Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your week was blessed with rest and peace in the Spirit of the Lord. I had a good week on campus and Daniel and Evelyn each prayed to receive Jesus today and I ran into Abbey who was an atheist on Jan 26ths and she had received Jesus. Their stories are below. If you have a moment please pray for them I’m sure prayers for Abbey brought her in. The rest of this is a pretty long journal account of two days on campus but hey if ya got the time here it is.

I had long apologetic discussions on Wednesday. The first with Damian. He had the standard misinformation about the capacity to be good apart from God (you have to know and control the future to do the good and only God is all knowing and all powerful). He thought he was good and would be reincarnated into a better life. So then I demonstrated to him he had no way of knowing if what he considered his good actions ever resulted in good, on a long term basis. He also tried to say the Bible had been changed. But of course to say the Bible has been changed you would have to have the original to demonstrate the one you read now in English departs from it in more than just author’s voice of translation from Greek and Hebrew. Whenever a new fragment of the Bible is dug up it matches. If there is merely a word out of place we can compare it to the majority of other texts we have and see if it is in error. So we know the original. The other issue is the prophecy of Isaiah Jesus fulfills which once was said to be tampered with by Christians, because it was so convincing in so many passages to be predictive of Jesus life, death and resurrection. Then they found the Dead Sea Scrolls and the complete Book of Isaiah dating 100 years before Christ. It matches the one we have. I told him this and a lot of other stuff. I gave him “100 Prophecies Fulfilled by Jesus” and another rose publication “Why trust the Bible” which I also later gave to “John” (his name is difficult so he has people call him John) an Islamic guy.

“John” attends the IV Bible study at their leader’s house. He was misinformed about everything so I just corrected him. He tried to maintain Jesus required a posture for prayer with your forehead on the ground, Jesus nor any New Testament writer ever requires a certain physical posture for prayer. I told him Paul says we are to pray without ceasing, always be in an attitude of prayer and so we can be praying in any way all through the day. At one point he said the Quran had never been changed. I said his tradition, not mine claimed it had been changed that the Caliph Uthman burned the alternate copies of the Quran he did not like, redacting them into one he did like:

https://whatsoeverthingsaretrue.org/2021/05/17/uthman-burned-the-quran-and-abu-bakr-burned-the-hadith-why/

He wanted to use Google on his phone so I said put in Uthman burned and Quran. He did and the story he seemed unaware of came up. I said my tradition did not endorse burning the Quran Islamic tradition did.  He had said he would convert to my religion if the Quran had been changed. I pointed out the Quran had obviously been changed as Uthman burned different Qurans making the one he wanted. He tried to back up the truck and that point saying we needed to respect each other. There had been no tension or loud voices or anything, I agreed. And I said, “This is America you can believe what you want here, it is a country created by Christians but if I went to your country and said the Quran was a false religion [as you are saying about Christianity] they would kill me.” He weakly tried to maintain that was not true but it is demonstrably true of course. We parted shaking hands and I said I’d talk with him again any time. I gave him the Rose publication then, “Why trust the Bible”.

Abbey was again sitting in the same lounge as before also, when she had said “I don’t think I believe in Him,” (when I talked with her for nearly an hour on the 26^th.)  Yesterday she told me, “I got saved a week ago” and that talking with me had softened her heart. She’d said she wanted something supernatural to happen to convince her. I felt like that had happened when I mentioned the “Great cloud of witnesses” viewing us from Heaven talking about her mother who had died and she said, “I just got chills when you said that.” I had asked her if she had ever asked God to show himself to her. She said that seemed like a pretty strange thing to do dismissing the idea but I explained that if there was a God it was a legitimate idea. A week ago she said she had asked God to show Himself to her in some way and then went to the mall and a Christian girl came up to her and began sharing a Bible verse and asked her to church. At the Church she went to the pastor told her all the things she had done and she accepted Christ and was baptized. I think this is sometimes called a word of knowledge. (I’ve not witnessed it.) She later confessed to the pastor some other bad things she had done. He then said he had known those things as well but because they were particularly bad he had not wanted to embarrass her publically. So she got her miraculous event. She said she realized for the last several years she had been under the influence of Satan. Her mother had fallen into a practice or abuse of some kind that had killed her. Abbey was no longer blaming God for letting her mom die as she had (this seemed to begin to be happening a bit on the 26^th as we parted when I gave her, The Case for Christianity Answer Book). She now saw that she had damaged others and herself, that sin destroyed her soul, and in a similar way her mom had been responsible for her own death. We talked some more and I gave her a Bible Promises for You book. I wrote her name and “forgiven!” in the front.  I had told her the Gospel as we talked but I went through it again in the little booklet to make sure she understood the doctrine of the imputed righteousness of Christ and to give her some more Bible verses. I also wanted her to think of the Christian life as one lived by the Spirit’s power and that the Spirit had sealed her based upon Eph. 1:13. I told her I had been praying for her and would now each day.

Daniel was a big dude over 6 foot and 5×5. He had a shortish blonde mop of hair atop squared off features and the birthmark freckle thing on his cheek some kids seem to have. He was at a table in a ground floor BIC building lounge on the North side. He wore black sweats and a blue-grey t-shirt. I asked him what he would say to God to get into Heaven and he said, “I did everything I was supposed to do.” He thought the likelihood he would go to Heaven was 90%. I went through the Gospel with him asking him what Jesus had done to take away his sins, then added, “The sins of the world?” giving him time to think. He thought a second and said, “He was a sacrifice.” I agreed and went through the blood and the righteousness of Christ that could be to his credit. He tracked with it all and I asked if he would want to be forgiven for his sins with God living inside him giving him strength. “Yeah,” he replied. So I said if he would want to be forgiven there was a prayer he could pray and asked if it was the desire of his heart after explaining it to him. He nodded. I said he could pray it silently right now, I wouldn’t hear him but God would hear and he’d know he was forgiven. “Would you want to do that?” I asked. He nodded again and took the booklet and I said just pretend I’m not even here. He finished and I explained living by the Spirit the symbolic view of the Mass. I said the likelihood he would now go to Heaven was 100% trusting in the Righteousness of Jesus.  I gave him, Bible Promises for You and a Bible Study and The Case for Christianity Answer Booklet. I got up to go and said, “Thanks for your time.” “No problem,” he replied. “Have a good weekend,” I said. “You too.”

Evelyn was sitting on a set of couches they recently replaced down the halls of the Science buildings (in a typical failing of the bureaucracy they blocked most of the electrical outlets that were easily accessible with the old couches). She had a roundish cute face, almond eyes her hair was just past her chin and tucked behind her ears. Had the coloring of a Latina. Stopped working on her laptop to talk to me. I asked her what she would say to God if asked why should He let her into Heaven and she said, “I go to Church every Sunday with my Grandma.” It turned out she had also gone back to Mexico also and seen the way Catholicism was practiced there and it had left her with a few questions. She asked these as I went thought the Gospel in part asking how a straight Biblical narrative differed; I told her I had listened to priests who basically endorsed the Bible as I had explained it. I explained purgatory, and some different ideas that had come through Augustine, some involving infant baptism to take away the inherited sin guilt of Adam. If someone believe Adam’s guilt is inherited they take this idea from Augustine’s teaching the second half of his life. He believed all of mankind was present in Adam’s semen actually. We know this isn’t biologically true in our time but also that Augustine misread a Latin text of the Bible to arrive at that conclusion. The Roman Catholic Church teaches a child has the guilt of Adam and if it is not baptized way and the child dies, one would have to assume the child was lost. But the Bible teaches the sin guilt of your father is not passed to you in Ezek. 18:20 “The person who sins will die. The son will not bear the punishment for the father’s iniquity, nor will the father bear the punishment for the son’s iniquity; the righteousness of the righteous will be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked will be upon himself.” This is also stated in Deut. 24:16  “Fathers shall not be put to death for their sons, nor shall sons be put to death for their fathers; everyone shall be put to death for his own sin.” I said the Orthodox Church, according to an Orthodox student I had recently talked to, teaches you inherit the consequences of Adams sin but not the guilt of it. “So you are in a sinful world and you will sin, it is inescapable.” But the inherited guilt of Adam is not held by all early Christian traditions. We talked about the priests function in confession in an analogy of an insurance salesman for your car insurance, when you wreck your car the salesman does not pay the company pays. Like the analogy the Catholic Church teaches only God can forgive your sin. So the priest is not forgiving your sin, he is telling you God forgives your sin and he can do that based on your confession (1John 1:9) and belief in Christ. We talked about the way Church History had some different opinions but that the basic message that Jesus was God and had died for her sins and rose from the dead remained unchanged. I continued through the Gospel with her explaining: God was paid by the blood of Christ and so it was Just for Him to forgive her. “Makes sense,” she replied. I asked her if she wanted to be forgiven for her sins trusting in Jesus. She said she would and I explained the prayer and she prayed to receive Christ. At one point she said, “Thanks this was very helpful. I gave her Bible Promises for You writing her name and the date and “forgiven” in the front. I gave her a Bible Study and The Case for Christianity Answer Booklet. I explained living “Inside Out” by the power of the Holy Spirit; I told her I would be praying for her. “Now trusting in Righteousness of Jesus to be your righteousness the likelihood you would go to Heaven was 100%.” “Thank you,” she told me as I got up to go. “Thanks for talking with me, God bless you,” I replied. “God bless you too,” she said and I headed off.

So thanks for your prayers for the ministry this week if you had a chance, God truly blessed and 97 students have prayed to receive Chris this school, year after I told them the Gospel.

In Him,

Bob

Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed with all god things from above. I had a good day on campus and Preston prayed with me to receive Christ. Another guy Gio was close who was 5×5, kind of looked like a mob hit man with glasses wearing a hoodie up over his head as we talked. Ha anyway he wanted to be forgiven but did not want to pray right then having said he was trying to atone for a sinful life. Please pray for these guys Preston’s story is below if you have time.

Preston was sitting at the long table they have that runs along the edge of the stairs in the PE lounge on the ground floor. He was the only one at the table when I began with him, one big black dude sat beside him later as we talked. The table has seats for at least a dozen. Preston looked like an everyman, pretty good looking guy, Italian maybe with his hear swept straight back he had on a white sweatshirt and had a day’s growth of beard that looked like it would not come in evenly yet.. He played football at school. He was the second guy that day who told he wanted to have a million dollars. I told him the way things were going that would not be much money before long and he laughed. I asked him what he would say to God to get into Heaven. “I would say I followed the way of your words in the Bible. I try to pour good into the world every day.” He was sure he was going to Heaven though he did not go to Church, he prayed. He’d gone to Church as a kid. I asked what Jesus had done to take away his sins but he just said, He forgives you and as I went through the Gospel it seemed reasonably novel to him. But he tracked with everything and tuned right in. He was friendly and seemed pretty up beat. As I finished telling him how Jesus had died for him he said “OK.” And I explained that God was paid for the imperfect things we’d done we owed God something perfect for. I explained that Jesus earned the righteousness of God (Isa 61:10 and Gal 3:27). “You don’t go to Heaven because you’re god you go to Heaven because Jesus is good and you’re connected to Him.” “So you can’t go straight to God you go through Jesus?” He asked. I explained the Trinity to him then saying Jesus is God. There were three persons. I said, “You’re kind of like trinity too, you have a body like Jesus, you’ve got emotions like the Holy Spirit, you’ve got a will or a mind that’s like the Father.” I explained that if some pretty girl said something crazy to him during the day he might have a hard time studying later that night. He Smiled and then agreed. So I said he was kind of like a dysfunctional trinity in as much as he could not tell his body to stop giving him a headache or something like that. “So God became a man in Jesus.” He said. I agreed. When I finished the Gospel I asked if he would want to be forgiven for his sins with God inside to help in everything or thought something else. “God inside,” he replied. So I said there was a prayer he could pray to be forgiven for his sins and I talked him through it. “OK,” he replied when I had finished so I said he could pray it right then silently. “I wouldn’t hear you but God would hear and you’d know you were forgiven,” and asked, “Wanna do it?” “Yeah definitely,” he replied and he prayed to receive Jesus. I explained the Christian life by the Spirit’s power asking for God’s help in everything. I gave him Bible Promises for You writing his name and the date and “forgiven!” on the inside. I gave him a Bible study and The case for Christianity Answer Booklet. I told him I’d pray a line from a verse in the Bible for him each day through Sprit and one year after and if I saw him around I’d give him a wave. “Perfect,” he said. I said I would see him in Heaven and he laughed happy as I shook his hand. “God bless you,” I said getting up to go and he thanked me and I headed out.

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

In Him,

Bob

Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope your day was filled with all good things. I had a good day on campus and Melissa prayed to receive Jesus. I also went through the Gospel with Aisha. She took a copy of The Case for Christianity Answer Book and said she needed to think about it more. She was going through the Bible Thursday each week with her Egyptian Orthodox Uncle. She lived with him presently while going to school. Her dad was a black African Muslim and her mom (whom she mentioned was very light skinned) an Egyptian. Her parents had split and her mom was back in Egypt and her father up in Wisconsin. She had curly hair down to her shoulders and pretty sharp features and a gold ring in her left nostril. Please pray for these girls. I also bumped into Sam who told me last semester he would pray that night and it turned out he did and he said he was getting more into his faith. Melissa’s story is below if you have time.

I found Melissa in the cafeteria, having just finished eating a subway sandwich at the counter looking outside. She had dark hair she’d tinted with some highlights throughout, lighter hair framing her face almost gray in shade. She had pastel (pinkish) framed glasses that were round, a cute frank face with a pretty birthmark/freckle whatever you call it. She wore a brown rough fleece vest made to look like sheep skin and was otherwise dressed in black, looked really healthy and happy. She reached out and shook my hand telling me her name. She thought she’d like to travel to Jerusalem. I asked her what she would say to God to get into Heaven and she said, “I would say I would have to pass right away [I think she might have been thinking she’d go to purgatory]. I’ve done some things I need to reflect on. But I really haven’t done what would reflect me not going into Heaven.” She thought she had an 85% chance of going to Heaven when she died. I began to go through the Gospel and explained that God wanted to live inside her but would have to take away her sins first to purify her and I asked what Jesus had done to take away her sins. “You confess,” she said. I said that was true we confess our sins “but the standing doctrine of the Catholic Church is only God can forgive sins. So what happened so that God can forgive your sins?” She said well the priests were connected to God. I said that was true “they are God’s crew” but they know something that tells them you’re forgiven when you confess. I said the Bible says we are to live a perfect life, but we can’t (Matthew 5:48). But Jesus is perfect. I went on to explain how Jesus had died for her and that His blood cleansed us from all sins. That really God gets paid, that the infinitely valuable blood of Jesus (because He is God) pours out in His death and pays God back for all the imperfect things we did that we owe God something perfect for to pay Him back for wrecking His stuff. “Oh I’m learning so much,” she exclaimed. I said the priest knows God was paid for our sin and so being just He can forgive us. Jesus lives a perfect life for us and His righteousness is to our credit. I explained all God had done could be hers and God wanted to adopt her and give it to her if she believed on Him. In the end, suing the two circles in the booklet I asked if she would want to be forgiven for her sins trusting in what Jesus had done and then have God live inside her. I explained a couple words about what Islam taught also and she cut me off and said, “This side!” pointing at the circle with Christ inside on the throne of her life. I said if she wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer she could pray and explained it. “I’m going to pray it every day,” she exclaimed. I said she did not have to but it would be a good prayer to ask for forgiveness with each day. If she wanted to she could pray the prayer right now, I wouldn’t hear her but God would hear and she’d know she was forgiven. She agreed and took the booklet and silently prayed to receive Christ. When she finished I said she could keep the booklet and she said, “Thank you.” I said now trusting in the righteousness of Jesus to be her righteousness the likelihood she would go to Heaven was 100%. She did not have a Bible so I offered her a study Bible with cross-references and devotionals and notes in it. It lists 99 essential doctrines and where they were found in the Bible, has some maps and things in the back. She was really grateful to have it and I wrote her name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front. I also gave her The Case for Christ Answer Booklet that introduces the apologetics Strobel writes and a Bible Study and Bible Promises for You and she said, “This will be very useful.” I said I would be praying for her each day through spring and one year after. “Thank you sir,” she replied so realizing she’d forgot my name I gave it again and shook her hand and said if I saw her I’d wave. “See ya around,” she said, and I headed off.

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

In Him,

Bob

Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed with all god things from above and you had some Joy walking with Jesus by the Spirit. I had a good day on campus and Taron and Shanice prayed with me to receive Christ. Please pray this couple grows in their faith in Christ. Their stories are below if you have a moment to read them. Thanks for your prayers.

Taron was sitting on the last chair in a row of sofa chairs with armrest tables built in. He was right around the corner from the hall that leads to the cafeteria. He wore a red and white hoodie and jeans. He had a rough top afro his hair shaved shorter on the sides, a hair cut I don’t remember seeing before this school year as much. He had a wider nose and classic black features. Good lookin’ guy he seemed like a genuinely warm person. I walked up asking if he wanted to do a survey. He kind of looked at me like he didn’t want to but he thought he should, like he was under some conviction. So I asked him the main question to see if he’d be interested: “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?” Saying then, “So it’s basically the answer to that question, so do you wanna know, already know or you don’t care?” “Ok,” he replied and I asked if he wanted the answer or would do a survey. “I’ll do the survey,” he replied. I asked him eventually what he would say to God if asked, “Why should I let you into heaven?” “I feel like He should already know,” Taron answered. I asked, “What is it you think gets you into heaven?” He replied, “Get yourself into Heaven? You do good, be genuine.” He thought he had a 100% chance of going to Heaven. I asked, “You ever go to Church, like when you were a kid or something?” and he said he had when he was about 6 or 7 but “I pray a lot—often.”

His girlfriend, Shanice walked up then just as we were finishing the survey. She had a pretty oval face, petite facial features. Her hair was pulled up over the top of her head and came out like a fountain. Her body was proportioned in the idealized manner of the present times in the black community. He reached out to touch her hand acknowledging her, as she stood beside him, a bit past him, facing sort of down the hall away from us with the body language, I’m here time to go. So I gave up my seat and asked her to sit down, she resisted saying she could stand but I asked again and she agreed, seeing I was trying to be polite. I then was kneeing at the side of his chair on the other side where she’d stood asking for just a couple more minutes of their time. I slowly worked her into an illustration towards the end before getting her name. But I could tell she was listening so I tried to speak to both of them. And then she began to look at me as I spoke directly to her. Then I said to her, say you have a boy friend for about three weeks, before you guys were dating. You thought he was pretty cool but then you find out he was cheating on you and stealing your stuff. So you cut him loose and he comes around in about a week and says, ‘I know I did you wrong, I was even stealing your stuff and selling it for drugs, but I just want you to know I’m gonna be nice to my next 3 girl friends.’ You’d say, ‘That doesn’t help me at all.’” Because you can’t do good stuff over there to fix your bad stuff here. But some people think it works that way. But God says He has to turn your bad things into good things.” And then I quoted Romans 8:28 saying God controls the future and can make all things work together for good. I asked him if he would want to be forgiven for his sins. He said, “I would want to be forgiven.” So I said there was a prayer he could pray and I explained the prayer trying to include Shanice, having gotten her name. “Can I keep this?” he asked taking the booklet. I said he could but he could pray silently right now if he wanted and he would be forgiven and know he was going to Heaven. He took the booklet then and leaned toward her as if to ask her to read it with him and I said, “Would you like a booklet of your own? She said they could share but I gave her one and she finished praying a moment before him as they both then prayed to receive Jesus. I explained the Christian life to them living by the Spirit’s power.  I said “Let me give you some books” and I wrote in each; of a couple of copies of Bible Promises for You  writing their name and the date and ‘forgiven.’ I gave them each a bible study saying they could do it together. I gave them each The Case for Christianity Answer Booklet. I explained I would pray for them a blessing from the Bible each day from now until Spring and then one year after asking God to blessed them and they really seemed to like that. I said I would see them in Heaven and they both returned a big smile. I thanked them for giving me their time and they said no problem and they headed around the corner toward the cafeteria as I headed off the other way down the hall. I realized later God’s perfect timing that Taron wanted to talk and Shanice was willing to let us finish but that she came just in time to hear the Gospel all the way through. God just worked the conversation out. Who knows if she would have been willing to listen otherwise, she held a very stern expression right up until the end. But they both prayed to receive the Lord so I hope they will now be led by the Spirit to a closer walk with Him.

Thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today if you had a moment, God truly blessed. I had a long discussion with a young blonde bearded guy who was an orthodox Christian and we plan to talk more. He is focusing on Muslim apologetics and has had at least one on-line debate about 2500 people saw. He has my Email and was going to send me a paper and try to connect with his other friend.

In Him,

Bob

Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope ya had a great day walking with Jesus. I had a good day today and Aaliyah and Sydney prayed to receive Jesus as their savior. I also went through the Gospel with one Muslim girl Faizah. Please pray the Gospel begins to affect Faizah and these other young women grow in their faith. Their stories are below if you have time to spend that way.

Aaliyah was sitting on the second floor overlooking the doorway by the bookstore. She was a pretty black student with high cheek bones, straight black hair past her shoulders. She had long eyelashes, her bangs on her forehead were 6, inch long, half circles taking up 2 inches on either side of her forehead. Looked to be in her early 20’s. She wore blue sweats her hoodie said GAP in white letters and she wore a cross around her neck. She had some large books open for study but was willing to do a survey. I asked her what she would say to God if she died and He asked, “Why should I let you into Heaven?” She repeated the question thinking and then said, “I don’t know. I feel like all my life I tried to live by the Bible and if I didn’t I would repent, so I would try.” She said she went to a couple different churches and a Christian school attached to one when she was younger. I asked her what the likelihood was she would get into Heaven and she said, “I think I got a shot.” I went through the Gospel with her and she knew Jesus had died to take away our sins. She listened to the Gospel and the blood and righteousness of God by faith and finally I said, “So would you like to be forgiven for your sins trusting in what Jesus has done or do you think something else?” “Be forgiven for my sins,” she said seriously. So I said there was a prayer she could pray to be forgiven and talked her through it. “It says here: Is this prayer the desire of your heart? So if it is you could pray it silently now. I wouldn’t hear but God would hear and then you would know you were forgiven and going to Heaven. Would you want to do that?” “Yeah,” she replied and she prayed to receive Jesus. I explained living inside out by the Spirit’s power. “It says in James 4 ‘You do not have because you do not ask,’ so Just ask. God wants to help you and guide you and He will give you as much success as will not hurt you in life.” I gave her Bible Promises for You and I wrote her name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front. I gave her The Case for Christianity Answer Booklet and a Bible study. I told her I would be praying for her a line from Scripture each day through the spring and through next year. She liked that. She said then, “My new year’s resolution was to try to go to Church once a month and I think it was last weekend the pastor said what you said, ‘Just ask.’ I didn’t feel like it really applied to me because I pray (often). Then we went to sing at the end and there had been a song I was listening to (that week) that no one really listens to, and at the end of the service that was the song we sang and I felt like that was a sign. And then you came along to talk to me today.” I agreed that was God speaking to her and God had sent me to talk to her. I then said she should hold on to those things because sometimes we go through stretches when God is not giving us those kind of signs but He wants us to hold on by the Spirit’s power and rest in Him. We talked some more and I got up to leave and she said, “Thank you so much,” she said. “Thanks a lot for talking with me, God bless you.” “God bless you too,” she replied. And I headed off.

I was over in the MAC arts building later in the day. Sydney was sitting in a step down area by the student theatre door. There is one counter height table and a couple chairs there. She said she’d do a survey. She had a grey knit headband with a snowflake pattern on it covering her ears, straight light brown hair pulled behind her head, she wore baggy grey sweats and a black and white turtle neck with thin horizontal stripes. She had a pretty oval face, small nose, didn’t seem to be wearing makeup. She was filling out 3×5 cards studying for something. She was a musician. I asked her what she would say to God to get into Heaven. She said, “I try my best to bring Joy to those around me and live my life in a way that benefits me and also them—collective society, friends and family.” She thought she had a 98% chance of going to Heaven. She said she’d gone to a Baptist Church. When I asked her what Jesus had done to take away her sins she knew He had been a sacrifice. She listened closely to the Gospel and I explained that she would not go to Heaven because she was good but because Jesus was good and she was connected to Him and God adopted her into His family. I explained believing on Jesus, that He was God and had died for her sins, rose from the dead and that this was by faith. I offered her the 2 circles in the booklet asking if she would want to be forgiven with God living inside her trusting in Jesus or thought something else. “I’m this kind of person,” she said pointing to the circle with Jesus on the throne of her life. “I tell people God made everything even when they say God didn’t make a building or something like that that came from them, that it all came from Him.” I agreed using Bob Dylan saying if you sampled a line from one of his songs he would sue you. Everything is sourced from God. He makes you who you are in your mother’s womb so He gives you the gifts and talents to think up the things you create. She agreed. “Well,” I said, “this is asking if you would want to be forgiven for your sins trusting in Jesus and I walked her through the prayer saying it seems like it lines up with what you believe it’s just a bit more to the next thing trusting in Jesus. I asked if she would want to be forgiven then she could pray quietly right now, I wouldn’t hear her but God would hear and she’d know she was forgiven and going to Heaven. “Yeah,” she said taking the booklet. “Out loud?” She asked. “No silently, it’s just between you and God it’s not my business.” She silently prayed then to receive the Lord and finishing handed the booklet back and seemed to be moved. I explained the Christian life to her living inside out saying she could ask for God’s guidance and even creative inspiration. She didn’t have a Bible so I gave her one, writing her name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front. I showed her the, “Where to Turn” section and marked it with the ribbon and said there was a messianic passages section there too. I gave her Bible Promises for You and The Case for Christianity Answer Booklet and a Bible study. I said I didn’t know if I would see her again but if I did I would give her a wave. “It was nice to meet you,” I said. It was nice to meet you too, thank you,” she replied. And I headed off.

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

In Him,

Bob

Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed with life and peace and ya even managed to keep warm or got rained on in California. I heard Lake Shasta is filling back up. I had a good day on campus and Andrew prayed to receive Jesus. Please pray he grows in his faith his story is below if you have time.

Andrew was sitting at the counter in the seating area of the cafeteria and said he’d do a survey. He had sharp narrow face and features and shorter hair up and swept to the side. He looked a bit like Martin Landau from Mission Impossible on TV when I was a kid. Andrew’s hair was dishwater blonde and he had hazel eyes however so Landau could have been an uncle. He was dressed completely in black clothing a zipped up coat black pants. He had a slight build. He seemed to be a science guy studying physics (based on a guy who asked him to study as we began). But he was genuinely interested in the things of God. I asked him one thing he would want to do before he died and he said, amused, “Go to confession,” saying he had not been in a while. I asked what he would say to God if asked why should I let you into Heaven and he said, “I would say, hmmm” and took a while to think. “I was devout through all of my life.” Then thinking more he added, “You could also say, ‘I accepted You as my Lord and Savior.’” I asked him what the likelihood was he would go to Heaven when he died and he said, “Probably 50/50 it’s been a while since I went to confession.” I said, “The last part of this is what you think of Christianity in this booklet, you’ll probably agree with it I don’t know, 4 quick points say what you think.” He was very attentive as I went through the Bible verses I go through and being Roman Catholic might not have heard many of them before. He knew Jesus had died for his sins. He leaned in from his seat as I leaned in on the counter standing and listened, interested. I talked about the blood and righteousness of Christ and salvation by faith. When I asked him at the end if he would want to be forgiven for his sins and have God live inside him or if he thought something else he said, “Well I’m catholic.” Meaning he’d want to be forgiven. I know this is probably stuff you agree with but have you ever asked God to forgive you trusting in what Jesus had done for you, as an adult or have you kind of just been going through the motions or what they say to say and do at Church?” “Probably the latter,” he admitted. Well if you would want to be forgiven for your sins telling God that is where you place your faith there is a prayer you can pray. I walked him through it. “It says here is this prayer the desire of your heart?” I asked him if that was something he wanted to do if he hadn’t done it. He decided to place his trust in the Lord then and prayed. I explained living inside out by the power of the Spirit. I gave him The Case for Christianity Answer Booklet. I wrote his name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front of Bible promises for You and I gave him a Bible study. I asked if he had any questions and he said, “I feel like I would but I have class soon.” I gave him my contact number then and told him he could text me any question he might have or flag me down if he saw me. I got up to go and shook his hand; he had one of those great firm handshakes. “God bless you,” I said. “Thank you,” he replied and we each headed off.

So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today if you had a chance. There are not many students at school sitting around but God seems to be leading me to someone each day this semester.

In Him,

Bob

Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope you had a great day and the Joy of the Lord was your strength. I had a slow day the first 90 minutes I could not get a conversation going except for briefly talking up a X-Muslim guy (now agnostic) I bump into once in a while that I am friendly with. Finally up on the second floor of the BIC I came across Daisy sitting in the southwest most lounge on that floor, who prayed to receive Jesus. I spoke with an older student Samantha who appealed to her good works to get into Heaven but in the end said she had already been trusting in the Gospel. So I’m hopeful that gave her something to think about. Please pray Daisy will grow in her faith. Thanks for your help in prayer.

Daisy was sitting in the second floor lounge as I mentioned. She was willing to do a survey. She had on a black fleece hoodie, it was long enough to be a skirt but she was not very big, black pants were tucked into brown winter boots. She was a real cute kid, Latina, kind of a pug nose and had a pair of long thick dark braids that both went up onto the top of her head. She said she went to a Christian Church. She was close to her family, just her parents and one sister. When I asked her what she would say to God if He asked “Why should I let you into Heaven?” she said, “Because I do believe that God exists.” “I just talked to a girl who said she didn’t,” I replied—mentioning a girl who’d turned down doing a survey 5 minutes earlier. I asked what she thought the likelihood was she would get into Heaven, “10% is low, 100% you’re sure, 50/50 you got a shot.”  “I think I have a shot,” she said. “I guess no one’s perfect so no one can be sure.” I began to go through the Gospel with her and when I asked what Jesus had done to take away her sin she said, “He died on the cross.” I explained the blood and righteousness of Christ then and that she could know she was going to heaven not because she was perfect, but because Jesus was perfect and His righteousness was to her credit. I explained salvation by faith and asked if she would want to be forgiven trusting in what Jesus had done so God could live inside her or thought something else. “God inside,” she replied. So I said if she’d want to be forgiven there was a prayer she could pray and I talked her through it asking if it was the desire of her heart. She nodded. So I said she could pray it silently, “right now, I wouldn’t hear you but God would hear and then you would know you were forgiven and going to Heaven. Wanna do that?” She nodded again and taking the booklet prayed to receive Jesus. I explained the Christian life to her then asking if she had a Bible and she said she’d just gotten a Bible. I explained living Inside out by the power of the Spirit. I gave her Bible Promises for You and wrote her name and the date and “forgiven!” on the inside. “Thank you,” she said taking the book. I gave her a Bible study and The Case For Christianity Answer Booklet. I said I would pray for her each day through spring and for the following year. She thanked me again. Getting up to go I said I would see her in Heaven and she could tell me how things went. “Have a nice day,” she replied. And I said, “Thanks,” And headed out. She was a sweet kid and I felt blessed.

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

In Him,

Bob

Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope you had a good week and the Lord has made His faithfulness clear in your heart. I had a goof week as 5 students in total prayed to receive Jesus. On Thursday, though delayed again by clearing my driveway of snow, Sabas (Sebastian), a semi-pro soccer player prayed to receive Jesus. I also had an hour long talk with Abbey.

Abbey’s mother had died when she was young, leaving her an agnostic, sexually active and denying the Christian values she grew up with. When we parted I had given her The Case for Christianity Answer Book she was touched to get and a side-by-side hug. I gave her my contact info if she had any questions. She had auburn colored hair an oval face and was a bit heavyset. God helped me make many points with her. As we got up to go another student walked up and asked me for my card to talk sometime. She talked then about her mother and he said, “She’s still with you.” I said the Bible says “there is a great cloud of witnesses watching us in the Book of Hebrews”. “I just got chills when you said that,” she replied. She’d been looking for something miraculous to tell her there was a God and I think God was beginning to answer. I told her I often asked God to say hi to my dead father and mother or to tell them thank you for me for something. I said we were told not to talk to the dead because we could not be sure if we were talking to a loved one or an evil spirit impersonating them. But we can talk to the dead in Heaven through God. I told her what Jesus had said about Him being the God of the Living. I felt directed to that lounge and went there expressly looking for someone to talk to in the computer center. When I arrived she was the only one there and was willing to talk. Please pray for her and Sabas. His story is below if you have time.

 Sabas was sitting in the cafeteria eating area when I came across him. I’d prayed for God to lead me to someone a bit after I had arrived and felt a nudge to go to the cafeteria. I’d been headed the other direction toward the Book Store and turned around and headed to the cafeteria seeing it in my head sort of. That happens sometimes.  Sabas was a good looking guy, slight build and had two tone hair sort of a mop with bangs, otherwise classically Latino in hair coloring he had light brown tints that seemed random. He had a pencil thin mustache and a bit of chin hair, a narrow handsome face with sharp features. His left arm had two dark bands of tattoo making stripes around his arm (possibly it covered something he no longer wanted seen. Closer to the wrist there was a cross on an angle, 2 by 3 inches. He wore a white T-shirt with some printing on it and blue nylon sweats with stripes down the sides. He sat at a table alone. He said he’d do a student survey. I asked what he would say to God if asked “Why should I let you into Heaven?”  “Not only [because] am I Catholic,” he replied, then thinking a second he added,  “I know going to Church and praying does not make you go to Heaven… but I pray.  I do a couple prayers before bed, before I eat as well.” I asked the likelihood he would go to Heaven when he died. He at first said, “I’m not too sure, I’d confess first… 60-70%” then said, “I didn’t really do anything that would be [sic] going to Hell.” Then he added its 70%, the high 70’s” he said changing his mind a bit. He listened to the Gospel and when I asked him what Jesus had done to take away his sins he said, “He died on the cross.” “Right,” I said and then explained the way Christ blood was how God got paid so that He was just to forgive us. I explained that it was by grace we are saved by faith not by works so no one can boast. “So we should do good things to please God, I’m sure God is please that you are praying to Him, but the good things you do don’t fix your bad things.” He shook his head in agreement to that. “Say you got a girl friend for about 3 weeks, you thought she was pretty cool but then you find out she’s cheating on you and stealing your stuff. So you cut her loose. Then she comes around in about a week and she says, ‘Sabras, I know I did you wrong. I was even stealing your stuff and selling it for drugs but I just want you to know—I’m gonna be nice to my next 3 boyfriends.’ You’d say yeah that doesn’t help me at all,” and he agreed with a grin. “But some people think that way but God says he’ll turn your bad stuff into good stuff.” And I quoted Romans 8:28 to him saying God controlled the future. I asked then if he would want to be “forgiven trusting in what Jesus had done so He could help you with everything in life” or thought something else. He leaned in and pointed at the circle with God inside. I said if he wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer he could pray and I read it through asking if it was the desire of his heart. “What?” he asked. I repeated is the prayer something you would want to be forgiven. He paused and read it through again and said, “Yeah.” So I said he could pray it silently if he wanted to and He took the booklet and prayed to receive Jesus. I talk through the Christian life with him explaining God giving him power to live by the Holy Spirit. I explained that he could pray for God to help him see the field in Soccer or anything else he needed to do. Then if one day he won a championship and someone put a microphone in his face and said ‘how’d you do it?’ you can tell them it was Jesus and God will get the glory.’ He nodded in agreement. I said God would give him as much help to succeed as would be good for him and that some people were destroyed by success so God could only give them so much of it.  I gave him Bible Promises for You and I wrote his name and the date and forgiven. Also I gave him The Case for Christianity Answer Booklet and a Bible study and told him I would be praying for him. I also pointed how the Mass was symbolic of what Jesus had done and so when he took it he should just say thank you. I got up to go and he said, “Thank you very much.” “Oh you’re welcome,” I replied. “God bless you.” “God bless you as well,” he said and I headed off.

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

In Him,

Bob

Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed and you are tucked in somewhere warm and comfortable if you’re in a cold state. I had a good day on campus and Kelly prayed to receive Christ. The other students I spoke with were Christians. Thanks for your prayers. Please pray Kelly grows in her faith.

Kelly was sitting in the southwest corner lounge in the west science building, on the ground floor. She had stick straight black hair that went well past her shoulders. She wore a pink sweatshirt and had a black winter cap that had square a Carhartt label on the forehead. She had braces on her teeth and an oval face. She was pretty had blocked end eyebrows. She said she’d do a survey after asking how long it would take I said 5 or 6 minutes. I asked her the questions I always do but when I asked what she would say to God she thought for a bit and said, “I wouldn’t know what I would say.” I asked if she went to church and she said she went to 2 different Catholic churches. “What would they say at church was the way you get to Heaven, did they ever talk about it?” That didn’t help any and she said she didn’t think so. I asked the likelihood she would go to Heaven and she thought she had a 50/50 chance. “Would you like to hear some Bible verses that tell you how you get to Heaven?” I asked. “Yeah,” she said nodding. I began to go through the Gospel with her then and asked if she knew what Jesus had done to take away her sin. She did not know so I explained the blood of Jesus as payment for her sins, the Robe of Righteousness of Isaiah 61:10 fulfilled in Jesus as we are clothed with Him Gal. 3:27. I recapped what I said and while repeating Jesus had died for her she said, “a sacrifice.” I think she was remembering some of what she might have been taught in Church (as I had not used the word sacrifice) and I agreed. I asked if she would want to be forgiven for her sins trusting in Jesus so He could live within her and give her strength. “Yeah” she replied. I talked her through the prayer and asked if it was the “desire of her heart”. She nodded in reply again and so I said she could pray it quietly and only God would hear, would she like to “Yeah she said. She took the booklet and prayed to receive Jesus. I explained living “Inside out” trusting in God’s transforming power by the Spirit. She did not have a Bible. So I gave her one and wrote her name and the date and  “forgiven” on the inside, after I showed her some content in the back. She thanked me liking the bible. I gave her a Bible study and Bible Promises for You.  Then her friend Jackie walked up as I gave her The Case for Christianity Answer Booklet. I asked Jackie if she knew Jesus died for her sins and she said, “Yeah I go to Church all the time?” So I said, “Well Kelly can explain to you what we were talking about would you like a Promise book?” I showed it to her and she said that that would be nice to have so I wrote her name in the front (they had similar coloring Jackie had browner hair and a longer face. Then, having taken far more of Kelly’s time than I’d said, I said I was sorry to have taken so long. Telling her I would pray for her I headed out and they seemed happy.

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

In Him,

Bob

Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed with all good things from the Lord and you had Joy and Peace and Believing. I had a slow day on campus only finding 2 students to talk through the Gospel with. But Carissa, a pretty blonde girl with an oval face who had gone to church when she was younger took a copy of The Case For Christianity Answer Book saying she was leaning there but not quite there yet. And Osvaldo prayed to receive Christ. Please pray they are both lead into a closer walk with God in Christ. Osvaldo’s story is below if you have the time. Thanks for your prayers.

Osvaldo was sitting in a lounge on the first floor of the BIC just beyond the northwest stairwell. He had a plaid shirt on and jeans and a short flat wavy mop of brown hair on his round head. He was a really friendly amicable guy, friendly face, wide smile.  He accurately described himself as short. He had a slight hearing problem and said it made him loud. When I asked him what he would say to God if asked, “Why should I let you into Heaven he said, “I don’t feel like I should have to plead my case. It’s God he’d know if I should be here or not.” Then pausing while I wrote that down he said in a light hearted way, “It’s God I’m not gonna tell Him He’s wrong.” He thought he had a 50/50 chance of going to Heaven. I asked him what Jesus had done to take away his sin and he said, “He was a sacrifice.” I went through the Gospel with him explaining that Jesus was a payment and that His righteousness was too his credit. Saying that God wanted us to have faith in him I asked if he would want to be forgiven. “Yeah who wouldn’t?” he asked. I added if they had faith and he agreed. I asked “do you believe Jesus was God He died for your sins and rose from the dead. “Yeah. Well I’m Catholic.” So I said if he wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer he could pray and I talked him through it and said he could pray it now, “I wouldn’t hear you but God would hear and you’d know you were forgiven.” “Hmm… sure,” he replied and he prayed to receive Christ. When he finished he said, “That’s a nice prayer I like it.” I told him now, “Trusting in Jesus righteousness to be your righteousness the likelihood you will go to Heaven is 100%.” “Thanks so much,” he replied. He said he had a Bible but I gave him a copy of Bible Promises for You and saying the Bible was a big book he thought that it would be a good way to find some verses. I gave him a Bible study on the Deity of Christ and explained to him living Inside Out by the Spirit’s power. He said He’d been in the military and preferred the Bible studies there to the services because they “broke it down more.” I told him I would pray for him each day asking God to bless him with one of the verses from scripture through the end of this spring semester and one year after. He said, “Thank you so much,” for the third time. I also gave him The Case for Christianity Answer Booklet. I shook his hand and getting up to go I said, “I’ll see you in Heaven.” “See you up there,” he replied. “I’ll try to keep it up until then.” “You’ll be fine,” I said. “God does all the work.” And he smiled and I headed out feeling grateful such a warm hearted guy had come in.

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

In Him,

Bob