Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day was bless with some sunshine and you were out of the cold of Chicago, or spent time by a window inside. I had a good day on campus and Christine* committed to trusting in Christ for salvation, saying she would pray later but asked a lot of questions about the Bible Study so I think her commitment was sincere and Michael prayed with me to receive Jesus.

Christine was sitting at the counter looking outside in the cafeteria. She was dressed all in black, cute Asian girl, looked a bit Filipino, nice smile long hair past her shoulders. She had been to Church some when she was  younger. When I asked her what she would say to God if asked why he should let her into Heaven she said, “I would just say because I’ve done good things, been a good person.” She thought she had a 90% chance of getting into Heaven. She listened to the Gospel very seriously with just an occasional smile at a word picture. She could not remember how God had taken away her sins. So I went through the events of Christ’s death cleansing by His blood and imputed righteousness which I do with everyone. In the end she wanted to be forgiven and so I asked her if she believed Jesus was God had died for her sins and rose from the dead and she said, “Yeah!” with kind of an “Of course.” tone to her voice. I walked her through the prayer but she really wanted to pray later. As I said she was very interested in the Bible study and what we studied so I hope she will come. I gave her 20 Things God Can’t Do and explained life in the Spirit writing about the Spirit’s Power in the front. I gave her a Bible Study on the deity of Christ too. She thanked me and I told her I would pray for her and headed out.

I came across Michael a bit later he was sitting in a lounge in the BIC. He was a nice looking guy very clean cut, Clark Kent hair, dark pronounced eyebrows and hair, fair skinned looked Italian in descent. He was wearing a shirt and sweater. He hadn’t been to Church since he was younger. When I asked him why God should let him into Heaven he said, “Jeez…maybe… I don’t go to Church but I made my sacraments. I’m a nice person, help people in need [I’m] loyal to my family [a] respectful person.”  I asked him what he thought the % was that he would go to Heaven. he said, “If it exists, I have a philosophy class right now where we talked about that.’ he said kind of sadly paused for a minute and said, “I believe in Heaven I’m catholic.” I told him I was a philosophy major and that the basic argument they would use to convince you can’t prove anything religious, also makes it impossible to prove a pine trees exists. ‘So it isn’t useful for anything.” Of course the existence of Heaven or religious belief is not a proper topic for an intro to philosophy class unless your real agenda is to attack students faith, it is not important in teaching Aristotle or Plato, God’s existence does not even come up until the existentialists historically, nor does the problem of evil.  I told him evil is a problem for every worldview and an atheist believing in evolution really has no philosophical justification for the definition of evil at all. Cutting down a tree has the same philosophical implications as killing you if you both evolved from the same place. He saw this point. I went through several philosophical arguments I knew they threw around at school in the classroom which are vacuous at best and told him some the simple solutions. I have no respect for these teachers and pray for their downfall. I began to go through the Gospel with him and he knew Jesus had sacrificed Himself for our sins. I explained to him he did not go to Heaven because he was good but because Jesus was good. After I had gone through everything I asked him if he would want to be forgiven for his sins and he did. After talking through the prayer and offering it to him he decided to pray to receive Jesus. Knowing his philosophy class had just begun I gave him “Why Trust the Bible” (the Rose Publication) and the student edition of The Case for Christ. I apologized for giving him so much but suggested if any questions came up he could use them for reference. I also gave him 20 Things God Can’t Do and a Bible Study on the deity of Christ and got his Email. I said I would pray for him which he seemed visibly grateful for and said, “Hey maybe one day we’ll see each other in Heaven and you can tell me how things have been going.” He smiled at that his spirit’s having lifted. “Thank you.” He said and I headed out.

I was feeling a bit sick still and was more sweaty than usual at that point so I decided to head home.

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

In Him,

Bob