Here is a brief report of
what happened on our Monash Clayton weekly outreach on 16/5 (Wednesday).
It’s great to see Jean Marc
coming along for an hour for our outreach session, and he did some surveys with
Angela. Andrew and I did some treasure hunting and we talked to Esther, River
and Joseph. We found out that Esther and River were Korean Christians. Esther
was shy but she told me that she was deciding whether to go for further study.
So I told her not to worry because God holds her future. Sometimes in treasure hunting
we offer words of encouragement when we are prompted by God. We also offered to
pray for Yali and Jessica for their studies but they kindly refused us. That’s
OK. We all learned from trial and error.
After that, I managed to
talk to Alice and James from Mannix College while they were promoting their
ball. Alice was a nominal Christian. However, when I asked her whether she has
kept the Ten Commandments, she was not sure. So I went through the Ten
Commandments with her. She realized she was guilty and probably will go to hell
because she broke God’s law. I explained the work of Jesus on the cross using
the legal transaction concept in the court. I sensed that she understood what I
said, but somehow something was blocking her from coming to accept Christ.
Please pray for the halls people, for many of them do not know Jesus.
Other than that, God has
put on my heart to talk to Gordon, a local senior who sells ‘the big issue’ on
campus every week. Therefore, I buy ‘the big issue’ from Gordon every week and start
a spiritual conversation with him. In my conversation with him in the past few
weeks, I discovered that he used to go to Sunday school, and he was
disillusioned with Christianity because of the conflicts between his Christian
and Catholics relatives. This week I tried to open up the Ten Commandment with
him but half way through he told me he was busy. Never mind, I will try again
next week.
On Thursday I met with up
Mike for lunch. Mike used to visit my life group last year. We talked about his
future, especially about his major in his degree. Then I switched to the topic
of where he will spend eternity with the ‘are you a good person’ gospel tract.
I shared the gospel with Mike last year but I felt that he didn’t quite get it,
especially the part about the reality of judgment day and heaven and hell. So I
went through the gospel with him again and mentioned the Ten Commandments and
the judgment of God. What is his response? I think he understood what I said,
there was no offense and we moved on to talk about playing table tennis in the
near future.
Charlie Lam
Clayton Science/Arts life group, Hope Melbourne Waverley Centre