Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed today. I had a good day on campus and Cindy, Chuck and Nick each prayed with me to receive Jesus.

Cindy was sitting in the row of chairs in the entranceway outside the cafeteria. She said she’d do a student survey. She was a pretty Latina girl with long hair well past her shoulders. She had polished, striped, short nails, a thin gold ring in her left nostril and a military style camo jacket on and skinny jeans. It turned out she had a daughter named Alexa and attended a Roman Catholic Church. When I asked her what she would say to God if asked why he should let her into Heaven she said, “‘Cause I wanna be happy.” She nodded, affirming, as I went though each point of the Gospel with her, she did not know what Jesus had done to take away her sins however. So I explained how Jesus had died for her sins so she would not have to die in Hell and that His blood cleansed her from all her sins on an ongoing basis as a power in the world and then that His righteousness was her righteousness if she trusted in Christ. She agreed that she hadn’t put it all together before, trusting in what Jesus had done but she nodded that she would want to be forgiven for her sins. I talked her through the prayer she could pray to receive forgiveness trusting in Jesus and asked if it was the desire of her heart. She nodded again and I said if she wanted she could pray it silently. She nodded again and I said, “Just pretend I’m not even here.” She said ok with a slight laugh. I explained the Christian life and the symbolism of the Mass as originally intended. I gave her a copy of 20 Things God Can’t Do and wrote “by the Spirit’s Power” in the front with her name and the date and “forgiven”. She thanked me for it. I also gave her a Bible study. Getting up I said, “It was nice to meet you.” “Same,” she said and I headed out.

Chuck was a real big guy but about 6 foot tall he played football, African American. He had jeans on and a fisherman’s hat, wore glasses had a warm inviting smile. He made eye contact with me so I nodded and fist bumped him and asked if he wanted to do a student survey. He said sure and I sat down beside him in the row of chairs leading into the tunnel to the PE building. He went to a Catholic church back where he was from and thought he had a 50/50 shot at going to Heaven. He listened closely to the Gospel and really seemed to enjoy hearing the illustrations and laughed a lot, as expressive as Cindy had been quiet. When I asked him what he would say to God to get into Heaven he said, “Isn’t that why I was created?” As I went through the Gospel he hadn’t seemed to understand any of it before. “So Jesus dies for my sins and [cleanses us by] his blood, I got it,” he summarized after I had finished saying as much. I told him he needed to receive Jesus and trust in that to be forgiven and that was by faith, reading him some verses that applied. “So would you want to be forgiven for your sins with God living inside you or do you think something else.” Be forgiven with God living inside,” he said. So I explained there was a prayer he could pray to be forgiven and said he could pray it silently and he said OK and prayed to receive Jesus. I explained the Christian life living “Inside Out”. I wrote “by the Spirit’s Power” in the front of  20 Things God Can’t Do along with his name and the date and “forgiven”. He dug that and I gave him a Bible study. He was a charismatic guy and shook my hand firmly (like a rock) and said, “Thank you,” enthusiastically. God bless you I said shaking his hand again, “Thank you, God bless you too.”

Nick was sitting in the hall lounge on the third floor of the Science Building. I almost never go up there because there is no place except that tiny lounge to sit and it’s been empty when I checked. But I got into the elevator after tooling around the lower floors with one good conversation. I had some time before a chiropractic appointment. When I got in the elevator I pushed 2 but then feeling compelled to go up I pushed 3. I then wearily got off on 2 and took the stairs realizing the elevator had gone up without me and I’d zoned on the floor. But happily it was worth the climb because I bumped into Nick in the lounge there was one other guy sitting in the on a couch. He was at the table he seemed really interested to talk. He attended a Maronite Church (Eastern catholic). He had a curly mop of hair and a thin curly beard and straight mustache. He wore a hoodie and sweats. He said he wanted to have a family. A lot of guys that say that have prayed to receive Christ have said that so I was hopeful. When I asked him what he would say to God he said, “I was friendly to everyone I met, I never engaged in violence and I went to Church.” He was really interested in the Gospel and followed very closely like it was the best thing he had heard all day. When I got to the end I asked him if he “wanted to be forgiven trusting in what Jesus and done or thought something else. You know you grow up in the church and it becomes part of your identity… But do you think you had trusted in what Jesus had done for you to be forgiven or were you just kinda going through the motions?” “Going through the motions,” he replied “but now I’m thinking about this way,” he said pointing at the circle with a cross on the throne.” So I told him he could ask for forgiveness and talked him through the prayer and said he could pray it silently. He took the booklet and prayed to receive Jesus. I gave him 20 Things God Can’t Do and also wrote “By the Spirit’s Power” and his name and the date and “forgiven” in the front after explaining how God would give him the power to do everything He asked him to do. I gave him a Bible study. When I showed him Job 9:8 teaches God walks on the water and 1000 years later Jesus did that to tell us he is God his eyes went wide and he said, “Wow!”  That was great. I told him I would pray for him and got his email and got up to go. “Thank you very much my man,” he said shaking my hand with a big smile. “Yeah thank you, I’ll see you around.” And I headed out.

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

In Him,

Bob