Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope you were filled up to all the fullness of God today. I had a good day on campus and Ozzy prayed to receive Jesus. Destiny said she would pray latter, a pretty girl with sharp features chin and nose and a very sharp jaw line. She, I believe, was mixed in race based on her skin tone and hair in ringlets pull up over head and falling down in her face.  Shauntel was a round featured good natured black girl both nostrils pierced. She said she would think about praying and thought she was on a journey of faith but she was great to talk to and said I was the brightest spot in her day. So Ozzy’s story is below and I will be praying for the girls. Please pray they are all strengthened in the inner man that Christ might dwell in their hearts by faith.

Ozzy was a really low-key guy. He looked to be a Latino or possibly Filipino. He had a thin Michael Jordan mustache with a bit of growth on the underside of his chin. He had sharp features, jaw line and nose and a dark mop of shorter hair more or less parted on the right. He wore black sweats and a grey t-shirt. He was pretty reserved. I asked him one think he would want to do before he died and he said, “Have a family,” so I figured he would trust in Christ because saying that is a tell. When I asked him what he would say to God to get into Heaven if he died he said. “I’d say because I’ve been faithful to Him. I’m not exactly sure, I have a lot of faith.” I asked the likelihood he would get into Heaven, “I’m not exactly sure, some people say it’s hard to get in…” “The Narrow Gate,” I replied. He nodded in agreement and then said, “50%.” I asked if he’d ever gone to Church, a bit when he was young he said so I asked what kind and he said he thought it was Adventist. I began to go through the Gospel with him and asked him what “Jesus had done to take away the sins of the world.” He thought for a moment and then said, “He died.” I agreed and began to explain the blood as a payment for his sins and the righteousness of God to his credit that Christ earned. He took it all in very somberly and I could not tell if it was taking root but reminded myself he had said he wanted a family so he probably was listening. I kept telling him the points in of the Gospel. I explained salvation by faith and asked if he would want to be forgiven for his sins or thought something else. “I would want to be forgiven,” he replied. So I said, “If you’d like to be forgiven there’s a prayer you can pray and talked him through it with a bit of explanation. “It says here, ‘Does this prayer express the desire of your heart?’ would you say it does?” I asked. “Yeah, I think it does,” he replied. Well if you wanted to you could pray this silently right now, I wouldn’t hear you but God would hear and you’d know you were forgiven, wanna do it? “Yeah,” he replied and I said, “Just pretend I’m not here.” “OK,” he said and prayed to receive Jesus. He didn’t have a Bible so I gave him one and explained some of the study helps in it. I wrote his name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front. “Thank you,” he said when I handed it to him. I explained living “By the Spirit’s Power, Inside Out.” I gave him Bible Promises for You and The Case for Christ Answer Booklet telling him Strobel’s story and a Bible Study just explaining the Prophecy and how it was fulfilled in Christ.  I told him I would pray a Bible Verse for him each day from now until Spring and on year after. “Thank you so much,” he said with real sincerity. I said I was sorry I took so much time, he’d only taken 3 bites of his chicken sandwich in a bun. “No you’re good, thank you,” he replied and I said if I saw him I would give him a wave and headed off.

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

In Him,

Bob

Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed with life and peace as the Spirit led you through the day. I had a good day on campus Abbie prayed to receive Jesus today. I also encouraged some 3 believers who were thankful to have more assurance in Christ. Please pray Abbie grows in her faith and can find a church near her. Her story is below if you have time.

Abbie was sitting on a bench against the stairs that lead down to the cafeteria on the second floor around the corner from the security desk. She had sandy hair pulled back in a ponytail, a cute apple shaped face with a pretty dot birthmark on her cheek. She had red leggings on with black words in some kind of print that among other things said take your time near the knee closets to me. She had a white eyelet sweater on with a crew neck. I asked her what she would say to God to get into Heaven if she died and she said, “I don’t know, I just try to get through life and see the potential in in other people and do good.” She thought she had a 70% chance of going to Heaven. She said she went to church when she was young with her mother. Her mom died but her dad was an atheist so she did not go after that. “I’ve been meaning lately to get back into it now that I’m older.” That seemed to mean she did not need to go places with her father. I told her God loved her and wanted her to know Him by living inside her. So I asked her if she could remember what Jesus had done to take away her sins and the sins of the world. She could not think of anything so I began to explain the Gospel to her. Jesus’ blood cleansed her and was a payment to God for sin. His righteousness could be to her credit when He adopted her. I said all that Jesus had done was hers by faith. If she believes on Jesus He would forgive her. So would you want to be forgiven for your sins? Or do you think something else. “I would want to be forgiven,” she replied. I explained if she wanted to be forgiven there was prayer she could pray and I talked her through it and asked it expressed the desire of her heart. It did so I said she could pray it silently and I wouldn’t hear her but God would hear and she’d know she was forgiven. “Wanna do it?” I asked. She nodded and I handed her the booklet and she prayed to receive Jesus. I began to explain the Christian life to her. She did not have a Bible so I gave her one and I wrote her name and the date and “forgiven! in the front showing her the study helps. I explained everything in the Christian life was “By the Spirit’s power, Inside Out” God would transform her. I gave her Bible Promises for You and a Bible Study explaining the miracle of Jesus walking on the water as a claim to be God and the prophecy that said the Messiah would be God. She lived in a town pretty far away and I did not know any Churches there but I said she could do a search on “Bible Church” or “Community Church” or “Evangelical Church” (writing each on the Bible Study) and she might find something nearby. I gave her The Case for Christ Answer Booklet too. I explained that now trusting in the righteousness of Jesus to be her righteousness and His blood to pay for her sins, the likelihood she would go to Heaven was 100%. I explained that the Bible said people could witness our lives from Heaven and I am sure that her mom could see her now. “The Bible says there is rejoicing there when one sinner turns and believes so I’m sure there is a celebration and your mom is happy.” I told her I would pray for her each day from now until the Spring and one year after asking God bless her. I said she could contact me if she had any questions by email. “If I see ya I’ll just give ya a wave.” I said getting up to go. “Thank you,” she replied and I said “OK” and 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

Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your week was blessed with all good things from above. 8 people trusted Christ this week (Ellis, Savannah, Lena, Joseph, Kaycee, Alexa, Malcolm) and the last Daniel on Thursday. Please pray they grow I their faith. Daniel’s story is below if you have time. It turned into a bit of a discussion on how evil you can be and still be forgiven. Thanks for your help in prayer.

Daniel was sitting in the cafeteria alone at a table polishing off some pasta in a Tupperware®. He had a blue Coors beer hat on and a tan hoodie, brown hair. His mustache was like two pencil size caterpillars that went to the ends of his mouth and did not join in the middle. He had a good looking every-man kind of face and a square chin with a beard on the underside of it, friendly guy. He’d gone to church as a kid but it had been a while. When I asked him what he would say to God, if he died, to get into Heaven he said, “Umm, I don’t know.” So I asked if he could remember anything they’d said at church about it what might get him into Heaven, “Nah,” It was too long ago he thought, “Good deeds?” I asked him what the likelihood he would get into Heaven, “10%‘s low or 100% you’re sure, 50/50 you got a shot?” “I think I got a shot,” he replied. I said God wanted to live inside him and give him eternal life and asked if he knew what Jesus had done to take away his sins. He didn’t have any recollection of that so I went on to explain the Gospel to him. As I was explaining the blood of Christ cleansing him and it as a payment to God he asked something like, What about people who are doing evil things but say they are Christians? I told him that a genuine Christian would make mistakes but if the Holy Spirit is inside you and He doesn’t just hang out there, He actually transforms you. So though I did not know him well enough to be able to say if he had changed someone that knew him better might see the gradual change God was making in him. If someone continued to do really wicked things I’d have to assume they did not really have genuine faith and believe that Christ had died for them as they did not show any sign of transformation. I said that people who appeared to be basically good would begin to do things by the Spirit’s power inside them. I went on to explain the righteousness of God that Jesus earned by perfectly fulfilling the Law. I said the complete work of Christ was all these things and that by ourselves we did not have anything perfect to offer to God. I told Him God wanted to adopt him, make him His child so He could give him all these things. He needed to receive Christ by faith and his good stuff could not fix his bad stuff. I asked if he wanted to be forgiven for his sins or thought something else giving him the quick take options of Islam where their god did not live inside you, was not a father, as he didn’t have a son and there was no sacrifice for sin, “So they have a different god.” And the Buddha left his wife and kid to seek enlightenment but he was not looking for God at all, he did not care if there was a God or not. He thought if he got his head straight he could escape the dream world. “So would you want to be forgiven for your sins and have God live inside you?” I asked again. He stared at the booklet for a slow count to at least 10 and then said, “Yeah,” and looked up from the booklet. So I said if he wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer he could pray. I walked him through it and said, “It says here, ‘Does this prayer express the desire of your heart?’ Would you say it does?” “Yeah,” he said. So I said he could pray it right now, “I wouldn’t hear you but God would hear and you’d know you were forgiven. Wanna do that?” “Yeah,” he said again and he took the booklet and prayed to receive Christ. He did it so quickly I wasn’t sure he had and he asked, “What about someone like Hitler?” I checked and he had prayed and I said, “People have asked me that. I’m pretty sure people like Hitler or some of these criminals are psychotic. I don’t know if they would have [the freedom of] choice anymore to ask God to be forgiven. The Blood of Christ is an infinitely valuable payment for sin so philosophically speaking they could be forgiven. But the Bible says God gives some people over to evil. He asks them and asks them and they push Him away so He finally says, ‘Alright’. Then they just get worse and that is all they are. Some people you can’t take away their demons or there would be nothing left of them.” He saw that was true and agreed.  I explained the Christian life to him asking if he had a Bible. He didn’t so I gave him one and explained the study helps in it and a Q -> Bible verse sheet I got from another Bible. I wrote his name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front and he thanked me. I explained living “By the Spirit’s power” asking for God to transform him “Inside Out”. I also gave him Bible Promises for You and a Bible study explaining it a bit, that Isaiah 9:6 is revealing Messiah would be God and the Trinity was expressed. I briefly expressed how he was a plural being (body mind and spirit) and God was a plural being also. I talked him through the miracle of walking on the water as a claim to be God. I gave him The Case for Christ Answer Booklet and recommended Strobel on line for questions. He reached out and shook my hand and thanked me. I told him I would keep him in my prayers each day from now until Spring and one year after. I said something like, “I’ll see ya around.” “I’ll give ya a wave,” he said with a smile and I had to run to a treatment appointment for sciatica.

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 walking in the light of God word you mind fixed on things above. There is a lot of turmoil going on worldwide. Still and all I had a good day on campus preaching the word. Kaycee, Alexa and Malcom each prayed to receive Jesus today. Please pray they grow in their faith; their stories are below if you have the time.

Kaycee was sitting on a bench overlooking the outdoor campus of the MAC Arts building along the east sidewalk of the BIC. She wore a pink hoodie with some white lettering across it and baggie grey sweats with a stripe down the side. She was a Latina and had full lips, her skin tone looked a faded sort of fair (as some people I have met from India). Her hair was straight but not stick straight, it had some body to it and went down to her shoulders. She was pretty in an a-typical way and wore no make-up. She went to a Catholic Church but not regularly saying she went with her family who had gone this past Sunday. She felt like they went once every 2 months. I asked her what she would say to God to be allowed into Heaven. “Hmm, I honestly don’t know,” she replied. So I asked what she thought you had to do to get into Heaven and she said, “Being nice?” She thought she had a 50/50 chance of going to Heaven. I don’t think she knew Jesus had died to take away the sins of the world when I asked. She listened to the Gospel. I told her that the blood of Jesus to cleanse her and pay for her sins, the righteousness of God Christ earned to her credit. I said God gave her all these blessings by adoption and they were hers by faith. And her good stuff could not fix her bad stuff. She was giving a form of consent to the main points in facial expression. “The last question is would you want to be forgiven for your sins trusting in what Jesus has done so you can be forgiven? Then God could live inside you and give you strength or do you think something else?” I said and gave her the quick take version of Islam and Buddhism. “I want that one,” she said pointing to the circle I describe as God inside her. I said if she wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer she could pray and I talked her through it asking,” It says here; ‘Is this prayer the desire of your heart?’ would you say it is?” She effectively nodded though some inarticulate sound came out of her mouth in ascent too. I said then she could pray it silently, “Wanna do it?” “Yeah sure,” she replied and handed her the booklet. I wrote something down and looked up and she had flipped through to the end a bit and I said, “Did ya pray?” “Oh what am I supposed to do?” She asked. “The little prayer,” I said. “This one?” she turned and found it. “Umm hum,” I replied. And she prayed to receive Jesus. She had a family Bible and did not want to take one from me. I explained the Christian life to her living “Inside Out by the Spirit’s Power.” I told her I had a Bible study for her and explained it and then wrote her name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front of Bible Promises for You. I handed it to her and explained The Case for Christ Answer Booklet to her and gave her that. “I’ll pray for you each day from now until Spring and one year after,” I said. “I may not see you but at least I’ll know you are prayed for.” She seemed pleased to hear it almost like she expected as much and she said, “Thank you.” I said, “Sure.” I said it was like the symbolism of the mass and she nodded like she’d put that together. I told her then the likelihood she would go to heaven now trusting in the blood and righteousness of Christ was 100%. “Thank you so much,” she said as I stood up to leave. I said “Sure,” and “God bless you,” and she thanked me again and I was off.

Alexa [a lex ē] was sitting at a window in a lounge on the third floor of the BIC that looked to the east. Her window on her right overlooked the bench I had sat on with Kaycee. She had long brown hair and a long pretty face, looked Latina. She was wearing a black top off one shoulder and wide bottom grey sweats. I asked her what she would say to God to be let into Heaven, she said, “I would say I follow what He put in the Commandments and, like, His word.” I asked her what the likelihood was she would go to Heaven. “I don’t know 60-40,” she speculated. She said she went to a Catholic Church and another Christian Church called “Hope”. She knew what Jesus had done to take away her sins so I said something like “Well, this is how it works and began to explain the Gospel message of the cleansing blood of Christ and as a payment for what we owed God and the righteousness of God earned by Christ which could be to our credit. She had a pretty smile and smiled here and there throughout so it seemed like she was tracking. I explained salvation by faith not by works. I finally asked if she would want to be forgiven for her sins. She nodded smiling and so I said there was a prayer she could pray. I talked through it and asked “Does this prayer express the desire of your heart?” “Yeah,” she replied and so I said she could pray it silently and asked if she’d like to do it. She said, “Sure.” She prayed then to receive Jesus. I explained to her the likelihood she would go to Heaven was 100%. I also gave her Bible Promises for You writing her name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front. I gave her a Bible study and explained the prophecy of the Messiah being God and one of Jesus claims to be so by walking on the water. I gave her The Case for Christ Answer Booklet saying she might find one of the arguments interesting and Strobel had more on line. She was really shy and did not say much but smiled and I told her I would pray for her each day until Spring and one year after to bless her. She thanked me and I got up to go and said, “Have a good one.” “You have the same,” she replied. And I headed off.

Malcolm was sitting in a row of chairs just across the foyer from the cafeteria, his back against the staircase. He had kind of a strange clip to his voice but was articulate. He wore khaki-colored shorts and a blue Wheaton College shirt. He had very short trimmed blondish hair like an athletic cut and a fair same color beard and mustache, also short the beard was largely on his jaw line. He said he went to church where people invited him and was going to a small church in Naperville though he lived in Wheaton and had run cross country and track at Wheaton North. He was studying to be an accountant. I asked him what he would say to God if he died and was asked “Why should I let you into Heaven?” “I mean none of us really deserve to, there’s no way any of us could say we should. Ultimately it’s because he wants us to.” I asked what he thought the likelihood was he would go to Heaven. “I guess I think I will. I wonder about it,” he replied. I began to go through the Gospel with him and as I make each point he would say, “Right.” He also had a way of saying “OK” like “Eye Kay”. After explaining the blood and righteousness of Christ and salvation by faith I asked if he would want to be forgiven for his sins so God could live inside him and give him strength. “I would,” he replied. So said there was a prayer then he could pray to be forgiven. I talked him through it and asked if it expressed the desire of his heart. “Yeah,” he replied. So I said he could pray it silently, I wouldn’t hear but God would hear and he’d know he was forgiven. “Eye Kay,” he replied. He finished praying and said, “What do I do now?” I explained the Christian life to him then. He should read the Bible and ask for forgiveness when he failed and do everything “By the Spirit’s Power living Inside Out”. I said the likelihood he now would go to Heaven trusting in the righteousness and blood of Christ was 100%. I told him I would pray for him each day until Spring and one year after that he would be blessed. “Eye Kay,” he replied. If he’s sitting there next Wednesday I’ll try to get him to him do a Bible Study.

So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism Wednesday if you had a chance, I’m grateful for your help and God truly blessed.

In Him,

Bob

Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope ya had a good day walking in the grace that has been provided by the Father of Lights. It rained here again today and though there is nothing about the blessing of fall rains in Scripture I can remember my grass needed it. I had a good day on campus and I came across Savannah who now has prayed to receive Jesus after saying she’d pray later on September 3^rd and Lena and Joseph each prayed to receive Christ today. Please pray they grow in their faith. Their stories are blow if you have the time.

Savannah was sitting at a table alone across the room from where I had met her in the ground floor PE lounge. She has long blonde wavy hair and a traditional pretty girl face, high cheekbones and a point to her chin. She has an athletic softball players build. When I asked her what she would say to God to get into Heaven back on the 3^rd she said, “I knew this day was coming. Honestly I don’t think He should. Even though I’m religious I haven’t done my part to praise and preach Him.” She thought she had a 50% chance of going to Heaven, “I still [am] loving Him, He’s forgiving. So I have time to fix my religion.” Seeing her today she said she had prayed and was very cheerful and bright and happy to see me. I gave her Bible Promises for You and wrote September 2024 and “forgiven!” on the inside front, which she really liked. I also gave her, The case for Christ Answer Booklet and a Bible Study. She was really grateful and I headed off saying if I saw her I would give her a wave and she said something like, “For sure.”.

Leaving the PE lounge after finding no one upstairs I saw two black girls, LaShan and Lena under the stairs. LeShan had braids of her own hair to her shoulders, corn rows on her head and an off the shoulder wide neck shirt on, vary fair skin though dark around the eyes and some freckles, her features looked like those of a Latina but you could tell her hair was African American in heredity. Lena had a light grey hoodie on, her hair dyed bright red. Lena’s face was triangular ending in a box chin, she was made up, her eyelashes little points, had a full more classic African American mouth with lipstick. She had light brown coloring. I bumped my head under the stairs as I walked up to them. I said a few self-deprecating things about regularly hitting my head that made them laugh. They were up for doing a survey though I’m not sure if Leshan would have done it if Lena had not said yes right away. When I asked what they would say to God to get into Heaven LaShan said, “Because I was a good and faithful servant.” Then adding in a moment, “I love the Lord.” Lena said she’d say, “I’m trying, I always walk by faith, I never gave up.” I somehow skipped the question of how likely it was they would go to Heaven. But as it turned out LeShan was losing patience with my telling them the Gospel. I was praying she would not cut me off as I could tell Lena wanted to hear and was staring intently at me as I spoke. When I asked Lena what the big thing was that God had done, then added prompting, “What Jesus did,” that took away her sins, she said, “He lives inside you?” But LaShan as I recall said something about what he’d done that was sort of on target. I was trying to keep up and take notes on both of them and failing. When I turned the page and said they had to live a perfect life. “You are to be perfect as your Heavenly Father is perfect,” and so Jesus lived a perfect life for them but LaShan cut me off saying Jesus dies for you, Like I know this already. But I continued to explain the blood, that when you borrow someone’s stuff if you damage it (like a car you dent) you have to fix it to give it back to them perfect. Since everything belongs to God if we hurt anyone or anything in the world we owe God for its perfect repair but we can’t pay. So Jesus poured out His blood and pays God back for all the imperfect things we have done we owe God something perfect for. God forgives us because He got paid.  I sensed LaShan was trying to dismiss me for telling them what she already knew, having failed to demonstrate she trusted in it originally. So I was praying silently God would stop her from sabotaging the Gospel presentation I felt Lena thought she needed to hear. Maybe there was some pride of the Christian life in LaShan. But my prayer let me finish and I explained the righteousness of God. Saying they needed to receive Jesus and believe on His name. “Not that you just know that story but that if someone would say to you, ‘Why should God let you into Heaven?’ you would say, “Because Jesus died for me.” This silenced LaShan a bit as she’d got the answer wrong having appealed to her religious works. They were saved by faith and your good stuff would not fix their bad stuff but God could work it all into Good. I asked if they would want to be forgiven or thought something else saying what Islam taught as an example. “We already do.” LaShan replied. I looked Lena in the eye and said, “Would you like to be forgiven?” She nodded. So I said if she wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer she could pray and I talked her through it saying, “It says here, ‘Does this prayer express the desire of you heart?’ Would you say it does?” I asked Lena. “Yeah,” she replied So I said, “If you want you could pray this silently and no one would hear but God would hear and you’d know you were forgiven, wanna do that?” “Yeah,” she said looking me in the eye. So I said, “OK,” and handed her the booklet and she prayed to receive Jesus. I handed LaShan a booklet I had not written in so she would not interrupt. When Lena finished I explained the Christian life “By the Spirit’s Power” living “Inside Out”. I gave them each Bible Promises for You. I wrote Lean’s name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front. I said to LaShan, “Well you were already forgiven.” So I wrote “forgiven” in the front hoping she had told me the truth. I also gave them The Case for Christ Answer Booklet and explained Strobel’s story. I offered them a Bible study. That was when LaShan informed me they both went to Dad’s church where he was pastor and they would not need Bible Studies. I told them I would keep them in my prayers. LaShan interrupted me again saying, “You don’t’ need to pray for me my parents and my family pray for me.” “Ok well I will pray for you,” I said to Lena. “I’ll pray for you each day until Spring and one year after asking God to bless you.” “Thank you it was nice to meet you,” Lena said with a sweet smile. “It was nice to meet you too,” I replied and I headed off.

I came across Joseph at the end of the day. I had to cut it short as I went to get treatment for my sciatica at 2 PM. Sadly treatment has not helped that much. Joseph was sitting at the counter of the cafeteria. A darker Latino in coloring he had a mop of curly hair and it stopped at his ears. He had something of a square good-looking face and black rimmed glasses. He wore jeans and Champion brand, black, zip up fleece. I asked him what he would say to God to get into Heaven. He thought briefly and said, “Jesus love us.” “Yes he does,” I said writing down his reply. He thought he had a 50/50 chance of going to Heaven and went to a “Saint” something or other church and so was probably raise Catholic. Telling him that God had to take away his sins so He could live inside him I asked him what Jesus had done to accomplish that and he said, “His sacrifice.” I agreed. He was lazar-ed in paying close attention to every word, really interested. I explained what Jesus had done by His blood and righteousness. Finishing the Gospel message of saved by faith in Jesus. I asked if he would want to be forgiven or thought something else, giving the Islamic and Buddhist generic options. “That one,” he replied pointing at the circle with Christ inside him. So I said, “If you want to be forgiven there’s a prayer you can pray.” I read it through for him clarifying the terms and asked if he would want to 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 prayed to receive Jesus. He did not have a Bible so I gave him one and wrote his name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front. I showed him the study helps. I explained living the Christian life, “By the Spirit’s Power” and “Inside out” asking God to transform him so he would become a good man who did good things, he agreed. I said then the likelihood he would go to Heaven was 100% trusting in the blood and righteousness of Jesus. “Nice,” he said. I gave him Bible Promises for You and The Case for Christ Answer Booklet and a Bible Study on Jesus Deity with a quick telling of Walking on the Water as Job said God did in the OT. “See ya around,” I said getting up to go.” “Definitely,” he replied. “I’ll just give ya a wave.” “Sounds good,” he replied and I headed off.

So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today if you had a chance. God truly blessed. I told the story of the girls under the stair to a Christian student and he said, “It’s all God’s work.” “Every inch,” I replied.

In Him,

Bob

Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope your day was filled with a spirit of wisdom, revelation and the knowledge of God. I had a good day on campus and a bumped into Ellias who said he had prayed and received Christ from an earlier conversation we’d had in September. I had several good conversations too where seeds were planted. Please pray that He comes to faith and Nick, a Romanian Orthodox raised agnostic is provoked by our conversation to know the Lord. Thanks for your prayers. The day’s notes are below if you have time.

I saw Ellis as I said and again whom I had not seen since the 6^th of September. He said then he would pray later then.  At first before hearing the Gospel he was saying God would observe him and what he did and he would get into Heaven. He did not know Jesus had died for his sins when I’d asked what Jesus had done to take away his sins. He was a good-looking black dude with short braids and a green bandana like a sweatband around his forehead he was wearing again today. When I asked him today he said he had prayed with a big smile. I was talking to someone and he was passing in the hall and asked as he passed. I passed him later talking to some friends who have meet me. So I kept walking out of sight and got out a Bible Promises for you Book.   I wrote his name and “Sept. 2024 and Forgiven!” in the front and gave it to him as I passed him again.

Josh is guitarist I’ve been praying for since last year. He’s reading through the Bible I gave him and a King James one going back and forth. That lasted an hour as we talked about a few bands and the ancient world. I talked to Nick for a half hour apologetically talking about the limits of human knowledge and that only God can know and do the Good. This is because: You must be omniscient to know what the Good is and how an action can create a good outcome and omnipotent to insure it results in good thereafter. Only by the power of the Holy Spirit, in us, with the intervention of God in our actions transforming us and them can good come. I explained that to him and that only Christianity claimed God could be living inside him. So I hope the seeds with these and those over hearing the conversations will be a blessing.

I also spoke a half hour with Danny. He had a recurring temptation.  He had a spiritual pride that kicked in on him. He said that he was doing everything God had for him to do. I emphasized only the Holy Spirit’s power can allow us to live the Christian life or successfully serve God. I told him to not wait for it to get so intense and think he had success to brush it off but to pray God would remove the thoughts of Satan out of his heart any moment anything affected him. Satan was waking him at night to jack him around with it. I came across him 2 and a half hours later and he had visibly brightened and taken my advice and thanked me.

So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today God blessed me with good conversations in Christ.

In Him,

Bob

Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed with all good things coming down from the Father of Lights. I had a really good day on campus talking to people. Thursday I passed 2000 students who have trusted in Jesus as their Savior after I told them the Gospel, (since we began Third Watch Ministries). Danielle, Marisa, Tamara and Annette each prayed with me to receive Jesus today. Their stories are below if you have the time. Please pray they grow in their faith.

Danielle was sitting in some overstuffed chairs on the North side of the hall just past the fire doors (? they are glass and close off the hallway). The hallway continues down to the bookstore. She had a deep red hoodie on and black leggings. Her face was cute, semi-rounded sort of a pointed nose. She had long dark brown hair past her shoulders, kind of a sly smile. She had been going to a kind of a Bible Study fellowship with her girlfriends who she said were more up front about their faith.. I asked her what she would say to God to get into Heaven, “I would say because I feel like I‘ve experienced God, experienced that I believe in God. I‘ve done enough good and experienced enough to know what Heaven is like.” She thought she had a 70-75% chance of going to Heaven. I began to go through the Gospel with her and I asked what it was that Jesus had done to take away her sins so God could live inside her. She had gone to a Lutheran Church when she was young (but hadn‘t really found a church) and said there was a word for what He did and she couldn’t think of it. I suggested she might be looking for the word “reconciliation” and she thought that might be it. So I said, “Well this is what that word means,” And I began to explain the blood and righteousness of Jesus to cleanse her pay God what she owed Him and then make her righteous. God would adopt her and give her these things as the blessings of His family and fill her with the Holy Spirit. I said she was forgiven by faith; that she believed Jesus was God, had died for her sins and rose from the dead. Not that she just knew the story from growing up with it at church but that that‘s what she put her trust in as an adult. “So if someone would say to her,” Why should God let you into Heaven?” she would say, “Because Jesus died for me.” I asked if she would want to be forgiven trusting in what Jesus had done on the cross, then the Holy Spirit would live in her and give her strength. Or did she thing something else. “I would probably go with that one more,” she replied pointing at the circle with Christ on the throne. I said if she wanted to be forgiven there was a pray she could pray. I talked her through the prayer and asked if it was the desire of her heart. She said, “Ever since I was a child I thought that.” So I said she could pray it silently and asked if she’d want to do so. “Yeah,” she replied and she prayed to receive Jesus. When she was done I wrote her name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front of Bible Promises for You and gave it to her and she said, “Thank you.” I told her the likelihood now she would go to Heaven was 100% trusting in the Blood and Righteousness of Jesus. I gave her a Bible Study explaining it and The Case for Christ Answer Booklet. I told her I would pray for her until next Spring and one year after and got up to go saying I would see her in Heaven. I’ll be old and get there first so look me up and I’ll show you where the cool stuff is. “OK I’ll take note of that,” she said. “Ok have a good one,” I replied. “Thank you, you too,” she said and I was off.

I came across Marisa sitting in some chairs just past the bookstore entrance. I had asked her before and she’d said, “No.” But today she had on pink bunny slippers. So I said, “Hey bunny slippers you wanna do a student survey?” “OK,” she said. She’d sat one chair from me when I had gone through the Gospel with another student earlier in the week and mentioned that saying she had been reading a prayer on her phone. She had a slight accent or different intonation I could not place. She had a shag hair cut in front but straight and long across the back, light brown hair. She had a narrow face, pretty, no make-up and a perfect shaped mouth like “Mrs. Potato head” if you saw the toy as a kid. She wore a tube top that was less than 5 inches wide made of some floral print on white and had on cream-colored pants that were tight at the ankle. It turned out she had started to believe in God about a year ago and her mom had been taking her to a Catholic church. She was going to begin taking a class there soon that when finished allowed her to get baptized and take the mass. I asked her what she would say to God to get into Heaven and she said, “I feel like God knows the good things that I do. He can see that I would deserve it.” She thought she had a 95% chance of going to Heaven. I went through the Gospel with her and when I asked what Jesus had done to take away her sins she said, “The cross.” I began to explain then the death of Christ and that this cleansed her and allowed God to live inside her and paid for her sins. She asked how that differed from the Catholic Church. I said it depended upon what priest you talk to but I know there are those who would tell you what I have said. I talked about the Mass saying that the Catholic Church would probably say it really became Jesus. I said they would tell her to do good things but that the good things that she did she should do by the power of the Spirit in her. I explained the righteousness of God that Jesus earned by perfectly fulfilling the Old Testament Law and told her the verses describing that in Christ. “You don’t go to Heaven because you’re good but because Jesus is good and your connected to Him,” I explained. I said God would adopt her and give her the blessings of His family the Sacrifice for her sins the blood that cleansed her and the righteousness of God that surrounded her. “So ya got someplace to go, Heaven, and something to wear when ya get there, the righteousness of God.” I explained salvation by faith in what Jesus had done. I explained again how her good stuff could not fix her bad stuff but God could work all things together for good and turn a bad thing into a good thing because he controlled the future. She said she knew that happened. I asked if she would want to be forgiven for her sins. She said she would so I read through the prayer asking if she would want to put her trust in Him. She looked down at the prayer I was holding near her and I could see her eyes move back and forth reading while I held it and then she said, “Amen.” I told her the likelihood she would now go to Heaven was 100% trusting in Jesus’ blood and righteousness. We talked some more. “Before I knew God I was a very negative person, my friends tell me I have changed,” she told me. “I want my cousin to know God. I text him things and he does not complain.” She did not have a Bible so I gave her one. I explained there were some older books that the Catholic church added but I did not think they taught out of them much. She still wanted it so I showed her the study helps. I wrote her name and the date and “forgiven! in the front. I gave her Bible Promises for You and said she could text Bible verses from it to her cousin. She liked that idea and made a conspiratorial face, like it was a good plan. I gave The case for Christ Answer Booklet and a Bible study. I told her I would pray for her each day from now until Spring and one year after and she was grateful. I got up to go and said she thanked me and I headed out.

Tamara was a pretty black girl who looked like her face was the model for a doll. She had perfect lips and skin and big eyes and straightened hair with a bit of a wave in it that rested on her shoulders. She had a nylon black blouse on that was bunch up on her like a sack and wore baggy jeans. She was a quiet girl but had an amused laugh that came out as I talked to her if I said something that she found funny. That helped me to feel like she was getting it. I asked her what she would say to God to get into Heaven. “I don’t know, ‘cause you love me?” she replied. She said she went to a “Baptist kind of church” when she went. She thought she had a 70% chance of going to Heaven. I went through the Gospel with her and I asked her what the big thing was Jesus had done to take away her sins. She guessed, “He forgives you?” I said that was true and this is how it works. I explained the blood that cleansed her on the cross and pays God back for all the imperfect things we’ve done that we owe God something perfect for. I explained the righteousness of Christ He earned by perfectly fulfilling the OT Law. She seemed to be tracking and giving assent all through. I explained salvation by faith and placing her trust in Jesus and what He had done. “Would you want to be forgiven for your sins and have God live inside you?” I eventually asked. “Yeah,” she replied. I said if she wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer she could pray and I walked her through it asking if it expressed the desire of her heart.  She nodded. I asked if she wanted to pray it silently. “Yeah,” she said. She took the booklet then and prayed to receive Jesus. I told her the likelihood now she would go to Heaven was 100%. I asked if she had a Bible and she said she had bought one a month ago. At first it was $50 so she held off, then in the middle of the night she looked at it and it was only $25 so she bought it.  I explained living life by the Spirit’s power “Inside out” asking God to transform her. I gave her Bible Promises for You writing her name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front. I also gave her a Bible Study and The Case for Christ Answer Booklet she had not heard of Strobel before. I told her I would pray for her a Bible Verse each night from now until Spring and one year after. “Pray for me to be consistent,” she asked, saying she was trying to do a daily Christian reading and she had only lasted at it month and a half before missing days. So I explained how the Holy Spirit could give her self-control for that and explained the fruit of the Spirit and wrote down the verse for it. “Thank you,” she said as I got up to go. I said “Sure,” and that I would see her in Heaven.

I came across Annette at the very end of my day. She was sitting on a bench to my left as I came down the hallway past the pool entrance after the tunnel from the BIC building. She was a fresh-faced cute kid and had dark brown hair parted in the middle with bangs in the front, eyes had kind of a sparkle. She had black leggings that turned into bellbottoms and was wearing a white zip up hoodie over a tube top that had pencil width black and white horizontal stripes. She was on her laptop and said she had a little time. I asked her what she would say to God to get into Heaven. “I mean I’ve been faithful to Him my whole life. I go to church every Sunday and pray to Him. I go to confession. I try my best always—to go to Heaven. She was sure she would go to Heaven 100%. I asked her what the big thing was Jesus had done to take away her sins. She struggled for “The word for it in English.” I’m not sure what nationality she was she looked too white to be Latina, though the county is 60% Catholic, eastern European maybe. So I began to explain the Gospel to her and compared it to some of what she might find familiar at Church. I told her about the Blood of Jesus and compared that to the Mass. When I finished explaining salvation by faith to her I asked if she would want to be forgiven for her sins. “Yeah,” she replied. I told her there was a prayer she could pray and talked her through it. “Oh I like that,” she said hearing it. I asked if she would want to pray it silently to be forgiven and she said, “Sure.” I handed her the booklet and just as she was about to begin she asked, “Can I keep this?” “Sure,” I said. When she was finished praying she said she used to go to retreats where a “Pastor” spoke. Since she did not call the speaker a priest I assume she went to something with a friend. She liked it and asked if there was something like that on campus. I told her when Bible Study was and gave her the name of another one on campus she could try I had a card for. It turned out she was waiting for some kind of workout class or sport to begin as when we came to the end she had to run quickly realizing saying, “Oh I have to go I have to change.” So I quickly gave her Bible Promises for You and wrote her name and the date and forgiven in the front. And told her I would be praying for her. “Have a good day,” she said walking quickly to the locker room. “Yeah, God bless you,” I replied.

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

In Him,

Bob

Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope you had a good day walking with the Lord. I had a good day on campus and Josh and Reanne prayed to receive Jesus as their savior. Their stories are below if you want to spend the time. Mimi, (a pretty black girl with piercings in each nostril and about a dozen bracelets on her arm) She wore glasses and had curly hair tinted to frame her face was close, saying she might pray later, she did seem to believe the Gospel was true. God was like of like a Medicare Supplemental plan for her, call on Him when the need arises. Please pray for these students who heard the word today. Thanks for your help.’

Josh is a huge offensive lineman. His dark blonde hair is a mop with bangs nearly in his eyes, he has a narrow blondish mustache and a big curly beard reddish blonde in color. He was wearing blue sweats and his face somehow reminded me of Jeremiah Johnson, the movie character played by Robert Redford when I was in Junior High with a lighter beard. He seemed like a solid guy. I asked him what he would say to God to be let into Heaven. “I don’t know,” he replied, “I probably couldn’t tell.” I asked him what he thought would get someone into Heaven. “Believing everyone is equal,” he replied. “Well everyone is equal in the sight of God,” I replied. He thought he had a 50/50 chance of going to Heaven and said he had gone to church when he was young with his Grandma. I began to go through the Gospel with him and I asked him what Jesus had done to take away the sins of the world. He wasn’t clear on the details. So I began to explain that God became a man, lived a perfect life for him and had died shedding His blood as a sacrifice that cleansed us and made it so God could live inside us. He tracked with everything I said and looked me in the eye periodically. But he was a real soft-spoken guy. I explained the righteousness of God Christ earned and that God wanted to adopt him. God would then give him the blessings of His family the sacrifice for his sins the blood that cleansed him and the righteousness of God that surrounded him. And the Holy Spirit could live inside him. He was saved by faith. I asked him if he wanted to be forgiven for his sins or thought something else. “I would like to be forgiven,” he replied. So I said if he wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer he could pray and I talked him through it saying,” it says here does this prayer express the desire of your heart, do you think it does?” I asked. He looked at it and said “Yeah,” 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 that?” “Maybe yeah,” he said. He took the booklet and I said he could do it right now. “Do it right now?” he asked. “Yeah, no one would hear you,” I replied. He looked down at the booklet and prayed to receive Jesus. When he finished I told him that now trusting in the righteousness of Christ and the blood of Christ the likelihood he would go to Heaven was 100%. I gave him Bible Promises for You and wrote his name and the date and “forgiven!” on the inside. I gave him The Case for Christ Answer Booklet and a Bible study explaining it a bit. I explained living “by the Spirit’s power Inside Out”. I explained he could ask God for help in anything he was doing and God could help him do it better if success would not harm him. I said, “Riches destroy some people”. He nodded.  I said he could ask God to help him see the defenses and thing on the field from the line. “Thank you, I appreciate it,” he said shaking my hand. I told him I would pray a Bible verse for him every day from now until Spring and one year after and I headed off.

Reanne was sitting in the hallway of the second floor of the BIC in a row of chairs in front of an administrative office of some kind. She seemed to have lost her voice somewhat and apologized as it was hard for her to talk. She’s a pretty black girl with an oval face and a smaller nose. Her hair looked thinner and was in lots of natural braids the thickness of a couple of wooden matchsticks that were lightened brown at the ends. She wore light grey cotton shorts that looked to be made of sweatshirt material and a cream-colored v neck shirt. Her skin tone was the same as milk chocolate. She described herself as anti-social and she in fact did not say much of anything as we talked but she voice did seem shot. She seemed pretty sharp. I asked her what she would say to God to get into Heaven and she said, “I’ve given my body to Christ and my life to Christ,” she replied. She thought she had a 75% chance of going to Heaven. I asked her what Jesus had done to take away the sins of the world and she said, “His sacrifice.” So I went on to tell her what that had done cleansing her from sin and allowing God then to live inside her. Jesus actions were how God got paid so He could be just to forgive her. I explained salvation by faith and God’s grace. I asked her too if she would want to be forgiven or thought something else. “Be forgiven,” she said. But I misheard her and said, “What?” “That one,” she replied pointing at the circle with Christ on the throne of her life. So I said if she wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer she could pray and talked her through it asking if it was the desire of her heart? She nodded. I said she could pray it silently right now and asked if she’d like to, she nodded again and took the booklet and prayed to receive Jesus. She had a Bible and I explained living by the Spirit’s power to transform her, “Inside Out”. I gave her Bible Promises for You and wrote her name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front. I gave her The Case for Christ Answer Booklet and a Bible study I quickly explained. I told her I would pray for her each day from now until Spring and one year after asking God to bless her. “Thank you,” she said and flashed a pretty smile. “You have a good one,” she said and I thanked her and she 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

Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope ya had a great day walking with the Lord and knowing He loves you. I had a good day on campus and Samantha and Micheal each prayed with me to receive Jesus today at school. Please pray they grow in faith and live for Him.  Their stories are below if you have time.

There’s a lounge with vending machines on the 1^st floor of the BIC. Samantha was sitting in a connecting hallway under skylights that comes off of it near an elevator you need a key to ride. She was almost on the hallway that makes a ladder rung between halls. She had her laptop open and looked busy, most students look busy so it’s just a guess if they might talk. She had long natural blonde hair, a pretty wholesome face and was wearing baggy grey sweats and a baggy grey hoodie that matched it. She had tennis shoes on. She reminded me of Rosamund Pike in the Western “Hostiles”, with a smaller nose. I asked her what she would say to God if she died and he asked “Why should I let you into Heaven?” “Hmm, what would I say… I never thought about that before,” she replied. I asked her what she thought it was that got you into Heaven. “Accepting Jesus into your heart,” she said. She thought she had a 95% chance of getting into Heaven and she was going to a Bible study with some girls who had approached her but she did not know what it was called. She did not think it was connected to a Church. I began to go through the Gospel with her, saying of the Booklet, that what I was going to tell her would help her understand what she meant by Accepting Jesus into her heart. I said, “eternal life was knowing God because you have the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit?” she nodded. “The holy Spirit lives inside you, so if God lives inside you and you know Him that way it’s like you’re the energizer bunny and God’s the batteries.” I said, “God wants to live inside you but He can’t because of sin, sin kills you (Rom. 6:23) God give you life. So God can’t be in the same place as sin so He takes away your sin so he can live inside you. So what is the big thing Jesus does to take away your sin?” “He forgives you?” she replied. “Yes that’s right he forgives you and this is how it works,” I replied and I explained the Blood of Jesus cleansed her and was a payment to God for sin. His righteousness was to her credit when God adopted her. I said all Jesus had done could be hers by faith by grace saved her. I asked if she would want to be forgiven for her sins or thought something else. She said she’d like to be forgiven so I said if she wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer she could pray and I talked her through it. I asked if it expressed the desire of her heart. “Yeah,” she said and I said if she wanted to she could pray it silently and only God would hear. “Wanna do that?” I asked. “Yeah,” she said again and I said, “Just pretend I’m not here.” “OK,” she replied and she prayed to receive Jesus.  I said the likelihood she would now go to Heaven was 100%. I explained the Christian life to her living “Inside out,” saying, “First God changes you on the inside by the Spirit’s power then you will do good things on the outside because God transforms you.” “Thank you so much,” she said. I said sure and gave her some books. I wrote her name and the date and forgiven!” on the inside of Bible Promises for You I gave her The Case for Christ Answer Booklet and a Bible Study explaining each a bit. I told her I would keep her in my prayers from now until Spring and one year after praying a Bible verse for her each day. “Thank you so much,” she said sincerely again. I said she was welcome and if I saw her around I would give her a wave. “OK,” she said and I headed off as she went off to class.

I was outside on a black metal bench overlooking the outdoor stage of the MAC arts building.  I talked for a while to a Catholic student, Theresa, one of the few I have met who understood and used the term “Transubstantiation”. She thought she had asked God to forgive her trusting in what Jesus had done. I gave her a promise book she was thrilled to have and we went our separate ways.

One bench down Michael wearing a black nylon short sleeve shirt and black cotton/polyester sweats tight at the ankle. He had on white socks and one-strap sandals. He had a mushroom top afro and it ended here and there in a pin curl. His top lip curled up a bit to hold a bit of a mustache on a wide mouth, he had some beard trying to make a go of it on his jaw line. He was a click bigger than me and good-looking. I asked him if he wanted to do a student survey. He didn’t but said that he went to church. I asked if he would want to hear the big metaphysical question he could think about for the day. “Sure,” he replied. “You’re walking down the road and you get hit by a bus, so you’re dead and you stand before God and he asks, “Why should I let you into Heaven?’ What would you say?” He basically said he cared for others and helped people. I said, “That’s what you have done but what did God to so you can go to Heaven?”  “He is seeing what I’ve done,” he replied. That was something God did do but it wasn’t the answer I was seeking. So I asked if he’d like to hear some Bible verses that explain how you get to Heaven and he agreed. I began to explain that God wanted to live inside him and that this would mean he would have eternal life. He did not seem to know what Jesus had done to take away his sins (when I asked) so God could live inside him. I began to explain the blood and righteousness of Jesus first saying that God became a perfect man. He saw the cross diagram I made notes around and said then, “He dies on the cross.” I agreed and filled in the details of the cleansing blood of Christ.  I explained the righteousness of God that Christ had earned and said that he would not go to Heaven because he was good but because Jesus was good and he was connected to Him. I said God wanted to adopt him and all God had done could be his by faith. I explained his good stuff could not fix his bad stuff. I asked if he would want to be forgiven for his sins trusting in what Jesus had done or thought something else. “I would want to be forgiven,” he replied. I said if he wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer he could pray and talked him through it asking him also if it was the desire of his heart. “Yeah,” he replied. I said he could pray it silently; I wouldn’t hear him but God would hear and he’d know he was forgiven. “Wanna do it?” I asked. “Yeah I’ll do it,” he said and he took the booklet and prayed to receive Jesus. He had a KJV Bible His cousin had given him so I said he should read in the book of John. I explained the Christian life to him living “Inside out”, “By the Spirit’s power”. I wrote his name and the date and “forgiven!” on the inside of Bible Promises for You. I gave him The Case for Christ Answer Booklet and a Bible Study explaining each a bit. “Nice to meet you man,” he said, “Was it John?” he asked. “Bob,” I said, “but that’s my middle name so close,” and I gave him a grin. “Nice to meet you too,” I replied and he shook my hand and said, “Thank you.” “Yeah sure,” I said and I headed off.

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

In Him,

Bob

Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed with good things from the hand of God. I had a good day on campus and Arielle prayed with me to receive Christ. I got some seeds planted with a couple other students who were interested in thinking about it. So I’ll be praying for a 5×5 solid built Latino guy named George (who had a tattoo of Jesus covering his chest he showed me the top of) with a beard and Melody a pretty black girl, her hair in a scarf sitting on come overstuff chairs just past the bookstore entrance wearing shredded bellbottom jeans. Arielle story is below. Please pray a pray for these students.

When I first got to school I asked God it there was anywhere to go yet. I had a sense I could find someone in the cafeteria so I headed over there and I came across Arielle sitting against the windows at the counter. She was a cute black girl with square features and a smaller nose, her hair was straightened and shoulder length. She was willing to do a student survey so I asked her what she would say to God if she died and was asked, “Why should I let you into Heaven?” “Oh wow that’s difficult… Because of my sort of like kindness. I’m the kind of person that puts others before myself.” I told her the Bible teaches that, “Let each of you consider one another as more important than yourself, ” I quoted. She hadn’t heard the verse. She thought she had an 80% chance of going to Heaven. She said she went to church off and on but because of school and work she didn’t have as much time for it. I began to go through the Gospel with her and said that God wanted to take away her sins so He could live inside her. “So what’s the big thing Jesus did to take away your sins? ” She thought for a moment and said, ”I don’t know.” So I began to go through the Gospel with her and used all the examples I used to help her understand the blood of Christ that cleansed her and was a payment to God. “You explained that really well, at church they never explain anything,” she said. I said that any kind of knowledge had terms and needed explanation and often at church they act like you already know everything. I said the Bears had a game last night saying that if you never saw a football game none of the positions or plays would make sense to you if someone just named them. “I never watch football,” she replied agreeing she would not understand it. I said I had skipped the game. (The simple fact is that most churches in my experience rarely explain the Gospel and when they do they leave essential parts of it out as if everyone knew them. This knowledge is no longer true of American Society.) I went on to explain the righteousness of God Jesus earned that could be to her credit and was a gift of God by faith. She would not go to Heaven because she was good, she’d have to be perfect, but because Jesus was good and she was connected to Him. I asked if she would want to be forgiven for her sins. “Yeah,” she said with solidly getting it. So I said if she wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer she could pray and I talked her though it. and said, “It says here, ‘Does this prayer express the desire of you heart?’ would you say it did?” She agreed it did so I said she could pray it silently, “Wanna do that?” “Yeah sure,” she said. So she took the booklet and prayed to receive Christ. I explained then that the likelihood she would go to Heaven was now 100% trusting in the blood and righteousness of Jesus. I told her the Christian life was by the Spirit’s power living “Inside out”. First you ask God to transform you on the inside, then you become a good person and you do good things on the outside. She did not have a Bible of her own. Her family had one that everyone could use. So I gave her one and showed her all the study helps in it. I wrote her name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front. She thanked me. I gave her Bible Promises for You and The Case for Christ Answer Booklet. I gave her a Bible study explaining that Jesus was prophesied to be God and said he was in many different ways. I told her I would pray a Bible verse for her each day from now until Spring and one year after. “Thank you so much,” she said as I got up to go. I said God bless you and 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