Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope you day was blessed in the Lord. I had a good day on campus and Felix and Dan each prayed with me to receive Christ. I also went through the Gospel with Summer. Please pray for her. Her father had been raised Jehovah’s witness though he was one no longer. But he’d either taught it to her and latter on rejected it or she had gotten a heavy dose of their lies from relatives. She had a sweet pretty face was wearing running shorts and an oversized Bears sweatshirt with some bright orange color dyed in her hair, no make-up kind of a rolled out of bed look. We talked for 45 minutes ending with her breaking down in tears abut her fears to sleep at night. The J.W.’s teach that you go into soul sleep and if you are going to rise Jesus wakes you in the end, otherwise hell for you is you sleep and never wake up. She said had a lot of anxiety just trying to fall asleep at night and had a tremendous overwhelming fear of death. I asked if I could pray for her she said I could and did and gave her the option of The Student Edition of the Case for Christ and complete copy of The Case for Christ and she asked if she could have both and I said sure. She took a Bible study on the deity of Christ. I told her some some word pictures about the trinity and God becoming a man that she then said had persuaded her of it. I gave her my number and she has texted me to thank me and will come to the Bible study. I think she is close to the Kingdom of God and we could pray her in.

A Muslim girl Daniya responded a bit to the Gospel this week saying, “I think it is interesting you believe God lives inside you.” Naveen was close to trusting Christ too, a guy in the PE building yesterday. 26 students have received Jesus on campus this semester and God as really at work thanks for your help.

Felix was sitting at a table in the PE building lounge and had been thinking about his walk with God. he was a small Latino guy, mop of hair, waiting for  his work-out class to start on stationary bikes. He had the first fuzz of long mutton chop sideburns that looked like they’d stay thin for a while and a bit on his lip and chin he pulled at. He wore a grey T-shirt with some printing and shorts. He was certain he was a Christian and was sure he was going to Heaven. When I asked why God should let him into Heaven, “Well, I mean I am a Christian so I have total faith I am going to Heaven.” He said he knew a lot about God and his entire family did too. He went to Calvary which is a good church. But as I began to go through the Gospel with him he did not know what Jesus had done to take away his sins saying, “He does a lot of things.” I pressed him but he had nothing. As I went through the atonement and the cross I was pretty sure he had never heard it based upon his reactions. He was very enthusiastic about the righteousness of Christ imputed to him. He said he would want to be forgiven with God inside so I suggested he had not put all of this together before and think he’d almost realized at that point he had not.  He started talking religious things with me, how he was trying to focus on doing better. I directed him away from that and  I explained more of the Christian life to him walking by the Spirit, living by the power of God in us, “Inside out”. and he said how it was strange I should come by as he had been thinking about things and his family had said you gotta get right with God. And I pointed him back to God’s work not his and that he needed to receive Him. I walked him through the prayer he could pray and said he needed to ask for forgiveness for his sins so God could live inside to give him the strength to live by the Spirit’s power and he prayed to receive Christ. I gave him a word picture for God’s power to live. I wrote “By the Spirit’s Power” in the front of 20 Things God Can’t Do writing his name and date in the front and gave him a Bible study he said was “Deep”. His class had started and he had to go and he thanked me then said, “Thanks for telling me this stuff.” “Sure, Have a good one brother.” I said shaking his hand. “Thank you. Thank you, you too,” he said enthusiastically, he was happy.

Dan was sitting in a section of benches right near the front of the MAC arts building. He was up for doing a survey as he was done for the day it seemed. He was a young good looking guy wearing a Wheaton South HS sweatshirt, jeans and sunglasses, couple well placed movie star freckles. He attended a Lutheran church and was a good guy. He said he wanted to get married (that is always a good sign coming from a guy’s pie hole that he will accept Christ in my experience). When I asked him what he would say to God to get into heaven he said, “It is the hardest question.” He replied. “I believed my whole life.” He thought he had a 65% chance of going to heaven. He knew Jesus had died to take away sins when I asked and listened to the Gospel taking it all in and seemed to believe so I showed him the 2 circles in the booklet saying “There’s two kinds of people, people who have asked God to forgive them for their sins and trusted in Jesus so he can live inside them with His holy Spirit–then there’s the kind that think something else. Islam thinks God’s a mystery that can’t be known, and his spirit does not live inside them, so a different god. and the Buddha left his wife and kids to seek enlightenment, so it sucks if you’re his kid. So which kind of person are you or would you want to be?” The second one up to now,” he replied. So I asked if he would want to be forgiven trusting Christ and I offered him the prayer he could pray asking if he’d want to pray it between him and God like I wasn’t even there. “Yeah I think so,” he said taking the booklet from me and he took off his sunglasses and closed his eyes praying, read some more and prayed until the end saying, “Amen.” I explained to him if he was trusting in the righteousness of Christ to be his righteousness the likelihood he would go to Heaven was 100%. He smiled at that. I gave him 20 Things God Can’t Do and wrote his name and the date in the front and “By the Spirit’s Power. I reached out and shook his hand and said, “God bless you.”  “See ya,” he said. “I’ll see you in Heaven.” I said as he walked away and he turned and smiled.

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

In Him

Bob,