Today came to school for this 24Seven prayer thing under LOVE SINGAPORE, and this week is Campus Crusade For Christ turn to be doing this LITERALLY 24 hrs slots of prayers for this 7 days straight, and with the focus on Campuses and schs today, We had a 1-3pm slot in TP, so a bunch of crusade staff came down as well as some students from crusade... And wow... this was one prayer meeting where one can really sense God's presence so strongly with us as we worship and prayed openly with fellow Christians who are really just so passionate for God!!!
After the grp prayer we went in pairs to various part of the sch and did a prayer walk, and personally this is one prayer walk where somehow i cld sense the Holy Spirit so clearly interceding for us with such clear guidance of what to pray for, its like we just prayed and prayed for abt 45mins straight! Like for example, i prayed with this crusade staff victor(from internet ministry) whom i just met for the first time, but bcoz of the same Holy Spirit in both of us we cld be just ONE in SPIRIT, having that common burden and prompting as we walk thru business sch and than the mushroom area! And i was so amazed as how God prompted us even by various signs around us... and it sure wasnt a concidence meeting him today as found out he has similar passions with me in using internet as a tool for outreached,and this very blog your reading right now is one of my minstry which is close to my heart.
(As we sat at the mushroom, this is the picture of TP with that HUGE signage that prompted us on a certain issue to pray about)
(We were just prompted to pray that the DREAMs of this students would really be all Christ centrered)
(This write up actually spoke to sam as she just saw that same cooking instructions thats same morning from a cooking show!... and it prompted her to pray that this students here will really be that SALT and LIGHT for the campus!)
And you know what happened next.... God change my plans for his! hee... as i was orginally intented to go for a run & gym in TP after the prayer thingy... but when found out that some of the staff were going witnessing on campus and with irene inviting me to join them, i decided itsss best i do something even more worthwhile instead! And WOW..... I was so blessed today!... and i only just realised as I was thinking back this morning, i actually prayed my favourite prayer again... "for a chance to reach out to someone, before i step out my hse"....AND WOW...GOD always never fails to answer... I not only had chance to share once...but FOUR TIMES to 4 different grp of students! As Irene and me tried this new method of evangelism using Photos instead of the usual surveys to do outreach to this students!
And personally to me i felt this was a better method compared to the other traditional method as we can get more opinions and thoughts of the person we sharing too by just using those photos to hear how they describe their life!!!! And well! We manage to plant the seeds to this student lifes! As they were all really open in their sharing as we shared to 2 buddhist and 2 christians who all have really very different perspectives of life... and with the other pair zhi qiang and qingwen sharing to 2 prebelievers that same day. =)
(These were the photos we use to do the evangelism, and THANK YOU irene for blessing me, by giving this pack of photos to me in the end. =) , i will definitely use this wisely for the LORD!
http://www.mysoularium.com, the american version can be found on this site...)
Indeed one exciting day for the LORD!!!! =)
4 comments:
awesome stuff =) i heard about those photos before! great to hear about people actually using them...
wanna elaborate more on what goes on when you ask people to share about the photos?
Oh wow that was a quick reply! I only just posted that like a couple of mins before u commented. hee
Well, it originated from the U.S called Soularium (http://www.mysoularium.com), So this packed of cards is a similar version done by campus crusade for christ,basically its different photos ,various themes,accompanied by questions to help facilitate conversations with the prebelievers.
For e.g. we wld ask questions like find 3 photos that best describe you right now, followed by 3 more images whom you wld like to present your life and lastly which image would you describe God, so somewhere thru asking them, we get to see a rough idea of their beliefs and background and we will find a platform where we can then introduce Christ to them. =)
sounds interesting... so what kind of people did you get to talk to? is it true that people nowadays are quite interested in talking about spirituality?
i think people are very suspicious (rightly so) every time someone invites them for a church-related event, so i think the church is learning to listen and asks instead - what do YOU have to say?
Well,the first 2 we shared weren't really the spiritual type, they mainly seek common desires such as just wanting happiness... they both claimed to be "free-thinkers",when we dwelled near the God question, you can sense that they were quite apathetic abt their own Faith, they wld normally just follow their parents faith, and claim that the most they are more inclined to Buddhism for e.g. And when we ask if they wanted to hear abt Christ, they actually rather not...so we felt is best not to push on...
but the second person we shared to,we somehow still manage to get into the gospel message during the sharing of my testimony. I guess generally they wld be willing to hear stories still. And thru this conversation with them we can actually follow up especially the second one whom was my classmate, so we analyze the possible contradictions to their sharing and see how we can follow up on it.
At the end we just past them this small booklet called the "WYS book" the new version of the 4 SL, and we just let them read at their own time. And well i guess the only thing left we cld do is to pray that those questions we shared to them will stir them to ponder on and its left for the Holy Spirit to do the rest.
The next 2 we shared were Christians, but can say "the backsliding" kind, as they both know of God, but felt they cldnt keep up living the holy life on a daily basis besides just Sunday, so even Christian we still share on, like we touch a bit on how to live that "Spirit-Filled" life.
For your second question, yea i do agree generally pre-believers will get suspicious when ever invited to church related events, but i also believed that there are really seekers out there, and such opportunities of church related events are good platforms for them to be expose to Christianity.
But i feel sometimes the best solution is to just start on the Pre-evangelism stage which is to be so subtle that maybe even the word "GOD" is not even mention.
One e.g. is what the Forerunners (crusade music team) is doing where they have bands that play secular songs in cafes , but their main objective is to share stories abt their life, like on Love, etc. And people wld not be intimidated if not much of the God part is said, but its thru such means of sharing like how they deal with it in a christian way that cld also than be some a platform where a follow up is possible...But who knows God can always turn even such subtle circumstances like this into seeds being planted! =)
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