Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope ya had a great day walking with Jesus. I  a great day on campus and 3 students prayed with me to receive Jesus. Jacob, Terri and Victoria each prayed with me to receive Christ as savior.

Jacob was sitting on the second floor of the BIC waiting to go into class playing a mindless game on his phone. I say mindless as he answered all the survey questions while finishing up a round without a hitch. As I went through the Gospel he began to pay attention and slipped the phone in his pocket. He was a small statue guy, pretty thin too, wore jeans and a jacket and looked Latino; with sharp features and short dark stick straight hair, the front combed back. He said he went to Church every week with his parents. When I asked him what he would say to God if asked why He should let him into Heaven he said, “‘Cause I tried my best to care about everybody, help everyone when I can.” He thought he’d have an 80% chance of going to Heaven. He listened to the Gospel and knew Jesus had died to take away his sins. I asked him if he wanted to be forgiven for his sins and he seemed to want to be, he wasn’t real solid in his response. I said to him, “Well you know you are a kid and grow up in the Church and you feel fine there, nothing bugs ya. But when you grow up you have to make a decision on what you believe for yourself as an adult.” So I read through the prayer with him and asked him if it was the desire of his heart and he said it was so I said he could pray asking God for his forgiveness. “How would you do it?” he asked. I said he could pray the prayer silently in his heart and God would hear and forgive him, “Just pretend I’m not even here,” I said. He took the booklet then and prayed. I gave him 20 Things God Can’t Do and explained living by the Spirit’s power writing his name and “forgiven” in the front and gave him a symbolic view of the mass saying when he took it he could just say, “thank you”. He had to run to class, the hall had emptied so I had not time to say more but I gave him a Bible study and told him I would pray for him and he thanked me and headed off to class.

Terri is an older black woman she had a parka on and khaki green pants and a flannel shirt. Her hair was braided in two think braids on the top of her head. She had a frank face. She was articulate and was at school to study video production thinking she might try to make some money on YouTube. When I asked her what she would say to get into heaven she said, “I would say, ‘I have tried to be a good person all my life, on that note I believe that you should let me in.'” She thought she had a 90% chance of going to Heaven. She was not sure how God took away her sins simply repeating what I had said so far, “He lives inside me so that’s how He forgives me.” This is obviously not the answer to the question, “So how does God take away your sins so He can live inside you.” I just said, “Well, this is how it works.” and began to explain the gospel, with each thing I said she adopted it as her own and I affirmed that, learning as we went. She enjoyed listening and at one point stopped me, asserting that “people could not just say they were saved and live anyway they wanted” and I agreed saying that would mean they were liars. That people might backslide into a bad place for a time and we could not judge their hearts but you should look like what you say you are. She agreed. So I asked her if she wanted to be forgiven with God living inside her, since she’d just said she’d hoped she was a good person and hadn’t seemed to know the Gospel. She said she did, so I offered her the prayer, talking her through it saying she could pray it quietly and God would hear, asking would she like to? “Oh yeah,” she replied. Then she took it and prayed. She seemed to pray it rather quickly so I asked if she’d prayed and she said yes. I explained the Christian life living inside out and by the Spirit’s power. I gave her the Book Bible Promises for You and wrote her name and the date and “Forgiven” inside. I gave her a Bible Study to read saying, “God Bless you.” “Alright have a good day.” she said.

Victoria was sitting up on the 3rd floor lounge the windows of which look out over the MAC arts outside concert area. She was dressed to the 9’s in over the knee leather boots and nice, high neck dress with a necklace. Her hair was in ringlets of curls highlighted light brown and she had long nails with rhinestone bling. Her small nose with a gem stone on the left side faced me; she was pretty, fair skin petite features. She went to a church that met in what had been a theater. I asked her what she would say to God if He asked why He should let her into Heaven and she said, “Oh my gosh that’s a really good question…” then thinking, “I would say because I love you.” She thought she had a 50/50 chance of going to Heaven. She listened to the Gospel and liked the stories it seemed. I was not sure if she had trusted in Christ and asked her and it seemed from what she said she wanted to be the kind of person who was trusting in Christ but felt like it was on again off again. I walked her through the prayer for forgiveness explaining it was asking God to make her the kind of person He wanted her to be, by God’s power living inside her by the Spirit. I asked if that prayer was the desire of her heart and she said it was so I asked if she’d had the chance to do that before, to receive forgiveness, and she said, “No”. So I said she could pray silently right there and be forgiven and asked her if she’d like to and she said, “I would.” and so I gave her the booklet and she prayed. I explained living by the Spirit asking for God to change her from the “Inside Out” and gave her 20 Things God Can’t Do writing “By the Spirit’s power” in the front and the date and “forgiven”. I gave her a Bible Study on ways Jesus claimed to be God. She gave me her e-mail to send her some stuff. And she thanked me 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