sin, she could not listen any more and cut the conversation. I still trust there is God's work in her life because of this divine encounter.

9) A Local Aussie heading for garden city , he kept popping up the arriving bus to ask where it goes while I share him the gospel. I could not but cut it short and let go.

10) Then I approached again another Chinese boy and girl friends couple. The man was ok and willing to chat but the girl appeared very offensive even resorting to walking away. It forced the boy friend to follow her to leave chatting with me.

11) Then a talked to an Aussie girl who quickly declared she is a Christian and was tested to have 100% assurance of salvation.

12) An Old Aussie man took the tract had a look but declined to chat when her wife showed no interest to listen.

13) Two girls from North Easter China 東北，with one studying at Griffith and a younger one at Indooroopilly High school. They initially still was OK to chat with me but appeared fearful once touched on faith.

14) Hee is a Malaysian English speaking UQ student who has no faith. But he show great openness to hear the gospel and appeared quite receptive to the salvation of Jesus Christ.

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Operation 513 Battle Log for Sunnybank on Wednesday December 23, 2020 from 1300 to 1500

Today God let us experience a prayer immediately answered. I was asked to do the opening prayer. I prayed in particular for good team work which God did make it happen the way as it was amongst Andrew, Johnny and Hung. We stayed close together, but God used us as a team while we all got our individual divine chatting opportunities to have long enough talk without exception. The kind of team work stood out in case NO 2 of my battle log that I shared below.

1) Anson from Hong Kong, an UQ year one student. He is not yet a believer but a faith seeker. He has done research on several faith but still could not reach a conclusion. My complete sharing of the Gospel which seems so ordinary like nothing too much different from my other sharing but seemed to have an impact to Anson who showed more willingness if not resolve to pursue Christianity. Since he is Cantonese speaking and live in South Bank, so I recommend him to attend Living Water Alliance Church and meantime contact Power to change to keep pursuing the truth of Christianity. His change of attitude from alienation and emotionally too objective to more soften and open up and sensitive to the work of the spirit is evidenced by his willingness to take a selfie with me.

2) Alice from Shandong(山東),Scilla From Anfei( 安徽),Maggie from Quanfxi (廣西) they squeezed through Andrew who was chatting with two persons with Johnny on watching. Johnny recognized Alice who was his home stay resident when she got pass them so Johnny gave her a light tap on her shoulder yet she did not response but kept walking with her two friends down the footbridge towards me standing on the ground level of the bridge. Despite I saw they ignored Johnny, I nevertheless still felt compelled to hand them Christmas tract while greeting them "Merry Christmas" They had initial rejection but I appealed to them that no one will reject festivities blessing so they all received a tract from me. It gave me the stepping stone to throw the question of Origin of "Merry" Christmas to them with Maggie alone to response to me. Since they showed no sign to stop for a chat. I felt the Spirit wanted me to walk a while with them to at least share the reason why Christmas is being greeted with "Merry. Maggie showed genuine interest to understand and found it amazing. Alice and Scilla kept chatting between them in front of us. But when we arrived at the traffic light and the light had turned green for them to go. Alice suddenly turned around to say to me that she might have bumped into her home stay host Johnny. I said you were right and point them to God who really made a divine encounter for us to meet and share the real meaning of Christmas and the important to repent and receive Christ. Actually I learned later from Johnny that Alice has been expelled by Mary from Johnny's home, so Alice really has no need to let me know about this. So It was so obvious the work of God to show to Alice and Scilla that nothing happened by chance but everything work for God for the benefit of His chosen ones.

3) Extraordinarily, I kept bumping into people from Mainland China who use to avoid chatting with us. But A young man by the name Chen 陳 from Jiang Xi (江西) who was reluctant to chat as he claimed he is a baptized Christian who received Christ in Singapore. He failed my Diagnostic questions showing uncertainty of salvation but thought he needs not keep pursuing the Truth of Christianity, which is a typical sign of Christian without a genuine born again life. (基督徒但無生命) I advised him that receiving Christ is just the beginning of God's salvation package for us and we must not stay making no spiritual growth. I trust my words bear weight to urge Chen to join Power To Change and attend Church Sunday Service

for his spiritual growth sake. He said Hi to me to show his gladness for the sharing on his way back from some errand passing by us.

4) Then God stopped Lucy from Henan 河南. She initially declined politely to talk as she did not feel the need. But after my sharing of the Gospel and my own testimony, The Holy Spirit moved her to admit that she should follow her family members who are all Christians back in China to pursue God and accept Jesus as saviour. (起初覚得不需, 但聖靈改變她，是基督家族背景)

5) I heard the two women chatting in Cantonese. So I was able to connect with them and handed them the tracts for a breif sharing of Gospel before the bus arrived.

6) Bevery is a fair Dinkum Christian passing my two diagnosis questions. We had a mutually edifying conversation in our faith.

 

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Operation 513 Battle Log for Sunnybank on Wednesday December 16, 2020 from 1300 -1500

The weather continued to be fine with Sunny sky but not so hot sunshine. Andrew joined us a bit late as such we failed to have a team photo together, but two with either Johnny or Andrew working. It was also a rare days of many long conversations for both Johnny and Andrew more or less over an hour. God might have His plan for Richard from China , an atheist and the Girl chatting with Andrew to unlock many of her questions about God and life. They started chatting standing on the footbridge, then sitting down on the bridge and eventually moving over to the bench near the bus stop to continue their mind blowing yet exhausting talk.

As for me, I only got 12 small and scattered talk as recap below but I trusted that the Lord still could use it for a purpose.

1) The first Couple from China Mr Suen they appeared very polite and open to have a chat. We did talk about the reason for the season is Jesus and the meaning of "Merry" Christmas. before the bus came. (孫老夫婦丶很和氣)

2) Then came an Aussie mum with two kids, a boy and a girl. I stopped the girl from running two fast and far away from her Mum and gave her a Christmas tract. With this as an ice breaking gesture, I posted to the busy mum the question of "Merry" Christmas gimmick. It gave me the lead to share further the nutshell of Gospel just in time before the bus came.

3) A man from Shanghai who was not very open although he still reluctantly took a Christmas tract. All I could do was to share him the nutshell of the Gospel as soon as possible before the bus came.(上海人。不是很開放)

4) An African man on his bike with bulk of luggage making him like a World traveler ? But on a second look , he was a collector of empty plastic bottle to earn meager money for his living. So he is literally a survivor of life. God did not move me to stop him but gave him a tract. He stopped his bike and took the tract. I pray that this will open up his mind not only for material good for day to day survival but has a glimpse of the eternal need of salvation through Jesus Christ.

5) Then I met another elderly couple but chatted mainly with the husband Mr Tao(曹大哥) He is a suburban security guard in Mainland China (陸上小區管理)，I started off by mentioning "merry" Christmas which successfully aroused his interest to chat. He claimed having knowledge of the Christian gospel though himself is of Buddhism background.佛教背景 He proudly shared about his heroic record saving people life. This possibly was a response to my question Would a Good Person be fine for Heaven. Because of this I did not have time to finish the gospel sharing. Can only let go and leave it to God's hand.

7) A Korean couples took the tract, stayed for a short chat, but excused for reason of limited English.

8) Linda is a Korean Christian who did not show her Christian background but listened quietly with little responses or interaction. It was found out that she has no problem to understand but also limited speaking ability. Once found that she is a Christian, I gave her the diagnosis test for Assurance of salvation which she passed fair and square to show that she is a fair dinkum Christian.

9) Christina and Liam were local Aussie boy and girl friends. They are very gentle, polite and receptive listening to the gimmick of merry x mas followed by the good person test. The showed good understanding and indicated willingness to pursue and accept Jesus.

10) A fat guy was attracted by my "merry" Christmas gimmick but after that still turned down my further sharing of the gospel.

11) Levi is from Ipswich and was in a rush. I walked him across the footbridge and shared him the nutshell of gospel which he found very positive.

12) An Aussie old lady was walking with me and Levi for a short while on the foot bridge until our faster pace left her behind. But she did listen for a short while how I share the gospel to Levi. And I got a thumb up from her after I let Levi go and she picked up the pace to meet me again. It was a kind of encouragement unexpectedly from God through this lovely lady.

Battle Log of Andrew Walkington, Evangelist with OA · 

On Wednesday at Sunnybank there were several great conversations where people seemed to grasp the gospel and what it means to follow Jesus.

Dan, Marco & Nathaniel are from a Coptic Orthodox background and when I asked them about the afterlife, they said they hoped to go to heaven. I asked them why God should let them into heaven, but they all expressed that they doubted they would be going. I asked them about the commandments, and they were able to name 8 out of the 10, but like everyone else, they hadn’t kept even one. I then shared the good news with them and explained why Jesus dying on the cross was such great news and what we must do to receive the gift of eternal life. I asked them again where they would be going and they all pointed downward. I challenged them that God had offered forgiveness through Jesus and that they should get right with him that moment because they could not guarantee they had another day. They thanked me and all took tracts to read.

Tanisha is 20 years old and from a Vietnamese Catholic background. She was very unsure of what comes next and how we can know and so I shared that what we needed was a divine source of information. We talked through God’s existence and then I shared what God has said about the afterlife. We were progressing really well, but as we got to the end of the gospel, she came over very faint and had to lie down! For the next 30 minutes I looked after her at the bus stop until she felt safe to get on the bus and head home.

Samuel is 25 years old and was raised in a Mormon family. He is intrigued by the idea of the afterlife but had found his experience in the Mormon religion left him a bit jaded. He was very keen to get answers and so we talked through the gospel at length and I showed him how the works based understanding of salvation cannot possibly save us and how Jesus alone pays our debt. He asked some really great questions and so I showed him how the whole Bible is grounded in history. I then talked him through the threads of redemption and sacrifice that run through the whole Bible and he was astonished that the Bible was more than nice stories. I asked him if he had a Bible and gave him an ESV Gospel of John. He quickly skimmed a couple of pages and was amazed at how much easier it was to read than the King James used by the Mormon religion. He was very excited by the whole conversation and thanked me several times!

Please pray for each of those folks who heard the gospel and especially that God would cause them to have saving faith.

Battle Log of Johnny:

感謝天父將所多年輕人帶領到我們面前，讓我們來向他們傳講主耶穌基督的福音。本週三在Sunnybank 有許多的年輕人停下腳步聽十字架的福音。祈求上帝祝福那聽到了福音就為罪悔改來信靠耶穌基督的人。

 

 

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Operation 513 Battle Log for Sunnybank on Wednesday Dec 9, 2020 from 1300 to 1500

Andrew possibly was still caught up at Chinchilla for training. Instead God moved Gary to come with three big Gospel Signs to team up with Johnny and Hung. Today we served basically on the Eastern side of main road outside of the car park of Sunny Park. Again there was good team work amongst us that we swapped position when one of us was led to chat with some one away from our primary post. All of us had got many conversations. For me I had 5 conversations which were obviously spirit led divine appointments as recap below: -

1) Brendon’s a handsome Aussie boy was waiting for his girl friend, it gave me time to share the full gospel to him. He claimed he knows the gospel but don’t like organized religion. However, he admitted gospel itself is sensible, logical and convincing enough for anyone to accept. He still repeat his problem of not accepting to follow any organized religious activity. It was a pity I could not further our discussion on his religious Phobia  complex as his girl friend arrived.

2) A couple boy & girl friend declined the tract from Johnny but the boy accept my tract when they passed by me. An hour later they returned but did not stop though the boy promised he will read the tract.

3) A lady by the name Julie from Taiwan was in a hurry but I still managed to walk her across the foot bridge. After hearing the nutshell of Gospel, she declared she is Christian attending St Mark Lutheran Church. So I switched to test her assurance of salvation which she failed initially. Yet after clarification ,she understood and assured me now that she has 100% assurance of salvation.

4) Messi and other two High School students are from Beijing. They could not go home for the summer holiday because of Covic-19. They form small community group to live together and support each others. Initially, they were not taking it too seriously but God soften their heart especially Messi. I appealed to them to accept Jesus by faith which is even more important than their high school study with life long impact to them and their family.

5) Then I followed up approaching a group of four teenagers Aussie after Johnny and Gary have had a go. They appeared not taking the gospel message seriously but joking around making fun of Jesus. I stood my ground to show them this is a serious life and death issue if they do not realize they are sinner and will be subject to eternal death punishment unless they accept Jesus as their saviour to have died for their sins. Some of them started to change their attitude and respond to the gospel when the bus came. So, I can only let go and leave God to follow up on them.

6) 方俊雅 is a cheerful young girl from Shen Zhen深圳, China。She was locating the bus stop to go home as she has just moved up from the Gold Coast. Gary might have approached her but ignored by her as she was still busy in locating the bus stop on her iphone. Thus when I tried to approach her, she shook her head without looking at me. I asked why she shook her head even without looking up to know who was trying to talk to her. Then I noticed the reason of her frustration and quickly helped her to locate the bus stop on Mc McCullough Road outside Time Square. I offered to walk her to the bus stop to ensure she will not lose her way home. Then we started this longest conversation from 1445 to 1500. I found out that she is from a Christians Family in China, but she does not attend church as frequent and regularly as her Christian Nanny. After coming to Australia, she first studied and lived in teh Gold Coast. Her friend brought her to attend Gold Coast Logos Christian Church. And possibly she will be introduced to one of the Logos congregation in Brisbane. In term of salvation, she is clear about her assurance of salvation but not clear about the reason was because of Jesus and him alone through his atoning death apart from believing in God. God used me to give here a big discipleship lesson until her bus come.

 

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Operation 513 Battle Log for Sunnybank on Wednesday Dec 2, 2020 from 1300 to 1500

It was another day of grace to serve God without the usual team support by Johnny as he is still away on a family leisure trip. Instead, God moved Andrew to keep joining me at Sunnybank. We formed great teamwork by taking different strategic positions. Andrew stationed at the foot of the pedestrian bridge where he can get longer conversations. I take position at the bus stop with more chances to share but are of short conversation because of the frequent arrival of buses. Some people took a tract from Andrew but did not stop yet coming directly to the bus stop. I can then target them especially those who were moved to read the tract immediately at the bus stop. Another thanks giving point was that there was shade and good breeze on the eastern side of the foot bridge despite weather forecast projected a higher temperature over 35c. Recap below are the 10 divine appointments I had today.

1)Mr Fong 方 whom I met frequently here at Sunnybank, but I never was told he is a Christian as my question for him about salvation shows he was alost ignorance about salvation. But today I greeted him and care about the scar line on his head caused by a open head operation. I induced him to think about eternal life issue as temporal life is vulnerable. 動頭手術, 更珍惜生命

Then he told me he is a Christian of a very prominent denomination in HKG (The Evangelical church of HKG香港播道會)，He had to attend a medical appointment so I had to let him go and pray for next time to strengthen his faith.

2)倚綺 Ekky is a Malaysian Chinese 馬華 from KL. She could speak 5 language including Cantonese, so we can have a very stress free chat in our own local dialect. she has no faith and seemingly first time hearing the gospel. But she found it sensible and logical. She did not rush to leave even when her bus arrived and let me continue to do my wrap up. As a result, I had more time to share with her and hopefully, God will move her to take her first step of faith in no time.

3) Then I was rejected by an old and young man which was also within our prayer that may the Spirit lead us to waste no time on those who overtly reject the Gospel.

4) Then I shared with Ah Lin 阿琳 from Hong Kong 香港. So again I can speak in my mother tongue. She showed no obvious sense of rejection of the Gospel despite she very soon indicated she is a Buddhist. 佛教徒. The bus came very quickly 車到太快, so I only managed to share her the nutshell of the Gospel.

5) Then came two young man 兩青年，one of them took a tract from Andrew . So I hook up with him and volunteer to discuss the tract with him. He showed genuine willingness to listen but the arrival of the bus cut short this divine appointement.願意聽但車很快便到了. Trust God may have His follow up work.

6) Lee, possibly from Taiwan was polite when I approached him. But again there was not enough time to share as his bus came very quickly. Pray that God has His follow up work.

7) Rebecca is from Eastern Malaysia. She has no faith but show interest to listen. Again just have limited time to touch on the nutshell of the Gospel.

8) Stephen has an Indian look but he has a Filipino Mum and an Aussie Dad of Christian Family ground. But he doesn't go to church any more hope being discouraged by below par Christian witness. At the end, he joyously decided he should attend church again. It is a new start for him.

9) An UQ student Zhang 張，from 東北 China ，He said some OPN 513 guy talked to him at King George Square. I went through the gospel message with him again and introduced him to join Power to Change.

10) Finally John a big guy but behaved politely. He listened to my gospel sharing with patience, but at the end he told me he was once Christian now Muslim. It was a pity I did not have any more time to clarify the reason of the switch and bring him back to the core message of the Gospel.

Battle Log by Andrew 

On Wednesday at Sunnybank, there were a couple of great conversations where people grasped the gospel.

A pair of 17 year old young guys who attend a Christian school stopped to chat. They knew a lot about the gospel but were very unsure why God should let them into heaven. I took them through the law and was just starting to go through the gospel when their bus came, but both took tracts and thanked me for stopping them.

Declan called himself a Christian but when I asked about what would get him to heaven, he appealed to his own good works. I ran him through the gospel at length and eventually shared that I was very concerned that he was not saved because he was trusting in the wrong thing to save him. He admitted that even though he used the label, he was not a “good Christian” and had not been to church in a long time and no longer owned a Bible. I was able to provide him a Bible from the Bible Society Australiaand also pointed him to a good church.

Francis was raised a bit religious but admitted he was pretty sceptical about it all. We talked through how we know that God exists and then through the gospel at length. After I took him through the law, he agreed that we are all not good enough to get to heaven. I shared what Jesus had done and about how he calls us to surrender to his rule. He seemed to grasp the gospel well and said that he now had a lot to consider.

Please pray for these guys and the many more who received tracts.

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Operation 513 Battle Log for Sunnybank on Wednesday Nov 25, 2020 from 1300 -1500

It was an eventful day but also full of wonder and grace. Johnny initially planned to come a bit later but he got a flat tyres on his way to Sunnybank. So I was left alone but God was good to send Andrew to come to partner with me at the Wes side of the foot bridge. It was a very good partnership, starting with a good opening prayer and later on rendering mutual support including the photo shooting.

Today I had a very smooth day, apart from a very first rude rejection by a mainlander woman, all my subsequence approach are friendly, receptive and fruitful proven by three selfies with my three gospel target. ONe of these were a couples who are a known friend of my brother -in -law and heard of my existence in Brisbane as a pastor. So all encounters were really a divine appointment with God's hidden purpose behind.

Here are the recap of my

1) Madam Wong from Guangzhou 廣州 knows Hk very well. I wasted some time to serve as ice breaker and was only able to share the nutshell of the Gospel to her before the bus came.

2) Elle a young lady from Beijing doing UQ study. She was very polite and receptive and listen to the gospel with full attention and great interest. She did not even want to get on the bus that had arrived only after I asked her if her bus had arrived. Certainly, I could see and feel a ripe soil for the gospel to bear fruit in here heart.

3) Tony and Sinfonia look like Chinese from Indonesia. But I overheard them speaking Cantonese so I approached them and found they are also from Hong Kong. They seems to be religious and showed receptive attitude to the Gospel. So I asked if they followed any religion and they said yes and is a Japanese kind of Taoism called 天理教. This is the religion of my brother-in-law who became a pious follower after this Japanese faith organization offered him a scholarship to study Japanese in Nagoya. The couples responded with great astonishment that they are good friend of Perry my brother-in-law. With this miraculous encounter, I wasted no time to share the gospel before the bis arrived. Let's pray if God will give me another divine encounter with this couples in the near future or perhaps in the next visit of Perry to Brisbane.

4) Eric a UQ student from Taiwan who was very receptive to the Gospel. I referred him to Power to Change no matter if he may wish to accept Christ now or not.

5) An Aussie Mum Cherry also appeared very friendly. It was a pity my sharing was cut short by the timely arrival of the bus.

6) Mr Li 李 from mainland China. But he exceptionally taking the initiative to pull me aside to let me share the gospel to him. He admitted the message is very sensible, logical and convincing but I let him make his decision at his private time. I also referred him to join "Power to change. I met him a bit later when he finished his errand and wait for the returning bus. I took his photo there.

7) An old lady from Hongkong who showed half heart at the gospel message. She came to Australia around 80. Pray that God keeps giving her divine encounter before she run out of time.

8) Keane another genuine abc whose parents are from Taiwan. He has Christian back ground and know all Ins and Outs about Christianity. He agreed with the gospel I shared just falling short to let the seed to grow and budding.

9) Nelson an Sri Lanka man who appeared very polite and was positive to gospel. It was a pity the divine encounter was cut short by the bus but I am sure God's work on him will not be in vain.

Battle Log of Andrew: 

On Wednesday at Sunnybank, I initially found the afternoon discouraging, as many people I tried to speak to would not stay and talk, however, as the afternoon progressed, there were two brilliant conversations that left me rejoicing!

One young man whose English was very poor used Google Translate's image software to translate the tract so that he could read it!

Jackson was the only decent conversation of the earlier part of the afternoon. He was not religious at all but listened really well as I shared the message of the gospel with him.

Emily is 20 years old and is here from China studying nursing. She had heard of some Christian ideas before and said that her housemate has a Bible, but did not really know much about what Christians believe at all. She listened very carefully as we talked through the gospel at length and grasped clearly what the Bible says about our eternity. She understood that we are not good according to God’s standard and that Jesus died for sinners like us. The expression on her face as I shared what Jesus had done indicated that this was impacting her deeply. She thanked me for taking the time to share the gospel with her and gladly took a couple of different tracts.

When I asked Carla about where she would go when she died, she said she would go to heaven and that she was a Christian. She joked that she didn’t look like one because her arms, legs and even neck were covered in tattoos! She was going to keep walking, but I asked her a follow up question or two and it quickly became obvious to both of us that there were some really big gaps in her understanding. While she knew many facts about Christianity, her trust seemed to be primarily in her self-identification as a Christian. I stepped through the gospel and she had no issue identifying herself as a sinner but then as we talked through how Jesus’ death on the cross saves us, she seemed to grasp the message. We then talked about how receiving the gift of forgiveness means that we must be willing to surrender rule of our life and place our trust not in our good works or religious activities, but only in the finished work of Jesus. I asked her again where she would go if she died today, and she admitted that she had not understood and that to this point, she had not surrendered and placed her trust in Jesus. I pleaded with her to consider the urgency of being made right with God and she said that this was something that she desperately needed to do. She allowed me to take a selfie with her and told her that I would use it to encourage people to pray for her, so please do pray for her to surrender to Jesus!

Pray for Carla, Emily, Jackson and the many others who heard part of the message or received tracts.

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Operation 513 Battle Log for Sunnybank on Wednesday Nov 18, 2020 from 1300 -1500

Thanks God for a fine sunny day good for street evangelism. We had Johnny, Andrew and Hung turning up to serve. To me, it started good meeting again with two Pakistanis Muslim Tafe students by the name Shani and Muneeb whom we met two weeks ago. They were serious Muslim but with an opened mind to discuss. It was a pity they were in a hurry to meet their father but promised to come back next week.

Then I had my second divine appointment for today with Kitty who is from TianJin 天津, China. She was at the bus stop sitting on the bench. I initially wanted to approach two high school students but they were busy with their iphone. And Kitty virtually looked up at me. I felt the urge to switch talking to her first. She is rare species of Mainlander that does not avoid chatting with me with a Chinese face. She even invited me to sit down to chat with her rather than standing. She claimed she had received tracts before and possibly chatted with someone else. I asked if she found the message of the tract sensible and logical and what was her response. She got to the point that: yes, she admitted the tract let her see she as well as every one in this world, though called a good person, but all have committed varieties of sin not pleasing to God. Then I asked did she know how to have our sin forgiven. She knew it was through Jesus' sacrificial death to pay for the debt of our sin. But she is not sure if she deserves the grace of Jesus to save her as a sinner. At this point ,her boy friend turned up, checking out what was happening and trying to drag her away from the conversation. But she refused to stop our conversation, so her boy friend was forced to listen by her side. I could feel that she was wide open to receive Christ but then the bus came. I trust God will continue on leading her to the final decision of accepting Jesus as her Savior and Lord of life.

My overall condition to day was not good with body itchiness and swollen limb getting worse because of the side effect of the Psoriasis medication. Dried mouth and frequent toilet needs all posed great interruption to my normal street evangelism. It finally was cut short when I found my Credit card was not in my wallet when I stopped for a while to do shopping. I had to call for the day to rush home to check if I did lose it. Thanks God finally I found the card in one of my vest pocket so I did not have to go through yet another round of reporting lost for replacement which had happened once just two months ago.

Both Andrew and Johnny had many good long conversation with fruit bearing results.

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Operation 513 Battle Log for Sunnybank on Wednesday Nov 11, 2020 from 1300 -1500

Today I was supposed to go solo as Johnny had to stay at home for Termite treatment. I struggled for a short moment if I should still go by myself. God was gracious enough to move Andrew to come without my pre-knowledge. So we still could start our ministry as a team in prayer. I went over to the west side of the foot bridge to join Andrew for mutual back up and support. God made us work non-stop. I got 8 divine appointments amongst which the one with The Sibling form Hong Kong was most inspiring and movement because of our empathy as the Hong Kongers going through the toughness moment in the history of Hong Kong.

1) I started first while Andrew went to fill out his drinking bottle. Hence when he joined me, he took photo for me with the Hindu couples. The man claimed to have Christian family background but obviously had forsaken his faith in Christ. He was very arrogant to dismiss the significant of Jesus salvation, but the lady was more polite and actually willing to listen. But I could only manged to utter the key nutshell of Gospel before the husband dragged his wife away.

2) Then I left Andrew at the footbridge and walked over to the bus stop where I found only one Chinese sitting there. He was not interested and virtually refused to hear the gospel but I still had managed to have a chat bringing in all the elements of the gospel until he reached the limit of his patience to ask me talk to somebody else.

3)I did find a Korean girl besides me and she appeared very receptive to the gospel. I was able to finish sharing just in time before the bus arrived.

4) Then came a Malaysian Chinese 馬華 girl Chai Chin彩琴，she was very polite，and appeared very receptive 接納 to the gospel.

5) Then I moved back to the footbridge and met another Korean girl by the name pf Ishin. She is doing working holiday here and quickly claimed herself a Christian. She has almost 100% assurance of salvation but the reason was a bit blurred not pointing to Jesus directly but mentioning other good deeds like attending church. After clarification, she was happy to assured that now her concept of salvation is very clear now.

6) Then I met up with a middle aged Chinese woman by the name Hu胡大媽 from China中國，She was willing to listen 願聽

so I walked with her to the bus stop. I was lucky to waste no time but shared her the full gospel first before the bus arrived.

7) Then Ben and Emily who are sibling and are student of QUT & UQ respectively from Hong Kong. I spent no time to find out our common root and it helped them to associate with me as Hong Kongers. I was able to use the dark power now ruling ove Hong Kong and USA to demonstrate the need for all people to seek light to expel the darkness in our life. And Jesus is the only means ad avenue for us to leave the darkness of sin into the brightness of our faith in Jesus. They were happy to take selfie group photo with me to commemorate our encounter by the divine appointment.

8 ) Lina from Goodna who is a Mormon. But she claimed she believed and accept Jesus as God and as her Saviour though she only have 70% of assurance of salvation. I took the chance to supplement teaching about the three fold salvation as such our certainty of identity changed because of the redemptive work of Jesus will be guarantee despite our temporal life have not yet been transformed back to perfection. So the temporary imperfection will not affect our assurance of being saved by Jesus. God anyhow have guaranteed to make us perfect one day before the New Heaven and New Earth come.

Recap below is the battle log of Andrew Walkington

Yesterday in Sunnybank there were a few great conversations and at least 2 young men seemed to really grasp the gospel for the first time.

Danny has a Christian upbringing but as I dug into what he believed, it was clear that his hope was in good works to make him right with God. He tries to live a very moral life and hoped that he would be ok when he stood before God. I showed him that even as moral as he had tried to be, he would never be perfect and that his relative goodness could not save him. I then walked him through what Jesus did on the cross and why this changes everything. He came to understand that his trust needs to be not in himself but in the finished work of Jesus on the cross and he stated that this is now where his hope lies.

I then spoke with a very proud man who gave a convoluted label for his beliefs that had something to do with messianic understandings of Judaism, though he wasn’t Jewish at all. He talked and talked about how most people miss the meanings of the texts and how the church has it wrong. He denied hell, denied that God is angry with people and argued that we are all God’s children. When I read several passages to him about how we are enemies of God in our natural state he argued that this was just my interpretation. He then started arguing that our judgement is only going to be based on the quality of our works and brought up the story of the widow’s offering as an example, which happened to be the very passage I preached this past Sunday! I pleaded with him to study Ephesians 2 and Romans 1-8. He thanked me for chatting and said he would read Ephesians 2 that night.

Harris is 17 and from a non-religious home. He had gone to church a bit as a kid and said straight up that he believes in God, Jesus, heaven and hell. When I asked him about the afterlife, he really hoped that he was good enough for heaven and had not understood the cross at all. I shared the gospel with him carefully to show him that we will never be good enough and that what we need is a saviour who will die in our place. He then asked a heap of really great questions about why we should be good if our goodness can’t save us and I was able to clearly explain how our repentance is a heart desire to turn from our rebellion, not the quality of our works. He ended up clearly understanding salvation and took a gospel of John to read.

Please pray for each of these folks that they would place their trust in Jesus and not in their works to save them.

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Operation 513 Battle Log for Sunnybank on Wednesday November 4th from 1300 - 1500

Johnny and Hung were pleased to have Allan joining us today. All of us were given many divine appointments of long chat of which many of apologetic nature to explain the difference between Christianity and other world religion. Without exception, God used both of us to convey the truth about God , His salvation and the Bible teaching while maintaining a lively and friendly two way conversation with people of other faith. For Johnny, he had his first chat with a Buddhist from mainland China for 40 mins, then one after another over 15 minutes chat ending with a pair of Muslim youngsters from Pakistan. Johnny first then taken up by me to have a long chat over 45 minutes. They even asked us to leave our contact so that they can refer some of his Muslim friends to chat with us.

Recap herewith are my seven conversations:

1) Miss Mong 孟，from China 中 is a QUT year three student. She admitted she has been brought up as an atheist in China. But ever since she came to Australia to study, she started to have many opportunities to get in touch with all sorts of religion. She once went to the Mormon meeting eager to know more about Jesus. She did not stay at Mormon but attended the local Australian church at Annerley where she lives. With piece meal bit of knowledge about God and Jesus, she was not able to make further meaningful pursue. But the long chat with me today have cleared up all her trivial understanding and was convinced that Jesus is the only way to eternal salvation. I recommended her to go to SIC when the church reopen after rebuilding construction is finished.

2) A Nepalese old man let me walked him across the bridge and have listen a nutshell of the gospel message.

3) A Chinese old woman at the bus stop had initial reluctant to hear the gospel, but God moved her to change heart and let me finish the sharing of the nutshell of the Gospel.

4) An Aussie Career and the old man he was caring passed by. He stop the old man to take tract from us, but God changed his mind to take the tract from me and have a short and brief chat of the gospel message.

5) An Indian old woman with initial reluctant but still let me share the gospel in brief and I let her read the tract at home when the bus came.

6) A Korean Christian man can speak limited Mandarin but no English as he is married to a Chinese wife. I checked his assurance of salvation and he replied correctly to have 100% certainty. But the reasons he could have that certainty was not clearly communicated to me due to limited Mandarin.

7) Two Pakistanis Muslim Tafe students by the name Shani and Muneeb started to have a apologetic debate with Johnny for a long time. I took over as Johnny had to leave earlier. They are very serious and sincere to explore the real truth though they still endeavor to uphold their Islamic faith which they do not have a full understanding either. We leave contact for him to invite more knowledgeable Muslin friend to find out which way is the way.

感謝天父上帝的祝福和帶領，我們Operation 513 共有三人參加今天的街頭福音事工，第一位停下腳步的是一位從湖南就讀QUT的賀同學， 他第一次聽到了福音，我們聊了三十分鐘，請為他禱告。另外有丹麥來的Nelson ;馬來西亞的謝先生，台灣邱同學，兩位回教徒青年，祈求上帝憐憫恩待，拯救他們，另外有兩位信仰堅實從南非來的Philip； 澳洲老太太Bev,祈求上帝繼續保守看顧他們，將來在天上再相聚，一起同聲讚美上帝，數算上帝的恩典。

 

 

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Operation 513 Battle Log for Sunny Bank on Wednesday Oct 28, 2020 from 1300 to 1500

Despite 100% certain Severe Storm Warning, Johnny and I still attended to the regular Street Evangelism. Both Andrew and Col were not available. It was good as usual. God gave us chance to have apologetic discussion with people of other faith like Muslim, Buddhism and Atheism. We were just doing ou best to explain the gospel and show them the differences and let them to ponder if their own religion really is capable of addressing same issue of sin like Christianity.

Storm came only after we finished out duty for the day.

Recap below was my battle Log:

1) A young man by the name Jacky 小杰 who is from China大陸, he heard the gospel and claimed he now understand it 明白 . So leave it to God to convict him at His time.

2) An elderly woman from Hong Kong by the name Ko, 高婆 claimed to be a Christian. She asked me to give her my number so that she would call me to pick her up for Sunday service.

3) Ken a Vietnamese of Catholic background, has no assurance but admitted only Jesus is perfect for saving us.

4) Mick a consultant from Herb life. He is of Catholic background but has not attended church for a long long time. He understood the gospel but of course do not have assurance of salvation. It was clarified and he felt convinced.

5) An Indian Atheist with string will against and religion. I walked him across the bridge but he is not humble and open enough to really listen to the gospel message. I anyhow still can maintain a two way communication and we greeted each other an hur later after he finished his errands.

6) A Chinese old woman took the tract but did not stop for chat.

 

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