Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your week was blessed with the presence of the Lord’s Spirit. I had a short week on campus missing Monday but Sal, prayed to receive Christ as possibly did Juan Carlos who seemed to read through the prayer and then shook my hand and then said he had too much on his plate for a Bible Study, so I’ll pray he comes to truly believe on the Lord. Isabella on Thursday prayed with me to receive salvation. Please pray they all are sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

  Isabella was sitting in a lounge on the north side first floor of the BIC building, the back of which empties out into a hall with skylights 3 floors up. She was alone at a table. She looked Latina in coloring and had long brown hair she’d flipped a section of back over the top of her narrow pretty face. She had a square chin and perfect eyebrows making a flat edge at the top of her nose. She wore a white t-shirt with some printing on it that I saw as I got up to go was knotted just above her hip 4 inches above some grey sweats. She was thin. She was willing to do a survey. I sat down and she said she wanted to travel possibly to Greece, saying she wasn’t Greek but it looked beautiful. I said I’d heard the Greek islands were all pretty, “I bet that would be nice to travel to with my wife, maybe I’ll get there someday,” I said. I asked her, “You’re walking down the road and you get hit by a bus. So you’re dead. And you stand before God and He says, ‘Why should I let you into Heaven?’ What would you say?” “I honestly don’t know,” She replied.  She said by way of qualifying why, “I grew up Catholic but I left that church.”  She said she was either trying other churches and had been going to one. “My boyfriend and I are trying to get closer to God. But I really don’t know what I would say.” I said that that was understandable since she’d decided the church she’d grown up with was wrong but wasn’t exactly clear on the teaching of what she was in now. She agreed. When I asked what she thought the likelihood was she would go to Heaven she said 50% and then changed it to 60%. I began to explain the Gospel. I’d written all the extra verses and notes in a booklet a bisexual guy over in the MAC did not want after going through the Gospel. (I had explained to him that Homosexuality destroyed his soul and God loved him and did not want him to destroy his soul and so told him not to do it.) So I just looked her in the eye as I recited things I’d write, instead of having to look away. Since I was opposite her across the table that worked out great to just hold it in front of her and then read the other verses that were printed when I came to them. She held my gaze and looked me right in the eye all throughout. So I explained as I always do that knowing God was eternal life because in the New Testament this meant God lived inside her, transfused His life into her with His Spirit like a blood transfusion. First then He had to take away her sin to she’d match God. I asked what the big thing was Jesus had done back in History to take away the sins of the world and she said Jesus had died on the cross. So I began to explain how that worked, that He lived a perfect life and we were to be perfect and owed God something perfect, owed Him life, for the life we had taken away from others. Jesus was the creator God; His blood cleansed us and was filled with life. When He poured out His blood it paid God back for all the imperfect things we had done that we owed God something perfect for. “So the real reason God forgave us was that He got paid, by the blood of Christ, but He had to pay Himself.” I explained the righteousness of God Christ earned by perfect obedience and fulfillment of the Old Testament law. I said all the other things I say that He rose from the dead, people saw Him and He was the only way. She had to receive this by faith; faith saved her. I asked if she would want to be forgiven trusting in Jesus and He would live inside her and give her strength. “Yes,” she said nodding. So I said then there was a prayer she could pray. I talked her through it and asked if expressed the desire of her heart. She nodded. I said if she would want to be forgiven she could pray it silently and know she was forgiven trusting in Jesus. “Wanna do that?” I asked. “Yeah,” she replied nodding and she took the booklet and prayed to receive Jesus. When she finished I said, “Your sins are forgiven.” “Thank you,” she replied. I explained the likelihood she would now be forgiven trusting in the blood and righteousness of Jesus was 100%. I found out she had a Bible and said she could begin with John. I gave her Bible Promises for You I wrote her name and the date and “forgiven!” in the inside after showing her how she could turn a verse into a prayer. “Thank you,” she said taking the book. I also gave her The Case for Christ Answer Booklet and a Bible Study. She told me she’d been in the club life and we talked about things that go wrong God will use as a test to encourage us to trust in Him by the Spirit’s power and I explained living “Inside Out” asking for transformation. I said the Bible says God will always provide a way of escape and for her that meant don’t go to the clubs. She agreed. I told her I would pray a prayer for her each day from now until Spring and one year after using a Bible verse asking God to bless her. “I don’t know if I’ll see you again but I’ll know God is blessing you,” I said. I got up to go and she reached her hand across the table to shake mine and I took it with both my hands shaking it. “Thank you Bob,” she said. “You’re welcome, thanks for talking with me,” I said and I headed off.

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

 In Him,

Bob

Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed with good things from above. I had a good day on campus and Sal prayed to receive Christ. I had a good conversation with Osiris who was a nominal Christian thinking about it juxtaposed against Islam, he’d not received the Lord or understood the Gospel before. It seemed to be something of an excuse not to commit but I gave him The Case for Christ Answer Booklet. He was waiting for the Bus so I might see him again as there are a couple weeks left. Please pray these guys grow in faith and come to saving faith in the case of Osiris.

 Sal was sitting at a table overlooking the SE corner of the science lounge that joins the buildings. He had on a tan t-shirt and jeans and had swept back hair and a wider tanned Latino face. He was in his late 20’s a rounded block nose. He described himself, “Believer, I believe in God. Not just any God but in Jesus Christ. That He took on flesh and lived so we would be close to Him.” I asked him one thing he wanted to do before he died and he said, “Give back to Christ for the life He gave us.” (It turned out this not mean salvation to him.) I asked him, “You’re walking down the road and you get hit by a bus. So you’re dead. And you stand before God and He says, ‘Why should I let you into Heaven?’ What would you say?” “Um, that’s a good question. I would say I lived the life I was supposed to live. At that point you reflect; did you live your life so you could be proud of the person you were. There’s a quote that says something about you’re remembered by the person you were.” I asked the likelihood he would go to Heaven when he died. “I don’t know that’s a good question Jesus Christ is the only perfect person.” He went on to say that he didn’t think there were any perfect people in Heaven but only those who had Jesus in their hearts. (By this he did not mean the indwelling Spirit.) He said Jesus did not judge the people he was with. He thought that Jesus lived life and so was able to relate to us. I began to go through the Gospel with him and as I did he interjected questions about how to live so I said I’d get to that knowing I would explain the Holy Spirit. He knew Jesus had died to take away the sins of the world but had not placed his trust in that to be forgiven nor thought about his own sins being cleansed so God could live inside him and give him strength. As I went through the Gospel he had an increased understanding that he would not go to Heaven because he was trying to be a good person but because he had been cleansed from sin. I explained that he had no righteousness of his own and that Paul wrote this in the Bible saying he had the “righteousness that is by faith”. All the people in Heaven were in fact perfect because they’d been cleansed by the blood of Christ. This was the righteousness Christ had earned by His perfect obedience and perfect fulfillment of the Law. God adopted him and give him these things, the sacrifice for his sins, the blood that cleansed him and the righteousness that surrounded him. I explained receiving Christ and that his good stuff did not fix his bad stuff. He got it and when I asked if he would want to be forgiven trusting in what Jesus had done for him on the cross. “Yes,” he replied. I said if he wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer he could pray and talked him through it and asked if it expressed the desire of his heart. He read it again and then read, “Does this prayer express the desire of your heart?” “Yes,” he said answering the question he’d read to himself. I said if he wanted to then he could pray it silently and know he was forgiven trusting in Christ, “Wanna do that?” I asked. “Yeah,” he replied and he took the booklet and softly prayed to receive Christ. I explained than living by the Spirit’s power. “Does God meet us half way?” he asked. “No, God does all the work,” I replied and I explained that first we asked God to transform us on the inside we become good men and then we do good things on the outside. “So we do 1%,” he asked. “No,” I replied. “Jesus says I am the Vine you are the branches apart from me you can do nothing,” He accepted that that the Christian life was the work of God in him and mentioned he thought God had a plan. I quoted Ephesians 2:10 saying, “we are His workmanship created for good works in Christ that He has prepared beforehand that we should walk I them.” I explained that the likelihood he would now go to Heaven was 100% trusting I the blood and righteousness of Jesus. He talked to me about feeling guilt saying he had not been to church for quite a while and so did not go to church on Easter feeling going then would be like a hypocrite. I explained we are regularly hypocrites because we fail but God says His blessings are new every morning and that we should forget what lies behind and begin again asking God to transform us. He said it was difficult I said, “it is but you have to let God give you strength and carry you and do the work.” I quoted Jesus saying “my burden is easy and my yoke is light” and explained the metaphor. I gave him Bible Promises for You, and wrote his name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front. I gave him a copy of The Case for Christ Answer Booklet and a Bible Study explaining it to him. He asked me about what day was holy and I explained Hebrews 4 and that we are now in the Sabbath rest of Jesus, we are His Temple and He lives in us so every day is the Sabbath rest where we honor God. I showed him Matt 11:28-30 in the promise book I had given him and showed how he could change the words into a prayer. He expressed a desire to just be able to rest in the Lord and not falling asleep at night. I explained again how now the Holy Spirit lived inside him and he would have strength. I said to ask the Lord to take the thoughts of Satan out of his heart, if he was troubled. We talked a bit more and about a relationship he’d recently left and I got her name and her daughter’s name from another man not in the picture at all. Yolanda and her daughter Leilani, to pray for. I told him I would pray a Bible verse for him each day from now until Spring and one year after asking God to bless him. He thanked me and said, “You really cleared this up for me.” He was grateful.

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

 In Him,

Bob

Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed walking with Jesus. I had an active day on campus though no one prayed with me to receive Jesus. I had some good discussions, Jason seemed interested, had to run to leave for a ride. Gianna was sympathetic, sometimes went to Church with her mom but was not quite interested to commit to Christ. I had a long apologetic discussion with Stephan who had a religious belief in Evolutionary science he could not see and talked to him about y-chromosomal Adam and Mitochondrial Eve which he at first refused to believe existed but then looked up on his laptop and in his Anthropology book, which said of Eve “Of course she came from a group of individuals who contributed to her DNA. I pointed the “Of course” was gratuitous. I’m not sure I made any headway with him. I suggested his only sources of information were from the educational establishment and that there were high ranking biologists at secular universities that denied evolutionary theory could fit modern evidence. He denied this as well and I told him if he looked into it he’d realize I was correct and quoted some of their names. And encouraged a couple Christians in their faith who were grateful to hear the Gospel Kevion and Bryce. 

So no takers but I was grateful to be able to present the Gospel to many who heard it. Particularly after a couple days where I did not seem to come across anyone who even wanted to hear. I was glad to speak with some. The results as always in the hands of the Lord.

I’m very grateful for your prayers.

In Him,

Bob

Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope your day was filled with life and peace from the Lord knowing His love for you. I had a good day on campus talking to a couple Christians and also Michael prayed to receive Christ. Please pray he is sanctified by the Holy Spirit. His story is below.

Michael was standing leaning against the counter in the PE lounge. He was a short smallish guy and looked a bit like Mickey Rooney’s little elf faced brother. They are probably the same height. He had a curly/wavy light brown near blonde hair, dense on top short on the sides. He wore a COD team Baseball t-shirt and black shorts and was probably waiting for practice to start. I asked him if he wanted to do a student survey on what he thought about God and stuff for a Bible study group. He said he had a Bible study. “Ya wanna hear the big question you could bring back to the group?” I asked. “OK,” he replied. I began, “You’re walking down the road and you get hit by a bus. So you’re dead. And you stand before God and He says, ‘Why should I let you into Heaven?’ What would you say?” “That’s a tough question,” he said thinking. I asked if he’d want to hear the Bible verses that answered it. He agreed. So I got his name and began to go through the Gospel with him. I told him John 3:16 and then 17:3 saying that knowing God was eternal life because He lived inside him. But first God had to take away his sin so he would match God inside. I asked what Jesus had done back in History to take away the sins of the world. “He died on the cross,” he replied. I said, “Right,” and then went on to explain that Jesus blood cleansed him and was a payment to God. “Hum,” he said to a couple of the points I made as if understanding it better or for the first time. I said Jesus earned the Righteousness of God by perfect obedience and could give it to him and God adopted him. I said all this was his when he received Christ, (John 1:12); If he believed Jesus was God had died for his sins and rose from the dead. Not that he just knew the story but that that’s what he put his trust in to be forgiven. So if someone said to him “Why should God let you into Heaven?” he’d say, “Because Jesus died for me.” That would mean he had faith in Jesus. Faith saved him. I asked, “What kind of person are you or would you want to be? Would you want to be forgiven for your sins trusting in Jesus? Then His Spirit would live inside you and give you strength; take you to Heaven when you die. Or do you think something else?” Then I told him a quick difference between Islam with a different god and the Buddha and said, “When you’re asking for forgiveness for your sins are you thinking, ‘I’m a good person I go to a Bible study and try to do the right stuff so I think I’ll be forgiven or are you thinking, ‘I know all be forgiven because Jesus died for me? I know you knew the story but had you been trusting in that to be forgiven? Or hadn’t you put it together before?” He thought for a minute and said, “I think I put it together a little bit.” “Well if you would want to be forgiven trusting in Jesus there’s a prayer you could pray.” I talked him through it and said, “It says here does this prayer express the desire of your heart?” But he only half heard me because a couple of short, brown-haired girls walked together across his vision on the far side of the lounge in volleyball shorts and he was temporarily distracted, possibly thinking they were his height. So I said it again. (He’d really tuned in the entire time very well until that moment.) He was back then and agreed it did. I said he could pray silently it to be sure; I wouldn’t hear him but God would hear and he’d know he was forgiven. “Yeah sure,” he said and he prayed to receive Jesus. I said I had a couple of books to give him and quickly explained the Christian life living “By the Spirit’s Power, Inside Out.” I told him I would pray a Bible verse for him each day for a year, from now until Spring and a year after asking God to bless him. “Thank you,” he said. I gave him, Bible Promises for You and wrote his name and the date and forgiven in the front. I gave him The Case for Christ Answer Booklet and a Bible study explaining it quick. “I’ll see ya in Heaven,” I said. “See ya there,” he replied and I headed off.

So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today if you had the chance. There are not many students left to talk to at school but God blessed today.

In Him,

Bob

Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed today walking with the Lord in newness of life. I had a good day on campus and Caitlyn and Daniel each prayed with me to receive Jesus today so I was grateful for God’s blessing in that. Please pray that they are sanctified by the Spirit. Their stories are below if you have time.

 Caitlyn was sitting in the hallway of the west most science building on the 1^st floor on the south side. She had on a white short-sleeved shirt and black baggy sweat like pants. She was tall and had a pretty plum shaped face with a tiny chin, fair skin. Her hair was stick straight pulled back behind her ears, kind of dishwater blonde. She was nice. I asked if she wanted to do a student survey and she was thinking about it, so I told her the main question and said, “It’s kind of the answer to that question from the Bible. Ya got any interest in that or not so much?” She said, “Sure.” I got her name and she said she wanted to travel. I asked her, “You’re walking down the road and you get hit by a bus. So you’re dead. And you stand before God and He says, ‘Why should I let you into Heaven?’ What would you say?” She thought for a minute and said, “I don’t know to be honest.” I asked if she went to church and she said she hadn’t, recently being busy with school. I said that wasn’t unusual and that I thought there were students who didn’t go for the 4 years they were in college. I asked what she thought the likelihood was she would go to Heaven. She thought it was 80%. I began to go through the Gospel with her and said Jesus had said “knowing God” was “eternal life” because God would live inside her. If he did, “It’s like you’re the energizer bunny and God is the batteries, you keep going and going and when ya die it’s like you don’t die because God’s inside.” That brought a smile to her face and I compared it to a blood transfusion saying God had to make her His type so He had to take away her sin to live in her. I asked what Jesus had done back in History to take away the sins of the world. “He died on the cross,” she replied. I said that was right and explained His blood to cleanse her from sin and as a payment of life to God and righteousness of Christ (in the way I usually do). I said God adopted her and He rose from the dead. I said all this was hers if she received Christ and believe He was God had died for her sins and rose from the dead. Not that she just knew the story but that that is what she put her trust in to be forgiven. That would mean she had faith in Jesus; faith saved her. I asked if she would want to be forgiven trusting I what Jesus had done, then He would live inside her and give her strength and take her to Heaven when she died or thought something else giving her the short version of other religions. I then asked, “So would you want to be forgiven for your sins?” She nodded yes just a small couple nods. I said if she wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer she could pray and talked her through it. I asked if it expressed the desire of her heart praying it would. She smiled just a bit and nodded. I said if she wanted she could pray it silently and I wouldn’t hear her but God would hear and she’d know she was forgiven. “Wanna do that?” I asked. She nodded with a sight shrug and of affirmation and she took the booklet and prayed to receive Jesus. When she finished I explained the likelihood now she would go to Heaven was 100% trusting in the blood and righteousness of Jesus. She had a Bible and I explained living “By the Spirit’s Power, Inside Out”. I gave her Bible Promises for You writing her name and the date and “forgiven!” on the inside telling her she could always remember. “Thank you,” she replied taking it. I also gave her The Case for Christ Answer Booklet explaining some of Strobel’s story and Bible study. I told her I would pray a Bible verse for her each day from now until Spring and one year after asking God to bless her. “I don’t know if I will see you again but I’ll know God is blessing you.” “Who knows,” she said in a way that said it’d be nice to see ya. “OK any questions?” I asked. “I don’t think so. Thank you,” she replied. “Yeah you’re welcome I’ll see you in Heaven,” I said. “Yeah that sound good,” she said. “Yeah, it sounds good,” I replied. And I headed off.

 I came across David in the hall on my way out. There were some students who looked to be waiting to get into class and the teacher had not arrived yet to open the door. David was a good-looking guy with both arms inked up in black outlined tattoo sleeves. He wore a black short sleeve shirt, black baggy wide bottom sweats. His small mustache was reddish brown and he had a bit of chin beard; his hair was slightly darker. He had black rectangle frame glasses; double diamond stone pierced earrings and a few gold necklaces one of which was a cross. I asked if he wanted to do a student survey for a Bible Study group but he wasn’t interested saying he did a Bible study with his brother. I asked if he wanted to hear a question he could bring to the Bible study for them to think about. “OK,” he replied. I asked, “You’re walking down the road and you get hit by a bus. So you’re dead. And you stand before God and He says, ‘Why should I let you into Heaven?’ What would you say?” I then said, “So what would you say?” He said he didn’t know. I asked if he’d like to hear the Bible verses that answer the question real quick and he agreed. So I sat down and got his name and began saying all I usually say and I’d just finished telling Caitlyn less than 10 minutes before. He knew when I asked that Jesus was, “crucified for our sins.” After I had explained the blood and righteousness of Christ and said he had to receive Christ by faith I asked, “Which kind of person are you or would you want to be? Would you want to be forgiven for your sins trusting in what Jesus had done? Then He would live inside you and give you strength through life and take you to Heaven when you die. Or is God on the outside of your life and you think something else?” I gave him the quick CliffsNotes versions of Islam and the Buddha. And said, “When you are asking for forgiveness for your sins are you thinking, ‘I hope I’ll be forgiven because I’m a good person and try to please God. I’m in a Bible study with my brother and stuff,’ or are you thinking I know I’ll be forgiven because Jesus died for me? I know you knew the story but had you put your trust in that to be forgiven?” He thought for a moment and said, “The first one.”  I said then, “Well if you want to be forgiven there’s a prayer you can pray,” and I talked him through it and said, “It says here does this prayer express the desire of your heart. He agreed it did. So I said he could, “pray it silently and I wouldn’t hear him but God would hear and he’d know he was forgiven. Wanna do that?” “I prayed on the way to school today,” he replied. “This would be different. This would be to ask for forgiveness trusting in Jesus,” I replied. He took the booklet then and prayed to receive Jesus. He was happy then and said “Thank you.” I told him I would pray a Bible verse for him each day from now until Spring and one year after asking God to bless him. I quickly gave him Bible Promises for You and wrote his name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front and gave him The Case for Christ Answer Booklet telling him also Strobel’s story. Then I gave him a Bible Study on the Deity of Christ and explained walking on the water in Job, which he liked. I said he could do it with his brother and he agreed so I gave him an extra one. “I’ll keep you in my prayers, nice to meet you,” I said. “Thank you,” He replied. “You too.” And I headed off. His instructor had yet to arrive.

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

 In Him,

Bob

Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your week was blessed walking with the Lord. I had a good week serving the Lord. Ashton a family friend prayed with me to receive Jesus on Easter in North Carolina and Tyrell, Kevin, Ali and then on Thursday Evan each prayed to receive Jesus as their savior and no longer hope in being good enough. Please pray each of these is will be sanctified by the Spirit.

 Evan was sitting on the floor in the hallway that heads south in the PE building out to the outdoor theatre by the MAC. He was wearing jeans and cross trainers and had on a red and black flannel shirt open over a t-shirt. His hair was a shaggy mop in strings that went down to his shoulders and he had a random beard that was short but had been left to come in wherever it would for a few weeks, thin mustache. His glasses were two and a quarter inch wide rectangles that turned his look from mountain man into computer guy. I asked him if he wanted to do a survey, “about what ya think about God and stuff” and was surprised a bit he said yes. I sat on the floor beside him. He didn’t have the look of an interested party somehow (there’s not really a look). But when I asked him one thing he’d want to do before he died he said, “Get married have kids.” That answer is a tell that a guy will receive Christ or is a Christian. I asked him, “You’re walking down the road and you get hit by a bus. So you’re dead. And you stand before God and He says, ‘Why should I let you into Heaven?’ What would you say?” “My parents and my grandparents,” He replied. “What about them?” I asked. He explained that they were dead and it would be nice to see them again. He did not seem to have clear assurance what would get him into Heaven as he thought the likelihood he would go there was 40%. He listened to the Gospel as I went through it and when I asked what Jesus had done back in History to take away the sins of the world he said, “Well, He was crucified.” As if to say, Well, there’s that. I explained all I usually do of Jesus living a perfect life for us earning the righteousness of God by perfect obedience and fulfilling the law and then that His blood cleansed us and was a payment to God. God wants to adopt us and give us these blessings of His family; we’re then saved by faith receiving Christ. I asked if he would want to be forgiven trusting I what Jesus had done or thought something else. “Probably forgiven,” he replied. I said if he wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer he could pray. I talked him through it and asked if it expressed the desire of his heart. “I’d say it does,” he replied. I said if he wanted to he could pray it silently and I wouldn’t hear but God would hear, “Wanna do it?” “Sure,” he replied and he took the booklet and prayed to receive Jesus. When he finished he said, “Thank you.” I explained the Christian life to him a bit beginning with reading the Bible. He liked the Bible on his phone as it had a lot of different versions. It turned out he had an aunt he said was, “More Christian than me.” She had a Bible version she really liked he did not think was on his phone but he was cool with just the phone app. I gave him a Bible study explaining it a bit and he said he had been going to a Bible study for a while, some of his High School friends had put together, they now went to different colleges. I don’t know if they were local or met on line. I wrote his name and the date and ‘forgiven!” on the inside of Bible Promises for You. I also gave him The Case for Christ Answer Booklet and explained Strobel’s story a bit. I told him I would pray a prayer for him each day until a year from this Spring asking God to bless him. “Nice to meet you,” he said as I was moving to get up to go. I shook his hand saying, “Nice to meet you too, I’ll see you in Heaven.” And I headed off.

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

In Him,

Bob

Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope you had a great day among the righteous saved by faith. I had a hard time getting any conversations going but Ali received Christ today so that was great. He responses are below if you have some time. Please pray she grows in sanctification by the Spirit.

 I had given a print out to a student I made form a commentary to a student and thought I would head up to the third floor. I walked to an elevator as my knee has been giving out when I climb stairs. The elevator I went to was closed for repairs. So I headed to the North side of the BIC where the next closer elevator was and road it up. This put me right in front of the hallway that crossed over to the lounge. Ali was sitting in one of the cut outs on the 3^rd floor overlooking the Student Services Lounge a floor below. I felt later like God had led me right to her with a closed elevator. She had a diamond shaped pretty face, high cheek bones and thick French braids on her head, atypical sharp features for an African American. She said for something she wanted to do before she died, “Go on a hike.” I told her about the national parks telling her of the hikes my wife and I look for there. I asked her, “You’re walking down the road and you get hit by a bus. So you’re dead. And you stand before God and He says, ‘Why should I let you into Heaven?’ What would you say?” “I’d say I always thought of ways not only to be a better person for me but those around me and follow His purpose for my life and do that every day,” she replied. I asked the likelihood she would go to Heaven and she said “Right now…over 50… 60%, I have more to do.” I began to go through the Gospel with her and she agreed with every point enthusiastically. She knew Jesus had died to take away the sins of the world when I asked her. I explained that it was “Just” for God to forgive her because of the payment of Christ’s sacrifice through His death; this blood cleansed her. He earned the righteousness of God to her credit when God adopted her. She had to receive Christ by faith. I explained it was not by works she had listed but faith saved her. I asked if she would want to be forgiven trusting in what Jesus had done. She said she would. So I asked if when she was asking for forgiveness for her sins if she had hoped she was good enough and went to church and did good things or if she thought in her heart, “I know I’ll be forgiven because Jesus died for me.” “Good enough,” she replied. So I said there was a prayer she could pray and explained it. “I prayed a prayer like this today,” she replied. Though she could not have understood it were this correct I said, “In praying it now then would you say Amen?” “Yes,” she said. “Great,” I said. “So now you are trusting in the blood and righteousness of Christ not the works you said before?” She agreed. I said, “The likelihood you will now go to heaven is 100% trusting in Jesus’ blood and righteousness,” I explained the Christian life asking for transformation by the Spirit’s power, “Inside out.” I gave her Bible Promises for You and asked, “Is it right to say you received Christ today understanding everything?” “Yes,” she replied. So I wrote her name and the date and forgiven in the front. She asked if she could keep the booklet and I said she could and I also gave her a Bible study and explained it in a way she enjoyed and The Case for Christ Answer Booklet telling her some of Strobel’s story. “This is great, thank you.” she said, turning some pages in one of the books. I told her I would pray a prayer using a Bible verse for her each day asking God to bless her and if I saw her I would give her a wave. “It was a pleasure to meet you,” she said. “It was a pleasure to meet you too,” I replied. “Thank you,” she said softly 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 following the Lord. I had a good day on campus and had a long conversation with Tariq, a Muslim (details at bottom) and Kevin who prayed to receive Christ. Donovan a very short-haired guy with a pencil mustache said he needed to think about his eternal life but was arguing with his parents about religion. I said after going through the Gospel with him he should get into a relationship with God trusting in what Jesus had done and worry about the details about how his parents did things later. He admitted he needed to “Think about his eternal life.” Please pray for the sanctification by the Spirit of Kevin and that these others might be brought to Christ.

Kevin was sitting on the hallway of the second floor of the BIC looking at his phone for a minute before he went to his car. We were just short of the doors that headed out to this big copper fountain that is turned off for winter (I think it is supposed to be the head of the school mascot). He had on black nylon sweats and a white sweater, nice material. He had dark perfect skin. If his pigmentation were Caucasian his feature were the size and shape of a white guy. He had 4-inch braids like a mop on top and a perfect triangle nose lips about like mine, firm jaw line; Very nice guy. One of the words he used to describe himself was “silent” and that matched our interaction. I asked him, “You’re walking down the road and you get hit by a bus. So you’re dead. And you stand before God and He says, ‘Why should I let you into Heaven?’ What would you say?” “I would say I followed Him since I was young. I think I should come in because I’m very faithful to follow you,” he replied. He thought he had a 50/50 chance of going to Heaven. He said went to church every week. I began to go through the Gospel with him and saying knowing God was eternal life because he lived inside you I also said first he had to take away your sin. I asked him what Jesus had done back in History to take away the sins of the world and he struggled to answer and then said, “He separated the good from the bad?” I said, “He did do that but this is how it works,” and I explained the way I usually do that Jesus lived the perfect life, we could not, to be a sacrifice for sin. His blood cleansed us and was a payment to God.  I asked if he understood then and he said, “Yeah.” Jesus earned God’s righteousness by His perfect obedience and fulfilling the Old Testament Law. This was to our credit through adoption as sons. We received this by faith, it saved us. I asked if he would want to be forgiven for his sins trusting in what Jesus had done, then He would live inside him and give him strength; take him to Heaven when he died. Then I explained the different God of Islam and the different world of the Buddha. I asked again, “So would you want to be forgiven trusting in Jesus?” “Yes,” he said. I said if he wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer he could pray. I talked him through it and asked if it expressed the desire of his heart. ‘Yes,” he said again. I said he could pray it silently, “I wouldn’t hear you but God would hear and you’d know you were forgiven. Wanna do it?” “Yeah,” he replied. And he took the booklet and prayed to receive Jesus. When he finished I said, “Your sins are forgiven,” He shot me a warm smile of bright white teeth. I explained the Christian life to Him by the Spirit’s power living “Inside Out.” He had a Bible but I gave him Bible Promises for You and wrote his name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front. I also gave him a Bible study on Jesus claims to be God and retold the story of Jesus walking on the water, which he hadn’t seemed to have heard before. I gave him The Case for Christ Answer Booklet. I told him I would see him in Heaven and I would pray a prayer for him each day from now until Spring and one year after using a Bible verse asking God to bless him. “Thank you,” he replied. “Have a good one man,” I said. “Thank you,” he replied and he headed off.

I spoke with a Muslim for a while I had met before, Tariq. He started the conversation and asked If I thought God peed and pooped. I said not any more because Jesus was glorified but that I would not blaspheme God and tell Him He could not do something He wanted to do.

 He said man was made out of mud and clay and informed me Satan was made from fire and smoke and was jealous in the Garden of Eden telling me the Quran’s version. But he said Adam repented. I said that in the story of Moses and the burning bush Moses is told to remove his sandals because he is on Holy Ground. That meant God was in the ground making it holy and so “God was in the dirt, the Mud whatever”. He had said Man was made of mud or dirt, so if God could be in dirt he could become a man who is made of dirt. He said Mecca was holy. I said that is a different kind of Holy.

 I said when you forgive it costs you something to do it and it costs God to forgive us. He pays a price so He can be just in forgiving. He asked if my mother slapped me in the face if it wouldn’t cost me something to forgive her. I said I thought it would cost me something emotionally but that my mother had never slapped me in the face. He started to say something about his mother and stopped himself and said he did not think it cost to forgive. I suggested he might not have met many bitter people but that being und=forgiving destroys you and told him the parable of the unforgiving slave who was handed over to the “torturers”. I told him western society was based on just payment for sin. He tried to disagree and pointed out slavery but I pointed out nearly no one in the US owned slaves but that kidnapping was punishable by death. I said, “I’m not talking about the corruption it exhibits now but what it’s foundation is.” I asked if he had stopped at a stop sign on the way here. He had so I asked if he would let the other person go first if they were first to the intersection. I said that was justice and gave him an example of how this was not true abroad. He tried to say it was cultural which simply made my point. Half his family was from North Africa and half from here. He said that he felt that was mercy. Which simply demonstrated he did not understand traffic law, which was based on the right of way (justice not mercy) and was an example about how Islam is incompatible with the West.

 He said the Quran had not been changed. I said Jay Smith says there are over 30 different Qurans in Arabic. He tried to say that that was difference in Dialect but I said not it was different actual words and he could look it up. I said the inscription in the Dome of the Rock does not match the present Quran text he uses. I said in our Bible Adam hears God walking the garden after he sins so he hides. “If you can hear God walking He has feet. If He has feet we believe He is Jesus and that Jesus appeared many times in the Old Testament as God.” 

I don’t think he listened to all of it he just wanted to see what I would say to some stuff he’d recently heard.

 But Kevin Received Christ today so God truly blessed, thanks for your prayers.
 

In Him,

Bob

Hey sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope you had a blessed Easter walking with God. It was Spring Break on campus and we saw family in NC. A blond guy with a blond beard and mustache, Ashton, prayed with me to receive Christ a friend of our niece. He’d been trusting in good works to get into Heaven. Tyrell prayed to receive Christ today. His responses are below if you wish to spend the time. Please pray these have sanctification by the Spirit.

Tyrell was sitting in an atrium lounge by himself in a table next to vending machines on the first floor of the BIC building. He played basketball and football. The hood on his faded black hoodie was up over his head and a couple of fat black braids poked out the front. He had classic African American features, a medium size nose and modest full lips, good looking face with pronounced cheek bones and a sparse mustache and under the chin beard.  He also had a bit of an urban accent. He was a basic guy type, said he wanted to visit all 50 states; had been to 8. I asked him, “You’re walking down the road and you get hit by a bus. So you’re dead. And you stand before God and He says, ‘Why should I let you into Heaven?’ What would you say?” He replied, “I mean I try following in the footsteps and living in the way to get to Heaven. I sin but you know I mean…” “Yeah,” I replied. I asked what the likelihood was he would go to Heaven. “I got a nice li’l chance, hopefully,” He replied. I began to go through the Gospel with him and asked what Jesus had done back in History to take away the sins of the world and he said He had died on the cross. I went through that sacrifice the cleansing blood and the payment for our sins. I explained the righteousness of God Christ earned and how we inherited it when we became his child, adopted by the Father and explained how it mattered who did the work. He was really interested the entire time. I explained he had to be saved by faith and asked if he’d want to be forgiven rusting in Jesus. “Um hum,” he replied. I explained there was then a prayer he could pray and explained it asking if it expressed the desire of his heart. “Um hum,” he said again. I said he could pray it silently and God would hear. “Wanna do that?” I asked. “Um hum,” he said the third time and took the booklet and prayed and receive Christ. When he was done I said, “Your sins are forgiven.” Appreciate it,” he said and shot me a big grin. I began to go through the Christian life with him. He did not have a Bible saying the one they had was really his mom’s. He said he’d like one. I explained the study helps and wrote his name and the date and” forgiven!” on the inside. I gave it to him and he said, “Appreciate it.” I explained a Bible study, gave him Bible Promises for You and The Case for Christ Answer Booklet. I said the likelihood he would now go to Heaven was 100%. I explained living the Christian life living by the Spirit’s Power, “Inside out.” I told him I would pray a Bible verse for him each day until Spring and one year after and said I would try hard to remember his face. “I’ll remember you,” he replied with a smile. I got up to go, “Appreciate it.” He said again. I said I was old and he was just getting started but warned it was a long hard road. “Definitely is,” he said and shook my hand. “God bless you,” I said. “God bless you too,” he replied warmly and I headed off. He is a great guy.

 So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today if you had a chance. We drove over 11 hours yesterday to get home but the work today was worth it.

In Him,

Bob

Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope ya had a great day marching with the righteous by faith. I had a good day on campus and Oscar prayed to receive Christ. Another guy Eric said he now had a different “perspective this stuff”. Be believed I Jesus and after we talked was believing in Him for his saving work. Please pray these students are sanctified and see the Lord. Oscar’s story is below if you want to see his responses.

 Oscar was sitting on a first-floor bench seat in the hallway looking to the North in the east science building. He had a curly head of hair above his ears, the bangs of which came down an inch onto his forehead. He looked Latino. He had a narrow mustache, under chin beard and warm eyes, good-looking guy. He wore a black puffy coat and black sweats with patch cargo pockets made out of sweatshirt material. He had three piercings in the ear closest to me with square studs in them and had a piercing in his left nostril. He was eating a round rice cake, or must have just finished one as the crumbs were all over by his feat. I asked him one thing he wanted to do before he died and he said, “Watch my kids grow up.” That would probably be an equivalent statement to “get married” and that is always a tell a guy will receive Jesus. I asked him, “You’re walking down the road and you get hit by a bus. So you’re dead. And you stand before God and He says, ‘Why should I let you into Heaven?’ What would you say?” “Oo, now that’s a real tough question,” he replied thinking a bit he posited the answer as a question saying, “Would I be worthy enough to be accepted into your kingdom?” He thought he had a 70% chance of going to Heaven and seemed to go to Church. I began to go through the Gospel with him explaining that God wanted to live inside him to give him eternal life and asked what Jesus had done back in history to take away the sins of the world, so He could. “I don’t know,” he replied. I said I thought it would come back to him but I don’t think any of it did. He didn’t give a look of “Oh yeah,” or recognition. I explained that Jesus lived a perfect life for us and his blood was a sacrifice for our sin as a payment and his blood cleansed us. His righteousness was to our credit. He needed to receive Jesus by faith. I asked if he would want to be forgiven for his sins. “Most definitely,” he replied. So I said if he wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer he could pray. I talked through it with him and asked if it expressed the desire of his heart. “I’d say so,” he said. I said he could pray it silently. “OK,” I replied. He took the booklet said, “Alright,” and prayed to receive Jesus. I began to go through the Christian life with him. He said he had a Bible on his phone but not a physical book. I asked if he’d like one and he said he would and so I gave him one explaining a couple study helps and how a cross reference works. I wrote his name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front. “Thank you,” he replied. I also gave him a copy of Bible Promises for You and showed him how he could turn a verse into a prayer. I gave him The Case for Christ Answer Booklet and a Bible study. I told him I would pray a prayer for him each day with a Bible verse from now until Spring and one year after asking God to bless him. I said the likelihood he would go to Heaven now was 100% trusting in the infinite worth of Jesus blood and righteousness. I got up to go. “Thank you, thank you, much appreciated,” he said in gratitude. “Yeah cool, see you in Heaven,” I replied and he got a big smile and I headed off.

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

In Him,

Bob