Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed and if you are a Cub fan they win! I had an opportunity to go through the gospel with a few peeps today. I talked to two religious Christians that struggled to remember what Jesus had done to take away their sins but in the end thought they had been trusting in Christ. So I hope the conversation brought them closer to trust in Him. I also gave the student edition of The Case for Christ to Owen, (Kind of a gentle giant, big, tall white guy in sweats, glass) who sincerely did not know if Jesus was God, having failed to encounter anyone suggesting Jesus was Lord/God. I also gave him a Bible study where Jesus claimed to be God in scripture and a short argument to make it plausible. I’ll be praying for him. I spent the last hour talking with Cody who had been influenced by the cults (he refused to claim he was a Jehovah’s Witness but used all their arguments) into believing Jesus was not God. I showed him multiple passages in a Bible and he continually acted like he did not understand the plane sense meaning I told to him using the JW twist on Isaiah 9:6 (Mighty is not the same god as Almighty, no answer for how Jesus would be called the Eternal Father) John 1 (the Word was “a” god, there is no indefinite article in the Greek so that’s another of their tiresome lies). If everything that has come into being came into existence by Jesus, Jesus did not ever come into being; he pretended he did not understand this simple logic. He acted like he did not know what it meant that the Jews crucified Jesus for blasphemously claiming to be God. At His trial He claimed to be the Son of God, to them then claiming to be the Son of God was claiming to be God. I finally decided the conversation was satanic. Even liberals scholars who don’t believe the Bible would tell you the New Testament authors believed Jesus was God. I pointed this out but of course scholarship is panned by the JW’s.  Like talking to a leftist with confirmation bias you just walk away shaking your head. He was either deliberately talking me in a circle or was really slow witted and the loop was in his head. But in writing this out the arguments were a guy who sat in a cult for a long time. I decided I had told him enough when he revisited the things he had said before that I disproved to him realizing the game was not sincere. So I left him to his deceit (he was quite happy with it) and headed on my way. He’d been taught no one went to Heaven so he had himself convinced he was at no risk of Hell either. It was interesting to see the excuse he had for effectively dismissing the Bible which is where the JW doctrine leads you. Even the 144,000 they claim are resurrected are not, they are only copies of the people they once were, but then annihilation isn’t much of a risk to worry about is it? Interestingly enough another guy who was raised Jehovah’s Witness this year prayed with me to receive Christ; he saw the false reality at the Kingdom Hall. Luke 8:8 “Other seed fell into the good soil, and grew up, and produced a crop a hundred times as great.” As He said these things, He would call out, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”

So Thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for Evangelism today, I am hoping it will one day produce fruit or did today in a way I could not see.

In Him,

Bob