Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

Hope you had a good day. It somehow turned into June in Chicago, 78 degrees and sunny too. So I went outside and talked to peeps, walking to some of the other buildings that I haven’t visited as much since it got cold.

I found David listening to his phone Mp3 in the Athletic building. He said he would do a survey with me and it turned out he went to Catholic Church pretty often but had lost some regularity in college. He didn’t know how his sins were forgiven by God. He was a good guy, shorter stocky build with a light growth of beard. After I went through the gospel it seemed to all make good sense to him. But when I asked David if he had ever prayed to be forgiven for his sins because of Christ’s death on the cross, making him right with God he said, “I want to say I have but I don’t know.” I was certain he had not been trusting in Christ’s death to make him right with God because when I asked David why he was going to heaven he said, “All my life I’ve always tried to help someone.” So basically, he hoped he was good enough and thought there was about a 75% chance he would go to heaven. I said, “Well, if you wanted to be sure you had asked for and accepted God’s forgiveness through Christ there is a prayer you could pray.” I read it through and explained it to him and said, “So what do you think?” He said, “I like it!” So I left David for a minute to get a drink of water and could pray. There was no one else near us on our side of the building; we were on a bench across from the pool. I explained the Holy Spirit’s work and that the Christian life was not trying harder to be good but it was asking for God’s power to be able to be more kind or whatever (listing for him the fruit of the Spirit) by God’s Holy Spirit. He didn’t have his own Bible so I gave him one with Bible Study and More Than a Carpenter to read. “The thing about the Bible is it is a spooky book” I said. “And there is a spooky part to you, your soul, and God’s Holy Spirit in Old English in the Bible used to be called the Holy Ghost. When you read the Bible it is a supernatural book and it feeds and strengthens the spooky part of you the supernatural part,” I said. He looked at me and said, “I like your words.” “Great” I replied. I told David that I would pray for him and he said he’d pray for me too and we shook on it.

I went through the gospel with 7 others today as well. Some were Christians who needed some affirmation and direction. I gave a Christian girl The Case for a Creator after she explained that all of her professors in the sciences were atheists. She was excited to read it. I also gave another girl who attended a Lutheran Church but was struggling with belief (she didn’t believe in Jesus entirely) The Case for Christ, student edition. I talked with a couple atheists and tried to challenge them a bit, one more successfully than the other. So I had a good day of sharing. Thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for today, if you got a chance.

Please say a prayer for David tonight for his faith to grow.

Thanks so much for your prayers.

Blessings in Him,
Bob