Yesterday was the UNSW Info Day and I went to uni to do some leafleting. It was probably a lot better than leafleting at NTE mission, because people thought we were one of the official uni people so took all the leaflets that we gave out. But it felt a bit deceitful cos people were taking the leaflets thinking it was something else. Some people, when they saw what it was, stopped smiling, frowned, then turned around to give it back to us. Some people after taking it, asked what it is, and we said, campus bible study, and they turned around and looked at us, then made a made an annoyed sound then walked off.
When we were walking to lunch we saw five or six of our leaflets on the ground, and my mtser was shocked that people would litter the leaflets on the ground, but I thought it was already pretty good compared to HK, where 5 metres away from where the person is leafleting, you'd see a whole stack of those leaflets on the ground.
I heard yesterday that a pretty big name would be a guest next year at SOCM to do a 3 week course on something; possibly the charismatic movement. So exciting! We'll be inviting a few guests next year with Paddy leaving, so I started suggesting names to the MTSer in charge. I was like, lets get Phillip!!! Lets get Peter!!!
and he said, nah no way, they wont do it..
so I said, lets get John Woodhouse!! lets get David Cook!!
and he said maybe..
and I said well.. if not that, maybe we could invite Mr Houston.. Just to get some diverse views..
(last night he was on Face to Face on Channel 10 at like 12:30 or something! I missed it but I believe you can download
here in a few days. It'll be the one on 5/1/05, when that comes out).
On Tuesdays I went to Koorong to get "Preparing Just for Starters", and "Evangelicalism Divided" by Iain Murray. When I asked the Koorong guy if he could help me find preparing JFS, he was like, whats that?? Do you mean JFS?
I listened to the first part of the CD last night, and it just helps with preparing session one. I dont know if I like the CD or not, because it seems a bit like cheating, cos it tells you everything about the passage. In a way its good, cos it told me stuff I didnt even realise, but then I really should have been able to figure out by myself.
Evangelicalism Divided is a really interesting read, but only for people who have some interest in church history. I just read the first 50 pages or so yesterday talking about the early Billy Graham Crusades and his willingness to cooperate in evangelism with non-evangelicals. And I'm just up to the part now after John Stott and D Martyn Lloyd Jones had their big showdown.
