Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed. I had a good day on campus and Joey prayed with me to receive Jesus. I got a seed planted with a guy named Micheal and left him with something to think about.

Joey was sitting on padded bench down a side hall looking at his phone. He had a soccer shirt on and jeans, blonde hair swept back in a classic hair cut, soft features. Good looking kid from a Roman catholic background. He asked me how long it would take and I told him. He seemed in a hurry but I needn’t have felt the pressure of it because after I went through the Gospel I asked him if he had a moment to tell him some stuff and he said, “Sure I’m in no hurry I don’t have class for a while.” So much for sweating through a fast presentation of the Gospel. When I asked him what he would say to try to get into Heaven he said, “I don’t know… I’d say I try to live my life by putting others before myself.” He thought he had a 65-70% chance of going to Heaven. He tuned right into the Gospel with an intensity I misread as needing to leave, maybe because he checked his phone once. I try to engage people with how they are responding, be all things to all men. But I’m probably best off when I don’t think I am getting through and pray in my head while I am talking. I’m not really sure how I do that. Sometimes I listen to something on my computer while I listen to the Cub game on the radio and on the TV, when I’m doing that Ellen has to leave the room there is too much racket so I’ve started to listen on a walkman in one ear. But I was in such a hurry I just focused at getting everything said clearly. He knew Jesus had died for his sins so I explained blood and cleansing us and imputed righteousness. Joey was agreeing with everything as I spoke. I asked him if he wanted to be forgiven for his sins or thought something else, “No I would want to be forgiven,” he said. So I asked if he was trusting in what Jesus had done. “I know you knew the story but you know you grow up in the Church and you are fine with everything but then you get to college you have to decide for yourself.” I asked if he had really been trusting in Jesus when he asked for forgiveness or was going to church and “just rolling with it.” “Just rolling with it,” he replied. So I said there was a prayer he could pray asking for forgiveness based on what Jesus had done and talked him through it reading, “Is this prayer the desire of your heart?” He said it was so I said he could pray silently and start from there with God, “You want do it?” I asked. “Yeah,” he said. I looked down as he took the booklet writing and he prayed to receive Jesus. When he finished he said, “That felt really good.” He had some time as I mentioned so I explained the Christian life to Him by the Spirit’s power “Inside Out” and talked him through Christ’s claim to be God by walking on the water in a Bible Study. I gave him 20 Things God Can’t Do writing “By the Spirit’s power” in the front along with his name and the date and “forgiven”. As I got up to go he reached out and firmly shook my hand and said, “If I don’t see you again, thank you for this.” “You’re welcome; it was great to talk to you.” I replied happily.

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

In Him,

Bob