Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day was filled with joy and peace in believing, abounding in hope. I had a good week and Emmanuel, Layla and Allison prayed to receive Jesus then Thursday Dove prayed to receive Christ along with Siarra and Ginny. Please pray these young women grow and their understanding and love for God. Their responses are below if you want to spend the time.

 Dove, an African American was sitting in the cafeteria at the counter eating a salad. She had gold-rimmed semi round glasses and full features. She wore a grey sweatshirt hoodie and black pants. Her hair was in ringlets in front the rest pulled back and tied behind her head. She had plans to get an MSW and was just beginning at school. I asked her, “You’re walking down the road and you get hit by a bus. So you’re dead. And you stand before God and He says, ‘Why should I let you into Heaven?’ What would you say?” She said, “I would say I’ve done good things in my life.” I asked her the percentage likelihood she would go to Heaven when she died. “I would say 50,” she replied. I asked her if she went to Church and she said she didn’t but went to a church camp when she was a kid. As I began to go through the Gospel I asked her what Jesus had done to take away the sins of the world so God could live inside her. She knew Jesus had died. She was engaged listening to all I usually say to communicate the Gospel and didn’t return to her salad as I talked standing beside her at the counter. I explained his blood and righteousness and He rose from the dead. She needed to receive Jesus believe He was God had died for her sins and rose from the dead and to place her trust in that to be forgiven. That was faith and faith saved her. I asked if she would want to be forgiven for her sins trusting in what Jesus had done or thought something else quickly stating the Muslim god and the Buddha. “So would you want to be forgiven for your sins,” I asked again. “I would want to be with Christ after I die,” she replied. So I said if she wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer she could pray and I talked her through it and asked if it expressed the desire of her heart, reading the question to her at the top of the next page. She nodded it did and I said she could pray it silently right now and know she was forgiven. “Wanna do that?” I asked. “Sure,” she replied and she prayed to receive Jesus. When she finished I went through the Christian life with her. She had a Bible so I explained reading in John and I gave her Bible Promises for You writing her name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front. I also gave her The Case For Christ Answer Booklet and a Bible study and she knew the miracle of Jesus walking on the water as I explained one of His claims to be God. explaining it. I told her I would pray a Bible verse for her each day asking God to bless her. She said, “Thank you.” I told her that now trusting in the blood and righteousness of Jesus the likelihood she would go to Heaven was 100%. “Nice to meet ya,” I said grabbing my backpack to go. “You too,” she replied and I headed off.

Siarra [See R ah] was sitting I the hallway of the SW side of the science buildings. She wore a nursing smock with colored quarter size dots on it floating around in a random pattern and a brown cardigan. She had dark green scrub pants on. Her hair was parted down the middle and flat to her head gathered in back. She was African American and had fair skin and oval face her features were smaller. She wanted to travel and see all the continents had a confidence to her. She asked me where I had traveled to. She said she liked the way I had phonetically written her name on the survey. “Yeah people don’t say their name how it is spelled all the time so I have to write it down so I can remember later.” I explained and asked her. “You’re walking down the road and you get hit by a bus. So you’re dead. And you stand before God and He says, ‘Why should I let you into Heaven?’ What would you say?” “That’s a hard question,” she replied. “I know He forgives. I already know I’ve been doing wrong so I probably would just look at Him,” she replied. “And be afraid,” I added and she agreed. I asked her the likelihood she would go to Heaven when she died and she said “Right now, 25%.” I began to go through the Gospel with her. I explained that God loved her and wanted to take away her sins and live inside her and she knew Jesus had died to take away the sins of the world. I explained the righteousness of God Christ earned and that she would not go to Heaven because she was good but because Jesus was good. Students in the hallway started entering the classroom then and I asked if she had to go. “I don’t think she’s here yet but you have 5 minutes,” she replied looking at her watch. I told her the rest speedily and asked if she would want to be forgiven trusting in what Jesus had done. She pointed at the circle on the right after I gave her the options. I read through the prayer and she got lost in a thought right after. I asked if it expressed the desire of her heart. “What?” she said coming back a second and said “Oh yeah.” I said if she wanted to she could pray it silently and she took the booklet and prayed to receive Jesus. She had a Bible and I told her about the Spirit’s power and said gave her Bible Promises for You writing her name and the date and “forgiven!” She thanked me. I gave her The Case for Christ Answer Booklet and a Bible study and said the likelihood she would now go to Heaven was 100% trusting in the blood and righteousness of Jesus. I told her I would pray a Bible verse for her each day from now until Spring and one year after asking God to bless her. She had to run. “Enjoy your day, thank you again,” she said and she went into her class across the hall.

 Ginny was sitting in a little adjacent lounge that is separated by a wall from the vending machines on the SW side of the big science lounge on the 2^nd floor. There are a couple of tables squeezed in there where there once were seats. I rarely talk to people in there because they always appear to be cramming for a test. She wasn’t and it turned out she wasn’t a student but had finished her AA degree in Psychology and was waiting for a friend. She had her hair dyed a kind of red to orange, you could see an inch of roots at the top. Her hair was wavy and fell to her shoulders. She had African American features but was very light skinned like pale milk chocolate and a gap-toothed smile. Short cute face, kind of elfish, she had a piercing in either side of her lower lip one a little diamond the other a ring of sorts. She had a smaller nose and was slight with a long sleeve tan top on it with flecks of color and black fleece sweats. She had a laptop open with some random stickers on it. She said she really wanted to travel and came across kind of meek. I asked her, “You’re walking down the road and you get hit by a bus. So you’re dead. And you stand before God and He says, ‘Why should I let you into Heaven?’ What would you say?” “Oh that’s a good question,” she replied. “I wouldn’t know how to answer that,” she said after thinking about it a moment. I asked what it was she thought got you into Heaven. “Doing God’s deeds, following His instructions as provided, understanding and accepting the mistakes you made,” she replied. I asked the likelihood she would go to Heaven she said 100%. I began to go through the Gospel with her explained God’s love and that He wanted to live inside her but had to take away her sins. She knew Jesus had died to take away the sins of the world. She tuned right in and listened to how the blood of Christ cleansed her and was a payment for sin He lived the perfect life we owed God and could not live. God adopted her and made her his child and gave her the blessings of His family, the sacrifice for her sins the blood that cleansed her and the righteousness of God that surrounded her.  She needed to receive Jesus for this to be hers, to believe Jesus was God had died for her sins and rose from the dead. Not that she just knew the story but that that’s what she put her trust in. So if someone would ask, “Why should God let you into Heaven?” she’d say, “Because Jesus died for me, I trust in that.” That was faith and faith saved her. I asked if she would want to be forgiven trusting in what Jesus had done. “Yeah,” she replied. I said if she wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer she could pray and talked her through it asking if it expressed the desire of her heart. She nodded it did. I said she could pray it silently, “Wanna do that?” “Yeah,” she replied and she took the booklet and prayed to receive Jesus. I explained the Christian life to her living by the Spirit’s power. She had a Bible to read. I gave her Bible Promises for You writing her name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front and The Case for Christ Answer Booklet telling her some of Strobel’s story. I gave her a Bible study and explained it. I got up to go and said, “Oh I almost forgot I’ll pray a Bible verse for you each day from now until Spring and one year after asking God to bless you. Nice to meet you.” “Nice to meet you too,” she replied and I headed off.

 So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for Evangelism this past week if you had a chance. God truly blessed the work.

 In Him,

Bob

Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope you had a blessed day knowing and believing in the love God has for you. I had a good day on campus chatting up some believers and one Muslim, Aun, about the truth of Christianity as declared in the Bible, which was endorsed by Muhammad. We had the entire NT in Greek by 350 AD. Mohammed lived in the early 600’s and said to check him against the Christians and Jews and what they taught. The Quran says God preserves His word. Mohammed told Christians they should follow their book, which we know was not changed from Muhammad’s time. He approached me but I think I knew more about Islam than he did. And Layla and Allison each enthusiastically and gratefully prayed to receive Jesus so that was a blessing. Their responses are below if you wish to take the time. Please pray they are assured with the sanctification without which no one can see the Lord.

 Layla was sitting in the hall that tracks by Starbucks on the way to the Book Store. She was a pretty girl with a St. Mary looking face a small chin full lips and very dark hair. She had a lot of cover make-up on I realized once I sat beside her, she was breaking out, stress of school I’d guess. She wore a black tube top showing fair skin on bare shoulders but I could not tell any ethnicity. She wore bellbottom jeans and had strap sandals with some kind of gold ornament where the strap joined. She wanted to go skydiving. DuPage County Airport is not that far from campus. If they had a skydiving class based on how many kids say they would want to do it they would get a lot of students. Nice kid. I asked her, “You’re walking down the road and you get hit by a bus. So you’re dead. And you stand before God and He says, ‘Why should I let you into Heaven?’ What would you say?” “Because I would want to know Him,” she replied. “I would want to ask questions about my life, if I did the right things on my path.” She thought she had a 100% chance of going to Heaven. She had gone to Church when she was younger. She could not quite remember what Jesus had done to take away the sins of the world so God could live inside her at least at first. I began to explain to her what Jesus had done living a perfect life for us though we could not be perfect and the Bible said this was required. She was shy and for the most part stared at the booklet as I explained the Gospel of the blood and righteousness of Christ writing in the occasional verse. I asked if she would want to be forgiven for her sins, God would then live inside her and give her strength and take her to Heaven when she died. “Yes,” she said, nodding in affirmation. I said if she wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer she could pray. I explained it and asked if it was the desire of her heart. She nodded again and I said she could pray it silently, “Wanna do that?” I asked. “Umhm,” She replied nodding again and she took the booklet and prayed to receive Jesus. She kind of clutched the booklet after so I said she could keep it but took it back briefly to explain the Christian life. She said she had a Bible to read and I explained she could read in John if she wanted. “John calls Jesus the Word at the beginning,” I explained and said that “The Word” was a name the prophets used to describe Jesus in the Old Testament sometimes when He appeared to them. I told her then everything in the Christian life was “By the Spirit’s Power”. I read the line from the booklet I always do if there’s time, “Your walk with Christ depends on what you allow Him to do in and through you, empowered by the Holy Spirit not what you do for Him (by your own) self-effort.” I then explained living “Inside Out”. I said the likelihood she would now go to Heaven trusting in the blood and righteousness of Jesus was 100%. I gave her Bible Promises for You explaining it was the easy English version and explained how she could turn the content into a prayer and wrote her name and the date and forgiven in the front. She looked at her phone to give me the right date and said, “It’s my sister Birthday.” I said, “Well now you have a Spiritual Birthday on the same day because you are born again.” She liked that. I gave her, The Case for Christ Answer Booklet and explained Strobel’s story saying he had longer things to say on YouTube but she might find a topic she liked in it. I gave her a Bible Study on the Deity of Christ and explained walking on the water as something Job might have seen Jesus do. I told her I would pray a Bible verse for her each day from now until Spring and one year after asking God to bless her. She was very grateful. “Thank you,” she said warmly. “Have a blessed life,” I replied with a smile. “You too, thank you.” And I headed off.

 Allison was a little down the hall almost to the bookstore entrance sitting in a chair at a round coffee table. I almost collided with another girl in the hall as passed her and the girl laughed as I hopped out of the way and I think it made an opening with Allison somehow and she said she’d do a survey. She had darker Latina coloring, a bit wider cute face, her cheeks dimpled when it split into a long smile. She had long wavy hair. She wore a black hoodie and longish jean shorts. Her right thigh had a long stem rose climbing most of it, the top of the flower cut off by denim. She had white cross trainer on. She was a nice outgoing kid. She too wanted to skydive. I asked her, “You’re walking down the road and you get hit by a bus. So you’re dead. And you stand before God and He says, ‘Why should I let you into Heaven?’ What would you say?” ‘Because I believe,” she said right away. So I asked, “What do you think it is that gets you into Heaven?” “Your character,” she replied without missing a beat. I asked, “How likely is it you will get into Heaven?” “Very,” she replied. “Out of 10, 10. I began to go through the Gospel saying the last part of the survey was what she thought about Christianity. “I’m Catholic,” she replied. I said “Well it’s all about Jesus.” She agreed and I started in. with her and explained knowing God was eternal life because it meant He lived inside her. But first he had to take away her sin. When I asked what Jesus had done she knew He had died. I explained Jesus said you are to be perfect as you heavenly Father is perfect. So Jesus lived a perfect life for us and was a sacrifice for our sins His blood cleansing us and was a perfect payment to God. His righteousness was to our credit. She had to receive Jesus, to believe Jesus was God had died for her sins and rose from the dead, not that she just knew the story but that that’s what she put her trust in so if someone would ask “Why should God let you into Heaven?” You’d say, “Because Jesus died for me.” That would mean you had faith in Jesus. Faith saved her. I asked if she would want to be forgiven for her sins trusting in what Jesus had done, then the Spirit would live inside her to give strength and take her to Heaven when she died. “Or do you think something else?” and I explained a Muslim God and Buddha. I asked again, “So would you want to be forgiven for your sins?” “Yeah. That one,” she said of the circle with God inside. I said if she wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer she could pray and talked her through it asking if it expressed the desire of her heart. “Yeah it does,” she replied. So I said she could pray it silently, “I wouldn’t hear you but God would hear and you’d know you were forgiven. Wanna do that?” “Yeah,” she said enthusiastically as if to say “Obviously I would.” So she took the booklet and prayed then to receive Christ. I told her about the Christian life then. Reading the Bible and living ‘by the Spirit’s Power” she could ask for transformation living inside out. She had a Bible so I said she could read in John explaining that a bit and I gave her Bible Promises for You writing her name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front. “Thank you very much,” she said. I showed her how she could pray a Bible verse. I also gave her The Case for Christ Answer Booklet saying she might like one of the sections. I gave her a Bible Study on the Deity of Christ explaining how walking on the water was a claim to be God. I said I would pray a Bible verse for her each day from now until Spring and one year after asking God to bless her. Finally I said the likelihood she would now go to Heaven was 100% trusting in the blood and righteousness of Jesus and I would go too though I’d sinned more than her being old. I got up to go, “Thank you,” she said. “God bless you,” I replied. “Thank you, likewise,” she said. “Thank you,” I said and headed off.

 So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today if you had a chance, God truly blessed.

 In Him,

Bob

Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed looking not at the things, which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. Emmanuel prayed to receive Christ today, is responses are below if you want to spend the time. He was very appreciative please pray he grows in faith and his love for God in Christ. I had a couple other good conversations encouraging Christians in the faith.

 Emmanuel was sitting in the hallway that runs along the Student services center on the ground floor just down the hall from Starbucks. He had a motorcycle helmet on the seat beside him. He wore black-rimmed semi round glasses and a black hoodie with black pants. He had a wide smile looked Latino in coloring and had the brown hair of said same, an inch and a half goatee under his chin and a solid mustache. His cheeks dimpled when he smiled. He was one of 3 people today who said they wanted to “sky dive” as something to do before they died. I asked, “You’re walking down the road and you get hit by a bus. So you’re dead. And you stand before God and He says, ‘Why should I let you into Heaven?’ What would you say?” He said, “I believed in You even at hard times.” He said he thought he had a “Pretty good,” chance of going to heaven, and guessed 90%. He said he went to a “Christian Church”. I began to go through the Gospel with him and said God wanted to live inside him to give him eternal life. He could not be in the same place as sin, so He takes away our sin. I asked what Jesus had done back in History to take away the sins of the world. “He forgives?” he said uncertainly. I said, “This is what He does to forgive you.” I began then explain all I usually do about the blood and righteousness of Christ who lived the perfect life we could not and was a payment to God fulfilling the prophecy of Isa. 61:10 as we read in Gal. 3:27. He listened attentively to the entire Gospel. I said he needed to receive Jesus, to believe He is God had died for his sins and rose from the dead. This was faith & faith saved him. I asked if he would want to be forgiven for his sins. He nodded. I said if he wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer he could pray and talked him through it asking if it was the desire of his heart. He nodded. I said he could pray it silently, “Wanna do that?” He nodded again more assertively, so three times but each time a bit differently. He took the booklet and prayed then to receive Jesus. I told him that the likelihood he would now go to Heaven was 100% trusting in the blood and righteousness of Jesus that was of infinite value. I began to go through the Christian life with him. He said he had a Bible on his phone so I asked if he would want a physical Bible. He did so I went on to explain living by the Spirit’s power and then I gave him one explaining the study helps in it. I said Christianity was inside out, not outside in. I told him I would pray a Bible verse for him each day from now until Spring and one year after asking God to bless him. I gave him Bible Promises for You and showed him how he could turn the contents of a verse into a prayer. I gave him a Bible study too and The Case for Christ Answer Booklet he was grateful. “Appreciate you, thanks for all this,” he said. I said he was welcome and he again said, “Appreciate you.” I talked to him about his motorcycle and then headed off.

 So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today if you had a chance, God truly blessed the work.

 In Him,

Bob

Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed and your light shined before men and they glorified God. I had good days on campus this week and Aby and Jude each prayed to receive Jesus Thursday. Their responses are below if you have some time you want to spend reading. Leo, David and Vee also prayed to receive Jesus this short week. Please pray they grow in their faith by the power of the Spirit sanctifying them.

 Aby was sitting at a counter height table in the cafeteria. She was just finishing eating lunch but was willing to talk as she ate. She had on a blue T-shirt and jeans and had an oval face. Her nose was pierced on each side and she had straight dark brown hair parted down the middle. She said she wanted to have a family and kind of looked like a mom somehow. I asked her, “You’re walking down the road and you get hit by a bus. So you’re dead. And you stand before God and He says, ‘Why should I let you into Heaven?’ What would you say?” “Because I’ve done all I can to make him proud of me,” she replied. She thought she had and 85-90% chance of going to Heaven and was Roman Catholic. She finished some kind of wrap for lunch as I went through the Gospel with her. I asked her what Jesus had done back in History to take away her sins. She had a mouthful and smirked and got out the words, “The Apple.” I said that was how sin entered the world but what did Jesus do to take it away. “He forgives?” she said in a half questioning tone of voice. I said Well this is how it works and told her of the blood Jesus shed to cleanse her sins and pay God back for all the life we had damaged we owed Him for. He earned God’s righteousness it could be to her credit when God adopted her. Jesus rose from the dead and if she placed her trust in this, that He was God, had died for her sins and rose from the dead that would mean she had faith and faith saved her. She began to glance at her Apple watch and I realized I had run out of time. But she said she wanted to be forgiven when I asked and I said there was a prayer she could pray if she did. “Wanna do that?” I asked. She said, “Yeah,” and she took the booklet and prayed to receive Jesus. I just had enough time to give her Bible Promises for You and write her name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front and she said, “Thank you, have a good one.” I said, “Your welcome,” and she ran off to class.

 I came across Jude sitting on a bench in the west most science building on the south side. He was Latino and had a shaggy hair cut shorter than what I’d call a mop of hair. He wore a blue hoodie and grey sweats. He was clean-shaven beat-up skin with some pencil eraser size bumps on his jaw line. He had a narrow nose rounded on the end and a small chin. He was a click bigger than me size wise. He had a 2 inch by 1.5 inch cross around his neck with what looked like cz stones across it both ways. I think they were too large to be diamonds. Though the ones grown in a lab are indistinguishable from those mined. It hung from a heavy looking braided chain. But it made me ask him if he wanted to do a survey. He asked what it was about, it seemed like other groups had approached him on campus. He showed me a NT from the Navigators.  [Some groups go around and do surveys and do not go through the Gospel with students. It would require a little training to go through the Gospel but you could just read the verses of the Roman Road and have a prayer available for someone to pray. I add a lot including other verses about Christ’s righteousness, God making all things into good, and cleansing of Christ’s blood and some others I just quote out loud and ask questions. So I do not know why students are not directed to go through the Gospel when they do surveys. There is a cult on campus that adds to salvation by baptism and good works. They do not go through the Gospel when they approach people because they want them IN their church where they can begin to indoctrinate them with a works-based gospel and control their lives.] So I said the big question is really, “You’re walking down the road and you get hit by a bus. So you’re dead. And you stand before God and He says, ‘Why should I let you into Heaven?’ What would you say?” I said the survey was the answer to that question. “What would you say is the answer to the question?” he asked. I said my answer was in this booklet. I pulled it out sat down beside him and began to go through the Gospel using it. I got his name and showed him mine on the back. He knew Jesus had died on the cross to take away the sins of the world. I explained how that worked, the life in the shed blood of Christ to cleanse him and pay God for the sin we had done destroying life, I explained the righteousness of Christ also His resurrection. It seemed he had seen some dark things and had done wrong things himself. He asked about that. I said the problem of evil was a question for every philosophy and religious view, why it existed. But that outside of Christianity these others could not tell you what evil and good actually looked like or for certain what an evil action was, I explained no one But God could control outcomes and so be ultimately good, but we could be directed to good actions broadly speaking by the Bible. Evil actions destroy your soul and give opportunities for daemons. I said darkness was the absence of life and so people became darker when they reject God light. He said he thought people got things from evil actions, I agreed but said these gains did not last but that Satan could not remove good feelings of success from evil accomplishments though he would if he could. People can be tricked into it by Satan to do increasingly evil things so that they then do not think they can be forgiven. He asked if that was true. I said God’s forgiveness was worth an infinite amount because of the value of the blood of Christ and because then because He as God did the work. But I thought it was possible someone could become psychotic, their mind broken could not be reached. Satan hated God and so hated humans who were made in His image. Satan could not strike God but he could try to hurt those in His likeness, strangely enough Satan even hates his own followers. I offered him receiving Christ by faith. I asked if he would want to be forgiven asking God to forgive him based on what Jesus had done or thought something else. He said, “I want to be forgiven.” So I said then there was a prayer he could pray and talked him through it. I asked if it was the desire of his heart. He said it was. So I said he could pray it silently. “Wanna do that?” “Yeah,” he replied. And he took the booklet and prayed to receive Jesus. I said that as soon as he believed Ephesians 1:13 said the Holy Spirit entered him and sealed him. He asked if that was forever (I think that’s the word he used). I said it was because Christ’s blood was a power in the world that continued to forgive him so God could continue to live inside him and God knew the attitude of his heart. “State of Grace,” he said. I said yes you are in a state of Grace because of the blood of Jesus you received by faith. He had probably heard of the term in sacramentalism in the Roman Church. I was redefining it as something you did not leave because of the work of Christ. I started to give him a book and he did not want take it until I explained that people give me money for books to give to students (so if you have given us money for that thanks). I wrote his name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front of Bible Promises for You I gave him a Bible study explaining it and The Case for Christ Answer Booklet. I went through the Christian life with him saying to read in John and the Christian life was “By the Spirit’s Power”, “Inside Out”. He asked me why people tell him to begin reading the Bible in John. I said of the 4 Gospels John, Matthew, Mark and Luke, John has no parables and so there are not any stories to explain and it is mostly about the 7 Miracles Jesus did and that Jesus is God. That’s the basic idea you have to have first so that it makes sense of everything else. He accepted that. He asked me why I had approached him and I said because of his cross. I think he was looking for a “guided by the Spirit” response. God leads me to people by prayer. I have asked students to talk with crosses around their neck who have said “no.” He said he was religious because he had seen a lot of bad stuff and he did not have anything else. I told him I would pray a Bible Verse for him each day from now until Spring and one year after asking God to bless him. He objected to that asking why I would pray for him for the next year and a half though I might not see him again. I said Jesus told us to love others and that was my way of doing that. He said he would pray for me, probably later that day or the following day. He thanked me I shook his hand. “I can tell you have the Spirit,” he said and I shook his hand again and said God bless you and headed off.

 So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism this week if you if you had a chance, God blessed.

 In Him,

Bob

Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day has been blessed so far with good things from above. I had a good day on campus and encouraged a couple Christians in their faith. One girl Ella, who had never been to church or heard the Gospel before heard for the first time and said it sounded like the best option so I hope God will bring others into her life to persuade her. She was pretty with curly ringlets of dark brown fly-away hair to her shoulders. Today. David and Vee each prayed to receive Jesus. Please pray they will be increasing in their sanctification through the Holy Spirit. Their responses are below if you want to spend the time.

David was sitting in the hallway that goes down to the bookstore in an arm chair, I sat at his feet. He had on a black T-shirt and nylon sweats with white piping up the legs. He had a couple days growth of beard on his cheeks and where sideburns would grow as would a mustache over a heavier chin beard. Nice smile longer rectangular face and looked Latino. His right arm had a tattoo beginning just under the elbow of a swirling black ink, a robed woman, possibly Mary. He said he wanted to have a family when I asked one thing he wanted to do before he died. That response is almost always a tell a guy is a Christian or will pray to receive Jesus. I asked, “You’re walking down the road and you get hit by a bus. So you’re dead. And you stand before God and He says, ‘Why should I let you into Heaven?’ What would you say?” He said,” I used to like read my Bible every day, not live in sin… Recently I drifted away so I don’t think I have an answer for that.” He thought the likelihood he would go to Heaven was 30%. I began to go through the Gospel with him and he knew Jesus had died on the cross. So I explained everything I usually say about the blood and righteousness of Christ as a payment for sin and His resurrection and of course receiving Christ. I asked if he wanted to be forgiven for his sins or thought something else. “I would want to be forgiven,” he replied. So I said if he wanted to be forgiven and start again there was a prayer he could pray and talked him through it and asked if it expressed the desire of his heart. He nodded it did. I said he could pray it silently and know he was forgiven. He took the booklet and said, “Thanks so much, I appreciate it,” and he prayed for receive Christ. I began to go through the Christian life with him and he had a Bible. I explained he could start in the book of John and what it meant in the Prophets that Jesus was the “Word of God.” I told him I would pray a Bible verse for him each day asking God to bless him from now until Spring and one year after. I explained that everything was “By the Spirit’s Power.” I said that the Christian life was living inside out, first we ask God to change us on the inside then we become good men and do good things on the outside. He could ask God to help him love his wife and in everything that is in the future. I said the likelihood he would now go to Heaven trusting in the blood of Jesus for him and the righteousness of Jesus to be his righteousness was 100%. I said I’d sinned way more than him but God would not look at our pile of sin from our lives but say he’d forgiven it and changed it into good. I gave him Bible Promises for You, and wrote his name and the date and “forgiven!” on the inside. Also I gave him The Case for Christ Answer Booklet and a Bible study on the deity of Christ explaining the prophecy that it begins with and walking on the water a miracle he knew. He said he thought Heaven would be great and I agreed and that though we made mistakes God made us out of dust but He was with us. “I appreciate that so much, see ya,” he said as I got up to go and we fist bumped and I was off down the hall.

 I came across Vee in the hallway of the west science building on the second floor laying on a bench. She was waiting for her friend to get out of class, who was her best friend and a Christian. She had a couple shopping bags with her and a daypack. She was a bit plump and a round head and black glasses, and tight curly hair that sat atop her head like a cap. She had on a kelly-green blouse and wore light grey baggy sweats that many girls are wearing this year, cut like baggy jeans. She sat up to talk. I asked her one thing she wanted to do before she died and she said, “Be a good mom.” She said she was too young for kids when I asked if she had any. She said she was Catholic and her best friend was a Christian. I asked, “You’re walking down the road and you get hit by a bus. So you’re dead. And you stand before God and He says, ‘Why should I let you into Heaven?’ What would you say?” “I don’t know.” She replied. “I feel like I’d say, ‘Do I genuinely deserve this? Is my time really up?’” I said some people have said they died and came back. She said she had died twice. I asked her if she’d seen anything and she said no but her mom said she had mentioned the name of her sister who had died when she was out so maybe but she did not remember anything. I told her the shoe on the roof story from Gary Habermas https://therumpus.net/2013/02/22/the-rumpus-interview-with-dr-gary-habermas/ She thought she had a 78% chance of going to Heaven. I began to go through the Gospel with her and she struggled to remember what Jesus had done to take away the sins of the world, but it seemed to come back to her. I told her the Gospel and all I usually say about the blood and righteousness of Jesus to make her clean and be a payment to God. I said she needed to receive this by faith to believe Jesus was God had died for her sins and rose from the dead. “So that if someone were to ask, “Why should God let you into Heaven?” you’d say, “Because Jesus died for me.” That would mean you had faith in Jesus and faith save you. I asked if she would want to be forgiven trusting in what Jesus had done or if she thought something else. “I would like to be forgiven,” she replied. So I said if she wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer she could pray and I talked her thought is and asked if it was the desire of her heart, she nodded with a quiet “Um hum,” I said she could pray it silently and know she was forgiven. “Wanna do that?” I asked. She nodded and she took the booklet and prayed then to receive Christ. She said when she finished her girlfriend she was waiting for had seen me walking around and said, “I think he’s telling people about God, I love that.” That had probably gained me an audience. I began to go through the Christen life with her. She had a Bible and had first read Matthew and finished John and was going to start Luke. I explained some things to her about the Gospels and Jesus as the “Word of God” in the Old Testament. She liked that and I told her everything in the Christian life was “By the Spirit’s Power.” The difference between Christianity and other Religions is that it is “Inside Out”. First God changes us on the inside; we become good people and do good things on the outside by His power. I said the likelihood she would not go to Heaven as 100% trusting in the blood and righteousness of Jesus. I gave her Bible Promises for You and wrote her name and the date and forgiven in the front and she said her girlfriend “would love this book” so I gave her an extra one to give her. “You can tell her you got her a present,” I said. I said I would pray a Bible Verse for her each day asking God to bless her. I gave her an extra booklet too and a Bible Study explaining it a bit and The Case for Christ Answer Booklet. “Thanks so much,” she said as I got up to go. “God bless you,” I replied. “Thank you so much,” she said again. And I headed off.

 So Thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today if you had a chance, God truly bless me today.

 In Him,

Bob

Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope you had a blessed day today walking with God by His word. I had a good day on campus and encouraged a couple Christians with assurance of faith. I went through the Gospel with a Muslim who at least took the booklet and liked the Gospel presentation. Finally Leo prayed to receive Jesus at the end of the day so that was good. His responses are below if you have some time. Please pray he is sanctified by the Life-giving Spirit of Christ.

 Leo was sitting in the cafeteria. He had on an oatmeal-colored pullover with buttons at the neck and an eagle printed on it, he also wore jean shorts. He was a shorter Latino guy with kind of a Charles Bronson shaped face, a big warm smile breaking it in two, dimpled cheeks. He had one of those transparent Michael Jordan mustaches and a chin beard. His wavy not quite straight hair was a mop atop his head. He said he wanted to go to Spain; he’d heard the beaches were pretty but had no relatives there. I asked him, “You’re walking down the road and you get hit by a bus. So you’re dead. And you stand before God and He says, ‘Why should I let you into Heaven?’ What would you say?” He thought for a bit rereading the question and finally landed on, “’Cause I believe in Him.” He thought a bit about the likelihood he would get into Heaven and finally said 70-30 as a percent. I began to go through the Gospel with him and he was attentive. The cafeteria was pretty well empty and he did not seem to be in a hurry the hour having changed for the next class. I asked what Jesus had done back in history to take away his sins so God could live inside him and he said, “He was crucified.” I explained that everything belonged to God, “If I hurt you or hurt me or hurt the world in some way I would owe God something perfect back. But if I’m screwing around in the parking lot and rollover your foot and crush it I don’t have an extra spare perfect foot to give to God.”  It was interesting, he said went he was a kid he had broken the feet off a small statue of Jesus. Ever since he felt like he could not move his foot up on an angle at all at the ankles. I looked at his foot as he demonstrated his infirmity. But it did not seem to me anyone could move their foot much from an “L” shape at the ankle. I didn’t think I could much and when I got home I checked with Ellen, her foot barely moved either. I wondered if his mom had sold him on something as a kid because he’d broken a statue. But I let it go; he wasn’t in pain or anything. So I continued on saying all I usually say of the blood of Christ to cleanse him and pay for his sins and the righteousness of God to his credit. God adopted him and Jesus rose from the dead. He needed to receive Jesus. So if someone asked, “Why should God let you into Heaven?” You’d say, “Because Jesus died for me.” I asked if he’d want to be forgiven for his sins or thought something else and mentioned Islam and the Buddha and asked again, “So would you want to asked God to forgive you trusting in what Jesus has done?” “Yeah,” he said enthusiastically. So I said if he wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer he could pray. I talked him through it and asked if it expressed the desire of his heart. He said it did. I said he could pray it silently and God would hear him. “Wanna do that?” “Yeah,” he said seriously and he took the booklet from across the table we were sitting at and put his palms and fingers together like a clap and prayed to receive Christ. I explained then the likelihood he would now go to Heaven trusting in the blood of Jesus to cleanse him and pay for his sins and righteousness of Jesus to be his righteousness was 100%. “Thanks for your time with all this,” he said. I said, “Sure.” I gave him a Bible Study then on the deity of Christ explaining it. I showed him how he could turn the content of a verse into a prayer in Bible Promises for You writing his name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front. Then I also gave him The Case for Christ Answer Booklet. I told him about Strobel and said there might be short chapter in it he would like. He asked me how to know he had a sign from God. I told him that anything God was telling him to do would be moral, he agreed God would not give him a sign to rob a bank. He could pray about it and ask God to give him peace if it was his leading. I explained the fruit of the Spirit in Galatians 5:22,23 I explained living by the Spirit’s power and “Inside Out”. I said he could ask for wise council from others, but that he did not need to worry about outcomes because God made all things work together for good and a setback was just God’s leading. I asked but he had not thought he had gotten a sign from God. I told him I would pray a Bible Verse for him each day asking God to bless him from now until Spring and one year after. I stood to go and said, “God bless you.” “You too man, have a good rest of your day,” he replied and I thanked him and headed off.

 So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today if you had a chance, God truly blessed.

 In Him,

Bob

Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed with every good and perfect gift in Christ and you were encouraged. I had a good day on campus giving one guy Chase assurance of salvation. And also 2 guys each prayed to receive Jesus, Conner and Connor. They had a vowel difference between them and the first was twice the size of the second. Please pray these students are sanctified by the Spirit and grow in faith. Their responses are below if you want to spend the time.

 I had a nudge I was supposed to find someone in the cafeteria when I got to school. I walked around and asked several people with no takers and came across Connor. He was about 6’ 4” twice my weight I’d guess, but more fit. He had a basically round face and short sandy hair trimmed close to his head and a small caterpillar mustache broken in the middle over a small mouth. He had a grey pull over hoodie on and jeans. He’d been on student aid for football until he tore his ACL coupled with a torn meniscus. It seemed his playing days were done. His goal was to become a firefighter. He looked like he could carry me out of a burning house without pause. I asked him, “You’re walking down the road and you get hit by a bus. So you’re dead. And you stand before God and He says, ‘Why should I let you into Heaven?’ What would you say?” He gave kind of a smirk of introspection. “In all honesty I probably shouldn’t [be let into Heaven]. Especially right now,” he replied. “It depends on if you believe in works or salvation,” he added. He thought he had a 65% chance of going to Heaven. I began to go through the Gospel with him and he knew Christ had died to take away our sin. He listened in and seemed reflective. I said all I usually say about the perfect life of Jesus we could not live and that we owe God life. He must be paid. This is the illustration I have been saying for a while now; “Say you borrow your friend’s car and you dent the fender. Then you take it to a body shop they pop out the dent you give it back to your friend and everything is for cool. But basically when you borrow someone’s stuff you have to give it back to them perfect how you got it. Well everything belongs to God; you belong to God I belong to God the world belongs to God. So if I hurt you or I hurt me or I hurt the world in some way I owe God something perfect back. But if I’m out screwing around in the parking lot and I roll over your foot and I crush it, I don’t have an extra spare perfect foot to give to God. Plus I’ve destroyed your quality of life, your shoes don’t fit, you walk with a limp you can’t dance at your wedding. So I owe you life and I owe you a foot, and I owe God life and I owe Him a foot—because he gave you the foot. But I can’t shave off years of my life to pay God what I owe. I’m old now and I don’t have enough years left but I’d be out of years by now anyway because I keep screwing up. So I owe life, but I can’t pay. But fortunately for me Jesus is the Creator God and His blood is filled with life. So when he pours out His blood it pays God back for all the imperfect stuff I’ve done that I owe God something perfect for. So the real reason God forgives me is He got PAID. But he had to pay Himself. He had to be just so there had to be a payment.” I then explained the righteousness of God Jesus earned to our credit. He died for us rose from the dead and we have to receive this by faith and faith saves you. I asked him if he wanted to be forgiven trusting in what Jesus had done or thought something else. I showed him the two circles. “I probably lean to the right,” he replied. (The circle on the right has God living inside you because you have asked for forgiveness for your sins.) I said, “Well the Bible says to forget what lies behind and reach forward to what lies ahead and press on toward the goal of the prize of the upward call of Christ Jesus. So if you’d want to have a new start there’s a prayer you can pray.” I talked him through it and asked if it expressed the desire of his heart. “Probably,” he replied. I said, “Well if you wanted to you could pray this silently right now. I wouldn’t hear you but God would hear you and you’d know you were forgiven trusting in what Jesus has done. Wanna do that?” He hesitated and thought for a moment and finally said, “Yeah.” I handed him the booklet open to the prayer and he said, “Do I get to keep this paper?” “Yeah man, for sure,” I replied about the booklet and he prayed to receive Jesus. When he finished I said the likelihood he would go to Heaven was 100% trusting in the blood and righteousness of Jesus. I began to go through the Christian life with him and asked if he had a Bible. “Sort of,” he replied. “It’s like a family Bible not your own?” I asked. “Right,” he said. “Would your own Bible?” I asked he said he would I finished the rest of the Christian life and living “By the Spirit’s Power” and living “Inside out” asking for transformation. I then showed him the Bible and the cross references and the study helps Q and A with passages and so on, hey there’s maps. I wrote his name and the date and “forgiven!” on the inside. I gave it to him and he thanked me. I gave him Bible Promises for You, (which I said was NIV and easier to read than the NKJV Bible in places), The Case for Christ Answer Booklet saying Strobel had been on Shawn Ryan who Conner knew of (it’s a podcast) and a Bible study on the deity of Christ explaining the prophecy that leads it off. I told him I would pray a Bible verse for him each day from now until Spring and one Year after asking God to bless him. I grabbed my pack to go and stood up and he stood up on the opposite of the table and reached out to shake my hand (he had a great handshake). “Nice meeting you,” he said. “Nice to meet you too,” I replied. “I’ll see you in Heaven.” He was grateful and I headed out. I headed out to the Jeep (my truck is still in the shop) and got the extra Bible I brought.

 I looked around outside saw a student I know and stood in the shade to see how he was doing. Then he walked off and I found Connor sitting at a table under an umbrella. He was a real nice guy with a curly mop of brown hair on top that reached his collar in back. He was a white guy with black-framed glasses kind of rectangular oval. He was clean-shaven but only would have had a mustache and a small goatee. He had a square chin and a long face, good-looking, wore a white T-shirt and nylon sweats. Had a black laptop and some kind of calculator or it might have been a big phone in front of him. Seemed like a quiet, determined guy, nice. He said he’d do a survey kind of like he’d do me a favor. That vibe happens often enough; students are pretty cool to me even in saying no. He thought he’d like to go to Europe and I mentioned a couple of times I’d seen things there. I asked him, “You’re walking down the road and you get hit by a bus. So you’re dead. And you stand before God and He says, ‘Why should I let you into Heaven?’ What would you say?” He said, “Um… I’m nice to everyone. I treat people how they would like to be treated.” “The golden rule,” I replied. “That’s my thing,” he confirmed. He thought he had a 99% chance of going to Heaven. He said he went to church on Easter. I began to go through the Gospel with him; he was really friendly and engaged. I asked what Jesus had done back in History to take away the sins of the world. “I know you’re washed; I don’t remember how,” he replied. I said something like, this is how it works and explained the perfect life of Christ His blood to cleanse him and be a payment, the righteousness of God. God could live inside him. “Beautiful,” he replied. I read that 500 saw him after He rose. I said he needed to receive Jesus, believe on Him name. So if you believe Jesus is God died for you sins and rose from the dead. Not that you just kind of knew the story from being a kid but that that’s what you put your trust in as an adult. So if someone would say to you why should God let you into Heaven you’d say, “Because Jesus died for me, that would mean you had faith in Jesus. Faith and grace saved you not works as your good stuff could not fix your bad stuff. I asked if he would want to be forgiven for his sins trusting in Jesus or thought something else. “Be forgiven,” he said. So I said if he wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer he could pray and read through it and asked if it expressed the desire of his heart. “Yeah be a part of it,” he replied. So I said he could pray it silently I wouldn’t hear but God would he’d know he was forgiven. “Of course,” he replied. He took the booklet and as he did said, “Thank you.” When he finished I explained the likelihood he would not go to Heaven was 100% trusting in the blood and righteousness of Jesus. “Beautiful,” he said, expression he used it seemed.. “Keep doing this, you have a passion,” he said. “Yeah, thanks for the encouragement,” I said. “I’m trying to help people understand.” “The world needs more people like you,” he said. “I don’t know about that,” I said. Then I said it probably needed more people to talk about God maybe not like me, but my wife liked me. As I went through the Christian life he didn’t have a Bible so I gave him one and wrote his name and the date and “forgiven!” on the inside. I also gave him, Bible Promises for You, (which I said again was NIV and easier to read than the NKJV Bible in places) The Case for Christ Answer Booklet mentioning Strobel’s story.  He got a Bible study on the deity of Christ; explaining the prophecy that leads it off and walking on the water in Job. I told him I would pray a Bible verse for him each day from now until Spring and one year after asking God to bless him. He was grateful and I headed out.

 So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today if you had a chance. God truly blessed. It’s my birthday tomorrow and Ellen’s Sunday so we’re gonna chill if we can avoid the heat west of Chicago.

 In Him,

Bob

Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope you had a great day marching with the righteous and casting your cares upon Christ. I had a good day on campus again today by God’s provision and Isa, Nick and Anthony each prayed to receive Jesus today. I had a good explanatory discussion with a couple of guys who were believers. Also Arsal a guy from a Muslim family who had grown sympathetic to Christianity was reading through Strobel’s book I’d given him last week and said today enthusiastically he was chipping away at it. I told him I was praying for him. It’s The Case for Christ Answer Booklet and I think I might carry the longer book around for a while in case I bump into Arsal again and he’d like to have it. Please pray these students are sanctified by the Spirit. Their responses are below if you have some time you want to spend reading.

 Isa (Ee sah) was sitting in the hallway as I walked to the west toward the bookstore. I had a prompting in my heart to go that way when I first got to campus and was happy to bump into her. She was looking at a laptop with nothing on it, it seemed to be a blank screen as I walked up. She was a pretty, slim girl, Dark coloring that might have been Jordanian. She had long brown hair past her elbows. She was wearing short shorts, seemed tall. She also wore clogs and a blouse that looked a taupe brown, kind of a silvery drapery with tucks down the center and long sleeves. She had a rounded nose and a straight jaw line. She had 3 gold chains around her neck and one held a decorative cross. She was darker skinned and looked tan. She didn’t make a lot of eye contact as we talked looking at the screen. There was a round coffee table between us and I held the booklet so she could look over the computer on her lap, which she did when I read a Bible verse. I didn’t look her way as much. She thought she’d like to travel, maybe to the Middle East. I asked her “You’re walking down the road and you get hit by a bus. So you’re dead. And you stand before God and He says, ‘Why should I let you into Heaven?’ What would you say?” “What would I say, oh wow.” She thought for a moment and said, “I don’t even know what I would say.” “Do you ever go to Church?” I asked. “I do sometimes. I’m not sure. Sometimes I talk to God.” I asked the likelihood she would go to Heaven when she died and added, “Like a percentage?” she asked. “Yeah. It’s just a guess,” I replied.  “75-80 %,” she said. I began to go through the Gospel with her. Saying eternal life was knowing God and that meant He lived inside her but first had to take away her sin I asked, “What is the big thing Jesus did back in History to take away your sins?” “He forgives?” she guessed. I said “Well this is how it works.” Then I explained Jesus perfect life and sacrifice, His blood cleansing her and being a payment to God. I explained Jesus earning the righteousness of God and it was to her credit. I explained all I usually say of the Gospel saying she needed to receive Christ, to believe Jesus is God, died for her sins and rose from the dead. That would mean she had faith in Jesus. Faith saved her then by Grace. I asked if she would want to be forgiven trusting in what Jesus had done or thought something else giving her the quick options of Islam and the Buddha. “Forgotten, I mean forgiven,” she replied. “Yeah you’ll never be forgotten, well if you’d want to be forgiven there’s a prayer you can pray.” I talked her through it and asked if it expressed the desire of her heart. She nodded it did. So I said she could pray it silently, “I wouldn’t you but God would hear and you’d know you were forgiven, wanna do that?” “Yeah,” she replied and so I handed her the booklet and she prayed the prayer. I asked if she’d prayed as she was just holding the booklet not saying anything after and she said she had. I said then the likelihood she would go to Heaven trusting in the blood and righteousness of Jesus was 100%. I explained the Christian life living by the Spirit’s power, “Inside Out” as I do with everyone. I asked if I could give her some books and she agreed. She did not want a bigger Bible saying she had a small pocket one. I gave her Bible Promises for You writing her name and the date and “forgiven!” on the inside, “Thank you,” she said taking it. I gave her The Case for Christ Answer Booklet telling her Strobel’s story and a Bible study I explained. I said I would pray a Bible verse for her each day from now until Spring and one year after asking God to bless her. “I don’t know if I’ll see you again but I will be praying for you if I see ya I’ll give you a wave.” I said. “Thank you so much,” she replied. “Okay watch your step it’s hard to be a pretty girl these days,” I said getting up to leave. “Thank you,” she replied and I headed out.

 I was walking around looking for students to talk to and I somehow felt I was supposed to go to the cafeteria, which was on the other side of school. I had decided to go to the third floor of the BIC where I bumped into Arsal. So I headed to the cafeteria. I saw Nick from the back sitting at the counter. He had long sandy hair to his shoulders and a light blue T-shirt on and jeans. He had an oval face, soft features and was clean-shaven, looked like someone with a good sense of humor. He looked at least 20 years old. He said he wanted to travel and had been to a few of the national parks and Canada. I asked him, “You’re walking down the road and you get hit by a bus. So you’re dead. And you stand before God and He says, ‘Why should I let you into Heaven?’ What would you say?” He said as much as there wouldn’t be much you could say by way of persuasion then said, “I tried to live my life compassionately and honestly,” then added, “That’s about all I could say.” I asked the likelihood he would get into Heaven, “I’m not even gonna say,” he said, like it would be presumptuous. I agreed and said, “Yeah it’s pretty much His thing.” I asked if he ever went to church and he said he did sometimes not as often as he could. I began to go through the Gospel with him and he tuned right in.  He knew Jesus had been crucified to take away the sins of the world. I explained that Jesus had lived the perfect life we could not His blood cleansed us and the righteousness He earned was to our credit. God adopted him and gave him the blessings of his family. “He gives us the sacrifice for our sins the blood that cleanses us and the righteousness that surrounds us, so you got someplace to go, Heaven and something to wear when you get there, The Robe of God righteousness.” I said he needed to receive Christ to believe He was God had died for his sins and rose from the dead. Trust in this to be forgiven. That would mean he had faith in Jesus and faith saved him. I asked if he would want to be forgiven for his sins. “Yeah,” he replied. I said if he wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer he could pray and explained it and asked if it was the desire of his heart. “Probably, mostly,” he replied. I asked if there was something missing. He read it through again and said, “Mostly yeah” that it pretty well covered it. So I said he could pray it silently, I wouldn’t hear him but God would hear and he’d know he was forgiven. “Wanna do that?” I asked. “Yeah,” he said and he prayed to receive Jesus. I said the likelihood he would now go to Heaven was 100% trusting in the blood and righteousness of Jesus. I explained living by the Spirit’s power, “Inside Out.” I gave him Bible Promises for You writing his name and the date and “forgiven!” on the inside. And he was grateful. I gave him The Case for Christ Answer Booklet telling him the Strobel story in brief and a Bible study I explained. I said I would pray a Bible verse for him each day from now until Spring and one year after asking God to bless him. I said I didn’t know if I’d see him again but I’d be praying. “I’ll see you around,” he replied with a big smile. “Okay,” I said and I headed off.

 I felt like I should look for Austin from Monday in the PE lounge as I said I would bring him a Bible and I didn’t have much time left as I thought I needed to head out to pick up Ellen from work. I’d dropped her off as my truck is being repaired. He wasn’t there but Anthony was sitting against the wall looking at his phone waiting for a class to start. He was an athlete but was wearing a zip up dark hoodie and baggy frayed bottom grey jeans. He had a curly mop of hair and a mustache that did not meet in the middle, a chin beard, looked Latino, pretty tan. He was handsome with a square chin and cut jaw line. I asked if he wanted to do a student survey about God for a student group and he said he’d already talked to some people who had given him a Bible, he showed me a Navigator’s New Testament pulling it out of a zipper pocket of his backpack. I said this was a little different the big question is. “You’re walking down the road and you get hit by a bus. So you’re dead. And you stand before God and He says, ‘Why should I let you into Heaven?’ What would you say?” There was a pause and I asked, “So what would you say?” He thought for a minute and said, “I don’t know what I would say.” “Well, would you want to hear some Bible verses that tell you the answer to that question and how you get to Heaven?” “Yeah,” he said, “I only have a little time before class though.” “Ok here it is real quick. He really focused as I went through the Gospel with him. I asked what Jesus did back in History to take away the sins of the world but he couldn’t think of anything. It seemed he hadn’t really gone to church for a while or for long ever. So I explained all I usually say about the blood and righteousness of Christ and salvation by faith, not skipping anything but hoping there was time. I was sitting on the floor next to him and sometimes writing using the floor and kneeling. He said he wanted to be forgiven so I offered him the prayer, talking through it and asking if it expressed the desire of his heart. He said it did so I said he could pray it silently. He took the booklet and said, “Is there any way I can keep this.” “Sure,” I replied. Then he prayed the prayer to receive the forgiveness of sins. I showed him some more in the booklet. It turned out he had a full Bible at home so maybe he’d had some church. I explained the Power of the Holy Spirit to give him guidance and insight and explained asking for transformation where we ask God to transform us on the inside we become good men and we do good things. I asked if I could give him some books and he agreed enthusiastically. Some of the guys I talk to don’t want to read. I gave him Bible Promises for You writing his name and the date and “forgiven!” on the inside. He thanked me and took the book. I gave him The Case for Christ Answer Booklet telling him Strobel’s story saying he might find one of the chapters interesting and then a Bible study I explained. I said I would pray a Bible verse for him each day from now until Spring and one year after asking God to bless him. I said I didn’t know if I’d see him again but I’d be praying. “Thank you so much,” he said sincerely. “I’ll see you in Heaven,” I replied. “Amen!” he said and I headed off.

 So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today if you had a chance, God truly blessed.

 In Him,

Bob

Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

 I hope you had a blessed day living by the guidance of the Holy Spirit. I had a good day on campus and Dahlia prayed with me to receive Jesus. I also when through the Gospel with Liam, he was “on the fence” in his words at the end. He had dark red hair and a lighter mustache and goatee, rectangular metal glasses. I had some discussions with some others a couple of whom were closed to Christianity and had at one time been church going Christians and another who took the booklet wanting to read it herself. Please pray Dahlia grows in faith, we talked for over an hour after she prayed and pray Liam comes in, I did give him The Case for Christ Answer Booklet and a Bible Study.

I came across Dahlia sitting at a table against the concrete grooved wall in the upstairs of the PE lounge. She was killing some time before going to the workout area for the first time, a little apprehensive about going for some reason. She had a pretty face fair skin and her long hair was pull very tight on her head and tied in back, presumably because she was going to be active. She wore black workout clothes. She described herself as Hispanic and said she had grown up in a Roman Catholic background but had been trying other Churches a bit turned off by the politics at her church. But she had gotten into the Bible and realized there were things in the Roman Church she could not find there. But in part it was a hard push of her priest in opposition to any deportations of illegals in anyway. Her conservative family did not like the political messaging at Church. I asked her something she wanted to do before she died and she said she wanted to make an impact for people on a personal level. I asked her, “You’re walking down the road and you get hit by a bus. So you’re dead. And you stand before God and He says, ‘Why should I let you into Heaven?’ What would you say?” That’s an interesting question,” she replied. At that point if you have to defend yourself you did things you shouldn’t do… So he’d know you’re just speaking to speak.” I agreed that it wasn’t the kind of situation where a lot of fast-talking was going to help. And she agreed. “You can defend yourself as much as you want but in the end it is what you did, you know?” I agreed. I asked the likelihood she would get into Heaven and she said, “As of right now I’ve been getting closer. I had a friend at work we connected on a lot of things but mostly religion. He really taught me a lot.” She went on to say that her friend had given her a Bible, which she had with her. It seemed to be a good study Bible and she read the notes to understand things better. She had tried for 4 months or so to stay consistent but in the end she started getting too busy and prioritized the wrong things. Going to church fell off as did her reading and it had become harder to begin again. I asked her if she had more time and she said she did so I began to go through the Gospel with her. I explained that knowing God was that he lived inside her. God could do this because He had taken away her sin. I asked what Jesus had done to do this and she said, that He had used the cross. So I explained that, that He lived the perfect life she could not. His blood cleansed her and was a payment to God. Then He earned the righteousness of God to her credit.  I said she needed to receive Jesus, to believe Jesus was God had died for her sins and rose from the dead, not that she just knew the story but that that’s what she put her trust in to be forgiven. That would mean she had faith in Jesus. Grace saved her through faith. I asked if she would want to be forgiven for her sins trusting in what Jesus had done. She said she did. So I said if she wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer she could pray and I talked her through it. I asked if the prayer expressed the desire of her heart. “Yes,” she replied. I said she could pray it silently. She grinned and said, “I just prayed it as you explained it.” “OK, Amen?” said “Amen,” she replied. I found out then she had a Bible but since she knew some prayers and other things in Spanish I asked if she would like a Spanish New Testament I had gotten from the Navigators. “Oh that would really help,” she replied. I wrote her name in the front from me on the little dedication page. Then I showed her where she could sign and date the back page that she had trusted in Jesus. She really liked that. I said the likelihood she would now go to Heaven trusting in the blood and righteousness of Jesus was 100% and that though I had sinned more than her being old. (I find myself emphasizing that I am old lately and still imperfect needing forgiveness.) I gave her Bible Promises for You writing her name and the date and “forgiven!” on the inside, and she said, “Thank you.” she liked that I had written “forgiven” down. I gave her The Case for Christ Answer Booklet and a Bible study I explained. I said I would pray a Bible verse for her each day from now until Spring and one year after asking God to bless her. “Thank you for enlightening me with all this,” she said, grateful and appreciative. She said, “I have some questions.” ”Sure,” I replied. She asked about confession saying her friend had said you could confess to God. I said she could confess directly to God and He loved her and knew the future so when we screw up He forgives us, say He does and that He has a plan to make it into good.  She asked about the mixing of politics and religion. I said that Christianity shaped what we thought was good and you had to examine the statements of politicians as to their beliefs and hope they’re good and telling the truth. I talked about the Spirit’s power in that. I talked with her about trans stuff and that that ruined people’s lives as it was impossible to ever have an orgasm again once that surgery took place, which no one was told. It was impossible to turn a man into a woman or a woman into a man. She agreed. She asked about people’s claims about “Love.” I said love had to be defined and also that love was not only inclusive, all inclusivity also excluded something else. I had gotten married and had intimate sex with my wife and this excluded doing that with anyone else. She also asked about praying to Mary, angels and the saints. I pointed out God knew everything, she agreed he did. I said it did not make sense then to pray to a saint if God already knew before they told Him what you had said. I said I was not certain they could even hear you, they could not hear everyone who addressed them, they would have to be observing you and listening to you already. The Bible teaches no one is married in heaven and that we are to call no one else “Father” but God. So if there is only one Father in Heaven we are all His children and there are no Mothers either. I said I thought that the fact that Jesus gave Mary to the Apostle John at the foot of the cross suggested she would not be His mother any longer as He was going to Heaven were there are no mothers, we are all children there. But even were it true Mary remained Jesus’ mother for some reason she would have no special status with Him more than anyone else. I said I believed the Bible taught we had guardian angels but I did not think they wanted us to talk to them. She recited a prayer in Spanish she had prayed as a child asking for her angel not to leave her and protect her. I pointed out they were under the command of God to protect her and not leave her anyway so she did not need to ask them that. She agreed. She asked me stuff for over an hour and then went to work out. I really appreciated all this thanks so much,” she said. I said she was welcome. She apologized for taking up so much of my time but I said that talking like this was what I hoped would happen each day and she was more than welcome to my time. I gave her my number to text me if she was going to be around after a workout and I could find her at this table. I showed her a picture of Ellen and I headed off.

 So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today if you had a chance, God truly blessed.

 In Him,

Bob

Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope you had a blessed day walking with the Lord in His Grace. I had a good day on campus and though I was exhausted today, not sleeping much last night Greta, Ravic and Austin each prayed with me to receive Christ. I got the gospel completely presented to each of them but was only about 70% at times and as always needed prayers thanks so much if you found the time. The responses these students gave are below if you have the time. Please pray they are sanctified by the Spirit of truth.

 Greta was sitting right on the corner hall bench of a lounge that sits on the NW corner of the BIC. She had a pretty face, shaped like a Barbie doll (without the oversized eyes) and her hair was tinted with silver blonde and she had the perfect skin some young people seem to have She had on a black t-shirt with some printing on it and light grey baggy sweats. I said I had not remembered ever talking to a girl named Greta in the last 20 years on campus and she said it was a Lithuanian name. I mentioned that names kind of cycle and names from back in the day surface again. We talked about immigration for some reason that country had changed that way. She had not known the law had changed in the 1960’s with the immigration act. I asked her one thing she would want to do before she died and she said, “Grow close in faith.” I asked, “You’re walking down the road and you get hit by a bus. So you’re dead. And you stand before God and He says, ‘Why should I let you into Heaven?’ What would you say?” “Um,” she said, and repeated the question to herself ending with another, “Um.” She finally said, “Nothing.” I asked what she thought it was that got you into Heaven. “Good deeds, stay faithful,” she replied. She thought she had a 60% chance of going to Heaven. She hadn’t been going to Church. I began to go through the Gospel with her and when I read the first verse in the booklet, John 3:16 she said with some enthusiasm she knew that verse and she read the Bible. She knew when I asked What Jesus had done to take away her sins that He had died on the cross. I explained then all I usually say. Some students I knew rolled by and said hi to me as I talked about the righteousness of God comparing it to extra credit in a class earned by someone else but in the end being credited to her as Jesus had done. Jesus lived a perfect life for her and rose from the dead. I asked her finally if she would want to be forgiven for her sins trusting in what Jesus had done, Then God would live inside her and give her strength, take her to heaven when she died, she nodded silently, having been serious through it all. I said if she wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer she could pray and I talked her through it and asked if it expressed the desire of her heart, she said it did so I said she could pray it silently, I wouldn’t hear her but God would hear and she’d know she was forgiven, “Um, sure,” she replied and she took the booklet and prayed to receive Jesus. When she finished I said the likelihood she would now go to Heaven trusting in the blood and righteousness of Jesus was 100%. I gave her Bible Promises for You writing her name and the date and “forgiven!” on the inside, which she liked. I gave her The Case for Christ Answer Booklet and a Bible study I explained. I said I would pray a Bible verse for her each day from now until Spring and one year after asking God to bless her. We talked about math classes at school as she was there to get her general ed. out of the way with less expense. I stood up to go and said, “It was so nice to meet you.” “You as well,” she said reaching out for my hand to shake it. “Thank you,” she said and I nodded shaking her hand and headed off.

I came across Rovic sitting on a bench in the first-floor hall of the east science building. He was waiting for class looking at his phone a bit and out the window to the North. He had on a blue pull over hoodie with a wide white stripe across the chest and dark blue sweats. He wore a large cross around his neck. He had a wavy mop of hair parted on the left and rectangle black rimmed glasses. He had a mustache and looked Latino and seemed a bit melancholy. Looked like a regular guy. He said he was stressed. It was pretty early in the semester to be worried about classes but when I asked him something he wanted to do before he died he said, “Get everything right in my life.” I asked, “You’re walking down the road and you get hit by a bus. So you’re dead. And you stand before God and He says, ‘Why should I let you into Heaven?’ What would you say?” “I hold heavy regrets in my life,” he replied. “So you’re saying you are sorry,” I said. “Yeah,” he replied. He thought he had a 50% chance of going to Heaven. He hadn’t been to Church much lately. I began to go through the Gospel with him and he too knew Jesus had died for us saying when I asked what He had done, “He was a sacrifice.” I agreed and went on to continue to explain all I usually do about the perfect blood of Jesus to cleanse us and be a payment for sin and the righteousness of God He earned that was to our credit. Saying he needed to believe, to receive Christ, I read, “As many as received Him to them, to those who believed on his name, He gave the right to become Children of God.” So you believe, Jesus is God He died for your sins and rose from the dead, not that you just knew the story from growing up at church but that that’s what you put your trust in as an adult. So if someone would ask you why should God let you into Heaven you’d say, “Because Jesus died for me.” “Yes,” he said. “That would mean you had faith in Jesus and faith saves you.” I asked if he would want to be forgiven for his sins or thought something else saying a few lines about Islam and the Buddha. “I would be forgiven,” he replied. So I said if he wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer he could pray. I talked through it and read, “Does this prayer express the desire of your heart. ‘Yeah,” he replied. I said he could pray it silently and know he was forgiven and asked if he’d like to and he said, “Yes.” He took the booklet and prayed to receive Jesus. He was happy then. He didn’t have a Bible so I gave him one showing him the study helps and wrote his name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front. I also gave him Bible Promises for You and The Case for Christ Answer Booklet and a Bible study. The girl off to my left who’d been working on a lap top got up to go in as they’d opened the door to the classroom. “I think I got to let you go to class,” I said. “Just in time,” he replied. I told him I would pray a Bible verse for him each day from now until Spring and one year after asking God to bless him. “The Bible says to forget what is behind and look forward because God forgave it, so be filled with Joy,” I said as we got up to go. “Thank you,” he said and he shook my hand with a big smile and I was off down the hall.

 Austin was sitting on a couch in the PE lounge. He had on black athletic shorts and a blue t-shirt over a white long sleeve shirt. He had an angular face, high cheek bones and a curly mop of hair above his ears sitting on his head like a thick bowl. He said he wanted to be a physical therapist. I asked him, “You’re walking down the road and you get hit by a bus. So you’re dead. And you stand before God and He says, ‘Why should I let you into Heaven?’ What would you say?” “I spread the word of the Lord to as many people as I can, family, loved ones and friends. I spend time in your word as well,” he replied. I asked the likelihood he would go to heaven. “60-70% right now,” he said. “I’m getting there.” He also knew Jesus had died when I asked what He had done back in History to take away the sins of the world. He listened to the Gospel as I went through and seemed interested. Finally I asked if he would want to be forgiven trusting in what Jesus had done for him on the cross. “Yes,” he replied. I said, “Well if you have not done this before there is a prayer you can pray,” and I talked him through it and said, “If you’ve never had a chance before to ask God to forgive you based on what Jesus did on the cross and tell Him you are thankful you could pray it silently and know you were forgiven. I wouldn’t hear you but God would hear.” He took the booklet then and prayed to receive Christ. I told him then the likelihood he would be forgiven now was 100% trusting in the blood and righteousness of Jesus. I said I would pray a bible verse for him each day asking God to bless him. He didn’t have a Bible but I only had a pocket NT left so I gave him that writing his name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front. I said I would bring him bigger one if he saw me around just flag me down I usually have one in my backpack. I also gave him Bible Promises for You and The Case for Christ Answer Booklet and a Bible study. He was grateful and I headed off.

 So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for Evangelism today if you had a chance, God truly blessed.

 In Him,

Bob