Battle Log
Saturday, 26 April, 2008
Posted 2 May 2008, 9:29 PM by Josh Williamson. Permalink
Saturday, 26 April, 2008
Tonight
was an interesting night. As I prepared for the outreach, I was
reminded of last week, and how we had a young man threaten to get some
‘goodies' to pour over me while I preached. This idea did not really
excite me, 
but as I thought about it, I concluded that the young man probably was just making up some threats.
As Ryan began preaching, I was approached by Kyosti who told me that he
had just witnessed to a group of young men, and that I should be aware
that one of them has a big jar of honey to pour over me when I preach.
As I looked around I spotted the young man from the week before, and I
knew it was going to be an interesting night.
The young men
walked over to me and we began to chat. I have witnessed to these guys
before, and Kyosti just went over them again with the gospel. So as
Ryan preached in the background we just chatted about general stuff. I
informed that I was aware of what they were planning to do, and that no
matter what happens I would not become angry, nor would I hate them.
But rather I would continue to share Jesus with them. One of the team
softened and was very open to talking. The other two were under the
influence of alcohol, so it was hard to talk to them.
We spoke for some time on different topics, and one of the boys turned out to be 13 years old, and the 
sad thing was he was drunk and could barely stand. Because of their
drunkenness they would run up to people and try to scare them. This
resulted in the police coming up to see what was going on. I spoke to
the Police constable, and explained what was happening, then I asked
him to have a word with the 13 year old on the dangers of drinking. The
police officer took the boy aside and gave him a good dressing down for
drinking and even call his mother. The boys attitude changed after this
and they were very polite and friendly.
Ryan was still
preaching at this time, he was heading towards the two hour mark when
he finally stepped down. All around our section in the Queen street
mall one to one's were occurring. I noticed that our regular heckler
"Mr Dawkins" was present so I walked over to him, and had a
conversation. We seem to have a good relationship with a lot of our
regular hecklers, and one can see that they are softening towards the
gospel.
"Mr Dawkins" and I chatted for some time about
atheism, and Christianity. We went back and forth over the existence of
God, and in the end he admitted that their ‘may' be a God. I pointed
out to him then that he could no longer hold to atheism, but rather he
must be an agnostic. We then chatted about how the belief in no god, is
just 
as
much a religion as a belief in God. "Mr Dawkins" didn't like that two
much, and as we parted ways he said he would talk about this more. So
no doubt we will see him again this coming week, even though he keeps
saying he hates listening to us.
By now it was midnight, so we
started to pack up. I was quite impressed, the night was quiet, yet
many great one to ones occurred. Then as we were preparing to leave a
man claiming to be a pastor was getting violent. He was drunk, and
trying to beat up a teenager who was listening to him being witnessed
to. Myself and couple of the guys jumped in the middle, and tried to
keep them apart, but the ‘pastor' kept pushing past. Eventually we were
able to separate them, and the drunk ‘pastor' was getting hostile
towards me, his face was familiar, and I thought I had seen him
somewhere before, so I asked him if he was related to a certain family
that has a lot of pastors in the AOG movement. As I said the name of
the family his face changed, and he couldn't get away quick enough.
It is sad to see so many false converts out there saying their Christians, when in reality they are still lost.
Praise God for His Gospel Truth!
Soli Deo Gloria!