Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day went well and you sensed the presence of the Lord. I had an abnormal day. When I first got to school I had this sense I should go over to the science building. I had a bad headache and the science building was on the other side of school. But I began to head over there to see if it was God leading. No one would talk with me on the way there, and when I got there only one student was willing to talk. Ethan turned out be a Christian and we talked for 2 ½ hours, overlooking the science building lounge. He had a military cut (buzzed on the sides with a mop on top), a goatee, sandy hair, wearing shorts, nice guy. I answered a lot of questions and he was very well read in some fringe Christian stuff and some scholarship I had also read. One of the scholars we talked about has the wrong view of ancient influences on the Bible. I believe the Bible is the true story and other ancient religions, inasmuch as the myth resembles the Bible, are channeled by cenobites controlled by demons. There’s a resurgence today of paganism and the old gods. [1Timothy 4:1 “But the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons” ]  In as much as an old religious pagan worship resembles Christianity, it is simply a demon mimicking the truth to make the lie sound more real. The Old Testament Bible is not responding to these lies. It does not have to, it is simply the original true story. I talked to Ethan about the nature of scholarship, certain translations of the Bible and so on. We talked about a dozen different issues including the Dead Sea Scrolls and the original languages of the NT, several different sources of information and a couple other issues. I told him perspective in each of the things he brought up that were outside what he had considered. So I guess that was what I was supposed to do at school today. He already knew a lot, but I told him some different ways he could think about it that he had not considered. I imagine, by the time he is my age, he’ll know twice as much as I. I walked around another 40 minutes but could not get anyone else to talk about God, and the school had cleared out. My headache came back after the few minutes’ respite some more aspirin had bought me. I had someone I had promised to help with a piece of equipment in the late afternoon and headed out. I guess it was a day of discipleship.

So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today if you had a chance. God blessed. 13 students have prayed to receive Jesus this year so far.

In Him,

Bob