Battle Log

Tuesday, 21 November, 2023

Posted 22 November 2023, 10:00 AM by Glen Richards. Permalink

Thank you for praying!  Just a short report from the team on the Gold Coast this week sharing the gospel with the school leavers at Schoolies.

It’s been a bit of a blurr for the author of this post!  As a team, we are talking to hundreds of people.  There is much openness.  It’s a joy to see the power of the simple gospel message, preceded with the law to bring the knowledge of sin, and the finely crafted check questions to work against common misunderstandings.

Yesterday I was able to talk to a Hare Kristina Monk.  In this case, I didn’t use the usual strategy - knowing he would be prepared for a frontal attack.  Instead, I genuinely wanted to learn about his worldview, and simply asked him friendly questions about it, followed up with “but why” questions to his answers.  When appropriate I would contrast differences in our worldview by explaining what was different, and why.  In this way, he was confronted with the key contrast of works for salvation versus salvation as a gift through Christ.  To my surprise he became angry.  He considered true grace “convient”, and he hated the exclusivity of Christ.

Later, Will and I had a long chat with a guy from Brazil, who had a penny drop moment as he truly came to understand the gospel.  He gladly accepted a copy of the gospel of John.

And in the evening, I had a lady come to tears as she processed the struggles in her life in context of the light of the gospel.

This is just a taste of the many conversations being had by one person, let alone the many chats being had by the team, day after day of this outreach.  Please continue to pray that God would bring conviction, conversion and change, all for his glory alone!