Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your days are being blessed as we try shaking off the last of winter just west of Chicago.This morning, my number was given to a woman, Jennifer, by her health practitioner as a referral for some work she was being encouraged to get on her neck pain and  for headaches which I had had done too. But when she called, of course, I pointed out the real strength she need in this life was Jesus’ Spirit living in her. And so I went through the Gospel with her on the phone. Repeating after me she prayed to receive Christ on the phone, as we talked before I left for school this morning. Please pray God restores her health and she grows in faith and dependence upon Him. She grew up Roman Catholic but had been to a traditional Bible Church for a few years more recently.

I had a couple days of sharing where no one prayed with me to receive Christ these past couple days on campus. Both days a student who was trusting in their good works in answer to my queries then said they were in fact trusting in Jesus after. Yesterday, Cameron, a short solid black dude in the PE building, with a couple Bible and verse Tattoos, (really nice work if ya dig that kind of thing) small mustache short afro, and a Roman Catholic Indian girl today Deena (She had fly away curly hair and a lazy eye). So I am hopeful the gospel sinks in. I think for Cameron it was more assurance of salvation, saved by faith stay saved by works so imputation really helped him and trusting in the Spirit for all God asked him to do. He was solid as I left him. Deena, today, seemed to be trusting more after I explained to her that she could then trust in Christ when I asked her if she was she said a little of both (faith and her good deeds). She did believe in the cross paying for her sins and said her mom had told her every time she sinned it was like pounding another nail into Jesus (adding to His Pain). This is a harsh way to look at it but might be more true than we’d like to think. But theologically Jesus only had to die, suffering was due to His falling into the Hands of sinful men. But of course that was an unavoidable piece of the awful deal and our sin caused it. I gave 20 Things God Can’t Do to Cameron and Bible Promises for You to Deena. I also gave her a symbolic view of the mass saying each time she took it she could say, “thank you” to God for dying for her and paying for her sins knowing she was forgiven, so it would be a meaningful moment each week. She really liked that and was grateful.  I also explained the Spirit and living inside out to them.

So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today if you had a chance, God blessed and some good work was done.

In Him,

Bob