Battle Log

Thursday, 18 March, 2021

Posted 18 March 2021, 2:01 PM by Glen Richards. Permalink

New Zealand Mission - Week Three - Dunedin - Day Four

It turned into a nice sunny summer day for today’s outreach.  Most of the team stayed at the Uni for the whole day - as it was so fruitful in the morning.  And it’s so awesome watching the Christians with less experience growing in confidence as they gain experience!

I was initially paired up with Samara.  It was a slow start to the day, but then we started getting into wonderful chats.  Samara had two opportunities to go through the whole flipchart and did so well!  And I had a number of great opportunities too.

One of them was with a young student guy who knew he would fail the “good” person test.  I agreed that I failed it too!  This caught his attention and he came back to chat.  He was living for the now, because there was nothing after.  I’m NOT living for the now, because there IS something after.  And I proceeded to prove it to him.  I can’t get over how powerful the building / builder, universe / universe maker analogy (based on Romans 1:18-20) is.  He saw how it made sense, but he tried to deflect it by asking a related question to avoid it.  I refused to take the decoy and brought him back to the analogy - if there is no God, where did the universe come from?  Again, he tried to deflect, but just brought him back to the question again.  I then asked if there was a reason why he wanted to deny the obvious - could it be that he enjoyed his sin?  To my amazement, he admitted to it!  From there, I was able to share the law and the gospel with him.  But sadly, he doubled down.  But it was a wonderful chat - I could see that he was challenged.  And he left with follow up tracts.

In the afternoon Samara, Aliyah, and Aneah all challenged themselves (with some gentle encouragement from me) and managed to get into their own gospel conversations!  Some of them didn’t go so well, but it’s all a learning experience for the future and God is happy with our obedience.  Well done girls.

I ended the day with another fantastic chat.  A student walked up to me (it happens often, they learn that Christians are about) with questions.  Again starting with building / builder - and keeping him accountable to the logic, I was able to share the law and the gospel and then started working through his questions.  It was a wonderful chat!

What a day!  One day left of the mission, please continue to pray.  Thank you so much!