Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed and you walked with the Lord by the Spirit.  I had a slow day trying to find people to talk for the last hour or so towards the end but the last person I spoke with Liam prayed with me to receive Jesus.

Liam was sitting on the bench of NW corner lounge of the BIC on the ground floor facing the hall. I had just been tied up in a conversation with an older Chinese christian student for 20 minutes or so that kind of seemed to drag on and was headed out for the locker where I stowed my coat. I passed him as I turned the corner, stopped and went back and tried one more request. Liam said he would do a student survey. He wore a red flannel jacket and straight leg jeans had a days growth of beard, shorter hair. Not as tall as me and friendly. He was just waiting for class to begin. I asked him what he would say to God to get into Heaven and he said, “I tried my best.” He had gone to the Lutheran church but stopped going sometime in High School. He thought he had an 80% chance of going to Heaven. When I asked if he knew what the big thing was that Jesus had done to take away his sins he said, “Yeah.” So I’m not sure what he thought i that moment but when people answer vaguely like that I don’t press them. I feel like they sometimes think they ought to know and I don’t want to corner them. It is also possible they misunderstood the question. But I know the Holy Spirit will convict them if they are truly led to Him. I went on to explain the Gospel and he didn’t give any clues as to if he was accepting it. But he listened closely and tracked with everything and I asked him if he wanted to be forgiven and he took the booklet from me and looked at the circles for a moment and seemed to be reading about a life centered on Christ. And then looked at me and said he would want to be forgiven. So I said he’d probably known the story a bit from growing up with it but if he would want to place his trust in what Christ had done there was a prayer he could pray. I talked through it saying he could pray it silently and God would hear his thoughts. I paused and it was almost like he was thinking still and said, “Do what…pray?” I said if he wanted to and he said, “Yeah.” He prayed to receive Jesus then and I told him he could keep the booklet and explained the fruit of the Spirit and living Inside out. He didn’t have a Bible so I gave him one writing his name inside and the date he’d been forgiven. I gave him a Bible Study and 20 Things God Can’t Do and I wrote “By the Spirit” in the front. He got up to leave and shook my hand and said, “Thanks for everything.” I said sure I’d keep him in my prayers and see him in Heaven.

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

In Him,

Bob