Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

Hope ya had a great day walking in the Lord.  I had several good talks with students and Courtney prayed with me to receive Christ.  She was laying on her back, looking at her phone in the Mac Arts center.  She has long brown hair and was dressed all in black with some white in her shirt at the neck line, kind of a rounded diamond shaped face, brown eyes.  Her dream is to work in a music studio.  Kind, nice girl.  Courtney had been to a couple of churches but had left, feeling like the Church was about them — as opposed to caring for people, I believe.  I didn’t know if she was a Christian but she had a heart of compassion.  But of course that would not save you.  She admitted later she did not read her Bible and I encouraged her to read the Book of John explaining it a bit to her.  “I feel like my heart would deserve it (Heaven). It’s always been in the right place, the way I think about things.”  But it turned out she had not trusted in or understood the Gospel but was just going to Church, kind of trying to follow along but not knowing the path.  When I explained the Gospel to her she had known the story a bit but had not asked God to forgive her based on what Jesus had done.  I explained the work of the Holy Spirit to her and how God could give her the strength to love others and live the Christian life. She wanted to pray to receive Christ and be forgiven, to have God live inside her.  She said she was not a disciplined reader at all.  So I gave her a Bible Study and a copy of More than a Carpenter to read, telling her she could just read it little by bit and not to worry about her progress.  But to trust that God would do the work to transform her and to keep asking Him to do so by His Spirit.  As we were getting up to leave she said, “I think you talked to my boyfriend the other day.”  I asked her what his name was and she said, “Tyler.”  I said, “I remember him. He had a Cubs jacket on and a hat.”  And she said, “He did.”  I said I had talked to him over in the science building but he had not prayed with me.  So I encouraged him to and said to him, putting my hand on his shoulder, “You know this is true.” as he got up to leave.  And he agreed he did.  I told Courtney I had been praying for him.  She gave me her number as her email did not work, so maybe I will text her next week to see if Tyler had prayed to receive Christ.  I’ll keep them both in my prayers now.

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

In Him,

Bob Bollow

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Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

Hope your day was blessed and you felt God near.  I had a good day sharing the faith and had some good conversations with students.  Nettie prayed to receive Christ.  She was sitting on a couch-bench in the upstairs of the Mac Arts building when I came across her.  She is a tiny cute kid, long brown hair and glasses, wearing yoga pants and a black long sleeved t-shirt–seemed like a sweet kid.  I asked her what she would say to get into Heaven and she said, “I’d say something about a chance, like you gotta give somebody one chance.”  She was not that certain she would go to Heaven (50%) though she had gone through the hoops in her Roman Catholic Church and been confirmed.  After I had gone through the Gospel with her she said she felt like you had to earn Heaven by doing good works.  I said, “There are a couple problems with that.  One is how do you know when you have done enough good works?  You may have told a lie but how often do you have to tell the truth for it to be enough?  The Bible never tells you, it just say you have to be perfect so how do you know you did enough?”  I explained that since she was not perfect she would have to stand before God admitting she had lied here and there or stolen an answer.  “What if you are driving too slow in traffic because you are just not paying attention and you just make the light but make the guy behind you misses it.  Then there is a traffic accident right after you go by and the guy is stuck there and it makes him late for work.  It is his 10th time so he is fired.  He goes home and tells his wife, his unemployment leads to the break up of his marriage and his kids turn into crack whores.  All because you stole his time.”  So little things you might think are not big sins might have caused a bad result.  Or even good things, like smiling at a guy and it is a weak moment for him and makes him lust after you and he starts obsessing and breaks off his engagement and it ruins his life.  I told her she would have to be all-powerful and all-knowing to know and do the “Good”.  All-knowing to know what to do and all-powerful to control the results of her actions so they would lead to good results.  I told her a Tolstoy story to illustrate it about an old man who lost his horse but it is kind of long to write out.  (If you want to know, call me sometime or ask me at a wedding or something.) But by the end of all this she said, “I see what you mean.”  So Nettie was persuaded she needed God’s help to do good things and to control the outcome of her actions, making them good.  So she decided to pray to receive Jesus as her savior so God could live inside her and she could live asking for help from His Holy Spirit.  I gave her the Student edition of The Case for Christ to read and a Bible study.

So thanks for your prayers for the Ministry and for Evangelism today if you had a chance.  God blessed and it was Good.

In Him,

Bob Bollow

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Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,
Hope your day brought you peace in the Lord.  The world is in turmoil but God is in control.  At least it seems so to me on campus as He continues to lead me to people who trust in Him.  Chelsea and Maria each prayed to receive Jesus today.

Chelsea is African American.  Her straightened hair was pulled back into a medium-length pony tail.  She had jeans on and a hooded sweatshirt, no makeup, slight features, attractive and she is studying to be a nurse.  She was raised in a Christian environment and said God had been a big part of her life growing up.  When I had gone through the Gospel with her, much of it seemed familiar.  But I asked her if she had truly been trusting in what Jesus had done for her on the Cross to forgive her or in that she was religious and good.  “I guess.  I’ve been baptized… I’m not really sure if I ever did.”  She thought about it some more and so I said, “Well if you wanted to be sure, there is a prayer you could pray.”  And I walked her through it, asking her if it was the desire of her heart.  She said it was and decided she wanted to pray.  And she did.  It seems like if you are not sure you ever asked God to forgive you based on what Jesus had done for you, you should.  She had to run to her class but I had a chance to explain living by the power of the Holy Spirit to her and gave her a Bible study and More Than a Carpenter to read.  I asked her to email me if she’d like to learn more.  She seemed to be in a worshipping church.  Hopefully now she will be worshiping in gratitude that her sins are forgiven.

I talked to a black guy earlier in the day whose name was Cozing, similar thing though I don’t think he knew the gospel. He thought he would like to pray later so I hope he will.

Maria was sitting in the Cafeteria and after a couple peeps had turned me down she made eye contact so I asked her and she wanted to answer some questions.  The Lord seemed to be moving in her heart as she sat looking out the window at the counter against the glass.  She was a bit on the heavy side with a sweet, nice face and very curly long brown hair.  Her background was Spanish speaking and she went to some kind of Roman Catholic Church downtown that she sometimes attended, though the services seemed somehow nontraditional.  I asked her what she would say to God if she died and He asked why He should let her into Heaven and she said, “If I’m worthy–to let me in.”  So I went through the Gospel with her.  I asked her in the middle how God, with Jesus, took away her sin but she just said, “I’m sorry I don’t know.”  So I explained to her His death and imputed righteousness, dying in her place and she said she would want to be forgiven.  She explained though her family did not always get to Church she felt like God was with her.  I said, “God is with you, but this is more a question of if you want Him to be in you with His Spirit helping and guiding you.  Say for some reason we took a class together here and a guy in it decided he liked you and he asked me if I knew you and I said we’d talked.  Then he asked me to give you his number.  So I give his digits to you and we all get to know each other and even study together but you never call him and he never calls you.  Well, you have a relationship with him because he is your friend but you are not in a relationship with him.”  She understood the difference and I asked her if she would like to be in a relationship with God.   I explained a prayer she could pray and she decided she wanted what it expressed.  After she had prayed I gave her a Bible study on the Deity of Christ.  I explained again the righteousness of Jesus to her credit, that she did not go to Heaven because she was good but because Jesus was good and died for her. And that trusting now in that she would go to Heaven.  She looked at me and earnestly said, “Thank you.”

So thanks for your prayers for the Ministry and for evangelism today if you had a chance.  I’m truly grateful for your help.

In Him,

Bob Bollow

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Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

Hope your day was blessed and you felt the presence of the Lord.  I believe the Lord guided me again today by His Spirit through prayers.  Ana prayed to receive Jesus today.  Daniella, who I’d gone through the Gospel with just barely before she ran to class a few days back, sat across from me while I went through the Gospel with Vanessa.  I smiled at Daniella and she smiled back and listened a bit. (A pretty petite brown haired girl.)  I had a given her a copy of the booklet as she ran off to class.  Vanessa thought she would like to pray later and left and I went over and Daniella told me she’d read the prayer in the booklet and took More Than a Carpenter from me.  I told her I would pray for her.  She seems like a really sweet girl.  I bumped into Lonie and Aleena (two African American students) waiting for the bus by the revolving doors of the SRC, who I’d gone through the Gospel with on the 8th.  Lonie had prayed to receive Christ then and Aleena said then she would pray later and she smilingly told me today she’d prayed to receive Christ.  They smiled, laughed and thanked me when I told them I would be praying for them and had been.

Ana was the last person I talked to today in the MAC Arts building, sitting overlooking the lounge.  She is a pretty, Latina girl, with sharp features, long brown hair and a big engagement ring on her finger.  She is engaged to guy in the army stationed in Hawaii, and I got his name to pray for him as well.  She plays the saxophone in the Army band.  We talked for about an hour.  She thinks of herself as Catholic and didn’t know how God took away her sins.  She said she really did not know much about the Catholic faith, but her entire family is catholic and she has been trying to motivate herself to get back into church.  Her fiancé is really religious and she asked me about how I thought it would work in regard to the Catholic Church.  I told her I was marrying a girl from a Catholic background to a guy who is Lutheran next summer.  I said my understanding was that if she got marriage counseling through the Catholic Church they would recognize a marriage outside their specific auspices.  She hadn’t been to confession in a couple years and did not like it.  She wasn’t very inclined toward church but her fiancé was “very spiritual”.  We talked about naming (she was struggling with taking her fiancé’s name) as belonging to someone, as that was the topic of last night’s Bible study in light of the 3rd commandment [if ya want the notes out of curiosity I can send them. 😉 ]  We talked about men and women and respect and love, but all this was after I had gone through the Gospel with her and she was really receptive.  She said she wanted to be forgiven.  After I went through the prayer I asked her if it was the desire of her heart and she said yes.  For a moment she was not sure she wanted to pray, but then changed her mind and prayed to accept the forgiveness of Christ.  I explained about asking for the Holy Spirit’s power to have the strength to love.  I poured as much marriage guidance as I could into about 25 minutes.  I gave her a Bible study to read and gave her Enjoying Your Walk with God.  We talked about raising kids and I encouraged her that it would be good if she could find a church she felt comfortable in that was kind of middle ground.  I encouraged her to check out Church of the Resurrection in Wheaton saying it was “high church” and might feel familiar to her and be acceptable to her Fiancé too, who did not want to attend the Catholic Church.  She said she would think about it.  I got her email and so I think I will send her the link for the Church where some friends attend as she does not live too far away to go.

So thanks so much for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today if you had a chance.  20 people have prayed to receive Christ this year so far on Campus and God has truly been faithful in answering prayer.

In Him,

Bob Bollow

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Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,
How’s your day been walking with Jesus?  Andrew prayed to receive Christ today.  And I had a good day, although most of the peeps who were willing to talk to me claimed to be Christians (though they thought they were going to Heaven based on their good works when we began talking, but were professing faith by the time I finished the Gospel.)  Many Churches are so busy telling you what to do that they fail to remind you why you have any power to do what they say.  But I wonder sometimes how many people seem to be converted to believing in their salvation as Grace by Faith in Jesus work as we talk and don’t even realize they have begun to think about it differently.

But Andrew realized there had been a difference between what he had been told at church and believed, and the Gospel I taught him.  He had not known of the imputed righteousness of Christ and that he would not go to Heaven because he was good, but because Jesus was.  When I explained it to him he said, “That’s great.”  Andrew had jet-back hair combed straight back James Dean style, black-rimmed glasses and a Black shirt on with a white print of bass guitars made to look like a Rorschach blot.  He played base.  He had been going to church until recently, and even went to a Bible study.  But he had not thought about Jesus’ death for his sins before.  When I asked him why God should let him into Heaven he said, “I think I’ve been an overall good person.  I donate when I can.” He left his church when the Preacher had preached kind of a harsh sermon on activism that just made him feel like he was in the wrong place.  It seemed like he was in a conservative church but activism and good works had somehow become the focus of the Christian life instead of God’s love in the Gospel.  But he listened patiently to the Gospel as I told it to him, quoting Bible verses, and said he would want to be forgiven based on what Jesus had done for him.  So I told him that if he wanted to he could ask for forgiveness based on that, where the Holy Spirit could enter him and give him power to live the Christian life.  I got out one of the booklets then and showed him a prayer he could pray, explaining it.  He took it and prayed to receive Christ.  I got his email to send him some stuff and gave him a Bible Study to read.  He took a copy of More Than a Carpenter, saying his mom would probably like it. “She’s the one who got me into all this.”  So I will be praying for Andrew to grow in his new faith.

Thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today if you had a chance.  We had a fun group at Bible study tonight too.  God blessed.

In Him,

Bob Bollow

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Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope you felt the presence of the Lord in your life today.  I had a good day of sharing and Adrian committed his life to Christ and Lorn prayed to receive Him.  They were both sitting on a couch in the Mac arts building and Lorn really wanted to talk to me more than Adrian, but she asked him if he would answer some questions and he agreed.  He was kind of multi-tasking and doing math homework and I think he caught enough of the Gospel to follow.  Adrian is Asian.  He looked like he was from the Philippine Islands, short, glasses, mop-cut hair.  Lorn was a white girl, long brown hair, attractive.  Both of them went to church.  Adrian used to go every Sunday and now was going every other week and Lorn went with her Grandma to a Catholic Church.   Her grandma went to a different church when she did not go.  She was interested in spiritual things and tuned right in and Adrian’s attentions seemed divided.  But that took the attention off of Lorn, so when I came to the end to offer her the Gospel she wanted to pray to be forgiven saying, “There’s probably things I need to be forgiven for…”   When she finished, I talked to Adrian who finally was back with us.  I had asked them if they had really grasped what I had said to them before I came along and they’d said no.  I asked him if when he prayed to be forgiven he thought more he was a good person and God was good and would forgive him, or if he had been trusting in what Jesus had done for him.  He said, “I thought that I was a good person.”  So I explained to him that he needed to trust in what Jesus had done.  I asked him, “Do you believe Jesus is God and that He had died for you on the Cross and rose again to make you right with God?”  He said “I do.”  I told him, “The Bible says if you confess with your mouth Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart God raised Him from the Dead you will be saved.  So the prayer is more for you so you will know what you have said to God.”  I suggested he could pray it later.  And he seemed to want to pray later, so I gave him the booklet and each a Bible study, telling them about the Fruit of the Holy Spirit as the means by which we live the Christian Life.  Lorn also took the Q & A video, “Jesus Fact of Fiction” and asked if I could give her a Bible another day when her pack was not so heavy.  I only had one video, but Adrian said he’d like one, so I said I would look for them again to give him one.  Lorn thanked me and Adrian told me to have a nice day.  So I will be praying for them and look for them Thursday in the Lounge in the hopes they have a similar schedule.

So thanks for your prayers for the Ministry and for evangelism today if you had a chance.  God worked and I had a couple other conversations where good seeds were planted.

In Him,

Bob Bollow

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Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ
I hope you had a great day walking with the Lord. Things went well on campus and three students Lonie, CJ and Burnella all prayed to receive Christ. 3 others, Aleena, Courtney and Kenia [Kenya] said they would pray later.

Lonie and Aleena [his girlfriend] were sitting in the MAC art center lounge/gallery on a couch and he had his arm around her. They are African American.  She was wearing tight jeans with tears in them and had straightened longish curvy hair with highlights.  He had a nylon skull cap on and had a thin bit of a mustache.  They were good looking kids. They had been to church, which is typical of the African American students I talk to.  They listened to me share the Gospel but they hadn’t known how God took away their sins.  But at the end they said they wanted to be forgiven.  I encouraged them to pray a prayer and Lonie did out loud.   Aleena said she would pray “at home”.  So I hope she will ask for forgiveness based on Christ’s work for her on the Cross.  I told them I would keep them in my prayers and I’ll hope to bump into them again.  I could only get them to take the booklets.

CJ was sitting by the doors out the back of the BIC building on the second floor.  He had sandy hair, green eyes, wearing jeans and a t-shirt.  He hadn’t showered or shaved this morning (or possibly yesterday either judging by his hair) and looked really serious.  I was surprised he was willing to talk to me.  He was a good-looking guy.  It turned out he was going to a Lutheran church that: “Isn’t like a Lutheran Church”.”  He had an average build.   He described himself as an intellectual and was reasonably sure he would go to Heaven because “God promised that all believers would be let into Heaven.”  The question is what do you believe and he didn’t know what Jesus had done to take away his sins.  He patiently listened to the Gospel and said he would want to be forgiven.  So I asked him, “When you pray for forgiveness, are you thinking you are a reasonably good person [he’d described himself as moral] and God is good so He will forgive you?  Or have you been thinking Jesus died for you and are trusting in that?”  “I’ve really been lost and confused trying to figure things out,” he replied.  So I offered him a prayer he could pray, explaining it.  Not taking the booklet out of my hand he read the prayer, praying it.  He didn’t want a book to read, saying he had a lot already and I encouraged him to read the Bible, explaining it would feed the bond between him and God.  He had the fruit of the Spirit memorized and seemed to get the idea pretty well.  He took a Bible study from me but said his e-mail was really full, so I will keep CJ in my prayers and told him so. He said he would too.

I was pretty tanked by the time I came across Burnella sitting looking down from above the SRC revolving doors where the buses come.  African American, she had straightened loosely-curled hair, full features, a black low neck t-shirt and black and white print yoga pants on.  Nice looking girl.  She was very quiet and didn’t say much, but every time I paused to give her an illustration she looked at me and when I went back to reading a Bible verse she hunched over the booklet I held between us, reading along.  When I asked her one thing she wanted to do before she died she’d said, “Give myself to the Lord.”  That seemed like a good sign that God had been moving in her heart and that energized mine a bit.  She was sure she would go to Heaven, but she did not know that Jesus had died to take away her sins.  But after I had finished going through the Gospel with her she decided she believed it, wanted to be forgiven and to prayed to receive Christ.  I gave her a Bible study and the book Enjoying Your Walk with God to read and got her e-mail, explaining the Holy Spirit to her.

I bumped into some of my lost friends that I hang with and sat and talked with them for a couple hours about morality and stuff and then headed home.

So thanks for your prayers for the ministry on campus and for evangelism today if you got a chance God blessed the day and it was good.

In Him,

Bob Bollow
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Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ!

How has your life in Christ been today?  I hope you have had joy in serving Jesus.  I had a great day today on campus.  The Lord really blessed and Kiera and Rashundra, two black girls, prayed to receive Jesus.  So a nice birthday present for me!  Oh and yesterday at the book table, Matt, a guy who Tuesday said he would pray later, told me he prayed to receive Christ so that was cool too.

Kiera was sitting in the PE lounge, on a half circle couch, reading and listening to music.  I interrupted her and she said she’d answer some questions.  She is a cute girl, soft features, long thin braids with brown highlights, wearing black and white yoga pants with some type of African animal print.  Nice, shy girl.  She is a dancer and told me it was Beyonce’s birthday, having told me she’d like to dance on stage with her.  I told her it was mine too and that I wish I knew Beyonce as I bet she is having some awesome cake today.  Kiera had gone to church a bit when she was younger, enough to have a student bible of some kind, so I gave her a new one (NASB) as she wanted another.  She had some familiarity with the story of Jesus, but had said she would go to Heaven because she was a good person.  After I had gone through the Gospel with her, she said she’d like to make more time for God, and knew she should try.  I said, “Do you believe that Jesus is God, has died for your sins and rose from the dead?”  She made one of those ‘oh yeah’ faces where you kind of scrunch up your features in affirmation, nodding her head.  I explained the work of the Holy Spirit to her and how God could give her the strength to live the Christian life by His power if she wanted to ask for it.  If she would pray for forgiveness in the name of Jesus, His Spirit would enter her.  I said, “Say you are dancing at some club and you somehow end up dancing alongside a girl who is one of Beyonce’s dancers when she is in town for a show.  She sees you dance well and tells you she dances for Beyonce.  You tell her you love Beyonce and she offers you tickets for the show, telling you her name is Cindy (at which point I said that really does not sound like the name of one of Beyonce’s dancers but oh well).  She gets your name, Kiera, and says “just say, ‘Cindy left a ticket for you at the box office at the gate.'”  So [later] you go to the gate and tell them you are there to get a ticket left for you and say your name is Kiera.  The person at the gate asks who left it for you and you struggle for a minute to remember but then say, ‘Cindy’  She finds the ticket and you get to go in.  You got in but you had to claim the name Cindy who left you the ticket.  God has a ticket for you to go to Heaven and for Him to live inside you, but you need to claim it in the name of Jesus.”  “Oh I see that!” she said.   I walked her through the prayer to receive Jesus, asking her if she would like Him to live inside her and help her live the Christian life.  She decided she would and prayed to receive Christ.  I explained the Fruit of the Holy Spirit to her and gave her the verses for that and a Bible Study on Suffering from last night’s study.  So that was great.  She said she’d often sit there and I said I’d check with her once in awhile and pray for her each night.

Rashundra (ra shun dra) was sitting with her friend she lives with, Monique (hair pulled back glasses looked smart.)  She was a cute kid with straightened hair in kind of a shaggy pixie cut, round face with a bit of a point on her chin.  They were sitting in the hall outside of Rashundra’s class that was soon to start.  Monique was a Christian and claimed Jesus had died for her as to why she should be let into Heaven.  Rashundra knew the story of Jesus, but when I asked her she was more about what she had done religiously.  After I went through the Gospel with them I asked them if they had ever asked for forgiveness based on what Jesus had done for them.  Rashundra wasn’t sure she ever had.  When I explained the prayer to her she wanted to pray to receive Christ.  And she did.  I gave them the student editions of The Case for Faith and The Case for Christ and Bible studies to read.  They had to run to class as the teacher had walked past us and into the room.  So I let them run and they said they would email me about the Bible Study, so I hope they do.

So thanks for your prayers for the Ministry and for evangelism today if you had a chance, God’s Spirit was with me and blessed.

In Him,

Bob Bollow

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Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

Well, if you live in or around Chicago today we had a beautiful day and I hope you were blessed in it.  I was truly blessed today on campus and had several good conversations where Matt, Caleb and Robert committed to Christ, saying they would pray later and Dustin, Kiara and Levante prayed with me to receive Christ.

4 Black guys, Matt, Caleb, Robert and Dustin were all sitting together in the PE building.  They all wanted to answer some questions for the Bible Study group.  Matt had almond shaped eyes, short hair and an oval face.  Caleb was a very big dude (sumo wrestler big), afro, round face with a goatee.  Robert was a bit shorter with a perfect 2″ afro, kind, clean shaven face.  And Dustin looked young, Robert’s size, a bit of facial hair.  They all tuned right in and I went through the Gospel with them and they were really respectful and receptive.  As I finished and showed them a prayer they could pray, handing them booklets, Caleb realized he had to run to class.  So they all got up, saying they would pray later (this seemed pretty sincere but I never know how sincere a student is when they delay praying) but Dustin prayed right then.  They took off, but I came across 3 of them later (absent Caleb) to give them Bible Studies to read through, so that was good.

Sitting amidst the $400,000 stone work between the Art building and the Gym (my tax dollars at work,) I came across Kiara, a cute black girl enjoying some shade under a tree.  She had jeans on and a v neck t-shirt, her ears pierced 4 times.  She was about 5’5″ and had the ends of her hair tinted and pulled into a couple braids wrapped around her head.  Nice kid, her paternal twin sister’s name was Tiara she told me, when I pointed out it rhymed.  Her parents had gotten back together (they were not married when she was born) and she lived in West Chicago but commuted all the way to Chicago to go to Church where her mom is part of the tech crew that does the video screens and she said she makes the tapes.  But interestingly enough, though she goes to church two times on Sunday, she hadn’t really had a knowledge of the Gospel of God’s Grace and Christ’s imputed righteousness.  I listened to a bit of her pastors sermon online and I hope I just heard a bad one, but he seemed to be all about exercising principles saying God did not respond to our emotions.  The Bible teaches God does respond to us this way [John 11:33 When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled]  I asked her, “How does God take away your sin? What is the big thing Jesus does that takes away the sins of the world and you [too].”  But she had no idea. So I told her about the Cross, and after I had finished going through the Gospel I asked her if she would like to be forgiven based on what Jesus had done for her.  She said she would.  “But you didn’t have any of this down before?” I asked. “Yeah” she admitted.  So I showed her a prayer and she prayed to receive Christ.  I gave her a Bible study and explained the work of the Holy Spirit to her and I also gave her a copy of the student edition of The Case for Christ to read.  I got her email to send her more stuff too.

Jevante was sitting at the end of a set of benches I’d sat on waiting for my advisor to show up.  He was a real down to earth guy, friendly.  He said his mom and grandma went to a Jehovah’s Witness Church and I asked if he was into that.  He said, “50/50, I mostly go to be supportive of my mom.”  I went through the Gospel with him and just assumed he would not know it.  When I was finished I asked him if he would like to be forgiven of his sins, trusting that Jesus was God and had died for him and would then live inside him.  “I want him to live inside me,” he replied.  I showed him a prayer he could pray and he did.  I explained the Trinity and the Holy Spirit to him.  I gave him Playing with Purpose and a copy of More than a Carpenter, suggesting he could give it to his mom, and also a Bible Study.  “Thanks for everything.  I appreciate it man,” he said.  “Sure,” and I shook his hand.  “I appreciate you,” he said. “Thanks for taking the time to talk to me.”
So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today if you had a chance God was with me and blessed. Tomorrow we’ll set up book table for the clubs and activities day on campus.

In Him,
Bob Bollow

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Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
How’s the life?  I hope you had a great day walking with the Lord.  I had a great day sharing on Thursday, and Jose and Arielle prayed to receive Christ.  Jose was sitting in the MAC arts building on the second floor at a high table overlooking the lounge and had a little time before class.  A good looking guy, big dude, short brown hair wearing some kind of black and white tourist t-shirt from Hawaii and shorts.  He looked athletic.  When I asked him what he’d say to God that he might be let into Heaven he said, “I told you all my sins.”  Then after a pause by way of explanation he said, “confession.”  He was a nice guy and seemed really interested in the Gospel of Grace that he had not known at all.  When he prayed to receive Christ, I told him that because the Holy Spirit lived inside him, he would never be alone.  You could see his excitement.  It was good to see someone with real joy in the knowledge that God loved him and had made a way of salvation.  He was really into sports and basketball, so I give him a copy of Playing With Purpose on the testimonies of NBA stars.  He seemed kinda thrilled with the book and I thought about how people outside the evangelical world might be led to think no one they see through media is a Christian, since the media actually hides this knowledge at every opportunity.  It is somehow more important to know who Dwayne Wade is sleeping with than that Kevin Durant loves Jesus.  For some young men, knowing that a personal hero is a guy walking with God is a huge thing for them.  I gave him a Bible study too. Please pray he gets into a good church.  His attendance had been sketchy.

When I asked Arielle what she would say to God to get Him to let her into Heaven she said, “I went to 12 years of Catholic School,” and grinned.  “I did the time,” I responded and she nodded in agreement.  She was a slim girl with narrow sharp features, no make-up, pretty in kind of an artsy kind of way.  Long brown hair, camisole top and jeans.  She was a shy girl but really friendly and a good sense of humor.  But she was trusting in her goodness to get to Heaven.  When I asked her if she had ever asked God to forgive her based on what Jesus had done for her on the Cross she said, realizing the truth of the Gospel through faith, “I don’t think I ever have.”  So I offered her a prayer she could pray to accept His forgiveness, praying in her heart like I wasn’t there, and she prayed.  She was really grateful and I gave her a Bible study and an apologetics video, “Jesus Fact or Fiction”.  So I’ll be praying for her in the hope the Spirit leads her to genuine fellowship through Him.

Thanks so much for your prayers for the ministry and evangelism this week if you had a chance.  So far 6 (possibly 7) people came to Christ and it was a good first week of sharing the Gospel.

In Him,

Bob Bollow

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