In the city centres of Oxford and Cambridge in June, people from Saudi Arabia, Iran, Libya, Turkey, China, Russia and atheists from the UK stopped to hear a presentation of the gospel as a United Beach Missions ‘Christian Answer’ team preached and witnessed for the Lord Jesus.
Many stopped, asked questions and listened to reasoned, interactive, Christian presentations: ‘How can God allow evil?’, ‘Who am I?’, ‘Reasons not to be an atheist’, ‘Did Jesus rise from the dead?’ And then there were the very many personal conversations as people willingly and eagerly discussed the claims of Jesus Christ.
Some personal encounters included discussions with: a transvestite man who said ‘I don’t know who I am’, but after conversation said ‘thank you for talking to me civilly’; a medical student who had rejected Christianity, who really tried to grasp the important issue of Jesus and his atonement, who went away to read John’s gospel; and a Muslim young lady from Palestine, who listened to the preaching, kept asking questions and wanted to find out all about Jesus. Then a friend arrived and she hurried off as if she didn’t want the friend to see her talking, but took a John’s gospel.
