Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed in the Lord. I had a good day on campus and Jessica prayed to receive Jesus today.  Jocelyn said she would pray later. I only went through the Gospel with her as she had done some kind of survey with another group. I asked if she would like to know how the Bible said she went to Heaven and let me explain everything to her. I gave her a Bible Promises for You book.

Earlier in the day I talked with Moe, a Muslim from India. He had a nice beard and a mop of hair had a hoodie on pulled up over his head. I have talked to him before. He saw me walking down the hall and as the last time our conversation was cut short he called me over and we began to talk about the differences in our two faiths.  A teacher interrupted us and hassled me. I was talking with Moe about how the Declaration of Independence says our rights come from our Creator so the State cannot take them away (we were both born in the US). I said this was also reflected in the Pledge of Allegiance that said we were a nation under God. The short bearded, graying pudgy teacher butted in crossing the hall to us from where he had been eavesdropping and said that phrase (under God) was only added in the 50’s. I agreed and said that was true it was under Eisenhower. “It wasn’t in 1776,” he replied. Of course I had never said it was. Then he began asking Moe who had initiated our conversation. He, as a few other teachers I have encountered, was under the impression I could not come on campus and initiate a conversation. This isn’t true but Moe said he had initiated the conversation in reply which was true. It did not dawn on him that he had interpreted us trying to initiate an unsolicited conversation. He informed me that the letter I carried I was required to produce upon demand. I hadn’t told him about the letter so I guess the atheists professors are chatting about me when I’m not there. I told him, “No I’m not.” “Yes you are,” replied to me getting upset. This went back and forth a few times like we were on a play ground. It was demonstrably true I did not need to show him the letter, because I was in fact not showing it to him. I actually only carry the letter, (which is correspondence with our Lawyer and the Administration) at our Lawyers recommendation to show to the cops. So the teachers who are fond of hassling me seem to have made up a fiction. First about my being required to carry a letter and Second that I must produce it upon request. The contents of the letter are just assurances from the Vice President that the Cops will not hassle me. He said, “We have talked to the Vice President.” I imagine that was supposed to get a reaction. “OK,” I said and turned away from him. (There is more than one Vice President on campus; he did not seem to know that.) I said he could have the last word and said some more about the letter and I let him storm off. “Is he an Atheist?” Moe asked when he was gone. I said I did not know, he never said. In fact he never even told us his name. Maybe he is afraid I will file a complaint against him since I was not doing what he said I could not do. The teachers that occasionally interrupt me have never given me their names. Moe and I agreed that it was our freedom of speech to talk about religion in the hallway. Moe and I talked some more and I said that Muhammed had taught that you should check his writings against what was said by, “The people of the Book.” and read the gospels. He said he’d like to read the Bible. I asked if he had one and he didn’t so I gave him one and he really liked it and I showed him the “Where to Turn” section. “So it answers questions for you?” he said interested. “Some of them,” I said. He said with a grin he’d been interested to have a Bible but he didn’t want to buy it. I said I could see why he wouldn’t want to. We shook hands and I also gave him a Bible study on the Deity of Christ so I will be praying for him and hope to see him again. As we talked a campus cop came up and looked at us. Moe said hi, he was either looking for someone else and walked away or saw it was me and had been told not to talk to me.

Jessie was sitting in a lounge tucked away in the middle of the building on the Third Floor. She had what looked to be naturally curly blonde hair pulled up on her head kind of randomly, oval face nice smile, cute kid. She was wearing a grey hoodie and jeans. She was waiting to go into class and said she’d do a survey. She went to a Roman Catholic Church sometimes. I asked her what she would say to God if He asked her why He should let her into Heaven. She paused a moment with an “Umm,” and said, “Because I have good morals.” She thought she had an 80% chance of going to heaven. She had a ready laugh and enjoyed hearing the Gospel it seemed. I asked her, “What’s the big thing Jesus did to take away your sins?” “I don’t know,” she replied. I said, “Well this is how it works you’ll probably remember a bit as I tell ya.” It seemed familiar to her I think, I finished telling her How Jesus had died for her, His blood cleansed her and his righteousness was to her credit. I asked if she would want to be forgiven or thought something else. “Probably that one,” she replied pointing at the circle to be forgiven. So I asked if she believed Jesus was God had died for her sins and rose from the dead. She thought she did. So I said if she wanted to put her trust in that she could be forgiven and I walked her through the prayer. I explained that then God would live in her and help her do everything He was asking her to do “Inside Out” and that if she would trust in Christ’s righteousness to be hers the likelihood she would get into Heave was 100%. I asked her if when she asked for forgiveness of she thought God would be merciful and she went to Church and stuff so she’d probably be forgiven. Or if she’d been trusting in what Jesus had done to forgive her. “I don’t know,” she replied. “Well if you don’t know you probably were not trusting in Him, right?” “Right,” she said. So I asked if she would like to pray to be forgiven. “Sure she said softly kind of conspiratorially as the lounge was filling with students going into the classroom and she prayed to receive Jesus. I quickly gave her a Bible Study and asked if she’d like Bible Promises for You. I described the contents and she said, “Yes,” enthusiastically. So I wrote her name and the date and forgiven in the front and told her I would be praying for her. “Thank you,” she said. “It was nice to meet you,” I replied. “Nice to meet you too,” she said and headed into class.

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 in the Lord. I had a good day on campus in as much as I got several good seeds planted. But today was a little strange. I was sitting on the floor on the ground floor of the BIC building not far from the East door out. I was going through the Gospel with a guy named Hollis. Long chin beard, slight mustache, pretty jovial guy actually with his black hoodie up over a ball cap. In the middle of our conversation a young woman (she seemed like a special needs student) walked up shouting. She had a big parka on and her arms filled with fast food. She shouted (among other things), “All Korean people go to Hell.” So I paused and told her that was not true. Her speech was a bit slurred. She walked off a bit from us and was taking really loud using profanity. It through me off for a moment but Hollis seemed completely unfazed. I went on a bit more and she came back shouting some other things and I suggested there were some really nice seats in the MAC lounge over down the hall from us, wouldn’t she like to sit there. She complained about the cold a little less loudly, in spite of having a parka on and walked off. I finished up with Hollis and he took a copy of the student edition of The Case for Christ to read and we said good bye.

I chatted up some peeps I knew that had trusted Christ and encouraged a Christian guy in his faith. The last guy I talked to (Neil) was an Indian guy (lapsed from Temple attendance). Neil at the end said he thought the likelihood be believed Jesus was God and had died for his sins and rose from the dead was 50/50. As I  was offering him the booklet and explaining the last little thing about what is different about Christianity and other religions a grossly overweight, sloppily dressed, teacher, bald with a grey long beard walked up and interrupted asking the student if I had initiated the conversation. The student said I had. He turned to me informing me I was not allowed to do that. I informed him I was infect allowed to talk to students, and had a letter from the Vice President of Student Activities that said as much and directed the police to come to him before talking to me if they had received a complaint. He said he wanted to see it. I said I was not interested in showing it to him. He began to argue with me and I interrupted him and I asked him who had initiated the conversation we were now having. He said he had. I said I was not interested in talking to him and began to turn back to talk to Neil. He said I was required to produce that letter upon request. “No I’m not,” I replied and began talking to Neil. The faculty walked away saying some weird thing to Neil about burning in hell and Rastafarianism. I finished talking with Neil who slurped down the last of his milkshake and asked, “Was that guy kidding?” I said I didn’t know but guys like him were why I had to get a lawyer. Neil took the booklet to think about it and left out the doors. But I was a little bent at the guy and forgot to offer Neil a book. So I’ll pray for Neil and against the Professor whom I am sure attacks Christianity in his classes.

So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today, God blessed. Fascist teachers in the hall notwithstanding.

In Him,

Bob

Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed and you found your rest in Him. I had a good day on campus and Sean and Stephanie each prayed with me to receive Jesus.

Stephanie was sitting in the MAC lounge. She is Latina and goes every Sunday to a Catholic Church. She wore black rimmed glasses and had dark hair just past her shoulders had a v-neck shirt on a jacket and black pants. Good looking kid she was shy but nice. When I asked her what she would say to God to get into Heaven she said, “Oh gosh… I don’t know, I’ve always got my faith even when bad things happen to me, I’ve always felt like He has a plan.” She knew Jesus had died for her sins and after going through the gospel with her and asking her if she wanted to be forgiven trusting in Jesus with God inside her she said, “Trusting with God inside.” I asked her if she thought she had ever placed her trust in Jesus and she said, “I feel like… I don’t really know.” I said that if she did not know she probably wasn’t trusting in it and she agreed. I gave her some analogies and then I said there was a prayer she could pray and asked if it was the desire of her heart she nodded and I asked if she’d like to pray, “Yes,” she whispered and she prayed to receive Jesus. She had a Bible and I told her she could begin to start reading in John and explained John called Jesus, “the Word,” which was a name Jeremiah called Jesus in the Old Testament. I gave her a Bible study and talked her through that and the book 20 Things God Can’t Do writing her name and the date and “forgiven” on the inside. She thanked me and I headed out.

Sean was back at COD after finishing his degree to take paramedic classes. He was wearing gray sweats and a gray hoodie with 45 and stars on the front. Seemed he was in the PE building sitting at the table after having worked out. He had a neatly trimmed beard and his hair brown swept back, kind of a classic good looking, tall solid built guy. When I asked him what he would say to God to get into Heaven he said, “There is no good reason, the only reason I’d be getting in is because of Christ.” When I asked him the % likelihood he would get into Heaven when he died he said, “I’m optimistic. I can’t really do much about what He has to say, I’m hoping.” I figured he was a Christian and possibly just did not have assurance and he was nominally but he had forgotten how Jesus took away his sins, if he had ever known. He’d been an assistant youth pastor at his Methodist Church where he did not attend anymore. I went through the Gospel with him and he took it all in enthusiastically and said he would want to be forgiven. I explained he needed to trust in Christ’s work on the cross that paid for and so forgave his sins, “It seems like you were kind of thinking about Jesus more like he’d be there when you die and you hope He’d just say, ‘That’s my guy he can go in.'” He laughed and agreed. So I showed him the prayer he could pray talking him through it. “That’s cool!” he responded enthusiastically. And I said, “It hits all the bases”. I said he could pray it like I wasn’t even there and he did. I gave him 20 Things God Can’t Do and a Bible Study on the Deity of Christ he really liked. Then we talked for over 2 hours about the lies his friends believed and the things they said about God. He knew a lot of apologetics and read a lot on line and mentioned some websites. These all seemed to assume you knew the Gospel, and he had believed Jesus was God. The complexity of the human body science he was learning in his anatomy and physiology class was reinforcing that the world as we now know it could not evolve. We talked about confirmation bias and he felt like a lot of the guys he knew just found things they thought supported their stuff. He’d broken up with his last girl friend because she had said the Bible was just nice sayings and he’d been realizing how it all fit together and that the Bible was a miraculous book. He realized dating her to try and change her mind wasn’t going to work. But I don’t see how before talking with me he could have told her how to be saved anyway. I enjoyed talking with him and he thanked me and we parted ways. So I hope I’ll bump into him again, he said he would try to make it to the Bible Study.

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

In Him,

Bob

Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed today. I had a good day on campus and Cindy, Chuck and Nick each prayed with me to receive Jesus.

Cindy was sitting in the row of chairs in the entranceway outside the cafeteria. She said she’d do a student survey. She was a pretty Latina girl with long hair well past her shoulders. She had polished, striped, short nails, a thin gold ring in her left nostril and a military style camo jacket on and skinny jeans. It turned out she had a daughter named Alexa and attended a Roman Catholic Church. When I asked her what she would say to God if asked why he should let her into Heaven she said, “‘Cause I wanna be happy.” She nodded, affirming, as I went though each point of the Gospel with her, she did not know what Jesus had done to take away her sins however. So I explained how Jesus had died for her sins so she would not have to die in Hell and that His blood cleansed her from all her sins on an ongoing basis as a power in the world and then that His righteousness was her righteousness if she trusted in Christ. She agreed that she hadn’t put it all together before, trusting in what Jesus had done but she nodded that she would want to be forgiven for her sins. I talked her through the prayer she could pray to receive forgiveness trusting in Jesus and asked if it was the desire of her heart. She nodded again and I said if she wanted she could pray it silently. She nodded again and I said, “Just pretend I’m not even here.” She said ok with a slight laugh. I explained the Christian life and the symbolism of the Mass as originally intended. I gave her a copy of 20 Things God Can’t Do and wrote “by the Spirit’s Power” in the front with her name and the date and “forgiven”. She thanked me for it. I also gave her a Bible study. Getting up I said, “It was nice to meet you.” “Same,” she said and I headed out.

Chuck was a real big guy but about 6 foot tall he played football, African American. He had jeans on and a fisherman’s hat, wore glasses had a warm inviting smile. He made eye contact with me so I nodded and fist bumped him and asked if he wanted to do a student survey. He said sure and I sat down beside him in the row of chairs leading into the tunnel to the PE building. He went to a Catholic church back where he was from and thought he had a 50/50 shot at going to Heaven. He listened closely to the Gospel and really seemed to enjoy hearing the illustrations and laughed a lot, as expressive as Cindy had been quiet. When I asked him what he would say to God to get into Heaven he said, “Isn’t that why I was created?” As I went through the Gospel he hadn’t seemed to understand any of it before. “So Jesus dies for my sins and [cleanses us by] his blood, I got it,” he summarized after I had finished saying as much. I told him he needed to receive Jesus and trust in that to be forgiven and that was by faith, reading him some verses that applied. “So would you want to be forgiven for your sins with God living inside you or do you think something else.” Be forgiven with God living inside,” he said. So I explained there was a prayer he could pray to be forgiven and said he could pray it silently and he said OK and prayed to receive Jesus. I explained the Christian life living “Inside Out”. I wrote “by the Spirit’s Power” in the front of  20 Things God Can’t Do along with his name and the date and “forgiven”. He dug that and I gave him a Bible study. He was a charismatic guy and shook my hand firmly (like a rock) and said, “Thank you,” enthusiastically. God bless you I said shaking his hand again, “Thank you, God bless you too.”

Nick was sitting in the hall lounge on the third floor of the Science Building. I almost never go up there because there is no place except that tiny lounge to sit and it’s been empty when I checked. But I got into the elevator after tooling around the lower floors with one good conversation. I had some time before a chiropractic appointment. When I got in the elevator I pushed 2 but then feeling compelled to go up I pushed 3. I then wearily got off on 2 and took the stairs realizing the elevator had gone up without me and I’d zoned on the floor. But happily it was worth the climb because I bumped into Nick in the lounge there was one other guy sitting in the on a couch. He was at the table he seemed really interested to talk. He attended a Maronite Church (Eastern catholic). He had a curly mop of hair and a thin curly beard and straight mustache. He wore a hoodie and sweats. He said he wanted to have a family. A lot of guys that say that have prayed to receive Christ have said that so I was hopeful. When I asked him what he would say to God he said, “I was friendly to everyone I met, I never engaged in violence and I went to Church.” He was really interested in the Gospel and followed very closely like it was the best thing he had heard all day. When I got to the end I asked him if he “wanted to be forgiven trusting in what Jesus and done or thought something else. You know you grow up in the church and it becomes part of your identity… But do you think you had trusted in what Jesus had done for you to be forgiven or were you just kinda going through the motions?” “Going through the motions,” he replied “but now I’m thinking about this way,” he said pointing at the circle with a cross on the throne.” So I told him he could ask for forgiveness and talked him through the prayer and said he could pray it silently. He took the booklet and prayed to receive Jesus. I gave him 20 Things God Can’t Do and also wrote “By the Spirit’s Power” and his name and the date and “forgiven” in the front after explaining how God would give him the power to do everything He asked him to do. I gave him a Bible study. When I showed him Job 9:8 teaches God walks on the water and 1000 years later Jesus did that to tell us he is God his eyes went wide and he said, “Wow!”  That was great. I told him I would pray for him and got his email and got up to go. “Thank you very much my man,” he said shaking my hand with a big smile. “Yeah thank you, I’ll see you around.” 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 Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope you had a good day and the Lord blessed. I had a slow day on campus and after hours only had 2 guys talk with me. One was vision impaired but could read the time on his phone if held 2 inches from his eye. He used a walking stick to get around and had only been that way about 4 years. The next Anthony prayed to receive Christ.

Anthony was sitting in the cafeteria having nearly finished his Chick-fil-a. He was from Detroit and played football at COD. They get students from far away as it is the only community college for more than 200 miles in any direction with a football team. He was wearing a long sleeve white t-shirt that said “College of DuPage Football” athletic shorts and sandals with white socks. His afro was about 5 inches high and he wore a Malcolm X looking pair of glasses. He had nice features clean shaven good looking guy. When I asked him what he would say to God to be let into Heaven he said, “I would say…” then he stopped and started with a couple approaches and finally said, “I’ve been a true follower since I’ve aged.” By that he meant he had more recently decided to try to follow God. He though he had a 50% chance of going to Heaven. I explained the Gospel to him and he knew Jesus had died to take away his sins. So I explained that he did not go to Heaven because he had tried to be good doing what he thought it meant to follow God but he went to Heaven because Jesus was good.  He had to be trusting that Jesus had taken away his sins and so he would be forgiven. “Does it matter if you are baptized?” he asked. I queried him a bit about that.  It turned out he had been baptized when he was about 14 but had not really understood the Christian life. I asked if they had asked him if he believed Jesus was God had died for his sins and rose from the dead. He thought they had but he had not understood what that meant. I explained he needed to be trusting in Christ’s righteousness to be to his credit by faith and told him the parable from Matthew 22. There the king throws the man without the wedding garment into Hell for not wearing the right clothes, which he thought was crazy until I explained the symbolism. We must be clothed with Christ [Gal. 3:27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ like a garment.] I explained he needed to trust in the righteousness of Christ. I said the things Paul listed he had gone through to preach the Gospel and if anyone might have been said to earn a spot in Heaven it would have been Paul. Yet Paul said it wasn’t by his own righteousness but by the righteousness that is by faith in Christ that He earned for him that he would be saved [Phil. 3:9]. I asked him if he would want to be forgiven trusting in Christ. He nodded and I showed him the prayer he could pray and asked if this was the desire of his heart and he nodded and prayed. I explained more to him. He had left his Bible back in Detroit so I gave him one writing his name and the date and “forgiven” under it in the front. I showed him where to turn section. I got his email and gave him a Bible Study and 20 Things God Can’t Do writing “by the Spirit’s power” in the front explaining anything that God was asking him to do he would give him the power to do. He said he had been asking for Gods help. I said that before he was asking for God to provide the right circumstances but now God could help him by making him a different man, inside by His Spirit, then he would have the strength to do good things on the outside. And I told him if he was trusting in the righteousness of Jesus to be his righteousness the likelihood he would go to Heaven was 100%. I thanked him for talking to me telling him I would be praying for him each night. “Thanks for talking to me. I really needed it,” he replied. “Yeah,” I said, “It seems like God just needed to give you a little bit to make it all clear.” And he rushed off to class since I had made him a bit late.

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,

How’s the life? Hope you were blessed today. Sunny day today in Wheaton and I went for a brief ride, winter is coming but it was still harvest today and  Jesse and  Kyle prayed with me to receive Jesus also Patricia* (an African American girl with long two tone braids, dark with wide features, cute kid) committed to Christ but had to run to class. She began by asking me about Buddhism for her world religions class for a paper and I explained it in light of Christianity, which took too long but helped he see the lie of it. Her friend from class walked up and she had to go, not having time to pray as I finished the Gospel. But I hope to see her again to check since she was sitting outside the cafeteria and her class was right down the hall so maybe I can catch her next week.

Jesse was sitting on an overstuffed chair in the big lounge by Starbucks where we have our Bible study on Tuesday, so I sat at his feet on the floor. He was not a very big guy he had brown straight hair and was wearing grey sweats and a dark blue-grey short sleeved shirt. He look Latino, had a nice smile, though I did not see it until the end. When I asked him what he would say to God if asked why He should let him into Heaven he said, “Hmm,” for just a second and then spit out “It’s up to you,” like someone remembering an answer they had been told. I asked him what the likelihood was he would go to Heaven and he said, “I have no idea.” He attended a Roman Catholic Church in Elmhurst. He was really quiet. But though he was nearly completely unresponsive he was listening and undistracted by the occasional outburst of racket that went on in the lounge. I told myself God would be doing the work and just kept going through the Gospel. When I asked him how God had taken away his sins he kind of mumbled some stuff and I said, “He dies for you” and that seemed to sound familiar. As I finished the gospel I asked him if he would want to be forgiven or if he thought something else and then said to clarify, “When you have asked for forgiveness did you just think God was merciful and you’d try to do better or were you thinking ‘I know I’ll be forgiven because Jesus died for me.’ So were you trusting in Jesus or you just didn’t know.” “I didn’t know,” he replied. So I explained that if he wanted to receive God’s forgiveness trusting in what Jesus had done for him there was a prayer he could pray and I read it through with a bit of explanation. “Lord Jesus I want to know you personally. (so I want you to live inside me). Thank you for dying on the cross for my sins. I open the door of my life and receive you as my Savior and my Lord. (or my God) Thank you for forgiving me of my sins and giving me eternal life. Take control of the throne of my life. Make me the kind of person you want me to be.” Then I read the line, “Does this prayer express the desire of your heart?” He said “Yeah,” shaking his head affirmatively. So I said he could pray it silently and be forgiven and God would live inside him and he said “Alright,” and took the booklet and prayed to receive Jesus and when I saw him making the sign of the cross out of the corner of my eye I knew he was finished. I told him he could kept booklet and explained the Christian life. He did not want a Bible but I gave him a Bible Study and explained the Christian life by living the Power of the Spirit, writing that and his name and “forgiven” in the front of 20 Things God Can’t Do. I shook his hand and he said, “Thank you,” as I did and I said I would keep him in my prayers each night until this spring and then for one year after. “Thank you so much,” he replied and he got a big smile on his face for the first time and I headed out.

Kyle had a very thin mustache he was trying out, dark brown hair parted on the side with an occasional freckle or birthmark on his neck on the side of him I sat by. He had a sharp nose and chin and fair skin. When I first passed him he was clutching his phone and holding it close to his face. His posture and cock of his head somehow looked like he might be one of the students talking special needs classes at school. That doesn’t matter to me I’ll talk to anyone, though most of the time those kids don’t want to talk with me if they are really focused on something. If I see them they are usually by the cafeteria doors. He was in the ground floor hall just down from the back doors that empty out to the outside amphitheater. I felt really wiped out and it is often a challenge to communicate with some of those students. I walked past him and he did not look up so I kept walking. But I felt like I should try talk to him so after walking down the hall I turned to go back and ask him if he’d do a student survey. And he put the phone he’d been playing a game on away instantly to talk. I realized he was not special needs but had eye problems. I think he had Horizontal Nystagmus which is sometimes called “dancing eyes”. It is a condition that causes involuntary, rapid movement of one or both eyes back and oath from side to side. He had this in both eyes and it appeared like he was watching a tennis match on fast forward on a TV screen at times. Nystagmus often occurs with vision problems, including blurriness, I think he had that too because he occasionally leaned forward to read a verse I was reading to him, close to the words and would explain the way he’d been looking at the game on his phone. He was wearing black nylon sweats that zipped at the ankle and a black and white vertical striped cardigan that zipped up over a white T-shirt. His black slip on shoes zipped up. He was articulate in his responses to the questions. When I asked him what he would say to God if asked why he should be let into Heaven he said, “”Hmm,” and then as if reading a quote, “No man is without their flaws, I have mine but that is what makes us who we are.” I replied that I agreed that that was true but I did not think it would get him into Heaven. “Worth a shot,” he said as a verbal shrug so I asked what the likelihood was he would go to Heaven when he died. He thought 60% 40% and I said, “60+?” “Something like that, yeah,” he replied. He had gone to Church every Saturday (being Roman Catholic) until he was 14 or so and had been through CCD. He listened to the Gospel remarking interest and ascent here and there and knew Jesus had sacrificed Himself to pay for our sins. When I asked him if he would want to be forgiven trusting in what Jesus had done so He could live inside him or if he thought something else he said, “Probably the former.” So I said, “Do you believe Jesus is God He died for your sins and rose from the dead.” “Yeah, it makes sense,” he replied after thinking a moment. So I said if he would want to place his trust in that to be forgiven there was a prayer he could pray and after walking him through it he agreed it was the “desire of his heart” and prayed to receive Jesus. I got his email and gave him a Bible Study and 20 Things God Can’t Do writing his name and the date and “forgiven” and “By the Spirit’s Power” in the front. I explained the Christian life living “Inside Out”. “Nice to meet ya,” I said getting up to go. “Nice to meet you too,” he replied and I headed out.

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

In Him,

Bob

Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed. I had a good day of work on campus, Colin and DJ prayed with me to receive Jesus and Stephanie who told me she would pray later at the book table (August 29) told me today she had prayed to receive Jesus today. I was sure she had received Jesus by her testimony but it is always great to hear someone has prayed. “I feel so good,” she told me with a smile. So that was really great. (I put her story at the bottom).

I came across Colin in the PE building lounge upstairs by the workout area. He had a mop of blonde wavy hair going everywhere, a bit unshaven good-looking guy with pronounced cheeks (Kinda like Dudley Do-right without the chin). He wore a black short sleeve shirt with a baseball emblem on the left side and tan cargo shorts. When I asked him what he would say to God to get into Heaven he said. “I feel as though throughout my life I’ve tried to help people, put other people before me, tried to help them make decisions.” He thought he had a 70% chance of going to Heaven. He came from a Roman Catholic background and he knew Jesus had died to take away his sins. So I explained how the blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin so God can live inside us and that His righteousness is ours and we are wrapped in it. I explained how your good stuff couldn’t fix your bad stuff and your bad stuff was still out there kicking people around but that God says He’ll turn our bad things into good things in Romans 8:28. I asked him he felt like he had been trusting in Christ for the forgiveness of his sins. I said I knew he knew the story but sometimes when you grow up in the Church you are cool with everything and just kind of along for the ride. Did he think as an adult he had told God he was trusting in what Jesus had done for him to be forgiven? He said he was, “Not sure,” kind of “Between”. Like you knew the story but had not really thought about it and he agreed. So I showed him the prayer where he could receive forgiveness mentioning the Mass was symbolic of all that and that he was forgiven by the death of Jesus. After I read through the prayer I said he could start trusting in what Jesus had done for him and God could live in him by faith. I said he could pray it silently and would he like to, “Yeah sure.” he said. And he prayed to receive Jesus making the sign of the cross as he finished. He didn’t have a Bible so I gave him one (I showed him the “where to turn” section in the back) explaining some of the books that taught you prayed for the dead and could buy your way out of Heaven were not in it from back in Catholic History and he thought that would be fine. I put his name and the date in it and “forgiven” under it. I gave him 20 Things God Can’t Do and wrote “By the Spirit’s Power” in it and explained living inside out and the fruit of the Spirit. I gave him a Bible Study on the Deity of Christ. We shook hands and he said, “Thanks.” and I said I would keep him in my prayers and he said, “Appreciate it.”

I headed out to my truck to get another Bible and came back in and talked in the MAC lounge to one of the counter cultural guys I chat up sometimes Lukas, he’s a trip. Coming down the hall into the BIC from there DJ was sitting alone on a chair in a line of them. He had a hoodie on and Jeans tucked into black boots. He seems a shade foreign it turned out his family was from Greece. His hair was brown and short on the sides one the ears, receding a bit on the temples and he had the top pulled up into a slight wedge as some do these days. Had a round-tip nose, kind, young face. When I asked him what he would say to God if asked why He should let him into Heaven he said, “Because through all the bad things I might have done my intentions were always good.” He thought he had a 50% chance of going to heaven. I asked if he ever went to Church and he said, “It’s been a long time.” He did not know what Jesus had done to take away his sins. So I explained the Gospel to him and all that Jesus had done and asked him if he wanted to be forgiven for his sins and he said he did. So I said, “Do you believe Jesus is God he died for your sins and rose from the dead?” He thought for a bit and then said, “I do.” I said that if he wanted to place his trust in that there was a prayer he could pray to receive God’s forgiveness and after reading it through with him I said he could pray it like I wasn’t even there, would he wanna do it. “Yeah,” he replied and he prayed to receive Jesus. He didn’t have his own Bible so I gave him one (grateful I had felt the need to go back to the truck, I parked close). I wrote his name and the date and “forgiven” in the front and showed him the “Where to Turn” section in the front and the book of John to start to read. I gave him 20 Things God Can’t Do writing “by the Spirit’s power” in the front. I gave him a card for Compass church to check out their web site and listen to some sermons. I explained living by the Spirit’s power telling him everything God was asking him to do God would give him the power to do, living inside him. I gave him a Bible study and he thanked me and we shook hands and he thanked me again and I told him I would keep him in my prayers.

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

In Him,

Bob

PS.

Stephanie story from August 29.

I was talking to an older student who I used to know from Africa, Mariah who had just finished up at Southern in Physical therapy. She was visiting school and dropped by to ask for a prayer request that she would pass her boards (please pray she does) and say hi. She paused our conversation over her prayer request as Stephanie had picked up  Evolution the Lie and was looking at 20 Things God Can’t Do. Mariah said to her, “I know I saw that too.” I used the break to explain the book a bit and then asked her if she wanted to answer a question. She agreed and I asked her if she died and stood before God what would she say to get into Heaven. She did not know but said I could tell her what the Bible said. I went through the Gospel with her having to blow off Mariah but she understood. Stephanie was a slight tiny girl , a pointed chin small face, cute with glasses and long light brown hair, several inches past her shoulders. She was wearing one of the balloon hats they were making for students on clubs and activities day. I made sure I didn’t rush since she was so hard to read, very quiet and reserved. She had a mostly pink multi colored shirt on with some white and blue. She wore a couple necklaces. She knew Jesus had died to take away her sin but had seemed to be hoping she would be good enough. She was attentive but did not say anything as I explained the Gospel to her. She said she went to a Roman Catholic Church. When I asked her if she would want to be forgiven for her sins she looked up at me in the eyes and nodded. So having finished the Gospel I walked her through the prayer and read, “It says here: Does this prayer express the desire of your heart? So would you say that it did, she nodded again and I said if she wanted she could pray and ask God to forgive her trusting in what Jesus had done to pay for her sins on the cross and His Spirit would live inside her.. She said she would pray it later when she was alone. I explained living buy the Spirit’s Power inside out. I gave her a copy of 20 Things God Can’t Do and wrote her name and “By the Spirit’s Power” explaining how everything God was asking her to do He would give her the power to do. I explained a symbolic view of the Mass as remembering Jesus had died for her sins and she was forgiven and when she took it she could just say, “thank you”. I think she also took a Rose publication hand out called “Following Jesus” she had some other things in her hands. I also gave her a Bible study. I apologized for taking so long and she said “No I needed this.” So I said something like, Do you believe Jesus is God he died for your sins and rose from the Dead and do you trust in that to take away your sins and bring you to heaven? And she said she did. So I said all that is left then is for you to pray and tell that to God. She was grateful. I put her balloon hat back on her head for her she’d left on the table to straighten her hair as she’d almost forgot it and she headed out. So that was great

Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed and if you are a Cub fan they win! I had an opportunity to go through the gospel with a few peeps today. I talked to two religious Christians that struggled to remember what Jesus had done to take away their sins but in the end thought they had been trusting in Christ. So I hope the conversation brought them closer to trust in Him. I also gave the student edition of The Case for Christ to Owen, (Kind of a gentle giant, big, tall white guy in sweats, glass) who sincerely did not know if Jesus was God, having failed to encounter anyone suggesting Jesus was Lord/God. I also gave him a Bible study where Jesus claimed to be God in scripture and a short argument to make it plausible. I’ll be praying for him. I spent the last hour talking with Cody who had been influenced by the cults (he refused to claim he was a Jehovah’s Witness but used all their arguments) into believing Jesus was not God. I showed him multiple passages in a Bible and he continually acted like he did not understand the plane sense meaning I told to him using the JW twist on Isaiah 9:6 (Mighty is not the same god as Almighty, no answer for how Jesus would be called the Eternal Father) John 1 (the Word was “a” god, there is no indefinite article in the Greek so that’s another of their tiresome lies). If everything that has come into being came into existence by Jesus, Jesus did not ever come into being; he pretended he did not understand this simple logic. He acted like he did not know what it meant that the Jews crucified Jesus for blasphemously claiming to be God. At His trial He claimed to be the Son of God, to them then claiming to be the Son of God was claiming to be God. I finally decided the conversation was satanic. Even liberals scholars who don’t believe the Bible would tell you the New Testament authors believed Jesus was God. I pointed this out but of course scholarship is panned by the JW’s.  Like talking to a leftist with confirmation bias you just walk away shaking your head. He was either deliberately talking me in a circle or was really slow witted and the loop was in his head. But in writing this out the arguments were a guy who sat in a cult for a long time. I decided I had told him enough when he revisited the things he had said before that I disproved to him realizing the game was not sincere. So I left him to his deceit (he was quite happy with it) and headed on my way. He’d been taught no one went to Heaven so he had himself convinced he was at no risk of Hell either. It was interesting to see the excuse he had for effectively dismissing the Bible which is where the JW doctrine leads you. Even the 144,000 they claim are resurrected are not, they are only copies of the people they once were, but then annihilation isn’t much of a risk to worry about is it? Interestingly enough another guy who was raised Jehovah’s Witness this year prayed with me to receive Christ; he saw the false reality at the Kingdom Hall. Luke 8:8 “Other seed fell into the good soil, and grew up, and produced a crop a hundred times as great.” As He said these things, He would call out, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”

So Thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for Evangelism today, I am hoping it will one day produce fruit or did today in a way I could not see.

In Him,

Bob

Hey brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope your day was great and the Lord blessed. I had a good day on campus Drey and Kamaria each prayed to receive Jesus today.

I went down a connecting hallway between the main through fairs of the BIC building. One of them has a bump out with two benches across from each other separated by 10-12 feet. Trey was sitting on one of the benches and I asked him if he wanted to do a survey, he said he had already done one. I get that a lot this year because Crusade goes around and does interest surveys and never tells anyone the Gospel. I have no idea why since it seems to inoculate people to hearing. I was told they will tell them the Gospel later but more often than not they never see them again. Trey was sure he had done a survey. Explaining that what I was offering him was more of the same to no end. I asked if wanted to hear how the Bible said he got to Heaven or if he wasn’t that interested. He said he wasn’t interested. Then Kamaria who was sitting across on the other bench and said brightly, “I’ll do it.” So I said cool and walked over to talk to her. African American, she had her hair pulled up in an afro and had a low neck shirt on, cute round face and a pug nose a bit heavy set and on the short side. The guy she was with was acting like an effeminate drama queen and did not want to do the survey. He was side tracking her from the beginning but I prayed he would go away and he soon got into his phone and then walked off when he got a call. When I asked her what she would say to God to get into Heaven she said, “Because you love me, I don’t know. Everyone deserves a second chance? Clean my slate if I mess up kick me out.” She thought she might have a 75% chance of going to Heaven. When I asked her how God took away her sin she did not know so I explained the Gospel to her. I asked her if she would want to be forgiven trusting in what Jesus had done or thought something else and she said, “The first one,” with a tone like Of Course. I said well it seemed like you had not put all this together before and she nodded that was true so I said if she wanted to trust in Christ there was a prayer she could pray and I explained it to her. I said she could pray it silently and would be asking for God forgiveness and if she wanted to do it, “Um hmm,” she replied and she silently prayed to receive Jesus. So that was great. I gave her a Bible and showed her the where to turn section putting her name and the Date and “forgiven” under it. The drama guy returned and asked if I knew she was Jada’s sister, (who had prayed to receive Jesus earlier in the year). I said I didn’t but that was great, “you can talk to her about all this”. I gave her a Bible Study and 20 Things God Can’t Do writing “by the Spirit’s Power” in the front. We said good bye and I said, “God bless you.” And she said, “God bless you too.”

I got up to walk past Drey who I had glanced over at but he had head phones on and I was pretty sure he hadn’t heard anything. “Can I talk to you?” he asked. I said, “Sure,” and sat down and asked, “What do you want to talk about?” “Just talk,” he said. “Do you have a question?” “Just say what you told her.” “Oh ok,” so I began saying Christianity was like a blood transfusion and I went through the Gospel with him. He was dressed all in black, zipper fleece black jeans and shoes. Drey had dark hair and rectangle glasses and mustache and chin beard that went down his jaw line and thin mutton chops for side burns, good looking guy. He knew Jesus had died for his sins saying he had always believed that and went to church. I explained how Jesus had died in his place and His blood would continue to cleanse him so God could live inside him and remain there. I explained God’s imputed righteousness and offered him the opportunity to pray to receive Jesus when he said he wanted to be forgiven. I talked to him about how God had a relationship with everyone as their creator but if he would trust in What Jesus had done for the forgiveness of his sins God would live inside him. He prayed to receive Jesus and then said, “It’s insane how real this is.” I said that was true if God was drawing you to him. He said he had heard people deny faith based on science. I said that paradigm was changing due to increased scientific understanding, the complexity of the cell and DNA would eventually require a source for the incredible swath of information we now know is necessary to complete a life form even smaller ones were incredibly complex. “Darwin thought the cell was about as complicated as a jellybean with a ball bearing in the middle of it, and cells were interchangeable between life forms, so they could morph into something else, we know now that is impossible.” He agreed. I gave him a Bible study and 20 Things God Can’t Do writing by the Spirit’s Power in the front. He only had a Bible in Spanish and he said he could not read it easily. So I said I would get him a Bible out of my truck. (As I walked to my truck I passed Jada who was talking to Kamaria about the gospel in the hall.) When I returned I gave it to him and he said, “Wanna show me how to navigate this?” I showed him the “where to turn” section and the Gospel of John explaining the “Word” in the first chapter and that all Jesus words were in red. I gave him a card for Compass church telling him he could watch the sermon on line to pick up some more teaching. I wrote his name and the date and “forgiven in the front of the Bible. It turned out he had been clinically depressed and felt like God had got him out of it and changed him and he did not have destructive thoughts anymore. He teared up a bit telling me. I explained God had been with him but now was in him and would give him the strength he needed living inside out. We said good bye and he shook my hand appreciatively. “If I don’t see you around I’ll see you in Heaven,” I said as I walked away. “For real!” he replied.

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

Blessings,

Bob

Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed. I had a good day on campus and Joey prayed with me to receive Jesus. I got a seed planted with a guy named Micheal and left him with something to think about.

Joey was sitting on padded bench down a side hall looking at his phone. He had a soccer shirt on and jeans, blonde hair swept back in a classic hair cut, soft features. Good looking kid from a Roman catholic background. He asked me how long it would take and I told him. He seemed in a hurry but I needn’t have felt the pressure of it because after I went through the Gospel I asked him if he had a moment to tell him some stuff and he said, “Sure I’m in no hurry I don’t have class for a while.” So much for sweating through a fast presentation of the Gospel. When I asked him what he would say to try to get into Heaven he said, “I don’t know… I’d say I try to live my life by putting others before myself.” He thought he had a 65-70% chance of going to Heaven. He tuned right into the Gospel with an intensity I misread as needing to leave, maybe because he checked his phone once. I try to engage people with how they are responding, be all things to all men. But I’m probably best off when I don’t think I am getting through and pray in my head while I am talking. I’m not really sure how I do that. Sometimes I listen to something on my computer while I listen to the Cub game on the radio and on the TV, when I’m doing that Ellen has to leave the room there is too much racket so I’ve started to listen on a walkman in one ear. But I was in such a hurry I just focused at getting everything said clearly. He knew Jesus had died for his sins so I explained blood and cleansing us and imputed righteousness. Joey was agreeing with everything as I spoke. I asked him if he wanted to be forgiven for his sins or thought something else, “No I would want to be forgiven,” he said. So I asked if he was trusting in what Jesus had done. “I know you knew the story but you know you grow up in the Church and you are fine with everything but then you get to college you have to decide for yourself.” I asked if he had really been trusting in Jesus when he asked for forgiveness or was going to church and “just rolling with it.” “Just rolling with it,” he replied. So I said there was a prayer he could pray asking for forgiveness based on what Jesus had done and talked him through it reading, “Is this prayer the desire of your heart?” He said it was so I said he could pray silently and start from there with God, “You want do it?” I asked. “Yeah,” he said. I looked down as he took the booklet writing and he prayed to receive Jesus. When he finished he said, “That felt really good.” He had some time as I mentioned so I explained the Christian life to Him by the Spirit’s power “Inside Out” and talked him through Christ’s claim to be God by walking on the water in a Bible Study. I gave him 20 Things God Can’t Do writing “By the Spirit’s power” in the front along with his name and the date and “forgiven”. As I got up to go he reached out and firmly shook my hand and said, “If I don’t see you again, thank you for this.” “You’re welcome; it was great to talk to you.” I replied happily.

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

In Him,

Bob