Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed walking with the Lord. I had a good day on campus and went through the Gospel with a quite a few students. Naila (NyLa) prayed with me to receive Jesus.  Another Muslim girl Abir (A beer) listened to the Gospel today and we talked about the difference between the two faith’s.  She took the pamphlet “Jesus in the Quran” to read. She had long wavy hair, on the pretty side, glasses, small sharp features, nice smile. She had to get to class as we ended our discussion saying she thought the two faiths were very similar. I pointed out the difference could be seen in the story of Adam and Eve. In our story Adam and Eve are in paradise on Earth, in her Muslim story they were in heaven and God was not with them, they sinned and were kicked out of paradise. In our story God is with us, we sin and the relationship is broken. But now we can be friends with God again through Jesus. But if she ends up in paradise and sins she could get kicked out again, like Adam and Eve did, and she might. “You might not think you would sin in Heaven but they did so who knows. “Oh,” she said. “I see the difference.” And she ran to class. I hope to see her again.

Naila was sitting in the Science and Health building hall and said she would do a survey. She looked Indian or possibly from Pakistan, to me, but I could not tell for certain. She said she’d do a survey. She wore a dress that looked Indian in print to my eye over blue jeans. She had long wavy hair and sharp features, bright and cheerful demeanor.  Se was sitting beside an ink black and white graphic arts project she said she thought was sloppy, it was interesting but it did look less than neat for graphic art stuff. When I asked her what she would say to God if asked why He should let her into Heaven she said, “Because I’ve helped somebody, I’ve done a big favor for somebody.” I think she meant this as her intention, that she planned to live life that way. She thought she’d have about a 90% chance of going to Heaven. I asked her if she went to a church or a temple or anything like that and she said she did not. “My family is from Sweden where is your family originally from?” “India,” she replied. “But I am from here.” She listened closely to the Gospel and was very engaged and interested. In the end I explained to her there were options of the way people believed pointing to one circle with a cross on a chair in the middle I said, “This person would be someone who wants to be forgiven for their sins so they have trusted in Jesus and He lives inside them on the throne, or the driver’s seat of their life. Then for some people God is on the outside of their life,” I said pointing to the other circle. “Islam believes God is a mystery and His Spirit does not come inside them, they have a different God. Or the Buddha, he left his wife and child to seek enlightenment so he is not really interested in God, he is just off trying to get his head straight.” “Oh! she said in response. So which person are you or would you want to be? Would you want to be forgiven for your sins with Christ inside you or do you think something else?” “I would want to be forgiven.” she replied. So I asked, “Do you believe Jesus was God He died for your sins and rose from the Dead?” “Yes,” she replied. “Well if you would want to trust in that to be forgiven for your sins there is a prayer you can pray,” And I talked her through the prayer. I said she could pray it silently like I wasn’t there. She glanced at her phone and said, “I have to be in class at 12:30 but I wanted to be polite. (She had a little less than ten minutes.) I believe all this. I like people who are very honest,” she said, I think referring to me. “That’s what it is so…” Then she turned and said, “You want me to just read this?” ‘If you are praying when you read it, yes” And she silently prayed. I offered her a Bible but she said, ” I have my own holy book the Quran.” That was the moment I realized she was raised Muslim. “I can read it (the Bible) on line.” I gave her the book 20 Things God Can’t Do and a Bible study. I wrote her name and the date and “Forgiven” on the inside and said everything the book suggested she could do was done by the power of the Spirit living in her, which I had already explained. I got up to go as she had to run to class and said, “God bless you.” “OK, God bless you too.” I walked a bit down the hall and stopped to write some pieces of the conversation down and realized I should give her the pamphlet “Jesus and the Quran” So I quickly pulled it out and she was only 4 steps passed me so a ran up and gave it to her and she thanked me and walked down the hall.

I also went through the Gospel with Sean who was fair skinned a bit short kind of shaggy hair like the guy in “Scooby Doo”. He was really friendly. He’d been raised Catholic but had not been to Church in a while, he said he had to be to class in 10 minutes. As I went through the Gospel he assented to it point by point as I went through. As I finished said he believed and would want to be forgiven, but literally had to run as I finished talking through the prayer. So he asked if he could take the booklet and headed out. I am going to be praying he will come in.

So thanks for your prayer for the ministry and for evangelism  today if you had the chance, I got a couple other seeds planted too and God blessed.

In Him,

Bob