Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed and the nearness of God was your good. I had a good day on campus and Kam prayed with me to receive Christ. Please pray for Shelly, a black girl (straight shoulder length hair, pretty smile) who is an agnostic after she felt at 18 God had allowed some bad things to happen to her. I gave her some Rose Publications on why believe the Bible and who I am in Christ after talking to her for some time. She wanted to keep the booklet with the Gospel in it I had gone through and admitted I had refuted one of her arguments. I left her with the thought she had not been entirely fair blaming God for the events in her life. She said she felt like she had been devoted to Him but had not received Him or been baptized. “It’s like you did not take the Doctor’s prescription and then blamed him for the disease.” That gave her pause, I think, as she thought of some action she had been responsible for outside the will of God that had led to some of the events of her life. Her community is ubiquitous with promiscuity so it was a fair guess she had not been obedient.
 

Kam was sitting in the MAC arts building lounge with his back against the gallery space working on a laptop in his lap. He’s African American and was wearing a faded red hoodie, his hair was short on the sides and combed into a defined wave cut on top. He had a clean cut beard. He said he played basketball and football. I normally would not have bothered someone working on a lap top but I’d only had a couple people to talk to all day so I gave it a shot. He said he’d answer some questions. When I asked him what he would say to God if asked why He should let him into Heaven, he said, “Throughout my life I’ve always tried to be in someone else’s footsteps before judging them.” He had gone to church when he was a kid but recently said he had decided to get more into it. This is something several people have said to me before praying to receive Christ. It seems to me like this is God beginning to draw them to Himself before he sends me around to talk to them to clearly explain the Gospel. He was very serious in listening to the Gospel so I let that guide my tone with him and explained everything through. When I asked him, “What was the big thing Jesus had done to take away your sins?” he thought for a second and guessed “baptism”. So I said that was symbolic and went on to describe what Jesus had done for him living a perfect life and dying for him and rising again, imputing His righteousness to those who believed. He said he wanted to be forgiven. I asked him if he believed Jesus was God had died for his sins and rose from the dead. He thought for a moment and said he did. So I said if he wanted to he could receive the forgiveness God was offering him by faith and talked him through the prayer, saying he could pray it silently. “This?” he said pointing at it, “Pray?” I said again he could pray it silently and asked if he would like to and he said, “Yeah.” He prayed then to receive Christ by faith and gratefully kept the booklet afterwards. I explained the life in Christ to him then, he said they had a Bible that had been “passed down” so I offered him one of his own and put his name in the front with the date and wrote forgiven under it and said, “The day after Martin Luther King died you found life.” He smiled at that. I gave him a Bible study and the 20 Things God Can’t Do book writing “By the Spirit’s Power” in the front and showed him some of the verses. I got his email. He thanked me then and I said I would keep him in my prayers every night for the next year and he thanked me again and shook my hand. I headed out and then went back prompted somehow to give him  Bible Promises for You book and he thanked me again for that and I left.

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

Blessings,

Bob