Battle Log

Well, it’s Friday, and I’ve just spent seven hours in online evangelism - so good!  Earlier in the day (NZ time), I seemed to be talking to people from the UK, but later in the day, and it was people in the US, but then you get people from all over the world.  It’s just so amazing how easy it is to find someone to share the gospel with.

And I know Omegle is not the place for a Christian to be hanging out.  But I just can’t help thinking of the Salvation Army in the early days.  Going for sinners, and going for the worst.  In the pubs and the brothels.

We are an unexpected life line to people.

Stranger: We need more people like you on Omegle.
Me: Yeah, I'm trying to encourage others to get involved

At about the same time someone said that to me, someone said the same thing to Grace:

Stranger: We need more people like you in the world
You: aww bless
You: you could be one of them?

The team meets face to face on Jitsi (prayer, demo, and debrief), and we also have a Facebook Messenger group.  We encourage each other with the gospel conversations we are having.

Here is one from Andy:

“Just had two chats straight.... Both professed to put faith in Christ,  both seemed really sincere in trusting Jesus paying for their sin from today..... one young church going guy was like..... Whooooooh , when he got it!
Yesterday was way hard..... like pulling teeth. God help me be faithful through high and low…”

And from Matt:

“At first professed he wasn't sure and then quickly came to acknowledge he knew God exists. But then started asking about homosexuality. We went down some explaining with helping him to understand.  But he was struggling to grasp it because he didn't know the gospel. So to help him understand I said, "I think this is critical to your understanding" and took him through the law and the gospel and he came to understand it. "It's a free gift, it's not because of what I do and my actions are just a display of gratitude" he said. He professed that he would believe from this moment onward! Then he asked a few questions and then I bought it back to the beginning when he had asked about homosexuality and I didn't even really have to answer, it had already fallen into place for him! He said, "I get it now. A Christian can love a homosexual and disagree with them and they can show that love by tell the news about Jesus and a homosexual can go to Heaven if they believe that Jesus paid for their sin and if they do, they will just remain single!"

I think in this conversation I witnessed regeneration and repentance followed by faith! What a joyful conversation! I left him with needGod.net, a link to a recent interview with a homosexual I did and my Facebook.”

This one from me:

“Nearly an hour talking with an Atheist (video, so it was a long one).  Hard as, but worth every second of my time.  He heard the gospel, and was deeply challenged.  But God!”  (Note, this one is pictured - they guy with the electric guitar.)

And this:

“Ahh, just had a chat with a kid stoned and drunk, he wouldn't leave, and I just kept going over the law and gospel, hoping something would stick. He said he would write down "needGod.net" and look at it in the morning.  He seemed impacted - you know something is going on inside, and you just don't know what... the hurts, the hatred.  Gotta leave ‘em in God's hands.”

Martin:

“Just spoke to a guy from a Muslim country who was secular and atheist, believing in science etc

But he said he liked what I said. He said he had not heard it explained that way before 

I was able to go through the whole gospel with checking questions. 

He said he would read the book of John. 

So that was encouraging”

Omegle is only one place we can go to share the gospel.  There are many others.  I’m still persisting with IRC, I keep it going in the background.  The channel I’m in has over 300 people in it, and a handful of them are very keen to engage.

This morning, I walked into a debate between a Christian and some others.  It was just a lot of apologetics, and the Christian was a bit of a bull in a china shop (yeah, I know, many of you think I’m a bull in a china shop for what I do, but).  So I made an effort to swing it to the law and gospel, and I was successful.  An hour very well spent, considering the people potentially reading, or who can read in their logs.  They have a bot in the channel, and you can use .bible REF and it quotes it, which makes it easy to tie what you are saying to the scripture.

And what’s great is that I’m starting to get to know some of the people in the channel.  One guy is an ex-JW (and yet strangely still fights against the doctrine of the trinity).  There is a liberal Christian, Atheists… but they all have personality, real people - who need the gospel, like we all do.

Thanks for keeping the team in prayer.  And please consider joining us - it’s hard work, but it’s so easy to access and so worth it!  Soli Deo Gloria.
 

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