Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed and you found your rest in Him. I had a good day on campus and Sean and Stephanie each prayed with me to receive Jesus.

Stephanie was sitting in the MAC lounge. She is Latina and goes every Sunday to a Catholic Church. She wore black rimmed glasses and had dark hair just past her shoulders had a v-neck shirt on a jacket and black pants. Good looking kid she was shy but nice. When I asked her what she would say to God to get into Heaven she said, “Oh gosh… I don’t know, I’ve always got my faith even when bad things happen to me, I’ve always felt like He has a plan.” She knew Jesus had died for her sins and after going through the gospel with her and asking her if she wanted to be forgiven trusting in Jesus with God inside her she said, “Trusting with God inside.” I asked her if she thought she had ever placed her trust in Jesus and she said, “I feel like… I don’t really know.” I said that if she did not know she probably wasn’t trusting in it and she agreed. I gave her some analogies and then I said there was a prayer she could pray and asked if it was the desire of her heart she nodded and I asked if she’d like to pray, “Yes,” she whispered and she prayed to receive Jesus. She had a Bible and I told her she could begin to start reading in John and explained John called Jesus, “the Word,” which was a name Jeremiah called Jesus in the Old Testament. I gave her a Bible study and talked her through that and the book 20 Things God Can’t Do writing her name and the date and “forgiven” on the inside. She thanked me and I headed out.

Sean was back at COD after finishing his degree to take paramedic classes. He was wearing gray sweats and a gray hoodie with 45 and stars on the front. Seemed he was in the PE building sitting at the table after having worked out. He had a neatly trimmed beard and his hair brown swept back, kind of a classic good looking, tall solid built guy. When I asked him what he would say to God to get into Heaven he said, “There is no good reason, the only reason I’d be getting in is because of Christ.” When I asked him the % likelihood he would get into Heaven when he died he said, “I’m optimistic. I can’t really do much about what He has to say, I’m hoping.” I figured he was a Christian and possibly just did not have assurance and he was nominally but he had forgotten how Jesus took away his sins, if he had ever known. He’d been an assistant youth pastor at his Methodist Church where he did not attend anymore. I went through the Gospel with him and he took it all in enthusiastically and said he would want to be forgiven. I explained he needed to trust in Christ’s work on the cross that paid for and so forgave his sins, “It seems like you were kind of thinking about Jesus more like he’d be there when you die and you hope He’d just say, ‘That’s my guy he can go in.'” He laughed and agreed. So I showed him the prayer he could pray talking him through it. “That’s cool!” he responded enthusiastically. And I said, “It hits all the bases”. I said he could pray it like I wasn’t even there and he did. I gave him 20 Things God Can’t Do and a Bible Study on the Deity of Christ he really liked. Then we talked for over 2 hours about the lies his friends believed and the things they said about God. He knew a lot of apologetics and read a lot on line and mentioned some websites. These all seemed to assume you knew the Gospel, and he had believed Jesus was God. The complexity of the human body science he was learning in his anatomy and physiology class was reinforcing that the world as we now know it could not evolve. We talked about confirmation bias and he felt like a lot of the guys he knew just found things they thought supported their stuff. He’d broken up with his last girl friend because she had said the Bible was just nice sayings and he’d been realizing how it all fit together and that the Bible was a miraculous book. He realized dating her to try and change her mind wasn’t going to work. But I don’t see how before talking with me he could have told her how to be saved anyway. I enjoyed talking with him and he thanked me and we parted ways. So I hope I’ll bump into him again, he said he would try to make it to the Bible Study.

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

In Him,

Bob