Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope you had a good day walking with the Lord by the Spirit in you. I had a good day on campus, though no one prayed with me to receive Jesus, one Black guy Tyler said he thought he would pray later. He hadn’t gone to church much so I gave The Case for Christianity Answer Booklet. I think he was sincere so I hope he is brought by the Spirit to the Father. I asked, “Do you believed Jesus was God had died for his sins and rose from the dead, do you think that is a true story. And he said he did and I offered him the prayer. He was about to pray and then said he thought he would pray later. I never push on someone to pray so I said “Yeah sure you want to think about it some.” I offered him the booklet to help and he thanked me. I would describe him to you but his mask was so big and his hat so large (It had a large silver metallic logo) I basically saw nothing of his head. He had a print short sleeve shirt on and jeans.

I also prayed for Elijah, a Black guy who was shot by a drive by gang shooting in the 7th vertebra (2016 in Chicago) and is in a wheelchair with paralyzed legs. I went through the Gospel with him earlier in this year and he confessed Christ, as if he’d been believing. Though he answered the questions wrong. But he should have gotten it right because I had talked him through everything before in 2020 just before covid. He let me lay hands on him and pray the bullet in his spine still would be healed. they could not operate without making it worse. Please pray he is healed. I talked to him a while and explained Doctrines to him he wondered about so I hope to encounter him more and disciple him a bit.

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

In Him,
Bob

Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope you had a great day with Joy that was complete. I had a good day on campus though few people were there and Nicholas prayed with me to receive Jesus. Please pray for him that he’d grow in his faith. His story is below if you have time.

 Nicholas was sitting in the Cafeteria at the counter. He had a blue nylon jacket on and slightly darker blue jeans, white tennis shoes. He had half circle glasses flat on top and sandy hair in Clark Kent’s style and a gap-toothed smile. Small features. He seemed like kind a shy guy, not very big in stature. When I asked him what he would say to God to get into Heaven if he died he said, “Oh! Hmm, hmm. That’s a good question.” Then thinking more he said, “ I don’t know if I really deserve it if I’m being honest.” He said he had not been to church since his family stopped going a while back. It turned out they had been Lutheran. Saying “I try my best to generally not sin.” When I asked him the likelihood he would get into Heaven he said, “Well based on what I just said about 10-20%” It seemed like he felt he was not engaged with Church enough to acquire the benefit of the system they provided, which was going to Heaven. I went through the Gospel with him then, explaining that because Jesus’ blood cleansed us of sin. and the Righteousness of God He earned was to our credit, we could be forgiven. Because we were connected to Jesus, not by any good thing or religious efforts we made but by faith we could have eternal life. He listened attentively to the story and was engaged with what I said as I explained his good deeds were not perfect enough to pay for his bad deeds. I asked him if he would want to be forgiven trusting I Jesus or thought something else and he said, “The first one.” “Do you believe Jesus is God died for your sins and rose from the dead? Do you believe the story is true?” I asked.  “Yeah,” he said. I said then that if he wanted to place his trust I that to be forgiven there was a prayer he could pray and I walked him through it and asked if it was the desire of his heart and he said, “Yeah,” nodding. So I said he could pray it silently so only God would hear and he took the booklet and prayed to receive Jesus. When he finished I explained living the Christian life “inside out” by the Spirit’s power asking for the fruit of the Spirit in your life. I gave him a Bible because he did not have one and showed him the where to turn section and the Messianic Passages section. I gave him Bible Promises for You and a Bible study. We talked some more and I got up to go saying I would pray for him for the next year or so. I told him the likelihood he would go to Heaven now was 100% trusting in the Righteousness of Jesus to be his righteousness. “Thanks I appreciate it,” he replied and we shook hands and I was 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 great day walking with the Lord in the light of His word that guides us. I had a good day on campus and Denise prayed with me to receive Jesus. Please pray she grows in her faith. I got a good seed planted with Eddie too (Tall thin guy with a shaggy mane of dark brown hair) who listened thoughtfully to the Gospel and though his father had not followed his faith after coming here from Honduras and his mom was an atheist. He took The Case for Christianity Answer Booklet.

 Denise was sitting in a lounge with vending machines that backs up to some sky lights over a hallway with offices on the 1^st floor of the BIC. She wore red shiny sweats fixed at the ankle and a hoodie. Her dark hair was tied and up behind her head. She had the random freckle that my mom used to call beauty marks. She was petite and very pretty small face long eyelashes brought into points. I asked her if she wanted to do a survey for a Bible Study group and she said, “I already go to a Bible Study group.” So I asked her, “Want to answer the big metaphysical question and bring it home to your mom?” “OK,” she replied so I asked her what she would say to God if she was killed by a bus and God asked, “Why should I let you into Heaven?” “I really don’t know what I would say,” she said after thinking a moment. “Well would you like to hear some Bible verses that explain the answer to the question from the Bible or aren’t ya interested?” “Sure,” she said.  I got her name and took out the booklet and began to explain that God loved her and wanted to live inside her but he could not because of sin. She did not know how God took away her sins when I asked her. I said God took away her sin when Jesus died and the righteousness of Jesus was now her righteousness. I said this was all hers by faith. When I asked her if she would want to be forgiven for her sins trusting in what Jesus had done, saying He would live inside her she began shaking her head Yes and then I asked again just finishing the sentence I say and she said, “100%” So I walked her through the prayer and she said, “Yes,” when I asked if this was the desire of her heart. I gave her the booklet saying she could pray silently.  She took the booklet and asked “Can I keep this?” I said, “Yes”. Then she prayed to receive Jesus. I explained living “inside out” by the Spirit’s power. I gave her the book Bible Promises for You writing her name and the date and “forgiven!” on the inside. I gave her a Bible study on the Deity of Jesus. I asked her then about her Bible Study, if she was going to a group Bible Study or met with someone. She said she met with a couple people. Based on that I knew the group she was involved with was kind of a legalistic cult that tries to control your life and preys on college kids. She said she was going to visit their church on Saturday explaining that they did not meet on Sunday and telling me Sunday was not the Sabbath. I said I knew that the Bible did not change the Sabbath day to Sunday anywhere in the NT and Church history made a mistake claiming Sunday was a Sabbath day, so they were right about that much. But I said the word Sabbath really just means rest, and in Hebrews 4 Jesus is our rest because every day we rest our hearts on Him. The Bible also says you are the temple of the Holy Spirit. “The Spirit lives inside you because you just asked Him to,” I explained. “So if you are resting in Jesus and He lives inside you, everyday is the Sabbath for a Christian. So it doesn’t really matter what day you go to Church.” She liked that definition. I said I doubted the community Church where she regularly went in Plainfield would tell her they believed Sunday was the Sabbath day. But even if they called it that they could be forgiven for the mistake. I asked her if they said they were also keeping the Sabbath on Saturday. She agreed they had said that. I asked her if she knew how a car engine worked she said she did but I quickly explained that compressed gas exploded and made the cylinders go up and down. “So when you start your car you use a machine to start a fire.” I explained that one of the most basic Sabbath laws was that you should not start a fire on the Sabbath. So they break the Sabbath if they drive a car to church. She thought that was cleaver. I asked her if she had an electric start on her stove that clicked when she turned it on. She grinned seeing my point and said she did. I said her stove was also a way you started a fire. I said the group she was in had not bothered to even think about how they would keep the Sabbath laws from the Old Testament in our times, because you can’t. I said they were just trying to find little ways they were right and everyone else was wrong and I warned her saying, “I’m not telling you to dump all this stuff on them but I’m just warning you that some of these groups want to try to control your life.” She was grateful for the advice. I also gave her The Case for Christianity Answer Booklet then explaining Strobel’s story and told  her she could find YouTube stuff he had done as well. She thanked me and I headed out, telling her I would be praying for her.

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 day was filled with Grace and Peace walking with the Lord. I had a good day on campus and Emily and Breyon (pronounced Bree On) Prayed with me to receive Jesus today. Please pray for them if you have a moment to do so, that they’d be blessed placing their faith in Jesus. Their stories are below if you have the time.

Emily was sitting in the cafeteria finishing her bag of orange snacks of some kind. There was an empty subway wrapper on the counter height circular table where she sat. She looked like Pippy Longstocking’s cute little sister. She had a tassel snowcap on with straight light brown hair pouring out from under to her shoulders and jeans and a hoodie. She said she wanted to work with animals. When I ask her what she would say to God if asked “Why should I let you into Heaven?” she said, “Because… I wanna say I tried my best,” she said after thinking about it a while. But she did not seem to think that was a good answer. “That’s a hard question. I don’t think I’ve ever thought about that.” She went to a Catholic Church and thought she had a 98% chance of going to Heaven. I began to go through the Gospel with her and she remembered Jesus had died for her sins. As I talked through some of the verses she just kept popping snacks in her mouth and listening to the Gospel. As I finished I asked her if she would want to be forgiven for her sins. Talking about the one circle or the other and she pointed with a long finger nail at the circle to be forgiven and I moved the booklet to her hand to hit the right side circle. So I said if she wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer she could pray and I asked after walking through it if it was the desire of her heart. She nodded and I said she could pray it silently and would she want to and she said, “Yeah,” quietly. So I handed her the booklet saying she could just pretend I wasn’t there and she folded her hands under her chin with elbows on the table and prayed to receive Jesus. I saw she was finished off the top of my cap brim and looked at her and said, “I’ll see ya in Heaven.” I gave her Bible Promises for You and put her name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front. “Thanks you,” she said. I gave her a Bible study and got up to go and she thanked me again and I said if I saw her I’d give her a wave and headed off.

Breyon was sitting in a sofa chair in the hallway just past the student activities area on the way to the bookstore. He had a short rough topped afro and a thin mustache roman nose, good looking black guy, big dude wearing a gray sweatshirt and black sweat pants with “JUST DO IT” on the side in white letters. I asked if he wanted to do a survey and he said, “Do I have to go anywhere?” I said no “You just tell me what you think I write it down and I walk away.” He agreed to that. I asked him what he would say to God if he was hit by a bus and asked “Why should I let you into Heaven. “I feel like I haven’t really done anything that is sin that’s really bad. Nothing major.” “So you haven’t killed anyone or anything like that?” I said and he agreed. He had not been to church since he was young. He thought he had about a 75% chance of going to Heaven. I went through the Gospel with him and he knew Jesus had died. I could not tell if he was tracking as he had a large black mask on. But I explained that he would not go to Heaven because he was good but because Jesus was good and he was connected to Him. When I finished I asked him also if he would want to be forgiven for his sins or thought something else. “Forgiven for my sins,” he said. I said there was a prayer he could pray if he wanted to be forgiven and talked him through it and asked if it was the desire of his heart. He nodded and then I said he could pray it silently and I wouldn’t hear him but God would hear and he’d know he was forgiven. He nodded and took the booklet and prayed to receive Jesus. I gave him the booklet after explaining living “Inside Out” by the Spirit’s power. I gave him a Bible Study and the book Bible Promises for You writing his name and the date and “forgiven!” on the inside. He was grateful and I said I would keep him in my prayers for the next year.

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 moving out from under the Winter into Spring. At least the snow that fell on us only had to be shoveled off the deck we walk in on. And Wayne prayed with me to receive Jesus today and Thomas changed his perspective on trusting in his works so I hope he came in also. Got a couple other seeds planted. Kam and Justin who ran to class. I’d be grateful if you’d pray for them. Wayne’s story is below.

Wayne was sitting at the cafeteria counter looking at a phone and eating a subway. He had on a gray cotton hoodie and black nylon sweats with an inch wide stripe running down to black shoes. His head was covered with thin braids. Though African American and he had a perfect Roman nose and full lips and a bit of a mustache, big warm smile. He looked like lean linebacker material but he said he was a receiver and hoped to get into the NFL and play on the “highest stage”. When I asked him what he would say to God to get into Heaven he said, “I would say I’ve done the best I can do up to the point of my final death. I really have no hatred in my heart toward anyone or anything. The best I can do is all I can do.” He said he regularly went to church and thought he had a 95% chance of going to Heaven. I began to go though the Gospel with him and in asking him how god took away his sins he guessed repentance. I explained that God forgave him because He got paid. I made it clear (of course that is really the Holy Spirit not me) that he was saved by the blood and righteousness of Christ. “Can I keep this?” he asked about the booklet as I explained the atonement. “Yeah sure,” I said and explained he needed to receive Jesus by faith. I asked him if he wanted to be forgiven based on what Jesus had done or thought something else and he said, “Yeah I’d be forgiven.” So I asked if he had been trusting in Jesus or his good works to save him. “I have been trusting in my works,” he replied. “But after hearing this, there something I’m gonna have to do.” So I said there was a prayer he could pray if he wanted to be forgiven and I walked him through the prayer and asked if it was the desire of his heart and he said he would I said he could pray it right then if he wanted to be forgiven and he said, “Yeah.” I gave him the booklet and he prayed to receive forgiveness. When he finished I explained living “Inside Out” by the Spirit’s power and the fruit of the Spirit. I gave him a Bible Study and the book Bible Promises for You and wrote his name and the date and “forgiven!” on the inside. “Thank you, Thank you Bob,” he said.  I told him that now trusting in the righteousness of Jesus to be his righteousness the likelihood he would get into Heaven was 100%. “Thank you.” said. I said I would be praying for him through next year, we fist bumped and I headed out.

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 great day and if in Chicago can get out in the warmth tomorrow. I had a good day on campus and Tireh [ pronounced: tur I ] Prayed with me to receive Jesus today. He was the only student I went through the gospel with though I gave a book to Juan who had heard it from me before and now is being drawn closer to God it seems. I’d be grateful for your prayers for these guys. Tireh’s story is below if you wish to take the time.

Tireh was sitting in a row of chairs at the entrance to the café with a girl I had gone through the Gospel with before that was not interested. But we said hi in the hall so I asked Tireh if he wanted to do a survey saying she had done it. He was willing. He wore a horizontal stripped polo shirt with a vest on and dress pants. He had a zippered jacket around his waist and might have had to dress up for a speech class or something. He had white trainers on his feet. Looked a bit like an African politician somehow. But he was American. He had a rough afro and a curly beard about a half inch off his face, but looked young, good-looking guy. When I asked what he would say to God to get into Heaven he said, “I’ve done everything I could to help others. I’ve always trusted and believed.” He thought he had a 70% chance of getting in. As I went through the Gospel with Him he did not seem to know what Jesus had done to take away his sin when I asked. As I finished explaining that Jesus had died for him and that was how He was paid for what we owed him he exclaimed “Oh!” I went on to tell him of the Righteousness of God to his credit and that he needed to receive this by faith. I asked him if he would want to be forgiven for his sins trusting in what Jesus had done or thought something else and he said, “Be forgiven.” I explained the prayer to him and asked if it was the desire of his heart and he nodded. I said he could pray it right then and he would he want to and he said, “Yeah,” and he prayed to receive Jesus. I explained living the Christian life, “inside out” by the Spirit’s power and explained the fruit of the Spirit. I handed him the booklet then and he said, “Thank you so much.” Then I gave him Bible Promises for You writing his name and the date and “forgiven!” on the inside and I gave him a Bible study to do. I said I would keep him in my prayers and said now trusting in the Righteousness of Jesus to be his righteousness the likelihood he would go to Heaven was 100%. The girl interrupted with something about our Bible study and he tucked the things I’d given him into his pack and stood up to go after another girl who he’d put off to do the survey. She had walked into the Cafeteria. “Thanks so much Bob,” he said getting up to leave. I said he was welcome and made my way off down the hall.

May God bless your weekend, thanks for your prayers and help with the ministry and Evangelism.

In Him,

Bob

Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope you had a good day walking in the light of God’s word. I had a good day on campus sharing the word with the students and Klay, Kevin and Javier each prayed with me to receive Jesus. Also Joseph a black football player seemed to only trusting in his good works and that he was a “man of God”. He hadn’t seemed to remember that Jesus had taken away his sins. But after I explained the heart of the Gospel he began agreeing with everything. I pointed out that when I’d asked him what he’d say to get into Heaven he talked about what he had done but Christianity was about what God had done. He started to say, “Always, Always.” As if we’d said the same thing all along. So I said “I guess I just caught you off guard with the question.” But I showed him the prayer and he wanted to keep the booklet so I hope he came to some realizations too. Nickelback on the football team as a linebacker. Please pray they grow in their faith in the sacrifice of Christ to save them. Their stories are below if ya have some time to read. Thanks for your help in prayer.

Klay was sitting outside the bookstore in one of the round sofa chairs that surround a circular ottoman. He said he would do a survey. He had a close shaved head with about a week’s growth of hair and facial hair in fits and starts growing about the same time. He looked young with kind of standard GI Joe features. His jeans were faded and he had a fleece pullover on that had snap closures at the neck. He said he was Albanian but was born here and had been there several times. His family was Eastern Orthodox and he considered himself that also. I asked him what he would say to God to get into Heaven and after saying it was a hard question and you couldn’t argue with God he said, “I always tried to do the best. I always want the best thing for everyone, within a moral code. I just live my life, mind my own business. Live a moral life.” I asked him what he thought the likelihood was he would get into Heaven and he said, “My gut is 100% but there are always uncertainties. I wanna give you a number but it is hard to quantify.” He said he felt that “Religion is part of every culture… a powerful force that motivates people at their lowest time of life.” I said that I agreed religion was part of every culture but the survey was more about his personal connection with God as opposed to the effect of religion more culturally. I began to explain the Gospel to him. I explained that God wanted to know him by living inside and but had to take away his sin and asked what Church had taught him about how God takes away his sins. He struggled with the idea and did not have anything immediately to hand and I said something like, “This is how it works,” and explained that God became a perfect man, Jesus who sacrificed his life to pay for our sins. His blood cleansed us and then God could live inside us. I explained God got paid for what we owed him and that the Christ earned the Righteousness of God by perfectly fulfilling the Law. Then He rose from the dead. I said all God had done for him could be gained by faith and though we should do good things to please God it was faith that Jesus was God died for our sins and rose from the dead that saved us. I asked if he would want to be forgiven for his sins trusting in what Jesus had done. “I think that belief in Christ is the way to go, the Gospel.” I said that if he had never had an opportunity to tell God as an adult he wanted to trust in what Jesus had done to be forgiven there was a prayer he could pray. I talked him through the prayer and said he could pray it silently right then and be forgiven and he said “OK.” He took the booklet and asked if he would be able to keep it and I said, “yes” and he prayed then to receive Jesus. I explained living “inside out” by the Spirit’s power transforming him and gave him a Bible study and Bible Promises for You. I wrote his name and the date and “forgiven!” on the inside. I gave him a Bible Study also. He wanted a Bible so I asked if he would be there for about 5 minutes I had one in my truck. He said he’d wait. I hiked back to the truck on the other side of campus and got a Bible (chiding myself for forgetting to put one in my pack). He was waiting when I returned and I showed him the “Where to Turn” section in the Bible and “Messianic Passages”. I wrote his name and the date and forgiven in the front of the Bible as well. He thanked me. I said I would keep him in my prayers for the next year and I headed off to the Science and Health Buildings.

Kevin was sitting in the SW second floor lounge that overlooks the big lounge connecting the buildings. He had a Sox Ball cap on and wore a zip up red and blue hoodie. His jeans were rolled up and he had black socks running into black athletic shoes. He had a few weeks growth of beard and brown hair that matched it shoulder length and straight tucked behind his ears. He was slight in build, had sharp features, looked like the outdoor type in the face and he had done a lot of hiking. So we swapped a few backwoods stories.  He went to a Naperville Catholic Church. When I asked him what he would say to God to get into Heaven he said, “That’s tough… As of now I do my considered best doing what I was taught in Church, helping others. Sacrificing yourself to help others, spread the positivity, help everyone like they are your family.” He thought he had about an 80% chance of going to Heaven. I began to go through the Gospel with him and asked what God had done to take away his sins. He said “repentance”. So I said this is how it works and went through the Gospel with him. As I explained the Blood of Christ Cleansing us from all sin I reminded him that the Mass as about that, the wine symbolic of His blood and the bread of wafer of His body. It was to remind us that Jesus had died for us and so we are forgiven. “So when you take it you can just say, “Thank you”. He tracked with everything and I so I asked him if he would want to be forgiven trusting in what Jesus had done for him or thought something else and he said, “Personally I’d be forgiven.” So I said there was a prayer he could pray to be forgiven and walked him through it asking if it was the desire of his heart and he said “Yeht.” Kind of a Yeah with a T on the end. So I said he could pray it silently and God would hear and he said, “OK,” and took the booklet and prayed to receive Jesus. I explained then living by the Spirit “inside out” and I gave him Bible Promises for You and Strobel’s Case for Christianity Answer Booklet. I gave him a Bible study too and explained that if he was trusting in the righteousness of Jesus to be his righteousness the likelihood he would go to Heaven now was 100%. He was grateful, a nice guy. “Nice to meet ya,” I said and we shook hands. “Thank you so much. Have a good day,” he replied.  “I’ll see you in heaven,” I said back. He smiled and said, “Yeah.” Then I headed out around the other side of the building.

In the other science building to the east on the ground floor I came across Javier. He was sitting in a row of padded benches with a mask on, dark hair and had a bit of a shaggy hair cut, early Beatles, still pretty short. He wore half round glasses with the black flat tops, like a 1960’s office worker. His eyes and eyebrows were pretty expressive though, looked intelligent. He had blue pants on and a puffy jacket, white t-shirt under a button collar shirt. I asked if he wanted to do a student survey for a Bible Study group. He said he was in one already so I asked the name and he said, “Christians on Campus”. I think they had the same advisor as I did at one time. So I said, “Would you like to answer the one big metaphysical question?” He replied with a, “Sure.” So I said you are walking down the road and you get hit by a bus so you are dead and you stand before God and He says, ‘Why should I let you into Heaven?’ What would you say?” He said he was following the teaching at church. It turned out he had been getting back into Christian practice since February some time and mentioned meat. So I asked if he would want to know what the Bible said about how we go into Heaven and he said he would. I began to explain the Gospel to him and as I finished I asked him too if he would want to be forgiven trusting in what Jesus had done for him or thought something else. “I would be this one,” he said pointing to the circle with God inside your life. So I said if he had not had a chance yet to tell God he wished to be forgiven trusting in what Jesus had done for him there was a prayer he could pray and I talked him through it. He agreed it was the desire of his heart and I said he could pray it silently. It was then that he said he had really just reconnected to His faith the month before. “This would kind of be the next step for you then,” I suggested. He agreed nodding and saying ‘Yes,” and taking the booklet he prayed to receive Christ. I gave him a Bible Study on the Deity of Christ and Bible Promises for You writing his name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front. He was appreciative and reached out his hand and said, “Thank you so much.” I shook his hand and said I would keep him in my prayers for the next year (as I tell everyone) just asking God to bless him.

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 your day was a good one in the Lord, living for Him. I had a good day on campus and got through the Gospel with several people. Only one, Vlad prayed with me to receive Christ. His story though short (as I never did a survey with him) is below. Please pray he grows in his faith.

Vlad was sitting in the cafeteria eating the last of his lunch of french fries. He had on a grey and black wool shirt and a t-shirt, black pants. He was a good-looking kid, on the small side, Latino. His hair was very short on the sides and a short mop on top, young face. I asked him if he wanted to do a student survey on what he thought about God. “I believe in God,” he said. I said, “Well would you like to do a survey on what you think? The main questions is you are walking down the road and you get hit by a bus, so you are dead, and you stand before God and he asks you, ‘Why should I let you into Heaven?’ what would you say?” He wasn’t sure what to say so I asked if he would want to hear what the Bible says is the answer to the question. He agreed. So I took out the booklet and used some of the verses in it and added 5 or so more and explained the blood and righteousness of Christ to him. He was engaged and had a lot of fries to finish which until the very end was popping into his mouth dipped in sause. I asked if he would want to be forgiven with God living inside him and explained other options and he thought about it for a moment. “Be forgiven?” I asked again. “Yeah,” he said deciding. So I walked him through the prayer and asked if he’d want to pray it right then and he nodded and took the book and prayed to receive Christ. I told him he could keep it and he said, “Sweet.” I explained living by the Spirit’s power and the Fruit of the Spirit, “Inside Out”. I gave him the Book Bible Promises for You writing his name and the date and forgiven I the front. I explained a symbolic view of the mass and gave him a Bible study on the deity of Christ. I said I would be keeping him in my prayers for the next year. He thanked me and I headed out.

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 your day was blessed and you are walking in the Light as He is in the Light. I had a good day at school and Sam prayed with me to receive Christ.  Please pray for her. Her story is below if ya have some time.

Sam was sitting in the lounge on the first floor of the BIC the last NW corner lounge where a left takes ya north to the Bookstore and straight ahead takes ya west to the Cafeteria. She had about 4 inches of once dyed blonde hair pulled back flat on top of her head and into a pony tail. She wore an oversized lumberjack plaid shirt mostly white with grey and tan checks and black leggings. I asked her if she wanted to do a student survey and she said, “If it will help you out, sure.” I said it would, not adding aloud but thinking in my head I hadn’t gotten anyone to talk to me all day (except one Muslim guy, Elhaji, who took Bible Promises for You from me). She had a cute oval face and said she was a mom and had a fiancé, she asked for some guidance for a religious local preschool for her little girl Athena. So it would seem she was older but she looked 18. She mentioned her fiancé John. When I asked her what she would say to God to get into Heaven she said, “I think that I’ve been very generous with my life and I’ve gone out of my way to put others needs before my own.” I said, “There is a Bible verse that says let each of you consider one another as more important than themselves.” And she liked that. She thought she had an 80% chance of going to Heaven when she died. She’d gone to kind of a “Techie” church when she was younger. “The kind with a rock band in front?” I asked. “Yeah,” she replied. “I’ve seen those,” I said. I began to go through the Gospel with her and she tracked with expressions of interest. When I asked her what Jesus had done to take away her sins she knew Jesus had died. I offered her two lives after finishing the Gospel message of the Blood and righteousness of Christ and salvation by faith. “Would you want to be forgiven with God inside trusting in Jesus or do you think something else,” and I described superficially other religious options. “The first one,” she said. So I said there was a Prayer she could pray to be forgiven and I talked her through it and asked if it was the desire of her heart she could pray it silently and only God would hear. “Wanna do it?” I asked. “Yeah,” she said in an upbeat tone. She took the booklet then and prayed to receive Jesus. When she finished she sat holding the booklet and said, “Thank you.” I said, “You’re welcome.” And I explained the Christian life living “inside out” I gave her Bible Promises for You writing her name and the Date and “forgiven!” in the front and gave her a Bible study.  Got her daughter and fiancé’s names, then said I would keep them in my prayers when I prayed for her. I encouraged her she could ask the same question I had and explain what I had to her fiancé and she thought she would. I got up to go and she said, “Thanks you so much.” And I headed out. Then I turned back real quick to say one more thing, that if she was trusting in the righteousness of Jesus to be her righteousness the likelihood she would go to Heaven was 100%. She smiled and said sincerely “OK thanks.” And I headed out.

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 ya had a great day walking with the Lord. Brooke and Rafel prayed with me to receive Jesus today. I’d be grateful for your prayers for them if you have a moment that they might grow stronger in the faith. Their stories are below if you have extra time today.

They got rid of the mask requirement at school today and a few kids said hi to me who I did not recognize only to realize I had never seen their faces before. I’ve always worn a face shield so students could see my face.

 Brooke was sitting in the lounge on the second floor of the science buildings that overlook the big lounge below from the SW corner. She had on a grey sweatshirt with black leggings. She had long brown hair, stick straight past her shoulders, very long white polished nails, full lips, no make-up and a country girl pretty smile. She was against the wall in a couch chair so I sat at her feet and did a student survey. She came from a Lutheran background and when I asked her what she would say to God if asked why He should let her into Heaven she said, “’Cause I have served you my whole life.” She thought she had a 50/50 chance of going to Heaven. I began to go through the Gospel with her and she tuned right in. I said God had to take away her sin so He could live inside her and asked her what Jesus had done to take away her sin and she didn’t seem to remember what He had done to take away her sins from church. So I explained how His blood and righteousness saved her and she followed along and said, “Yeah,” agreeing with the atonement. I explained she needed to receive Jesus as savoir by faith and that her works did not save her. I asked her if she wanted to be forgiven for her sins or thought something else explaining the way the Buddha sought enlightenment and not God, then how Islam differed in the way they thought of God and so had a different God who did not live inside you. I asked again then if she would want to be forgiven and she said something like “Oh that yeah.” I said there was a prayer she could pray to receive God’s forgiveness and walked her through it. I asked then if it was the desire of her heart ”Yeah,” she said nodding. So I asked if she would like to pray right then, “I wouldn’t hear you but God would hear and you would know you were forgiven.” “Umm Humm,” she said and took the booklet and prayed to receive Jesus. I said she could keep it and explained living the Christian life “Inside Out”. She had a Bible and I gave her Bible Promises for You writing her name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front and she thanked me. I gave her a Bible Study on the Deity of  Christ. I explained now trusting in the righteousness of Jesus to her credit the likelihood she would go to Heaven was 100%. I explained then How God got paid for all the imperfect things we had done that we owed him something perfect for and that this payment for damages was what our system of law was based on and that is why it sounds familiar. She liked that. She thanked me again and I said if I saw her around I’d just say “hi” and otherwise I would see her in Heaven and I got up and headed out.

Rafel was sitting by some vending machine in the first floor of the BIC on the North side. The lounge he was in connects to a hallway with skylights to the roof. He had a pencil thick mustache and a tiny soul patch. The underside of his chin had a beard he was working smaller than the palm of his hand. He had stick straight hair an inch and a half high cut very short on the sides. He had a long oval face and wore a black hoodie and gray nylon pants. I asked if he wanted to do a student survey before getting his name and he asked me if I was with another group. I talked small talk to him and said, “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?” He talked about faith and trying to do good but landed on, “How much faith you have in Him. That’s what will get you into Heaven.” I said, “Christianity is like a blood transfusion, where God wants to live inside you with His Holy Spirit, transfuse His life into you but first He has to make you His type and take away your sin.” I asked him what Jesus had done to take away his sin but he could not think of anything. So I began to explain the Gospel to him and show him some verses and write others down using part of the booklet. I asked him too if he would want to be forgiven with God inside when I had finished the Gospel. He looked up tilting his head back a bit and finally said, “I just don’t know that God would forgive me, why would He?” I referred him back to what I had said about the blood and righteousness of Jesus to his credit. “Because of His righteousness,” he said realizing “Some people are Just worth more,” I said. “If we kidnap Donald Trump we could get a lot of money but if we kidnap me not so much.” He grinned and laughed. . I said, “Jesus righteousness was worth an infinite amount because He was God so His blood can pay for everyone.” I asked again if He would want to be forgiven. “Ok then, be forgiven,” he replied. I said there was a prayer he could pray then and I offered it to him explaining what it said and asking if it was the desire of his heart. He said, “Yes.” I said he could pray it right then and he nodded and took the booklet and I looked down, when he crossed himself seeing his hands move I looked up. I began to explain living “Inside out” by the Holy Spirit transforming him on the inside. He explained then that the example I had used where he’d broken up with a fictitious girl who had cheated on him and stole his stuff for drug money, then she says after he breaks it off with her that she’d be nice to her next 3 boyfriends to make it up to him. He said it had happened to him. He said he’d really cared for a girl who was now in rehab who had cheated on him a couple time and he forgave her. (The lesson was you can’t do good things for someone to make up for the bad things you have done to someone else. But he had cared for her so he hoped she would be better.) The girl had almost got him kicked out of school so he had to break it off. He got an A in a class that pulled up his GPA for a D in another one bailing him out. Then he said he found his faith (though he’d not understood it 10 minutes before I walked up) . To him it was doing good staying on the right track but now he was forgiven. I said I thought God had really helped him keeping him in School or he might have gone back to her and he agreed. I explained a symbolic view of the Mass saying when he took it he could just say “Thank You” as it commemorated Jesus had died for him and so he was forgiven. I gave him Bible Promises for You writing his name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front and gave him a Bible study on the Deity of Christ. He thanked me and I headed out.

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

In Him,

Bob