Hey Brothers and sisters in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed walking with the Lord. I had a great day on campus and William and Alexis each prayed with me to receive Jesus.

It seemed like almost no one wanted to talk to me today having all done spiritual interest surveys with some person working with/for the organization once called Campus Crusade for Christ. None of these go through the Gospel with a student. Yesterday I talked a girl into listening to the Gospel anyway who received the Lord but today many people seemed a little annoyed to be asked again. William had also done a survey which he told me when I first walked up. I said this was different and explained a little, that it was about how you get to heaven. He agreed to listen saying, “I have some ideas.” So I sat at his feet.  He was sitting along the wall by the cafeteria. He wore light green skinny jeans with elastic ankles, he was a smaller black guy with a rough cut afro and a ball cap on and a backpack. He wore a black hoodie that said GOD on the front and had a bit of facial hair, mustache and goatee. I began explaining the Gospel to him with some verses, that God loved him, wanted him to believe in Him and to know and live inside him. I asked him what Jesus had done to take away his sins so that could happen and he didn’t seem to know. A big nerdy looking white guy who had wedged in next to him answered, “Jesus died on the cross.” (He had walked up after me trying to sit next to an attractive girl with headphones on, on William’s right, who ignored him when he first approached asking to sit down in a space to small for him. William then moved over some, he wedged in, she got up and left.)  William gave him a look like, if you say so at his unrequested help. I told the nerd guy he was supposed to let William come to the idea on his own and tracked back to the explanation. Moments later while I was in the middle of an illustration on imputation a Cru staff person walked up behind us, interrupted me and asked if we would do a survey. We had to tell her no twice. The booklet her organization prints up that I had just used in part to go through some of the Gospel with William was sitting open on top of my backpack in front of me as she interrupted. I thought I might of lost him at the second interruption by a professing Christian but he tuned right back in after she went away, genuinely interested. Fortunately God is at work and it is not up to me. I explained that anything God asks us to do He gives us the power to do explaining the Holy Spirit and the life in Christ. Then I asked him if he would want to be forgiven trusting in what Jesus had done. “I’d want to be forgiven, yeah,” he replied. So I talked him through the prayer and asked if he’d like to pray that silently between him and God to be forgiven and he nodded and took the booklet and prayed to receive Jesus. I told him he could keep the booklet there was some more stuff in it about faith and explained living “Inside out” by the Spirit. I gave him a Bible because he did not have one showing him the section in the back called “Where to Turn” that answers questions and that Christ’s words were in red. I wrote his name in the front and the date and “Forgiven” telling him he could remember. I gave him a Bible study explaining that, he did not want to get another in an email. And I gave him the book 20 Things God Can’t Do and wrote “By the Spirit’s Power” in the front. “That’s about it,” he said. I told him he could email me any questions he might have. We stood up and he shook my hand and thanked me and I said Yeah and I’d see him Heaven. And we went our separate ways.

I chatted up some peeps I knew from last year outside and then found Alexis sitting in the corner of the BIC building at the entrance to the tunnel that goes over to the PE building. She looked Latina, had long brown hair up in a bun cut a bit over her ears, a pretty oval face and black framed rectangle glasses, she had a sweatshirt on and black leggings and was reading a tablet. It turned out she had left the Catholic Church due to her parents disinterest but her grandparents were religious and had gotten her back into it now that she was older she had just made confession of faith and her first communion. But I’m not sure she was going to Church. When I asked her what she thought she’d say to God if she died to get into Heaven she said, “Hmmm” and smiled, saying something like, “I don’t know how that would work.” I told her that probably is not what happens but the question is really asking you what you think it is that gets you into Heaven, “I’d have to right my wrongs, that’s basically it.” She knew Christ had died to take away our sins and listen to the Gospel. I explained the priest’s role in confession as I did yesterday to Daniella and imputed righteousness and the cleansing blood of Christ. I said that she was right; she’d have to right her wrongs to get into Heaven the problem is we can’t do it, or turn our bad stuff into good but God can. She said she would want to be forgiven with God inside emphatically pointing at that circle. So I showed her the prayer she could pray. She’d told me about her recent Church experience so I said, “Well it seems like you’ve done the things that the Church would have you do religiously but do you think you have told God that you want to be forgiven for your sins trusting in Jesus?” asking if she had personally expressed that to God or if she hadn’t really done that. She thought and said, “Haven’t really done that.” So I offered the prayer to her saying she could pray silently like I wasn’t there and she nodded and took the booklet and prayed to receive Christ. I talked to her about the Christian life and God giving her the power to live it. I gave her 20 Things God Can’t Do and wrote “By the Spirit’s Power” in the front and her name and the date and “Forgiven” in the front. I gave her a Bible Study and she gave me her email to get another one. “Nice to meet you,” I said getting up to go. ‘Nice to meet you too,” She said. “Thanks.” I replied. “Thank you.” She said. And I headed down the hallway towards my truck.

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

In Him,

Bob