Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed and if you live near us you enjoyed the warm air. I had a good day on campus and Ayowole [ I owe waal ai] prayed with me to receive Christ. I had a good apologetic discussion with a guy named Luke too. He had sharp features, a couple days growth of beard and brown hair combed back. He took The Case for a Creator to read, having lost his faith to the pseudo-science he had forced on him in High School.

Ayowole was from Nigeria and was headed out the door of the BIC I came in, cutting across from the PE building. He had a few minutes or so to answer some questions. He had a rough-top afro, rough skin and was wearing a jacket and jeans. (We sat at the south east end of the BIC building doors on some chairs). When I asked him what he would say to God to get into Heaven, he thought for a moment and said, “Because I’ve tried my best everyday to make people around me happy.” He said he’d been raised in a Christian home and went to church. “So basically you’d say being a good person gets you to Heaven and that’s what you meant?” He agreed he’d thought that. When I asked him the likelihood was he would go to Heaven when he died he said, “I can’t say.” He knew Jesus had died to take away his sins and so was familiar in part with the Gospel. So I explained, “Well you pretty much knew this but you were not trusting in it. You have knowledge. Your knowledge has to become faith, where you are trusting in what Jesus has done.” As I finished explaining everything, I asked if he wanted to be forgiven, or if he thought something else. He wanted to be forgiven with God living inside him.  I said if he wanted to be forgiven, then all he needed to do was tell God he had faith in this and he could pray. So I read through the prayer with him and asked if he wanted to pray it silently so only God could hear. “Yeah, ” he replied. “I like that.” And he prayed with me to receive Christ and thanked me. I gave him 20 Things God Can’t Do writing “By the Spirit’s power” in the front, having explained a bit of living “Inside out.” I used the book to show him a couple chapters, saying everything God was asking him to do He also gave him the power to do.  I wrote his name and the date and ‘forgiven”. “Thanks for sharing this with me,” he said. I told him he was welcome and I would see him in Heaven giving him a Bible Study 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