Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

Hope your day was really blessed. I had a good day on campus and Johnny prayed with me to receive Christ. Cat a pretty American/Chinese girl (long straight hair parted on the side she had a bright smile and a wide nose and long yellow finger nails and a bad cold) wanted to be forgiven but her father was Buddhist and her mom Catholic and she’d never gone to Church. The Gospel was completely new and she was not sure what to think about Jesus. But she happily took the student edition of The Case for Christ. She also took a Bible study on the deity of Christ so that seemed like a good seed planted.

Johnny was sitting in a lounge on the first floor of the BIC and said he’d answer some questions for the Bible Study group. He had a Clark Kent hair cut and was wearing a zip up hoodie and gray sweats, clean shaven. He was very fair skinned; my skin hasn’t looked that nice since I was 16. LOL! He said he’d like to go to Mexico and see the town where his parents had grown up. When I asked him what he would say to God if he died and He asked, “Why should I let you into heaven?” he thought for a second and said, “That’s actually a really good question. I think I’ve done… I went to a Catholic school when I was a kid, so I have those morals. I’ve been a pretty active follower in my religious community.” He thought he had about a 75% chance of going to Heaven. When I asked him what the big thing was that had taken away his sins he thought for a while and said, “Baptism?” I said Augustine would say that had taken away his original sin but the sins you commit each day God takes away with Jesus. I explained the Gospel to Him and the imputed righteousness of Christ and he said he wanted to be forgiven. So I asked if when he had done something he was asking for forgiveness for had he thought he was a good religious person and God would forgive him or had he been thinking, I know I’ll be forgiven because Jesus died for me. He said something like, “I really should be thinking that, I’m more thinking I should try…” and then he trailed off realizing he wouldn’t be trusting in God if he was trying somehow to justify himself. I said what God wanted from him was the same thing he would want in a relationship with a woman he would marry, for her to believe him and him to believe her and be faithful. I explained living inside out asking God to transform him on the inside so he would become a good man and do good things on the outside. I suggested growing up in the Church it all works for you well enough when you are just a kid in your family but when you are a man you have to decide on your own where you will land. So I said that if he wanted to be forgiven he could ask and talked him through the prayer and we talked a bit more and I offered the opportunity to pray and receive forgiveness and he thought for a moment and said, “Yeah, for sure.” And he prayed to receive Christ. I wrote his name and the date and “forgiven” on the inside of 20 Things God Can’t Do and then explaining that everything God was asking him to do He would given him the power t do I wrote “by the Spirit’s power” on the inside too.  I explained the Mass was commemorating that Jesus had died for him and so he was forgiven so when that part of the church service came he could just say to God, “Thank you.” He took a Bible study and I said I would pray for him the next year and said, “God bless you.” “You too, thanks,” he said and we each headed off.

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

In Him,

Bob