Hey brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope your day was great and the Lord blessed. I had a good day on campus Drey and Kamaria each prayed to receive Jesus today.

I went down a connecting hallway between the main through fairs of the BIC building. One of them has a bump out with two benches across from each other separated by 10-12 feet. Trey was sitting on one of the benches and I asked him if he wanted to do a survey, he said he had already done one. I get that a lot this year because Crusade goes around and does interest surveys and never tells anyone the Gospel. I have no idea why since it seems to inoculate people to hearing. I was told they will tell them the Gospel later but more often than not they never see them again. Trey was sure he had done a survey. Explaining that what I was offering him was more of the same to no end. I asked if wanted to hear how the Bible said he got to Heaven or if he wasn’t that interested. He said he wasn’t interested. Then Kamaria who was sitting across on the other bench and said brightly, “I’ll do it.” So I said cool and walked over to talk to her. African American, she had her hair pulled up in an afro and had a low neck shirt on, cute round face and a pug nose a bit heavy set and on the short side. The guy she was with was acting like an effeminate drama queen and did not want to do the survey. He was side tracking her from the beginning but I prayed he would go away and he soon got into his phone and then walked off when he got a call. When I asked her what she would say to God to get into Heaven she said, “Because you love me, I don’t know. Everyone deserves a second chance? Clean my slate if I mess up kick me out.” She thought she might have a 75% chance of going to Heaven. When I asked her how God took away her sin she did not know so I explained the Gospel to her. I asked her if she would want to be forgiven trusting in what Jesus had done or thought something else and she said, “The first one,” with a tone like Of Course. I said well it seemed like you had not put all this together before and she nodded that was true so I said if she wanted to trust in Christ there was a prayer she could pray and I explained it to her. I said she could pray it silently and would be asking for God forgiveness and if she wanted to do it, “Um hmm,” she replied and she silently prayed to receive Jesus. So that was great. I gave her a Bible and showed her the where to turn section putting her name and the Date and “forgiven” under it. The drama guy returned and asked if I knew she was Jada’s sister, (who had prayed to receive Jesus earlier in the year). I said I didn’t but that was great, “you can talk to her about all this”. I gave her a Bible Study and 20 Things God Can’t Do writing “by the Spirit’s Power” in the front. We said good bye and I said, “God bless you.” And she said, “God bless you too.”

I got up to walk past Drey who I had glanced over at but he had head phones on and I was pretty sure he hadn’t heard anything. “Can I talk to you?” he asked. I said, “Sure,” and sat down and asked, “What do you want to talk about?” “Just talk,” he said. “Do you have a question?” “Just say what you told her.” “Oh ok,” so I began saying Christianity was like a blood transfusion and I went through the Gospel with him. He was dressed all in black, zipper fleece black jeans and shoes. Drey had dark hair and rectangle glasses and mustache and chin beard that went down his jaw line and thin mutton chops for side burns, good looking guy. He knew Jesus had died for his sins saying he had always believed that and went to church. I explained how Jesus had died in his place and His blood would continue to cleanse him so God could live inside him and remain there. I explained God’s imputed righteousness and offered him the opportunity to pray to receive Jesus when he said he wanted to be forgiven. I talked to him about how God had a relationship with everyone as their creator but if he would trust in What Jesus had done for the forgiveness of his sins God would live inside him. He prayed to receive Jesus and then said, “It’s insane how real this is.” I said that was true if God was drawing you to him. He said he had heard people deny faith based on science. I said that paradigm was changing due to increased scientific understanding, the complexity of the cell and DNA would eventually require a source for the incredible swath of information we now know is necessary to complete a life form even smaller ones were incredibly complex. “Darwin thought the cell was about as complicated as a jellybean with a ball bearing in the middle of it, and cells were interchangeable between life forms, so they could morph into something else, we know now that is impossible.” He agreed. I gave him a Bible study and 20 Things God Can’t Do writing by the Spirit’s Power in the front. He only had a Bible in Spanish and he said he could not read it easily. So I said I would get him a Bible out of my truck. (As I walked to my truck I passed Jada who was talking to Kamaria about the gospel in the hall.) When I returned I gave it to him and he said, “Wanna show me how to navigate this?” I showed him the “where to turn” section and the Gospel of John explaining the “Word” in the first chapter and that all Jesus words were in red. I gave him a card for Compass church telling him he could watch the sermon on line to pick up some more teaching. I wrote his name and the date and “forgiven in the front of the Bible. It turned out he had been clinically depressed and felt like God had got him out of it and changed him and he did not have destructive thoughts anymore. He teared up a bit telling me. I explained God had been with him but now was in him and would give him the strength he needed living inside out. We said good bye and he shook my hand appreciatively. “If I don’t see you around I’ll see you in Heaven,” I said as I walked away. “For real!” he replied.

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

Blessings,

Bob