Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your having a great day in the Spirit and are enjoying the weekend. I had a good day on campus Friday and Ray and Kevin prayed to receive Christ.

Ray was sitting in a row of chairs outside the cafeteria on a lunch break from his school job but said he had a few minutes. He had wavy brown hair swept up and onto his head and a few days growth of spotty beard. Looked a bit like Frankie Avalon. He attended a Catholic church, had a blue hoodie on and blue jeans, kind of slight in build shorter than me, real friendly. When I asked him what he would say to God to get into Heaven he said “Because I tried my best not to bring any hurt to the world or bring any pain to others. But I didn’t really spread any love or kindness—didn’t do the opposite either.” He said he thought his chance of going to heaven was between 50-85%. He felt like he had a personal connection with God on his own. He would reach out to Him if, “I was in trouble or get something I don’t think I deserve.” I began to explain the Gospel to him and after thinking a bit he remembered Jesus had died for his sins. He took it all in as I explained, “You don’t go to Heaven because you are good but because you are connected to Jesus.” God wanted to adopt us and give us the blessings of His family, the sacrifice for our sins, the blood that cleansed us and the righteousness of God, (Christ earned to be our clothing). I explained he needed to believe this by faith saying, “When you think about a girl you might marry one day what do you want most from her and she from you? You want her to believe in you and you in her.” “Trust, loyalty” he said. “Right,” I agreed. And God wants this from you too so you can be in a relationship with him. In the end I asked if he would want to be forgiven trusting in Jesus or thought something else explaining that Buddhism wasn’t about seeking for God but just trying to escape the illusion of the physical world Buddha thought was unreal. Islam had a different god.  “Islam has a different God?” he asked. “I thought they were the same?” I explained the Islamic god was not a father as he did not have a son, he did not live inside you and was not ultimately bounded by any essential thing, not justice so there was no need for a payment for your sins or even reason. I explained the reason the Islamic world did not create a scientific method like the west was because early Christian scientists thought you could think God’s thoughts after Him as He was reasonable and His creation would be marked by reason and order. Islam did not think this of their god. “Oh, he replied I’d thought they were the same.” I asked him if he would want to be forgiven then trusting in Jesus. “Yes,” he replied. I walked him through the prayer he could pray and asked if it was the desire of his heart. “Yes,” he replied simply. So I said he could pray it silently like I wasn’t there would he want to and he said, ”Oh. Yeah.” And he prayed to receive Jesus. I explained the Christian life to him then living Inside Out and by the Spirit’s power. I gave him 20 Things God Can’t Do and wrote Just Ask and By the Spirit’s Power in the front along with his name and the date and “forgiven’. I gave him a Bible Study on the deity of Christ telling him that in trusting in the righteousness of Jesus to be his righteousness the likelihood he would go to Heaven was 100%. I got up to go and explained the Mass saying, “The wafer is symbolic of His Body and the wine symbolic of his blood it reminds you Jesus has died for you and so you are forgiven so when you take it you can just say, ‘thank you’.” “Thank you,” he replied that’s helpful.” He was very grateful to learn about faith in Christ, he was a kind guy and I encouraged him to email me with any questions he might have. “You’re welcome,” I said when he thanked me and headed off.

I found Kevin sitting upstairs in the PE lounge alone at a table (there was no one else up there or anywhere else by that time and I figured he’d be the last person I talked to). He said he’d do a survey. He was a Latino guy as well a bit darker in complexion he wore rectangular framed glasses and had the Clark Kent hair cut, short on the sides and swept back. He had on a plaid shirt with a grey hoodie attached to the collar. warm smile, rectangular face, good looking’ guy with a slight build. He said he wanted to buy a house for his family. When I asked him what he would say to God to get into Heaven he said, “I’ve always tried to do good and stay positive.” He thought he had a 60% chance of going to heaven said he’d gone through RES (this is Catholic Religious Education Resources for young people) when he was younger. He remembered Christ had died for his sins. I went through the Gospel with him and he took it all in and as I explained how the Blood of Christ cleansed him so God could live inside him he said, “Ok, so that’s how you get into Heaven.” “Right,” I replied and explained the righteousness of God inputed to him by the perfect life of Christ. I said he needed to trust in this by faith and that his good stuff didn’t fix his bad stuff. “Like say you had a girl friend for about 3 weeks. You thought she was pretty cool but then you found out she was cheating on you and stealing your stuff, so you cut her loose. Then she comes around in about a week and she’s like, ‘Kevin I know I did you wrong, I was even stealing your stuff and selling it for drugs, but I just want you to know I’m gonna be nice to my next 3 boy friends.’ You’d be like that doesn’t help me at all.” He laughed and agreed imagining the conversation. “‘Cause you can’t do good things over there to fix your bad things here. But that’s how a lot of people think, they’d be like I’ve done a lot of bad stuff, but I’ve done a lot of good stuff too, my good stuff is gonna fix my bad stuff with God.’ But your bad stuff’s still out there kicking people around and there’s not much you can do about it. But God can turn your bad stuff into good stuff. It says in Romans 8:28 that all things work together for good, for them that love God and are called according to His purpose. So God can change the trajectory of the bad things that happen to you, or that you do, into good things because He controls the future.” I said then there was two kinds of people in the world, people who want to be forgiven for their sins so they’ve trusted in Jesus and what He did to be forgiven and people who think something else. I said for example Islam had a different God and the Buddha left his wife and kid to seek enlightenment but he’s not looking for God he’s just trying to get his head straight. So which person are you or would you want to be. “I guess I’m a little of both, I’d want to be forgiven but I guess like the Buddha says I’d wanna get my head straight.” I replied, “Well in Christianity the way you get your head straight is by the Holy Spirit living inside you when you trust in Christ to forgive you of your sins then by His power you live the Christian life.” I said if he wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer he could pray and after walking him through it I asked if it was the desire of his heart. he acknowledged it was so I said he could pray the prayer silently and be forgiven. “Wanna do it?” I asked. “Right now?” he asked. “Sure just pretend I’m not here,” I came back. “Ok I’ll do a quick one,” he replied. And he prayed to receive Christ. When he finished I said he could keep the booklet and explained living the Christian life Inside Out by the Spirit’s power. He didn’t have a Bible so I gave him one saying he could call it a Christmas present. I wrote his name and the date and “forgiven” on the inside. “So I’m forgiven because you gave me a Bible?” he asked. “No you are forgiven because you prayed and asked for forgiveness this is just the day it happened. He saw the point then. I gave him a copy of 20 Things God Can’t Do and wore Just Ask and By the Spirit’s Power in the front explaining that God wanted to help him but he needed to ask. I gave him a Bible study then on Jesus’ claims to be God in the NT and told him the story of how Jesus walks on the water saying it’s sort of  “a miracle to make people look stupid.”  pointing out all the disciples are supposed to be in the know but they think He’s a ghost and one doubts so he sinks. Then I explained how this was to show He was God based on Job 9:8 (Who alone stretches out the heavens   And marches on the waves of the sea;). “That’s a great story,” he said as I then got up to go. “Thanks for your time man,” he said as I began to leave. “Have a great Christmas.” “Yeah it will be even greater since someone came to Christ,” I said with a smile and I headed off.

So thanks for your prayers for the Ministry and for Evangelism the last day on campus this semester 103 students prayed to receive Christ with me on campus this semester and another one trusted in Christ. As did our waitress on vacation. I’m pretty wasted so I’m gonna try to get the tree up and find the energy to help Ellen decorate the house a bit.

In Him,

Bob

Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day has been blessed with lots of friendly kiddos at the door. We’re handing out Rice Krispie treats if you are in the hood. Viktor prayed to receive Jesus today and I crossed paths with Brandon who had committed to Christ last week and he said hi so I asked, “Did you pray that prayer?” And he smiled happily and said he had so I said I would put him on my prayer list but that I had actually been praying for him already. He was happy to hear it.  The first person I talked to was Mitch who was having a lot of trouble with an X-Girlfriend he’d had a baby with. He said he hadn’t gotten to read the book I gave him before yet (The Case for Christ Student Edition) but said he had thought a lot about what I had said. We talked about suffering and signs, and he had been praying some and felt like God had given him some peace showing me a rainbow he’d seen. I explained that a rainbow was God hanging his Bow of war (as in a Bow and Arrows) in the sky as a promise He would not destroy all humans again with a flood. It was his sign of making peace with men. I quoted his some other verses and gave him my contact information again and encouraged him that if he trusted in Christ by the power of His Spirit in him things would not get at him so much and he’d be able to throw off more of a Spirit of Peace to his X and his child. He is a pretty intense guy.

After talking a while with Mitch I went down the hall and found Viktor sitting on a row of chairs. He was wearing a winter hat with a couple strands of hair falling out on either side of his forehead, he had a diamond stud in either earlobe that were too big to be real. He could have been the fourth brother of Alec Baldwin though he had a slightly less pronounced nose, a bit more baby faced. He wore blue sweats and a slightly darker navy blue hoodie. We talked a bit about God. He had had anxiety attacks for about 3 months and had prayed for that time asking God to take them away and felt like He had taken that away. He had gone to a Catholic Church a bit when he was younger and now went holidays and told me he believed in God. When I asked him what he would say to God to get into Heaven he said, “I’m a good hearted person; I’m not perfect, um… I don’t think I’ve done anything to maliciously destroy someone’s life.” I asked him how likely it was he’d go to Heaven and he said, “I’m not that religious, I wouldn’t know. 60-70%. I would hope I go to Heaven, I don’t know.” He listened closely to the Gospel and told me as I went through it about the things I’ve said already. He knew Jesus had taken away the sins of the world but I’m not sure he’d put it together as to how. After I explained Christ’s righteousness was given to those who became God’s children and his blood cleansed him, I asked if he’d want to be forgiven trusting in Christ or thought something else. He said, “I’d want to be a Christian,” pointing at the circle I’d described as Christ living in you with His Spirit because you’ve trusted in Christ. I asked if he believed Jesus was God had died for his sins and rose from the dead and he said he did so I said then if he believed in that he could place his trust in that to be forgiven. I explained God liked to be asked and so there was a prayer he could pray silently and having gone through it I read, “Is this prayer the desire of your heart?” “Um hmm,” he replied looking at the words and nodding so I said something like, wanna do it. He took the booklet without replying and prayed to receive Christ. He didn’t have a Bible so I gave him one and put his name and the date and “forgiven” in the front. He thanked me for it. I gave him a Bible study and the book 20 Things God Can’t Do and wrote Just ask and By the Spirit’s Power in the front having explained God would give him all the power to do what he was asking him to do. He told me he might like to study radiology at school but it was pretty competitive so he wasn’t sure he’d get in so I’ll pray God gives him a solid path. He thanked me as we parted ways. “Yeah, I’ll keep you in my prayers,” I said having told him I’d be praying for him until the Spring of 2021. “Thanks,” he said. And I headed off.

I had some more conversations with kids I knew but didn’t find anyone else willing to hear the Gospel and after a couple hours more as my headache kicked back in I shortened my day a bit and headed home to serve the little tikes at the door and Baby sit the neighbors baby as the dad was sick and the other sibs needed their mom’s company still.

So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today if you had a chance, God blessed me in the time I had on campus.

In Him,

Bob

Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed and good things came and you didn’t slip and fall on anything snow-like if you live by us. It’s gonna snow some more I guess tomorrow. Ally prayed to receive Christ today, and I also got a couple of good seeds planted. One with Amber who had a square pretty face and long eyelashes, blonde and brown hair up in a bun. And Jake who took a copy of the student edition of The Case for Christ and looked like my nephew Anders a bit, though his hair was strawberry blonde. Both thanked me and were grateful to have heard the Gospel.

 Ally was up on the second floor and was the first person I talked to. She was waiting for her class to begin and wearing her camel colored long coat still and black boots with flowers stitched into the toes. She had brown hair and a pretty face, looked big bundled up in her coat.  She had a thin gold ring in her septum and a pretty face, brown hair. When I asked her what she would say to God if He asked why should I let you into Heaven she said, “Hmm, I’d say… I don’t know. I don’t think it’s up to me to decide why, he decides or knows why I do.” She thought she had a 50% chance of going to Heaven. So I began to go through the Gospel with her. I explained that God wanted to live inside her but had to make her His type by talking away her sin. When I asked her what had Jesus done to take away the sins of the world she said, “He gave his only Son.” Which quoted the verse I just read to her moments before. I explained Jesus’ death and cleansing blood and His imputed righteousness, with several illustrations. And that if she received this by faith she could be saved if she believed Jesus was God had died for her sins and rose from the dead. “Not that you just know the story but that you place your trust in that to be forgiven so that if someone would say to you, ‘Why should God let you into Heaven?’ you’d say, ‘Because Jesus died for me.” I asked din the end if she wanted to be forgiven for her sins trusting in Jesus or thought something else she said, “I would like to know more about that, pointing at the circle with God inside. So I explained that if she would want to trust in Christ there was a prayer she could pray and that then the Spirit would live inside her and she could live the Christian life by His power, “Inside Out” explaining His power to her.  So I said if she’d like she could pray the prayer I had walked her through so only God would hear. “Would you like to do it?” “Yeah,” she replied and she prayed to receive Christ. I began to explain the Christian life to her then more and offered her a Bible and she needed one. I showed her the Where to Turn  section and explained there was one with messianic passages. I wrote her name and the date and “forgiven” in the front and she thanked me and said something like, “You know it’s funny, I was just praying this morning saying I wanted to get God more into my life. So thank you so much!” I said I thought it was possible God had sent me to her in answer to her prayer though I did not know exactly how those things worked. And she agreed. Her class was starting and a friend in plaid pajama pants had asked her if she was going in as she began to pray and she said in a minute. So I quickly gave her a copy of Bible Promises for You and a Bible study. I stood up with her as she stood to go offering her my hand. She turned it down saying again, “Thank you so  much. I’m gonna give you a hug.” I gave her a strong hug saying, “Thank you that’s kind of you.” And she headed into class with her new Bible, happy. She’d lifted my heart.

 So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today if you had a chance. God truly blessed me and life was good.

 Blessings, 

Bob

Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed with all good things. I had a good day on campus and Matteo prayed to receive Jesus today.  I got a good seed planted with Jamie who took the student edition of The Case for Christ to read. She was up on the third floor and wore a blue hoodie from a college, black shredded skinny jeans (popular this year) and had long brown thin hair and sharp features, kind of a serious face but it lit up when she smiled. As I left her and she shook my hand and said, “Thank you for speaking to me.” Raised Lutheran as a kid she’d taken a few religion courses at school and didn’t quite know where to land. I encouraged her to pray and ask for God’s guidance, that He loved her, “I’m not just making that up it’s in the Bible,” I said with a grin.  I explained he wouldn’t just leave us to guess at the truth but would leave some bread crumbs to follow. She’d heard of Strobel so I hope she’ll read the book. I’ll be praying for her.

Matteo was sitting in the hall way on the third floor waiting to go into class. He was slight in build, had blonde, naturally curly hair tied behind his head in a fist sized lump. He wore tan skinny jeans and a blue button down color plan shirt. He said he had been to church only two times in his life. He thought he had about a 75% chance of going to heaven. When I asked him what he would say to God to get into heaven he mused the question with a, Hmmm and smiled. He then said, “I guess I would say I want to see my family.” I went through the Gospel with him and he didn’t know what Jesus had dome to take away his sins. I explained the death and resurrection of Christ and how His Blood cleansed us so God could live inside us having removed our sins and how his righteousness was to our credit. He gave some words of assent as I went through saying he understood. I asked if he would want to be forgiven for his sins or thought something else and he said, “I would want to be forgiven.” So I asked, “Do you believe Jesus is God He died for your sins and rose from the dead, do you believe that’s true?” He thought for a moment and then said he did saying “Yes,” as if he’d was just discovering it. I said if he believed that was true he could place his trust in it to be forgiven. He said, “Ok,” then like he followed the one thing came from the other. I explained there was a prayer he could pray if he wanted so only God would hear and He would forgive him and live inside him. I talked him through the prayer and asked if it was the desire of his heart. “”Um, yeah,” he said in response. I asked if he’d like to pray silently then and he said “OK” and prayed to receive Christ. I explained the Christian life living “inside out” by the Spirit’s power and gave him a Bible showing him the Where to Turn section and the one on Messianic Passages. I wrote his name and the date and “forgiven” on the inside of the Bible. I explained the likelihood he would go to Heaven now, trusting in the righteousness of Jesus, was 100%. I also gave him The Case for Christianity Answer Book. I felt like he’d need some information having so little background. As I wrote his name in it people began to file into his class room. He stood up and shook my hand and said, “I gotta go to class it was really nice to talk to you.” “Nice to talk to you too,” I replied. And he headed inside. I’ve seen him there before class before so I’ll look for him again to give him a Bible Study.

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

In Him,

Bob

Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope you’ve had a nice weekend so far. I’ve been a bit under the weather but I’m feeling better now, must have been something I ate last night. Thanks for praying for the ministry on Friday if you had a chance. Demiya prayed to receive Jesus on Friday Ben (brown haired and eyed guy in a hoodie with a day’s growth of beard believed like Brandon Thursday) so I am hopeful he will pray later. “I’ve never heard this said this way before,” he said of the Gospel as I taught it to him. “Having God live inside me sounds pretty cool.” He said he had gone to a Baptist Church  I offered him the prayer but he had to run to class and asked if he could keep the booklet  I’d taken 5 more minutes than he said he had as I began. “It’s been a rough week, so thanks,” he said and he ran off,

Demiya was sitting in the line of chairs outside the cafeteria. She was a pretty black girl; her hair was straitened on top and laid flat on her head parted down the middle. It was gathered in back in a roundish bunch of ringlet curls. She had no eyelashes and a pug nose, pretty bright smile. She wore a nylon jacket and a hoodie and grey sweat pants, looked kind of sporty. When I asked her what she would say to God to get into Heaven if she died she said, “I try not to sin on purpose… everyone sins but…” I went through the Gospel with her and she’d been to church a bit when she was younger. She thought she had about a 60% chance of going to Heaven. She listened closely to the Gospel and when I asked her what Jesus had done to take away her sins she remembered he died. So as I finished with her I asked “So would you want to be forgiven for your sins trusting in Jesus so He could live inside you or do you think something else?” “The one on the right,” she replied pointing at the circle with God inside and on the throne or the driver’s seat of your life. So I asked, “Do you believe Jesus was God, died for your sins and rose from the dead?” She paused for a second so I added, “Do you think that’s true?” “Yes.” she said kind of looking at me like I had asked a suddenly obvious question like is the sky blue. “So would you want to put your trust in that to be forgiven instead of just trying not to sin and hoping that would work out?” “Yes,” she said with a knowing smile, seeing where I was going with the question. So I said there was a prayer she could pray and explained it and said, “You know what this is like God’s like a pretty girl, they like to be asked.” “Yes,” that’s true she said laughing. “Wanna do it?” I asked after saying she could pray it silently so only God would hear. “OK,” she replied and she prayed to receive Jesus. I gave her some more analogies then on the Christian life walking by the Spirit where God, her Heavenly Father, would give her all the power she needed to do the things he wanted her to do. I wrote her name and the date and “forgiven” in the front of 20 Things God Can’t Do and gave her a Bible study.  And I explained now trusting in Jesus and His righteousness the likelihood she would go to Heaven was 100%. I said because Jesus was God His righteousness was worth an infinite amount. “So there’s enough for an old guy like me who has done a lot of stuff wrong and a young woman like you who hasn’t even done that much yet.” She smiled at that and thanked me. I told her I would be praying for her and though I might not bump into her again I would see her in Heaven, “You can tell me how things went,” I said cheerfully. And she laughed again and said, “OK.” and I headed off down the hallway.

So thanks for your prayers for the ministry if you had a chance yesterday. God truly blessed. I got a couple other seeds planted too I think.

In Him,

Bob

Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope ya had a good day walking by the Spirit. I had a good day on campus. I got some seeds planted with a couple students. One, Emmanuel was doing periodic studies with the Jehovah’s Witnesses. He hadn’t completely fallen for their lies yet so I gave him a Bible Study on Jesus claims to be God and poked some car sized holes in what they were saying. Later Brandon committed to Christ. He had not known how Jesus took away the sins of the World nor the Gospel much trusting in his works. He had Asiatic looking eyes and was from Guatemala, a flat oval face and wore a hoodie and jeans. When I asked him what he would say to get into Heaven he said, “Probably ’cause we used to send money to all the people we knew in Guatemala who were really poor to buy clothes or something like that, I try to help the community here.” When I finished going through the Gospel he wanted to be forgiven for his sins. I offered him the prayer. He said he would pray it tonight. So I asked if he believe Jesus was God had died for his sins and Rose from the dead and he said “Yes.” I said, “Do you trust in that to be forgiven now.” Yes he said. So I said, “Well you said it to me now you just have to say it to God. I gave him the book Bible Promises for You and put his name in the front. Then I put the date and a little square box that said “Forgiven” next to it and said he could check the box when he prayed tonight. He really liked that and gave me a big smile. I got up to go saying I hoped I would see him in Heaven and he said, “Thanks, I appreciate it.”

So Thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today if you had a chance. God had some good conversations for me to have and I am hopeful Brandon will pray to receive Christ but I am reasonably sure he believed.

In Him,

Bob

Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope ya had a good day and had joy and peace in believing. I had a good day on campus and  Shay and Angel each prayed to receive Jesus today. So that was great.

Shay was sitting in a side hallway on the ground floor of the Science Building that runs into the dental cleaning offices. She wore a green polo shirt that still had her work ID on it and Khaki cargo pants. Her hair was straight and in a bun, she was pretty with a pug nose, full lips and a round face, she said her mom was Malaysian and her dad was African. She was going to a local church. When I asked her what she would say to God to get into Heaven she said, “I try [tried] to show God, [to others] through kindness, as much as I could.” She was sure she was going to Heaven and she knew Jesus had died to take away her sins. She listened to the Gospel and took it all in patiently. When I asked her if she would want to be forgiven or thought something else she said, “That one,” pointing at the circle with God inside you on the throne of your life. So I asked if when she was asking for forgiveness if she thought she was doing the right things and was in the group God would forgive and was hoping she was going to Heaven or if she’d known she’d be forgiven because Jesus had died for her. “I know you knew the story but had you placed your trust in Jesus?” I asked. She was uncertain. I asked if she thought she might go to Heaven because she was good enough. “I know I’m not good enough,” she replied. But she really struggled to think of where her heart had been. I believe that if you struggle like that as to if you have been trusting in Jesus or not, and if you answer the question of why God should let you into heaven making no mention of Jesus, but just things you’ve tried to do, then you are not trusting in Jesus. I think she landed on that notion too. I said that there was a prayer she could pray if she wanted too so she’d know she was forgiven and I walked her through it asking if it was the desire of her heart. It was and she decided to pray to receive Jesus kind of nonchalantly. I’ve been to the church she attends and I wasn’t surprised she had not been led to decide to trust in Christ for forgiveness. But when she’d finished praying she was happy she had done so. I said, “You know what it’s like God likes to be asked, like a pretty girl.” She smiled at that and I gave her another illustration of it. I gave her 20 Things God Can’t Do writing her name and the date and forgiven in the front. I wrote Just Ask and By the Spirit’s Power. In the front saying God was her heavenly Father and anything He was asking her to do He would give her the Power to do it by His Spirit. “I’m interested to read this book,” she said. I gave her a Bible study and she was happy ask I got up to leave and told her I would pray for her. “Thank you,” she said. “Have a good one,” I replied. “Thanks, you too,” she said and I left her on the bench.

Angel was an interesting looking guy, which I am always grateful for as it helps me remember a face when I am praying for someone. He sat at the counter in the cafeteria later in the afternoon. He had very short stick straight brown hair on the top of his head and a pencil thin mustache in the style of the movie star Errol Flynn. But his was not rimmed it just grew perfectly that style. He wore rounded semi-rectangular glasses a red hoodie and black sweats. He thought he had a 95% chance of going to Heaven but said he did not go to church often but had gone with his grandmother. He had his own interaction with God and Jesus. When I asked him what he would say to God to get into Heaven he said, “Because I believed in you all my life and I have trusted in you.” He listened to the Gospel and also knew Jesus had died and rose from the dead to take away the sins of the World. I explained the righteousness of Christ which Jesus earned by perfectly fulfilling the Law and that it was to our credit and the Blood of Christ which was a power in the world to cleanse us from sin. I asked if he would want to be forgiven trusting in Jesus or thought something else he said, “I’ve been a little of both.” I asked if he had placed his trust in Jesus or if he was just trying to do the right thing. He misunderstood me a bit and said, “Every night I hope I did the right thing.” I explained the prayer to him and said he could pray silently if he thought he had not trusting in Jesus for forgiveness. He looked at the prayer and said he thought he’d done something like this before going to the front of the Catholic Church with his grandmother but he had not understood what it meant. He said it had had something to do with becoming one of the Sons of God. I explained what that meant, how in Heaven God shared His glory with us and could do that because our sins were paid for by Christ. I said I didn’t think saying a prayer before he had not understood would have counted for much and he agreed and quietly read the prayer receiving Christ. He did not have a Bible but said he wanted to ask his grandmother for one, she was very religious and he asked her questions. He did not want a book or a Bible Study either. I think he wanted a reason to tell his grandmother the story of trusting in Christ for forgiveness. I explained that now trusting in the righteousness of Jesus to be his righteousness the likelihood he would go to Heaven was 100%. I told him I would be praying for him and got up to go. “Thank you,” he said. “God bless you,” I replied and I headed into the cafeteria a bit further as he walked 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 with all good things. I had a good day on campus but I was pretty worn out for some reason. Still Kento [ken toe] prayed with me to receive Christ. And hopefully Hannah (black girl from a Christian background who could not remember what Jesus did to take away her sins, round face hair up in Mickey mouse ears) and Sara (long brown thin hair and glasses–7th day Adventist who did not know Jesus had died for her either)  each seemed to need to process the Gospel a bit more. But each believed at the end Jesus was God had died for their sins and rose from the dead and thought they would pray later.

So Kento came in anyway. He was sitting a bit apart at the set of tables next to the stairs in the PE lounge. He had blue athletic shorts on and a white hoodie pull up over his afro. He was suffering from a cold and had a wad of Kleenex stuffed in his right nostril. He had classic African American features and a smooth oval face. When I asked him what he would say to God to get into Heaven he thought for minute then said, “Because I look out for people. I treat others the way I want to be treated.” He had gone to church some as a kid. He thought he had about a 50/50 chance of going to Heaven. I asked him what Jesus had done to take away his sins but he could not remember anything. So I explained the Gospel. That Jesus had died for him, His blood could cleanse him and His righteous could be to his credit. He focused well on everything I said to him and the verses I read the illustrations I used and tuned right in. I asked him if he would want to be forgiven for his sins or thought something else and he said, “I would want to be forgiven for my sins.” So I asked, “Do you believe Jesus is God has died for your sins and rise from the dead?” He didn’t hear me clearly and said, “Wait what?” so I said the same thing again and he said, “Yes,” without hesitation. As I went through he prayer somewhere in the middle he said something affirming, I think it was just “Yep”. And so I read, “Is this prayer the desire of your heart?” “Yes Sir,” he replied. So I said if he wanted to he could pray it silently, not so I would hear but God would hear him and forgive him, “Wanna do it?” I asked. “Yes Sir,” he said again. So I handed him the booklet and he prayed to receive Jesus. I explained then that now trusting in the righteousness of Jesus the likelihood he would go to Heaven was 100%. “Preciate it.” he said. He then said, “Thank you.” He said his mom had a Bible he could read so I offered him one of his own. He wanted one so I got one out showing him the “Where to Turn” section and the messianic passages. I wrote his name and the date and “forgiven” in the front. “Thank you, Appreciate you,” he said as I handed it to him. He did not want another book I gave him a Bible study on the ways Jesus claims to be God. Specifically I showed him where Jesus walking on the water fit the description of God in the Book of Job. He really like that explanation for why Jesus would do a miracle that made everyone in the boat look bad. I shook his hand getting up to go, telling him I would be praying for him until next spring. And he said, “Appreciate it.” 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 had a great day walking with the Lord. Thanks so much for praying if you had a chance today. Sam, Jorge, Cedric, & Nate each prayed with me to receive Christ today. But it took a few extra hours.

Sam was sitting on a bench on the edge of the last lounge out of the BIC on the ground floor, a glass wall behind her. She had a winter cap on and stick straight light brown hair and some really blinged up nails. She was white and slight with an narrow serious face, cute kid, wearing blue jeans and a jacket. She said she’d do a survey with me. Though she thought she had a 75% chance of going to Heaven when I asked her what she would say to God to get into Heaven she just said, “I… don’t know.” Her boyfriend Jorge showed up right about then carrying a long board.  He was Latino and had kind of a unkempt looking beard and a mop of curly brown hair pulled up into a topknot. Together they looked like hipsters. I said the rest of the survey was what you think about Christianity and heaven but if her boyfriend was waiting and she didn’t have any time that was ok. She asked if there was a short version. I said something like, “Sure Christianity is like a blood transfusion. I have A+ blood so if you fill me full of B- blood I would clot up and die. So God wants to fill you full of Himself, transfuse His life into you with His Holy Spirit but first he has to make you His type.” I went on to explain that sin kept us from Knowing God, having Him live inside us, so I asked her what the big thing was that Jesus had done to take away her sin, but she didn’t know so I went on to explain the Gospel pulling out a booklet and realizing Jorge was listening too I included him, talking to him as well and getting his name. As I finished I asked Sam if she wanted to be forgiven for her sins or thought something else. “I would want to be forgiven for my sins,” she replied so I asked Jorge if he would want to be forgiven as well and he said yes. So I said to Sam, “Do you believe Jesus is God, He died for your sins and rose from the dead, do you think that’s true?” I was a bit surprised when she said, “Yes.” Jorge believed that too. So I said if she wanted to place her trust in that to be forgiven there was a prayer she could pray and I explained it to her and in the end read, “Is this prayer the desire of your heart?” “Yes,” she said emphatically. So I offered it to her saying if she wanted to she could pray it silently in her heart and God would hear and forgive her. “Ok.” she said and I asked Jorge if he wanted to pray as well and he did and so I handed him another booklet and they each prayed to receive Jesus silently sitting near each other. I said I was sorry I had taken some time but Sam said, “You’re fine.” I explained the Christian life to them then living “Inside Out” and wrote the verses on the imputed righteousness of Christ I’d written in explaining the Gospel in Jorge’s booklet [Isa. 61:10 and Rom. 13:14] I said I’d like to give them some books and gave them each a copy of 20 Things God Can’t Do in each of their books I wrote their names and 10/16/19 and “forgiven” saying they now had the same spiritual birthday. I explained to Sam that now trusting in the righteousness of God to be her righteousness the likelihood she would go to Heaven was 100%. I recommended a Church but then it turned out they went to Willow Creek. I said I used to go there when it met in a theatre. “It was cool then,” I said. “before Hybels lost his mind.” “Yeah. I heard there was some kind of scandal,” Jorge said. “Yeah power screws you up I guess but he’s retired now so I’m sure he’s repeating and everything is cool.” I gave them Bible Studies on the Deity of Christ. Sam reached out her hand as I got up to go and said, “Thank you very much.” “Yeah thanks for talking with me man,” I replied. “Thanks Bob,” Jorge said reaching out and shaking my hand as well. They were happy and I said I’d see them both in Heaven and they could tell me how it went and I headed out.

I bumped into O’Drey who had received Christ earlier this semester. He is Filipino and was dating a girl from Myanmar who spoke 5 languages and was a Christian. They seemed to be doing well and he was being careful not to take things too fast. He talked with me for 2 hours. The details are not that interesting except to say I looked at my watch and it was 4 PM so I said I had to go. It had been a long day so I headed from the science building toward my locker on the other side of campus.

I was tempted to take a short cut. But I’d gotten my second wind so in passing Cedric sitting on the stairs waiting for the bus. I doubled back to talk with him. He had a rough afro that popped up in multiple finger tips of curls and a narrow nose; he was very dark and had sideburns, good looking slim kid. He had on black skinny jeans and a black t-shirt and had kind of an amused smile he wore all while I talked to him, like I was telling him a mystery story that he was sure would end well. He had gone to church some in junior high somewhere in Wheaton. I asked him what he would say to God to get into Heaven and he wanted to know if I meant right now or after he had lived his life. “Right now,” I replied. “If his reason for putting me in Heaven is success [in life] I would not know what to say. I don’t know his reasons.” He thought he had a 90+ chance of going to Heaven. He did not remember what Jesus had done to take away his sins. So I explained the Gospel to him, His blood and imputation and resurrection and the payment for sins on the cross how it all worked. “I get it,” he replied. Then I explained he had to receive this by faith, not by works. I asked if he would want to be forgiven or thought something else and he said, “I would want to be forgiven.” So I asked if he believed Jesus was God had died for his sins and rose from the dead. He thought for a moment and said, “Yes.” So I said that if he wanted to place his trust in that to be forgiven there was a prayer he could pray silently and I talked him through it asking if it was the desire of his heart and he said “Yes.” So I asked if he’d like to pray. “Yeah,” he said smiling. And he prayed to receive Christ. I gave him 20 Things God Can’t Do and wrote “Just Ask” and “By the Spirit’s power”. He did not have a Bible so I gave him one and showed him the “Where to turn” section and the messianic passages section writing his name and the date and “forgiven” in the front. I explained that now in trusting in the righteousness of Jesus to be his righteousness the likelihood he would go to Heaven was 100%. I told him I would keep him in my prayers and he said, “Thank you.” Then his buss suddenly pulled up and he had to run so he took off.

Nate was at a counter height table outside the bookstore just across the foyer and down the stairs from where I’d been talking to Cedric. It was getting pretty late but I thought I would ask him and he was willing to do a student survey. He had on a winter cap, some of his random front bangs were dyed brown. He was Asian with pretty much a round head and a gap toothed smile, cool looking’ somehow, He had on a grey hoodie and jeans. When I asked him what he would say to God to get into Heaven he said, “All my life I have tried to help others in need. In some manner help then as much as I can. Give a ride to someone or help a homeless person… do what I can.” I explained God wants to know him, live inside him to give him eternal life and I asked him what Jesus had done to take away his sins so God could do that. He knew Jesus had died for him. It turned out he had gone to Catholic school and he went to Church a couple time a month.  He agreed with things I said, saying a word of affirmation, like he was understanding them and affirmed the verses and such. As I finished the Gospel I asked if he would want to be forgiven trusting in Jesus or thought something else and he said, “I’d rather be forgiven.” So I said if he’d want to trust in Jesus there was a prayer he could pray and after I explained it I read, “Is this the desire of your heart?” “Yeah,” he replied. “100%.” So I said he could pray the prayer silently so only God would hear and be forgiven and said, “Wanna do it?” “100%,” he replied and he prayed to receive Christ. I gave him the book Bible Promises For You and he was really enthusiastic about it. I wrote his name and “By the Spirit’s power” in the front and the date and “forgiven”. I gave him a Bible study on the deity of Christ and said I would pray for him once a day one of the prayers of Paul to bless him until Spring of 2021. He didn’t have a Bible so I said if he’d wait there I could return in 5 minutes with one as I had one in a locker. So I left him and returned from the locker showing him the “Where to turn” Passage and the Messianic prophecies fulfilled by Jesus. I put his name and the date and “forgiven” again in the front. “Sweet,” he said he liked the Bible and said he would try to “make it to a meeting”. Leaving him he said, “Thank you so much.” “I’ll keep you in my prayers,” I replied. “I’ll d the same for you.” he said and I thanked him and headed out.

So thanks for your prayers for the ministry today if you had a chance, God truly blessed. 71 Students have now prayed with me this semester to receive Jesus.

In Him,

Bob

Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope you had a great day walking with the Lord and God truly blessed. I had a pretty good day on campus as   DJ prayed to receive Jesus. Fabian committed to Christ to trust in Him, having been trusting in his works. He said he would probably pray tonight. He was a big Mexican dude with a beard only on his jaw line and chin, round face wearing a ball cap in the Lunch room. I had some good conversations. Also giving The Case for Christianity Answer Booklet to Robert who had been burned by his church growing up.

DJ was sitting on a counter and when I first came in the PE lounge. The place was kinda mobbed so I went upstairs thinking I’d hang out a bit until it thinned out and maybe I could find someone sitting apart from the fray on the counter. There was a class in the lounge upstairs. So when I turned around and headed back to the stairs, I could see it had dissipated on the ground floor and only two guys were near the counter, DJ on it.  Here a couple guys have received Jesus this year, a bit away from the main run of tables. (Ron a guy yesterday, afro bad skin, said he’d think about praying later sitting on the counter too. A girl had jumped in on that conversation unfortunately and spirited him off to class with her like she was his mom, kind of a drag but he wouldn’t have let her drag him off if he didn’t want to.) One if the guys walked away as I headed down the long flight of stairs and DJ was left so I asked if he’d do a survey. He was up for it. He had 8 inch braids out the top back of a couple inch afro, his beard was mostly on the jaw line but he had a thin MJ kind of mustache and wore black jeans and a hoodie. He had kind of traditional black features, looked like a tough dude. When I asked him what he would say to God to get into Heaven he said, “I don’t know… that’s actually a hard question, I’d actually have to think it over.” He did then for a bit but landed on that he didn’t know what to say. He thought he had about a 75% chance of going to Heaven. It turned out he had gone to Catholic High School I think to play football, he was ranked as a Defensive Tackle out of school (11th) but had been a running back at first in college and now was back at DE. He hadn’t been to church since he was young. This information came out as I talked. He said he prayed to God as I went through the Gospel. I went through the Gospel with him and asked if he’d want to be forgiven trusting in Christ and not his good works or thought something else. “Forgiven,” he replied frankly. I said if he wanted to place his trust in Christ so that he’d know he was forgiven there was a prayer he could pray and I talked him through it. I asked if it was the desire of his heart. He looked at it and said, “Yes.” So I said he could pray it silently “I wouldn’t hear it but God wild hear and he’d be forgiven.”  “I have my own prayers I pray,” He said. I said that was fine but this was not a prayer you pray every day, it was a onetime thing to trust in Jesus. Saying he hadn’t been trusting in Jesus before for salvation as it had come out as we talked. I said it’s kind of like some girl he knew in High School that he just hung around with and one day he just sidled up to her and said, When are we going to Prom? And she looks back and says, As soon as you ask me… maybe. God likes to be asked. He laughed at that and I gave him another analogy asking who his favorite Bears player was. He says, Khalil Mack.  I say that Khalil Mack bumps into us at school doing a talk here for say no to drugs or something and we got Bears stuff on so he offered us skybox tickets as some friends of his that can’t make the game that night. He gets our names and says he’ll leave them at the Gate. We go to the gate, give our names and the woman at the gate says, Who left you the tickets? We are like, Oh Khalil Mack. She says,  I could have 15 DJ’s and Bob’s in here, you gotta say the name of who bought the tickets.  I explained that to get into the sky box you have to say the name of who left you the tickets and since he was not praying in Jesus name or asking for salvation, trusting in Him, he was not saved, He liked that story and agreed to pray and ask I held the book he did. He crossed himself as he finished. I gave him a Bible writing his name and the date and “forgiven” in the front showing him the “Where to Turn” section and the one with Messianic passages. I told him if he was trusting in the righteousness of Jesus to be his righteousness the likelihood he would get it Heaven was 100%. I also gave him 20 Things God Can’t Do writing Just ask and By the Spirit’s Power in the front. I told him I would pray for him until spring of 2021. He wanted to get in the League, so I said I would pray about that too. “Thank you,” he said as I got up to go. He’d been grateful as we talked. “Yeah God bless you man,” I replied. “God bless you,” he said and I headed out.

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

In Him,

Bob