Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed walking with the Lord. I had a good day on campus and 3 students prayed with me to receive Jesus, a guy Alex and 2 girls Razy (rhymes with crazy) and Brigitte.

Alex was the first person I talked to sitting by the door outside the cafeteria on a row of chairs. He had a green flight jacket on and an afro with a fade on either side, jeans nice looking kid narrow face. He said he had already done a survey so I explained this was different and asked him what he would say to God to get into heaven if he died. He replied again that he’d done a survey so I said, “Well do you know how to get into heaven?” He admitted he didn’t. ‘Well do you want to know how the Bible says you get to heaven or not so much?” Alex kind of begrudgingly admitted he wanted to know so I said we could skip the survey and I would just tell him the verses. The first verse in the booklet I used was John 3:16 and he said, “I know that one.” I explained God wanted to live inside him with His Holy Spirit and that was what it meant to know God, “But first God wants to take away your sins so what is the thing Jesus does to take away your sins?” “He does a lot of things.” he hedged. Ok but what is the most basic thing Jesus does that forgives your sins.” He said a a couple lines about things Jesus did and finally said, “Well He just forgives you.” “”Well, when you sin you mess up God’s stuff” I said. “Because everything belongs to God, even you belong to God, so even if you hurt yourself. So you owe God for messing up His stuff and someone has to pay to make that right because God is just.” I explained then how Jesus died for him and paid it all and that his righteousness was to his credit. “I get it.” he said. I finished going through the Gospel with him and said, “Well it doesn’t seem like you had put this together before.” He agreed he hadn’t so I explained he could pray a prayer to receive Jesus and he took the booklet and silently prayed to receive Christ. He had a bible so I gave him the Book 20 Things God Can’t Do writing his name and the date he had trusted Christ in the front and a Bible study explaining how the Christian life was inside out by the power of the Spirit. I explained that if he trusted in the righteousness of Christ he could be sure he would go to heaven and he thanked me and I headed out.

Razy was sitting outside in the sunlight in a bench at the top of the waterfall/fountain, the stonework I was told by the mason (that built it) was a 100,000 dollar job (my tax dollars at work). It is pretty cool looking frankly. Rezy was from a Roman catholic background. Latina she had stick straight hair, laid tight to her head parted on the side above her ears, and block eye brows, round face and a flannel shirt on. She also told me she had already done a student survey–but said when I asked, “I could read a booklet.” In giving it to her I began to explain the Gospel and she kept listening so I kept explaining. She said she’d seen me around. I showed her some of the verses and explained the entire gospel to her. “I never had this explained this way before,” she said. She’d been hassled by the “mother-godess cult” at the mall and had to block them when they harassed her on her phone so I knew God had moved her heart to listen. She wanted to be forgiven for her sins and so I said, “When you’ve asked for forgiveness from God before you probably thought that you were a pretty good person and went to Chruch and so God would forgive you.” She agreed that was true. She said she believed Jesus was God and had died for her sins and rose from the dead saying, “I’ve been taught that my whole life.” So I asked if she had been trusting in Jesus for forgiveness or if she still need to do that. “I need to do that more,” She said and wanted to pray to receive Christ. And after I walked her through the prayer she did. I gave her the book 20 Things God Can’t Do and a Bible study and a Bible writing her name and the date he had trusted Christ in the front as she only had a family Bible. In it is a section in back listing verses on topics called , “When you” It lists verses for fear or needing peace and so on and she liked that. I explained a symbolic view of the mass saying she could use that time to thank Jesus for dying for her knowing that her sins were forgiven.  I got up to leave and she thanked me and said, “When I see you I’ll say hi,” and she waved thanking me again. I smiled and said I would see her around. She was kind and sweet.

Brigitte was tying the laces on her pink workout shoe with one foot up on the bench seat just inside the doors of the southeast corner of the BIC building. She was dressed in black a fleece and workout clothes. She’d been headed out the door so I just caught her. She said she’d do a survey and we stood and talked. She thought she had about a 50% chance of going to Heaven and had been raised Catholic but hadn’t been to church in a few years. She had shoulder length brown wavy hair and a kind friendly face. When I asked her what she would say to God to get into Heaven she said, “Because I’ve been a good person despite my sins.” I began to explain the Gospel to her and she remembered Jesus had died to take away her sins. She listened closely to all I told her and wanted to be forgiven so I asked her if she believed Jesus was God had died for her sins and rose from the Dead. She paused and she thought she did. I asked her if she wanted to trust in that to be forgiven and she said she’d thought she would, then when I walked her through the prayer she decided to pray to receive Christ. She brightened some afterwards. I gave her a Bible study and 20 Things God Can’t Do and a Bible study and I got her email to send her some more information. I gave her the website for Compass church to take in some sermons explaining the speaker was pretty good, “Is it a Catholic Church? I’m not into the Catholic church at all.” I told her it was a free church and would seem nondenominational. I thanked her for talking with me and she said, “I actually kind of needed it.” I said I would see her in heaven and she said “OK!” and her face filled with a smile.

So thanks for your prayers for the Ministry and for evangelism today if you had a chance, God truly blessed the work and we had a nice group of kids at the Bible study.

in Him,

bob