Today is Saturday in New Zealand.  I was up early going through my spiritual disciplines (if you want a free Spiritual Disciplines monthly accountability sheet, clear here.  Change the categories each day to suit what you feel you want to build into your life).  After this I go to the gym for an hour and half.   When I was there there is a guy in his early seventies who I have shared the gospel with.  He even has a follow up booklet. When I first shared the gospel with him …

I am in Sydney at the moment setting up a branch of ESI.  One of my board members came with me for the weekend and we had to hire a small car at the airport. We arrived in Sydney about 5pm on Friday and went straight to the rental car company office to pick up the car.  I sensed we ought to gently bring up the subject of Jesus with the lady behind the counter who was in her mid forties.
 As we were chatting I said, “We are here to …

Earlier this year I blogged about a guy called Richard Davis.  He cuts my hair. He is not a Christian. He plays in and managers a heavy rock band.  I first gave the gospel to Richard in April of this year using my iphone. As you can imagine, I have been to see him each time I need a hair cut. What’s interesting is that absolutely everything Jesus promised about the gospel in Mark 4:26-29 is happening right before my eyes!
What Jesus taught and what I am seeing goes like this: …

Wow! I just came home after a FANTASTIC time out there giving the gospel. Let me tell you what happened.  This afternoon, I was out in a shopping centre discipling a friend called Greg in evangelism.  Greg saw the Lord move before his very eyes and two people, boy friends and girl friend) converted to Christ on the spot in a shopping centre.  I didn’t make it easy for them either.  I emphasised the cost and they still wanted to become followers of Jesus.  As though that wasn’t enough, listen …

 Wow!….I have had a few interesting days lately ‘out there’ in the world sharing the gospel. 
One day this week, I was in the library near where I live and two older high school age boys were walking around. Cut a long story short, I said to these guy (with a smile) ‘..you guys bored? Wanna see an amazing video?’  Their faces lit up, and they probably thought I was a porn dealer or something dodgy but I quickly explained that I was a pastor of a church and that we’d …

Hi, sorry to use my blog for this BUT – I am a desperate man!  I have just read about Abraham going up the mountain with his son Abraham in Genesis 22. As you know Abraham passed the test!  Now I have a test! I just purchased a laptop computer on line from Australia, which was a $1000 cheaper than buying it here in New Zealand. My existing laptop is overheating all the time and has to be switched off every few hours.  Aside from the Bible, it’s the tool …

Some days my ‘going into the world with the gospel’  are very unspectacular.  One day, three people in a row turned me down. Another day a young lady told me at the end of the video she had absolutely no desire to become a Christian.  To her I said ‘That’s OK. We all start out like that’.   After 15 minutes or so of discussion, I felt like we were getting nowhere, so we parted amicably.  In between the very unspectacular are the memorable. Here is one….
Recently I visited a business which …

Yesterday I was returning home by plane from the Presbyterian annual general Assembly which was held in Christchurch.  This is where all the ministers from Presbyterian Churches around NZ get together once a year.   It was an inspirational time. The Presbyterian Church is gaining strength again after a rough ride in the 80′s and 90′s.  We can thank God for this. 
 I got talking to the lady next to me on the plane back to Auckland and naturally we asked each other the classic question ‘And what do you do for a job?’. …

Today I went into a shopping mall in Auckland to buy some things and at the same time give the gospel to someone. 
As I was walking in the mall I simply prayed ‘Lord, just lead me to someone who I can really connect with today’.  Well, there was a Philippino man sitting on a seat by himself. As I went past, I looked at him and thought ‘No, he is too old’.  I would say he was in his mid forties. 
Generally speaking  the older people are, the harder they are …

Here are two kiwi guys who have been living in a ‘Christian Nation’ for over 20 years (a nation which is supposedly ‘evangelised’ – what nonsense.  This is exactly what the devil wants us to believe.  New Zealand is now an unevangelised trible group, no different from a tribal group in deepest darkest Africa) who had never heard the gospel before.
This is what happened.
I go to the gym each morning at 5:20am.  I had a great workout as usual, and when I was driving into my driveway at home, I noticed …

Today as usual I was out evangelising. I usually go to a local library with my iphone and follow up booklets. The library is a great place to give the gospel because it quiet and people are usually zoned in, calm, and ready to watch something like the gospel. As I wandered around looking for the right person (by this I mean someone who is on their own, and away from others – the away from others means that when I invite them to listen to the gospel no one …

Hi,  as usual each day, I went out of my house to love someone with the gospel.  The first person I approached was a lady in her 50′s in a shopping mall and in answer to my friendly smiley faced question ‘Hi, how are you today!’ she cut me off with a curt ‘No thanks!’ before I could even say the next sentence!  Man, was she grumpy.  The next guy I approached was in his 40′s.   He looked troubled before I had said anything so I continued to walk towards …

Today I had a very interesting experience at the gym.  I was coming out of the mens’ change room when this man in his 60′s stopped me and said (smiling and joking)  ’Hi. You’re in great shape. I have been told you are 52, is that true?’ I said yes and then he asked me a whole series of questions about how often I go to the gym, what I eat and so on. Then he asked me what I do for a job. So I told him I was …

From time to time, people give their lives to Christ on the spot and are powerfully and wonderfully saved. This was one of those days.  I had been out and about doing ‘stuff’ when I called into a shop.  I hadn’t given the gospel to anyone so far this day, and their was a lady sitting on a wooden seat with an unbrella up reading her paper and drinking a coffee.  She was away from other people and alone which made for a good situation i.e. approaching her to talk …

Today, as usual, I was out doing business and by 5pm I realised hadn’t shared the gospel with anyone.  I was near a mall, so I decided to duck in and find someone. As I parked the car I prayed for grace. You see, today I didn’t have any Bible reading, prayer or Bible study. I have established this habit in my life and it has made a huge difference to my evangelism and my life generally. When I spend quality time with those three disciplines, I find my day …

I go to the gym every morning at 5:30 am, six days a week. I consider it a vital part of my life to maintain mental, emotional, and spiritual health. At the beginning of this year, there was another guy in the gym (Steve) who was working out at the same time as me, and we became friends, chatting away as we went around the weights.  He used to play cricket for Auckland and is an all-round gifted sportsman. However, I am a lot fitter now than him and he …

Today as usual I was out and about ready to give the gospel and felt prompted to go into a shop in a shopping mall (it was near closing time which is a good time to give the gospel to shop keepers because they are nearly always bored and have no customers).  I am glad I did. The lady was working on her own in a shoe shop. As I entered the shop I got eye contact and smiled and said ‘Hi…you look like your bored!’ And she said ‘I …

Hi everyone,  Graham Henry and his wife came to my house one day and I was able to present the full gospel to them in the peace and quiet of my home. The photo is of them sitting on my deck. I played the gospel presentation to them on the my laptop. I don’t want to give to many details of what they said the end because of their high profile, but I asked them these question: ‘If you died tonight where would you go?’ Please pray for Graham and his wife. …

Today when I was out evangelising,  I met a young man in his twenties from the Philipines. He was in a shopping mall, eating some KFC by himself. I approached him in the usual way, and asked him if he would like to watch an 11 minutes video of the Bible. He said yes.  I sat beside him as he watched, and I was praying in my mind, not out loud. To my surprise, half way through the presentation, he stopped the video to tell me he was a Catholic. …

Today I was in the men’s changing room at the gym towelling down and I got talking to a young guy about the gym, his training etc etc. Then, in order to turn the conversation onto spiritual things I said ‘I am also training myself spiritually.  I go to church which is a big part of my life. Have you had any church background?’  He replied ‘I am a Christian. I used to go to a church about three years ago.  I went to the youth group there for quite a few years.’  I said …