Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed, it is a beautiful day here, just over 60 but sunny which is great. I only had a few conversations on campus, some with peeps I know. It is close to exams and kids are studying and it is hard to find someone sitting around with free time to talk. But Nick prayed with me to receive Christ so that was great.

He was sitting in the PE building at a long table that’s in the lounge as you walk in the ground floor doors off the parking lot. He had tight twisted lengths of hair that from a distance looked like thin braids; they were pulled back on his head. African American, he had a wide nose and full lips with just a fraction of a mustache and a chin beard, good-looking kid. He wore black sweats and a black fleece. There are so many black athletes in the PE lounge that I kinda assume if you are sitting in there you are at COD to play a sport but he wasn’t, he said he just played around. He said he’d answer some questions. I asked him what he would say to God if asked if “Why should I let you into heaven?” The answer came out in fragments, he said, “It depends [on the] case… about… repented before maybe. Honestly don’t know what I would say.” He thought the likelihood he would go to Heaven was 100%. He listened to the Gospel and knew Jesus had died for his sins. He went to church every week. I asked him if he would want to be forgiven where God could live inside him after finishing the Gospel and he said he did want that. I then tried to find out what he was trusting in, we went around a bit. I asked if he thought God would forgive him because he was doing the right things and went to Church. “Well it’s not just going to Church my mom says you need to do good and speak in a tongue and be baptized.” I pointed out that those things were fine but they did not save him. “I know you knew he died but that is just knowledge, but knowledge needs to become faith.” I could not tell if he followed entirely so I said do you think, “I’m a good man and go to church and that’s why God forgives you or have you been thinking I know God will forgive me because Jesus died for me.” “The first thing you said,” he replied. I thought for a second he meant something I had said at the beginning of our discussion which had gotten long but he meant the last sentence I said, I guess I’m a bit tired by this point in the semester. I talked him through the prayer then and said he could pray it silently and he did. When he finished he began rereading the Bible verses on receiving Christ by faith and then handed it back to me. I told him he could keep it which he was grateful for and walked him through the Christian life, having already explained living “inside out” I clarified it again. I gave him a Bible Study on the Deity of Christ. I gave him 20 Things God Can’t Do. Explaining everything God was asking him to do He would given him the power to do.  I wrote “By the Spirit” in the front then wrote his name and the Date and then ‘forgiven” in the front also. “I’ll show this to my mom she’ll like this,” he said. So I gave him a copy of Bible Promises for You for his mom who he said was very religious. I explained how we trusted in Christ’s righteousness to be ours again and told him I would pray for him and invited him to Bible Study. “Thank you Bob,” he said shaking my hand. “You’re welcome. God Bless you and now you can know you are forgiven by the Blood of Jesus.” 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