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Battle Log > Plymouth Team > Saturday, 16 January, 2010

Saturday, 16 January, 2010

On Saturday 16th January, a few of us met up to give out some tracts and do some preaching in Plymouth city cenhtre. Weather was good and were about 6 of us handing out tracts to passers by. We noticed a large crowd of young people dressed in goth/ emo wear- black clothes, facepaint and lots of hair gel etc by the sundial, so thought it a prime opportunity.

Wayne started witnessing to one lad, and was there over all for about 3/4 of an hour, as he didnt believe in evolution and knew it was flawed, and so Wayne was able to reason with him about God and how he has revealed himself to us through Jesus and the Bible.

I had a few good conversations with young people in 2 groups, mainly them saying they didnt believe in God, or if there was a God, why do bad thiongs like poverty and natural disasters happen to good people? I triend to reason that everyone knows there is a God- Romans 1 v 18 etc, but that because people enjoy their sin and being the god of their own lives, they supress the truth and try and logic thoughts of the true God out of their lives. The lad surprisingly acknowledged this to be true.

I then spoke with them about no one in the world being a 'good person', and that God was sovereign and in control of things that went on in the world, such as the earthquake in Haiti, but that there were differing reasons for things happening.

Lots of million pound notes and good person comic tracts were handed out, with the young people keen to read them. Quite a few of the young people who dress up the way they do have at different tikmes explained they had some religious background and upbringing, and for differing reasosn have chose not to follow it anymore such as family circumstances/ abuse/ tragedy in the family/ school life, and so its good they already have some basis to talk about things.

In the end I did some open air preaching looking at 1 John 2 v 15, and was in front of the young people, and we had a local busker who stood next to Wayne to listen who came in a few times saying that Jesus was not God and was just a man (which you can hear on the video), and we later found out he had some Jewish background. The video is on my youtube/ facebook account.

Am meeting Rob and Andrew Noble in Exeter tomorrow- 23/01 to meet to plan another evangelism outreach like that in London last year and also hopefully to do some evangelism together if weather permits.

Praying for more labourers to come out Friday nights to the University again now the weather starts to get better as has been pretty wet, and also planning more saturday outreaches with Wayne and Shirley.

Although we may not see much fruit from the conversations we have with people sometimes, we know God is the one that draws people to him, but is always good when we see someone clearly convicted of their sin and seeing their need of a saviour!