Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope you were blessed today with all good things. I had a good day on campus and Jimmy and Luis each prayed with me to receive Jesus.

 A fire alarm had gone off and a couple of the buildings were clearing out but the PE building is only attached by a tunnel so I walked in there and found

Jimmy standing and leaning against a pillar in the PE lounge upstairs. He was Latino in appearance, thin, shorter than me by half a head wearing shorts and a t-shirt, fair with his dark hair making bangs, hair cut up over his ears, nice looking guy.  He said he’d’ done survey’s twice when I asked so I said, “Yeah this isn’t about that it is how you get to heaven, so would you like to know how to get to heaven from the Bible. He said he would so I began to go through the Gospel with him. He knew Jesus had died for his sins and I explained how Christ’s blood cleansed us from sin he asked, “Is that what the Eucharist is about?” he asked. Saying it commemorated Christ’s death I said,”The wafer is symbolic of His body,” and the Wine of His blood, he finished for me “But is is only symbolic,” I said and he agreed. I said he could use that time of the Mass, even if he’d been a bit foggy on Sunday to remember that Jesus had died for him and to be thankful.  I said he needed to receive Christ and he said he would want to be forgiven. He went to Catholic Church so I asked if he had been trusting in Christ dying for him and He said after some dialogue, “The idea was there but I never made the connection.” He realized he had not trusted in Christ and decided to do so after I suggested that agreeing with everything growing up was part of who he was but when he becomes a man he has to make up his own mind about how he will relate to God. He silently prayed to receive Christ. He took the Book 20 Things God Can’t Do And I explained the Holy Spirit in the Christian life and wrote “By the Spirit’s Power” in the front. I gave him a Bible putting his name in the front and the day and showed him the “Where to Turn” section to look things up and gave him a Bible Study. He shook my hand and thanked me for my prayers and I headed out.

Luis was sitting in the hall in the Science building they were going over a test he’d missed in his class it seemed. He had on red trainer shoes, t-shirt, jeans and a ball cap. He was tall dark hair with a beard and mustache. Good looking guy, nice smile, he looked a bit older. He said he came from a 7th day Adventist Church but hadn’t been much of late having a conflicting work schedule. He said, “I feel like for most people it’s about being able to party late on Saturday night and not be hung over for church on Sunday.” So it would seem the piety of his church tradition had pretty much broken down. When I asked him what he would say to God to get into Heaven he said, “I never hurt anybody in this life…” “So you had pretty good break-ups?” I put in jokingly. “Well, I never attacked anybody.” He said. He listened to the Gospel and knew Jesus had died for his sins. I explained the imputed righteousness of Christ and that he had to be perfect saying, “So it isn’t what good works you do, or things you haven’t done,” realizing he hadn’t said he’d done anything but had kind of weakly said he hadn’t beaten anyone up. “But it is that Jesus is good and you are connected to Him.” And so I offered him the option to be forgiven and have God live inside him or “Did he think something else.” He didn’t seem to follow at first asking what the options were again so I asked, “Do you believe Jesus is God, He died for your sins and rose from the dead?” He said he did. “Would you want to trust in that to be forgiven for your sins? He said he would so  I walked him through the prayer asking if he would want to pray it silently. Thinking he said, nodding affirmingly, “I think so,” almost as if he was just realizing it. And he prayed. I gave him a Bible Study and the Book 20 Things God Can’t Do  I explained the Holy Spirit in the Christian life to him too and wrote “By the Spirit’s Power” in the front. He needed to get back to class and I got up to leave and said I would see him in heaven and he smiled.

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

In Him,

Bob