Campus evangelism outreach testimony 2 May 2012

I am excitied to share with you what happened in our campus outreach at Monash Clayton campus today.
 Participants: Andrew, Angela, Brad, Adhit and me

Time: 12-2pm
Venue: campus centre, Monash Clayton

 A few of us prayed in the main chapel before the outreach to prepare our hearts. Besides giving out free drinks and gospel tracts, we also did surveys and had spiritual conversation with many people. Particularly, I would like to share my conversation with Grace, a 4th year Arts student from China. Being an agnostic, she was open to the things of God. Overall, we had a good chat for at least 20 minutes. In the beginning, I went through the Ten Commandments and the Day of Judgment. She believed that she would be guilty of breaking the Ten Commandment and probably would go to hell if she faced God on the Day of Judgment. However, it did not concern her because she did not believe in God. So I used the following illustration as an example: if you stand in the middle of the road and a truck is coming to you, even if you don’t believe a truck is coming, that won’t prevent you from being a road-kill. I also explained to her that we exercise our faith every day, and put our trust to people we don’t know. For instance, when we take an aeroplane, we trust the engineers of the plane whom we don’t know; our lives are depended on the pilots that we have never met. Until we put our faith on the pilots, we will never know the aeroplane can take us to our destination safely. Similarly, we cannot experience the forgiveness of sin unless we put our faith in God.


After that, I mentioned about the work of Jesus on cross. It is like a legal transaction. In a civil court, we break the law and incur a fine. Jesus comes to the court to pay the fine for us. In the heavenly court, we break God’s law and the punishment is death, Jesus came to pay the penalty for us, dying for us on the cross for our sins. That is what the gospel is all about. I mentioned that by repenting from our sins (turn away from our old way to turn to God), we received God’s forgiveness. Grace was a bit hesitant to put her faith in Jesus, but the seed of the gospel was sown. At the end of our conversation, she thanked me for explaining the gospel to her and left her contact details with me. The bible says, ‘those who sow with tears will reap with songs of joy’ (Ps 126:5). I believe in all my heart that someday I will meet those I have sown the gospel seed in heaven, rejoicing with God. Please keep Grace in prayer for God is drawing her near to him.


Be encouraged, and please come to the harvest field, for we make disciples from the harvest.

 Charlie Lam
Science/Arts life group, Hope Melbourne Waverley