Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed today with some good things. I had a good day on campus and Luis Prayed with me to receive Jesus.

Luis was the first person I found to talk with me and he was sitting on the corner edge of a BIC on the 1st floor that looks into the hallway going to the Cafeteria. He had on gray dress slacks and a sweater with his company name on it, and he said he worked there on the side (his main thing was school). He was Latino had a nice face, kind of Hollywood lips like the actor Austin Butler. His hair was parted at the side and swept over.  I think he probably went right to work after school.  He went to Catholic Church occasionally with his parents. When I asked him what he would say to God if he asked, “Why should I let you into Heaven,” he said, “I never really did anything bad. I treated everyone with respect; I give back to people sometimes.” He thought he would have an 80% chance of going to Heaven. As I went through the Gospel I asked him if he could remember from Church what the big thing was that Jesus had done to take away his sins. He could not think of anything and said he really didn’t know. He gave interested acknowledgment to the Gospel and when I asked him if he would want to be forgiven for his sins and have God live inside him or if he thought something else he said, “I’d go with God,”  So I said, “Do you believe Jesus is God he died for your sins and rose from the dead?” “I do,” he replied. “So would you want to place your trust in that to be forgiven?” He said, “Why not?” So I said if he wanted there was a prayer he could pray to be forgiven and he could pray it quietly so only God could hear. He learned in as I explained what each phrase meant and he took the booklet and said, “How often do you do this?” I said, “I walk around and talk to a few people each day.” He nodded like that seemed reasonable. And I asked if he still thought he would pray and he said something like “Oh yeah.” and he prayed to receive Jesus. I talked him through the Christian life living “inside out”. He said he thought they might have a bible around somewhere so I gave him one. He asked if it was a catholic Bible and I said there are a couple historical books left out that the Jews did not include but the New Testament and Old Testament were basically the same. I said I could not name them all but the books of Maccabees were some of them and that I did not think they changed any doctrine that we had just talked about, I was pretty sure they were not passages quoted at Church. (At the time I hadn’t remembered there are prayers for the dead in the Apocrypha and a couple verses on monetary payment for sins through alms giving. I have never met a Catholic who believed you can buy away your sins, though Rome may still offer the option. I have not seen it offered on Catholic websites. In my experience few students believe what the Catholic Church taught or never picked up on it.) I said that if he went to confess his sins to a priest the priest was basically telling him that God forgave his sins and the Bible teaches that, “If we confess our sins He (God) is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”(1John 1:9) But that if there wasn’t a priest around he could simply confess to God. I said the Mass commemorated that Jesus had died for his sins, the wafer representing Christ’s body and the Wine his blood so he could use that time to thank God that His sins were forgiven by what Jesus had done. I wrote his name and the date and “forgiven” in the front of the Bible. I gave him 20 Things God Can’t Do and wrote “by the Spirit’s power” in the front also giving him a Bible study on the Deity of Christ. I told him I would pray for him each night for over a year until Spring of 2020. “That is really nice of you thank you. Nice to meet you,” he said shaking my hand. I said it was nice to meet him too and headed out.

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

In Him,

Bob