Battle Log

• Battle Log
• Toowong (QLD) Team
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Toowong Team (QLD)

Meets 1:30-3pm every Tuesday afternoon at the Toowong train station on the 2nd floor and splits into two teams, one at the main entrance of Toowong Tower on Sherwood Road, another at the foot of the pedestrian bridge across Benson Street.

Contact Johnny Hsieh for more information.

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Operation 513 Battle Log for Toowong Village on Tuesday December 1, 2020 from 1330 - 1500

It was a challenging day with Hung and Winnie only to serve at Toowong while Johnny was on family trip at interstate. The temperature soared up to 33C or even higher around our street evangelism venue with lot of concrete building around. It seriously affected the mood of the pedestrians to stop for a chat. Every one wanted to hide and stay under the limited shade behind the Bus stop. But the grace of God was sufficient that some rejected us initially had changed their heart to have a chat with us with mixed result in God's hand according to His plan. At the end, I have 8 conversations while Winnie had 6 as recapped below.

1) Middle Eastern young man who claimed to have chatted with me before, but I nevertheless still made a revision on the Good Person issue with him to refresh his memory on the need to trust in Jesus.

2)Woman in red reject to chat but later soften to take a tract to read.

3)Teresa a local Aussie lady immediately recognized me and even repeat the question I asked her as a Christian. So there was not much need for a revision as the bus came soon.

4) Sarah a Vietnam/ Australian cross breed from a Christian family of Anglican background. She was approached by Winnie first. She has the basic understanding of Christian faith though still falling short of 100 % assurance of salvation. But she got the point after my minor effort of clarification.

5) A Muslim Couple with Husband called Mohammad who appeared friendly for a chat. He has some trivial knowledge of Christianity, as such he expects us to have basic knowledge of the Islamic faith as well. I admitted this attitude of openness but after all there is absolute truth that cannot be comprised. Then our conversation was ended at this point in time when the bus arrived.

6) An Indian UQ student named Sign stopped for a short chat under the scorching sun. THe heat really did not good for mood to learn and share. He after all was patience enough to finish hearing the gospel.

7) A Chinese couple were happy to chat which was rare. But by the grace of God, I finished the sharing of the nutshell of Gospel emphasizing that the ultimate requirement for heaven is perfection.

8) Finally, a UQ student Jia Jia, who was born in Beijing China but has been brought up here as an ABC who took a tract and read it immediately despite initial rejection to chat. After he finished reading, I was able to connect with him to have a chat to go deeper in the issue of sin and judgement. He ended up greatly impressed by the message.

感謝主 今天的带领，讓我遇上六人傳福音的機會。 Amy, 土生華人，初時不願意聽，我問她認識耶穌基督嗎？跟着傳福音给她。她很留心聽着每一句話，相信聖靈的話語，已经觸動她的心，相信很快她會回轉歸向神。Sarah 是基督徒，初時覺得自己未夠完美，未必可以上天堂。但我説信靠耶穌，祂保血能洗淨我們的罪，绝對可以上天堂。跟着關牧師來 再詳述给她。Sandra 中國少女，聽完福音後，會想想。澳洲少女，不想聽。在她看單張時，我在她身邊講述福音，盼望聖靈躅動她。Vivian, 印度女子。講述全福音给她。于燕，中國少女，聽完全福音，她會细心想想，自己是否真的需要耶穌基督。

盼望今天聽到福音的人，求主憐憫他們，打開他們的心門，接受主耶穌基督為救世主。阿們！感謝讚美主！

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Operation 513 Battle Log for Toowng Village on Tuesday Nov 24 2020 from 1330 to 1500

It was a very warm Summer afternoon. By the grace of God , Johnny, Hung and Winnie can manage to turn up to serve the Lord as a team despite both Winnie (hearing aid needs adjustment) and Hung (has to avoid scorching sun after having begun the Narrow band light treatment for skin problem). ON top of the personal weakness, Hung forgot to bring his iphone. So only very few photoes had been taken for Johnny and Winnie while both of them had opportunities to take photo for me. The progress and pace of out reach was much slow due to the scorching high noon sun. But we all had managed to get into conversation with around 7 persons as recap below.

1) Tom - after several rejection by several Chinese students, here came Tom who also showed initial resistance to hear the gospel. Actually he refused to take the tract which was offered first by Johnny at the traffic light , then me at the bus stop. But God still softened his heart to let me chat with him as an Alumni of UQ and my life witness how I came to Christ. So gospel was also shared before the bus arrived. Trust he will bre in God's good hand closer to the D day of his salvation.

2) Oliver was once approached by Winnie some weeks ago. I still took the chance to revise and review on his status. I also introduced him to join Power to Change week day physical meeting on the campus.

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Sarah

is a Christian, but she failed the test of assurance of salvation by 10%. She only have 90% assurance which is because she though she is still not yet perfect. After my explanation of the 3 fold deliverance as God's package deal for salvation. She now understood after receiving Christ and be saved as a born again Christian, we are yet to be perfect by the work of God through the Holy Spirit. This as this work in progress stage, it is normal that we will be seen not perfect and will failed the test of God committing sin. Yet this is within God's plan as such it will not affect the 100% assurance of salvation by Christ that changed our identity from enemy of God back to Children of God or His heavenly citizen. Sarah was delighted to be able to have 100 % assurance of salvation as the bus came.

4) Lily is an UQ student as well as Migrant from Afghanistan. Winnie first approached her and did the Are you a Good Person Test. I followed up to reinforce the power of Jesus salvation. She did show pressure from Muslim faith that is too hard for her to change here faith from Islamic to Christianity. But I advised her in some Muslin Country, missionary was successful to convert Muslim to Christians with culture of worship remains unchanged but with the God head changed to Jesus. Pray for God's continuous work on Lily.

5) John is a senior person on wheel chair. He is a typical country Aussie with humor. When I asked him as a Good Person, can he go to heaven. He asked me back if General Secretary Xi can go. I took the chance teo say yest if he has a moment to repent in his life time. He switched to a place with more shade to continue with our conversation till the bus came. I stayed with him to get him on to the bus together with the bus driver lady to show him the love of Jesus.

Here is the recap by Winnie for the 7 persons she contacted to day.

感謝主 今天的带领，讓我有機會 傳福音给七人。有印尼的女士，兩位印度女士，中國少女，台湾少女，澳洲男士及少女。他們都聽了全福音和接受單張，要時間想想。願神 打開他們心門，接受主耶稣基督為救世主。阿們！

感謝讚美主！

 

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Operation 513 Battle Log for Toowong Village on Tuesday Nov 17, 2020 from 1330 to 1500

It was a day of grace with storm and rain pouring down in the middle of our way of street evangelism. In the beginning before the storm came, we had relatively very limited chance to stop people for a chat. Some hurried away to avoid the forth coming storm with thundering rooming in a distance. God did not let this happen without a reason. Winnie and I had unexpected fellowship time to share experience and testimony. But when the storm came, many people were forced to gather under the bus station with limited sheltering space. Then all three of us were fully occupied with conversations that we were all too busy to take photo for each others. At the end , we possibly collectively reached out to 20 odd persons.

Team work was also orchestrated by God in a prominent way. Some were first approached by Johnny taking a tract but did not stop yet were followed up by us successfully after they got to the bus stop. Like wise, some failed to have been stopped by us yet got a long chat with Johnny.(*)

(*) æ„Ÿè¬å¤©çˆ¶ä¸Šå¸çš„帶領，今天在街上傳福音的時候，遇到一位女生從南京來UQ 讀書的謝同學，她聽到審判日要下地獄，她笑笑的說：「 有什麼好怕的，」隨後舉起滿是自殺刀痕的左手給我看。我被這舉動嚇了一跳。我便安慰她，告訴她生命的可貴。也將主耶穌的話告訴她。我們談了一會。她聽到了福音，請為謝同學來禱告，求上帝安慰、憐憫、拯救她。

Recap below are the battle log of mine and Winnie.

1) Kale a Korean UQ student who took a tract from Johnny but was approached by me for a full gospel sharing. He was born in Switzerland but came to Adelaide first then to Brisbane for study at UQ. He has no religion but was very receptive to the Gospel.

2) Chatted with a few Beauty school students after they got tracts from Johnny. One of them , an Aussie girl had a long chat with Johnny. The other excused themselves for class in the building behind the bus stop. Many of them were Islanders and from India.

3) Then I caught up with a Mozambique Christian. He only has 80% of assurance of salvation. So I quickly clarified with him that the reason we are saved is by grace through faith in Christ alone. He delightfully thanks for my clarification.

4) A Malaysian Mum Wendy was first approached by Winnie. She told Winnie she is a Christian as such Winnie just let go. But she was detained at the bus stop by the sudden pouring down of rain. So I had chance to approach her again to check here with the two diagnosis questions. She does has 100% assurance for the right reason of the sacrificial grace of Jesus. She now worships at the Hope Church in UQ with ehr son. She actually needed to move on to meet her son at the Toowong Village to ride home together for care and safety sake.

5) An Aussie girl called Egypt was receptive to listen to the gospel. Time was just barely enough to give her the nutshell though the prospect for her to understand and has a repentant heart to accept Christ as her saviour.

6) Hannah ws from America which I only learned as the end. She hd initial reluctance to listen to the Gospel but God moved me to unarmed her resistant attitude and finally turned very receptive to the Gospel. SHe promised to read the tract and ponder deeper in her heart to make this important decision of her life time.

7) An Aussie lady stopped for a brief chat but finally hurried away as she was afraid of the looming storm.

Recap below are the account of WInnie's eight divine appointments: --

感謝主今天的带领，讓我有機會 可以向八人傳福音。

第一位是印度年青人，福音講了一半，巴士到達。

第二位是澳洲女士，Helen, 當我講完福音，她説是基督徒，我運用關牧師方法 測示她 ，她好肯定的回答 一定會上天堂。還接受我给她單張來傳福音给其他人。感谢主。

第三位是澳洲老婦人，初時不想聽，我問她認識耶穌基督嗎？跟着傳福音给她。我從神 創造萬物天地 跟着阿當，夏娃犯罪。道至我們一出生，便是罪人。耶穌降世，死在十字架上 ，三天復活。是為拯救我們，脱離罪。詳细講解给她。她聽了，問我要怎樣做。我叫她去附近教會，找牧師。跟着遲些牧師會為你施洗，聖靈便會進入你心裏，你便是基督徒。當我講完，巴士到達。

第四位是Malaysian Mum，當我想傳福音给她，她説是基督徒，跟着關牧師來到 測示她。

第五位是中國UQ 學生，Alice, 當我講完福音，她願意到教會尋求更多真理。巴士到達。

第六位是印度 UQ 工作學生。願意回教會。

第七位是中國青年，Joe, 佛教徒，我説佛教要行善，積福德。但基督教是講信靠耶穌，便得救。未講完，巴士到達。

第八位是澳洲少女及中國少女，澳洲少女願意聽，當我講了一半，中國少女拖走她。可能他們趕時間吧！

願今天聽到福音人士，打開心門，接受耶穌基督為救世主。阿們！

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Operation 513 Battle Log for Toowong Village on Tuesday Nov 9, 2020 from 1330 to 1500

It was a very fruitful afternoon with the three of us Johnny , Winnie and Hung serving together as a team. All of us had got numerous chance of long chats with good results. For instance, the first chat that Johnny had led to a conversion readily. It was also an afternoon of apologetic discussion with people of deep catholic Muslim and Jehovah Witness background.

Recap herewith is my six divine appointments : -

1) MacLaylup is a country girl from Townsville to study here at UQ. She is from a Christian family. But she came to faith by herself as an adult. She claimed to have 100% assurance of faith after initial hesitation as it seems to be of spiritual realm issue that people seldom contemplate above it., she anyway asserted that she is 100% sure she is saved but the reason is not clean cut just have faith in God. After some hints and guidance, she eventually understood her reason of salvation is purely because of Jesus only as such she should have 100% assurance of salvation. After that ,she was drawn deeper in understanding why Christians are not yet perfect after conversion as it is part of God's three fold salvation plan that the redemptive grace of Jesus only changed our identity back as God's people. It enables God to exercise His sovereign power in our life to start the sanctification work to transform us back to perfect through the work of the Holy Spirit. She was so grateful for the educative conversation and was delighted to take a selfie with me.

2) Betty a Chinese non believer girl took tract from Johnny but did not stop to chat. Until she arrived at the bus stop, God changed her mind to stop and listen to my full gospel presentation. She found it logical and sensible. I introduced her to join Power to Change even if she is still at the stage of seeking.

3) Juline an old lady who did not prepare to stop claiming she got the tract and had a conversation with Winnie last week. She thanked us anyway indicating she is a Buddhist as such there is no need for Christianity. I anyway felt the urge to share again the nutshell of the gospel and was able to convinced her that even Buddhist need Jesus. She was impressed and promised to ponder seriously and thank for my sincerity to share the importance to be saved by Jesus.

4) Then a couple of Chinese guy and Aussie girl carrying heavy shopping goods getting passed Johnny without stopping. I anyway approached them when they got to the bus stop. The Aussie girl was more open while the Chinese Guy was not so keen to hear the Gospel. I anyway rushed to give them the nutshell but cut short by the arrival of the bus.

5) Betty another UQ students unexpectedly stopped to chat. She was from Chongxiang showed great receptiveness to the gospel. She also was happy to take the Power to Change info slip to get in touch with them.

6) Fiona is a very serious Catholic Christian with the righteous attitude to defend for the orthodox Catholic belief against all biased and distorted accusation on their faith. She was impressed with my opened attitude to give her the benefit of the doubt to see what is her perspective of orthodox Catholic belief that has long been misinterpreted by Protestant Christian. She came specially for me and give me a list of information source as well as Catholic Father that I can make inquiry with.

As for Winnie, she had 9 conversations as recap below that kept her very busy throughout the 80 minutes of ministry time.

感謝主今天的帶領，讓我遇到九人傳福音的機會。今天有六位是來自中國，一位是馬來西亞，一位是菲律宾與澳洲混血兒，一位是澳洲婦女。 第一位，Gloria,UQ 學生。聽完福音後，願意去教會尋求更多真理。 第二位名叫芝，馬來西亞女學生，需要時間想想。 第 三及第四位也是中國留學生，講完福音後， 巴士到逹。 第五位，Mary，UQ 學生。聽完福音，會细心想想。 第六位，Benda,中國留學生，也是需要時間想清楚。 第七位，Joe, 菲律宾與澳洲混血兒，明白我們是罪人，需要耶穌基督拯救。會看完單張後，思想這個問题。 第八位澳洲女士，天主教徒，我們談論很長時間關於基督教與天主教的分别。後來她也與關牧師談論這問题。 第九位，中國女士，會想清楚免费禮物及天堂與地獄問题。 感謝讚美主！願神赐福给今天聽到福音的人士，打開心門，接受耶穌基督為救世主。阿們！

Recap herewith is the summary by Johnny Hsieh

感謝天父上帝的帶領和祝福，今午Toowong 的街頭福音事工有ㄧ位從蘇格蘭來的UQ學生 Wirll聽完福音之後願意信靠主耶穌。請為他禱告，另有Isaac 澳洲青年，還有一位張姓JW 耶和華見證人的女信徒試著想改變我的信仰， 我拿出手機上的聖經與她討論。

         

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Operation 513 Battle Log for Toowong Village on Tuesday November 3, 2020 from 1330 to 1500

Today Winnie could not come as her hearing aid was out of order taken to repair that can be back next Monday. So only Johnny and Hung teamed up to serve again at the Benson Street Bus Stop. The afternoon sun was very bright though temperature was 28C, but the backdrop condition was a bit rough for street evangelism. People all tried to hide under shaded area to avoid the high noon scorching sun. As a result, both of us had less than average number of completer chats. Nevertheless, God still had His sovereign Will and Plan

For me, I spent some time to catch up with Mark Reeve before I had the five divine appointments of which the chat with a Catholic Christian seems to have a special apologetic bearing that will continue in to next weeks or so as the lady Fiona seemed to have been impressed by our steadfastness to share the good news which she thought a right perception of the Catholic catechism would make the message more complete. I was inspired by God to lend her a listening ears first. So next week she would bring some more reference info to share with me.

Recap below are the four other conversations.

1) Waruna a UQ student from Sri Lanka who claimed himself to be a Buddhist. As usual, I did not attack his religion belief and assert that all religion are good but only good at appealing people to be a good person. Yet none of the world religion provide solution to the judgment of sin. He was convinced, but the bus just came to end our chat.

2) A student from China 中國學生, he was also all receptive to the gospel shared 都對. Only leave it to God the convert him at His time.

3) Laxa of Scottish origin was from Sydney. She has never hear Gospel before. She was with another Caribbean girl who left her key at the shopping centre. Thus Laxa was left at the bus station to have a thorough chat with me. She was also fully convinced by the gospel. I encouraged her to get in touch with Power to Change if she finally decided to accept Christ or at least want to pursue. When the Caribbean girl came back, she refused to take our tract as such it was obvious the act of God to send her away for me to have a deep chat with Laxa.

4) Billy a self proclaimed Vegan. Johnny chatted with him first and I joined later. He was baptized as a baby, and he admitted that means nothing. He seemed to think good deeds or good life style may play an important factor in salvation. It was a pity we did not have more time to correct his wrong understanding because of the arrival of the bus.

 

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Operation 513 Battle Log for Toowong Village on Tuesday Oct 27, 2020 from 1330 -1500

Today the team of three, Johnny , Winnie and Hung switched our mission venue to the Sherwood Street on the front of the main entrance of the Toowong Village. It was to avoid repeated encounter with many gospel targets at the Benson Street bus stop. Yet we unavoidably still meet up a couple of them. The chance of stopping for a chat was much less than the Benson Street Bus Stop. Johnny might have three or four, Winnie just two and I had 5 full chat with many shorter encounter as recap below: -

1) Jacob UQ student was willing to let me walk with him to the Toowong shopping Centre giving me chance to finish sharing the full Gospel in a nutshell.

2) An Indian woman was hurrying to work, so she was not attentive enough to hear the gospel despite I finished sharing the nutshell of Gospel.

3) Brendon a Christian attending Hillsong has 100% assurance of salvation but the reason is not clear enough failing to answer the 2nd question that the reason being admitted to heave nis simply because of Jesus and Him alone.

4) An arrogant Filipino Christian top the tract but refused to answer the two diagnosis questions.

5) An Indian father rushed to leave as child on the car but he willingly took the tract.

6) An Aussie Office lady need to go back to work but willingly took the tract.

7) Erica an Singaporean Malay Muslim. She was humble and receptive to the gospel.

8) Another Chinese girl rushed to work though accepted the tract.

9) A Chinese couple, the girl rejected but the boy accepted the tract.

10) Sem Trim an UQ student from Bhutan doing part time job near by. She just finished work and was about to go back to UNi for exam. But she still willingly spent over 15 minutes to chat. She was very receptive to the Gospel and agreed that Buddhism and other religions are only good at appealing people to behave as a good person but could not resolve the problem of sin. Introduced her to Power to Change as well at the end.

感謝主今天的帶領，雖然今天下雨，但 Johnny 带我們到有庶蓋的地方，避免濕身。謝謝 Johnny. 這處行人非常衷忙，不願留下數分鐘，最初遇上澳洲女士，初時願意留下聽，但提到耶穌為我們的罪釘上十字架，她馬上婉拒，離開。第二次遇到也是澳洲婦女，她説她是基督徒，我便引用關牧師所教的，測試她，死後可否能够上天堂，她非常肯定回答。 第三位男士，相信是非洲人，他説上周已经聽了我們所講的福音。 願神憐憫，賜福今天所有聽到福音人士，打開心門，接受耶穌基督為救世主。真心仰望，信靠祂。阿們！

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Operation 513 Battle Log for Toowong Village on Tuesday Oct 20, 2020 from 1330 to 1500

We, Johnny, Winnie & Hung, had the privilege to serve as a team again with God as our team leader. Before we realize, God is changing the pattern of out reach at Toowong. For consecutive weeks, God led many gospel targets we had outreached in the previous weeks to turn up time and again to let us do follow up on their journey of faith in search of the ultimate salvation. Another new inspiration we got was that we might have to change tactic of doing friendship evangelism with those who declined if not rejected our approach. We can withhold preaching to them right away for the time being but changed tactic to make friend first as many of them turn up regularly each week. Recap here below are the battle log for me and Winnie (in Chinese). You will notice some of this examples.

1) Sonia , a tall Aussie Uq girl appeared very friendly who let me chat with her about the tract. I had just enough time to share the full gospel to her, but no time to get her direct response though she appeared very receptive.

2) Munich a Hindu young man who was humble to listen to the gospel and found it sensible and logical. He promised to seriously ponder about the need of his sin be forgiven by accepting Jesus.

3) A young man from Henan, who initially declined to chat with Winnie but accepted the tract and started reading it. I approached him a short while after he started reading the tract and changed tactics to make friend first to reduce his alertness against stereotype religious preaching. He turned his attitude to become more receptive to gospel message which I had run out of time to share when the bus came. Pray that God will use the tract to follow up on his pursuance of faith.

4) Jia Peng 賈蓬 was met by Winnie last week. I followed up on her understanding and had gone through the full gospel again. It appeared she now understood she is a good person but not good enough to hit the perfect requirement of God as such she also need redemptive grace of Jesus. Hope we will have chance to chat again next week.

5) An UQ student from Taiwan 台灣who initially also refused to have a chat about the tract. God inspired me to make friend first by switching into more causal chat. So again pray for next meeting to see if her heart is more opened for the gospel.

6) Gail is a Hindu man from India. He turned down to chat with Johnny at the traffic light and Winnie when he got to the bus stop. But When I approached him as he arrived at the bus stop. He recognized me that we had a chat before at least once or more times. He took initiative to talk to me defending for his Hindu faith which I of course responded with a listening ear. Basically he deemed that Hinduism also advocate there is only one God but they can incarnate and appear in human world in many forms in different cultural groups. They all came with a purpose yet they cannot stipulate. On the other hand , they rejected that there is a supreme being God as they cannot rationalize that there is a God who exists by Himself. God head in Hindu people's mind are just spiritual being created in heavenly realm. After I heard his explanation, I challenged him with the question what is the purpose of the Hindu god for coming to live as a living being. Before I can lead him to know that Jesus came with a mission to save us from hell punishment by dying on the cross. Yet the bus came at this moment in time. No doubt God will have another divine appointment arranged in near future.

7) Another girl from China was reluctant to chat but my new tactic of making friend first worked. She took the tract when the bus came.

8) After we finished for the day and did the closing prayer. We noticed an old woman from Shen Zhen 深圳 sitting on the ground waiting for her daughter who had gone to the Toowong shopping centre. We took the chance to share the gospel briefly to her and gave her the tract.

Battle log of Winnie:

感謝主今天的带领，除了兩位數周前遇到的，主今天讓我遇上七人傳福音的機會。中途遇見了香港來澳洲讀書的偉行，問及他的信仰程度，再次複述上次我們講的福音。

遇到印度基督徒女學生，上次關牧師曾经测试她信仰程度。我再次問她，死後能否上天堂，她猶疑不答。我再次解释给她。

第一位，Marion, 基督徒。不太清楚能否上天堂。我解释给她，她完全明白。還接受我给她的單張傳给朋友。

第二位，Joshua，UQ 學生，願意回教會，尋求更多真理。

第三位男士，不願聽福音。我問及他是否認識耶穌，跟着傳福音给他，送给單張。

第四位，Alex 來自India, 天主教徒，我講及基督教與天主教分别。

第五位，Sam UQ 學生，來自香港，當我講完福音後，願意接受主耶穌，還很高興遇到我分享福音给他。感谢主。

第六位，Oscar，UQ 學生。會细心想想。

第七位，Lindy UQ 學生，來自 馬來西亞，明白真理，願意信靠主耶稣基督。

感謝讚美主。願主祝福今天聽到或再次聽到福音人仕，打開心門，讓主進入他們心中，尊崇敬拜祂。…

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Operation 513 Battle Log for Toowong Village o Tuesday October 13, 2020 from 1330 to 1500

Today we had a team of three as usual including Johnny Winnie and Hung. The weather was not sunny with cloud but the day light was bright with breeze as such it was ideal for outreach. The chances of divine appointment were equally distributed amongst the three of us each having around 8 to 9 chatting opportunities. We also encounter a special situation or outreach pattern of having many mini-reunions with gospel targets we met lately. It enabled us to follow up on their understanding of the Gospel and meaning of salvation t osee whether there is still any barrier preventing to make that precious and important decision to repent and accept Jesus as their Savior and Lord of Life.

Recap belows are the battle log of me in English and of Winnie in Chinese: -

1) A Christian young lady who claimed to have 100% assurance of salvation. When I wanted to cross check what is the basis of this 100% assurance, she then started to avoid answering. I was not able to pin her down for an exact answer as the Bus came at this moment. So it is doubtful if she trust on Jesus alone or herself. Hope next week will meet and follow up with her.

2) Derek and I recognized each other but I forgot his name. It was nice to catch up his understanding and clarified further that no good man is good enough and we all bound to have imperfect sin of though and acts that would subject to hells punishment. Derek now admitted he is good but not perfect as such he would need Jesus if he wants to be on the bright side of God in eternity. I vowed to remember his name next tome we met and awaiting for his serious decision to accept Christ.

3) Then came Perry who was approached by Winnie last week. Her feed back was like Derek still opined that she could continue to live as a good person without adhering to any religion. I caught up to clarify with this point that all religions are good to appeal people to try our best to be a good person. But none of them address the issue of sin that every good person would have committed from time to time as such no religion can saved us from the punishment of sin except Jesus Christ who came to die for us as a blemished perfect sacrificial goal to take our place to receive the hell punishment, but he defeated Satan as well as his power of death so that he rose up to be the King of kings and our Lord of all Lords giving us the assurance of a new heavenly identity to reconcile with God and be His people again. Like-wise, Perry seemed to have got th point this time and I could only pray God will do the rest to convict her and let me know net time we met.

4) Then came Mandy in a rush to buy something from Towong Village and had to hurried back to work. I offered to walk with her and finish my shorter version of Gospel in a nutshell. She appeared very receptive to the message and acknowledged the need of Jesus after my sharing. She seemed to have received great enlightenment and promised to seriously read the tract to help her to reach the right decision important to her eternal destiny.

5) Lily a young Aussie girl who got a tract from Johnny but did not stop. I followed up to chat with her when she got to the bus stop. I was only able to share the gospel in a nutshell realizing the bus was arriving. She anyway showed degree of understanding of the issue and promised to chat more next time if we meet again.

6) A Lady was on the phone but she still politely accepted the tract, so that mean there is always next time to follow on the aborted conversation.

7) Nish an Indian girl who humbly listened to the Gospel in a nutshell that I could barely had time to finish by the time the bus arrived. She seemed to have got the essence of the message and I can only pray for God's mercy on her to lead her to Christ in His time.

8) Another Indian lady claimed we had chatted before and she was not in the mood to chat anymore. Just pray that net time God will change her mind.

9) Finally Fiona took the tract but the bus came and I did not even have time to share apart from getting her name so hopefully God will give us a second chance to chat next time.

Recap below is the battle log summary in Chinese for Winnie who spoke to 8 persons with mixed results. Three would think deep about it , two said they would accept Jesus as savior. And three all claimed to be Buddhists but Winnie learned to explain to them to notice the difference of Christianity with all other religions including Buddhism that they are all good but only appealing people to be a good and better persons yet provided not solution to address the sin and the consequential hell punishment that only Christianity provides a solution of letting Jesus a perfect person nto die for them taking their place to received the hell punishment of our sin as such we a clean and right with God to be His people again.

感謝主今天的带领，讓我可以遇到八位傳福音的機會。有一位澳洲男士趕着見醫生，接受單張，便離開，説會閲讀内容。另外一位澳洲老婦女，有中国男士照顾她。男士不要單張，但婦女伸手拿取，願意閱讀。

第一位遇上是 Eve,澳洲少女，聽完福音後，願意想想。

第二位是 Jane, 中国少女，也是需要時間想清楚。

第三位是 Kelvin, 中国青年。初時不想聽，當他坐下來，我問他認識耶稣基督嗎？跟着傳福音给他。

第四位澳洲青少年，願意接受免费禮物。

第五位是中國 UQ 女學生，May, 願意信靠主，寻求更多真理。我给她咭片，Power of Change.

第六位是中国女士，當我講述福音後，她说是佛教徒。我解释她基督教舆佛教分别。

第七位是澳洲女士，Linda, 她説有朋友是佛教，有的是天主教，有的是基督教。她分不清楚所有的教有什么分别？我解释给她聽，佛教及很多的教都是講及要做善事積陰德。基督教是講述罪的問题，耶稣基督為我們贖罪釘上十字架上，死後，三天復活。我們信靠祂，罪得赦免。死後可以上天堂。當我們信靠了主耶稣，聖靈便會進入我們心内，我們應不能做的事，聖𩆜帶领下，我們都可以做得到。我講述自己的見證。她聽後，願意信靠主耶稣，多謝我詳细解释。感谢主，這都是神利用我這個不配的器皿講出來。

第八位 是中国少女，红。她説她的朋友都是佛教徒。我解释她佛教與基督教分别。她説會想想。

感謝讚美主，謝謝關牧師的教導。今天學到的功課，就是遇到佛教徒時，怎样回應他們。

   

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Operation 513 Battle Log for Toowong Village on Tuesday October 6, 2020 from 1330 - 1500

It was a very warm Spring afternoon with bright sun shine. It might have affected some people feeling reluctant to stop and chat under the Summer like scorching sun. But all the three of us , namely Johnny, Winnie and Hung all got reasonable good chance to shared the gospel to the needy ones. Johnny asked for prayer at the end for an UQ student from Taiwan who affirmatively willing to accept Jesus after hearing the Gospel. like-wise Winnie chatted to 8 persons amongst which four showed willingness to accept Jesus. For details, she supplied her Chinese record as below. As for me, I have seven opportunities as recap below.

0) Ouch! I forgot this lady from mainland China. She was hesitant if she should take my tract. And finally she took it. Then I asked if I could share about this before the bus came. She then suddenly firmed up and rejected to continue with our chat. Anyhow, at least she kept the tract and hope God will use it to move her.

1) Bob , a tall Aussie elderly man was prepared by God to wait at the bus stop for a long time as his route is of very infrequent schedule. We chatted for almost 20- 30 minutes. While I shared the gospel, he kept interjecting with many of his questions , like what is sin, will people before Christ be saved, etc. Thanks God that his attitude had eventually softened up and appeared receptive to the gospel accepting the fact that he also needs Jesus despite he all along considers himself a good person.

2) Ashan an Iran urban office lady look woman, finding her way to Indooroopilly shopping centre. She found the bus at the wrong bus. Winnie was the first to approach but could not help so I stepped in and found that she needed to go another bus stop across the road on another street. I offered to walk her to the right bus station making sure she would not got to a wrong bus station heading to the opposite direction to city. God inspired me to stress the points that taking a wrong bus at a wrong bus stop is frustrating thing but you still have chance to make it right eventually. But losing the way and heading to a wrong eternal place in hell instead of heaven is a irreversible mistake that no one should afford. She admit the gospel is sensible and logical but may need more time to sink in the importance. I told her Iran actually has become a thriving new Christian kingdom and she admitted she has many Christian friends. So I pray that God will guide and put her in many good Christian friends hand like God put her in my hand to help her find the right bus.

3) Houng a Vietnamese student from NZ. He happily accepted the tract but was in a hurry to meet his friends who are coming to pick him up. I however still managed to shared the nutshell of the gospel to him in less than a minutes of time.

4) A righteous girl saw me took photo of Winnie sharing gospel with another Chinese girl. She let me share the gospel with her for the purpose of waiting for the finish of conversation of Winnie with that girl. Then she walked over to prompt the girl that I took her picture. I was a little bit surprised in the calculated way of that Indian looks lady but she has the righteous moral ground to give me in. I explained to them that the photo normally avoid the face and it did when I showed them. Anyhow, the Chinese girl was persuaded to ask me to delete it. So, it is a lesson to learn not taking photo too obviously in front of other passers by .

5) Oscar was some one I met two weeks ago. I asked if he has read the tract again at home and how does he find it. The answer was a bit disappointing as he said he does not find the need for salvation. Nevertheless, I tried to go over the illustration of sin to prove that no one including him is good and perfect. Once we have sin, we need Jesus to die for our sin. I invited him to ponder on this issue again.

6) Daren a good old man willing to listen but seemingly has no idea of salvation. He was appreciative for my sharing but asked if I think I can convert everyone. I said it counts to convert even one person better than doing nothing.

Here are the sharing of Winnie on her 7 conversations.

感謝主今天的带领，讓我有機會與人分享福音。

第一及第二位是UQ 年青少女。Myer and Lucy. 明白主的救赎。願意尋求更多真理。

第三位是澳洲年青人。初時不願意接受單章。當他坐下，我問他是否認識耶穌基督，他沒有回答。我给他福音單章，跟着講述福音给他。

第四位是馬來西亞少女，Mary. 明白福音，願意接受免费禮物。

第五位是中国婦女，講述重要福音给她，巴士到達。

第六位是南美少女，Mimi,我用關牧師的方法來測試她，她完全明白救恩。我给她單章讓她傳给别人。

第七位 是中国少女，願意接受福音，找教會寻求更多真理。

第八位是Nathan, 澳洲男士。我們傾談很長。他説信自己靠自己。路是自己行出來。我解释给他，神創造萬物天地，因为亞當 夏娃反罪，所以我們都是罪人。如果我們信靠主耶稣，祂會拯救我們，死在十字架上 還赏我們的罪債，我們的罪便得赦免。這是免费禮物。聖靈便會進入我們心裏，我們便有能力做任何事。當信了主耶稣基督，便會體會到主的大能，我們應該做不到的事，反然有能力做到。我勸他想清楚，不信便會落地獄。如果信了，明天的死，便會上天堂。他説會詳细想一想。

感謝讚美主，賜我能力解釋给他，這也是主的大能。"

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Operation 513 Battle Log for Toowong Village on Tuesday September 29, 2020 from 1330 - 1500

Today only Johnny and me were available, Winnie and Gary had other ministry engagement. It was a fine Spring afternoon best for street evangelism. But the people flow was a bit slow and quiet. And the rejection rate was high possibly affected by holiday mood that people tended not to chat but enjoy their own private space to listen to music or chatting with friends over the phone. Nevertheless, God grace was still sufficient for us to have our divine appointments especially Johnny getting more longer conversation as recap below: -

1.Hannah is from Japan which I learned only at the end of our conversation. She told me she could not speak Chinese so I thought she possibly is either Vietnamese, or Korean. She appeared very opened and listened to my gospel sharing with interest. Though she showed receptive to the gospel, but the arrival of the bus just striped away the timing to invite her to accept Jesus. God anyway was still in control.

2. Then a Church members of Johnny, Madam Siu turned up with her friend Madam Shen who is an Indonesia Diaspora from Hong Kong. Madam Siu only told me Madam Shen is not yet a Christian. I could have only limited time to share gospel with Madam Shen. 沈香港印尼人未完結福音講述。

3.Fiona a middle aged Aussie lady who is an extreme Catholic faith professing person. She declines and rejects all other forms of Christianity. She kept saying I should study more about the pure Catholic path, but obviously, it is still human good deeds based. With this arrogant attitude, I can only pray for her to humble herself in God;s timing to put her faith back to Sola Christ.

4 Malinga from Zambia was very friendly to let me with him the gospel. But quickly I noticed he is a Christian and upon posing to him the two diagnosis questions, he got it right to show assurance of salvation. We parted our way when the bus arrived by blessing each other.

5. A local Aussie Lady declined the approach by Johnny. She took her seat besides me and started reading a book entitled "The key of self kindness" I tried to start a conversation about the possibility of self perfection but still failed. She was insistent to not be disturbed from reading the book by herself.

As for Johnny two of his long conversation stood out:

1)Mr Wu from Wuhan 伍武漢，it was rared that mainland Chinese are willing to stop for a chat. But God moved him to stop and chatted for a long time with Johnny. He has many previous contact with Christians and has already built up flavorsome with Christianity. 已有接觸，對基督教有好感，We introduced him the contact to Power to Change(介紹了 Power to Change) and pray that God will lead him to make the final step of faith to accept Jesus.

2) A Malaysian Muslim stopped to chat with Johnny but with the intention to debate on the superiority of Muslim over all other religions including Christianity. Their problem is the lack of sense of guilt on sin. Treating all the trivial sin as unimportance that can be off set by good deeds. When Johnny told him getting married with many women is sin including Mohammad. He argued that Mohammad only entered into a relationship with a woman one at a time which of course is not true. They are like the Pharisee finding gray area to get around all sort of sins. This conversation anyway will still served the purpose of God to challenge his fake faith.

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