Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed with all good things. I had a good day on campus and Jacob and Rich each prayed with me to receive Jesus.

Jacob was sitting at the counter in the Cafeteria looking at his tablet playing a computer game. This he somehow played with an occasional look back at it and a finger slide as we talked until the end of our conversation. He was a home-schooled student and was just checking out the school for the day to sign up for some classes it seemed. He was African American had a bit of facial hair a and a mustache, big kid. He wore a hoodie and jeans. When I asked him what he would say to God to get into Heaven he said, “I’m 15, I haven’t had much chance to do good yet, but being here might give me a chance to do that.” I am sure we do good in Heaven so it is true he would get some done were he to enter. When I asked him what the likelihood was he would go to Heaven when he died he said, “I don’t know, I’ll leave that unstated.” He was a nice, articulate guy and was very successfully engaging me in conversation while he played a computer game so I just went with it telling God silently in my head I would just finish the Gospel and trust Him to work. (I was a bit annoyed by the game. I had just spent an hour and a half talking to a student who had been abused the night before telling her she needed to get a blood test for the drug they’d used on her, as she cried. We prayed too, I was a bit spent. She did go to the ER later she texted me. please pray for her, I’ve known her for a few years.) I went through the Gospel with him and he knew Jesus had died to take away sins. When I explained the imputed righteousness of Christ to him he said, “Thank you.” He said at the end he wanted to be forgiven for his sins. As I finished up I said, “It seemed from your answer you were hoping to do enough good works to get into heaven?” he agreed. I said he could pray to ask God for his forgiveness and walking him through the prayer asked if he would like to pray. “In private,” he said. So I said I could walk over and get a drink and leave him alone. He said OK so I walked the length of the room to the water fountain and when I returned he’d finished having prayed to receive Christ. I explained that if he was trusting in the Righteousness of Christ to be his righteousness the likelihood he would get in to Heaven was 100%. Then I explained walking by the Spirit and I gave him 20 Things God Can’t Do writing his name and the date he was forgiven in the front. I also gave him a Bible study he liked. He was happy. I said I would pray for him, “God bless you,” I said shaking his hand. “”God bless you too,” he replied smiling a big smile, and I headed out.

Everyone turned me down until I got to the PE building upstairs where Rich was sitting on the couch he was wearing sweats had a short afro and sweat was beading up on his broad nose so he’d been playing basketball, he was on the team I discovered. He was smaller under 6 foot I’d guess though we were sitting, fair skinned. He had a trimmed mustache on just the top of his lip and trimmed chin hair. His dad was religious he said, “He prays 5 minutes every morning and at night and reads the Bible every day,” he told me. He explained he was not as religious as his dad. When I asked him what he would say to God to be let into Heaven he said, “Coming at me with some good questions…” then thinking some he finally said, “I don’t know, I always sinned, when I did I talked to you, I always had faith in you.” He knew Jesus had died to take away his sins saying, “He gave himself.” And was very focused on all I said. But he had not been trusting in Christ’s work to forgive him. As I went through the Gospel I pointed out at the end, “You are asking God for forgiveness but there is a reason He could forgive you.” “It was really Jesus!’ He replied. I agreed. He wanted to be forgiven and prayed to receive Jesus. He could not take any books as he had nothing to put them in but took the booklet and I wrote the date on the front and “forgiven” so he could remember when he had trusted in Christ. I gave him a Bible study and he said when he saw me around he would get some books. I also explained walking by the Spirit to him and I explained that if he was trusting in the Righteousness of Christ to be his righteousness the likelihood he would get in to Heaven was 100%. He had thought he had a 90% shot b4. He was grateful and thanked me and we shook hands (he had a very solid handshake) and I headed out.

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

In Him,

Bob