Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed and life was good walking with Jesus by His Spirit. I had a good day on campus but it began slow as very many peeps turned me down over an hour or so. But in the end Malcolm prayed with me to receive Christ and his friend Dorian confessed Christ so I hope he was a Christian already or had heard enough to truly believe. I will pray for him. I also had a good conversation end of the day with Jacob a black guy in the cafeteria. I had talked to him a bit before when he’d had to run for his ride. He seemed to want to talk. I went through the Gospel with him and helped him sort out the lies he had been told by a cult group on campus. This group believes in the “Mother-goddess” in Korea and I believe calls themselves “Melchizedek”. We talked for 30 minutes or more and in the end I gave him the student edition of The Case for Christ and a bible. He was very close to receiving Jesus. He looked very well groomed and professional, gap-toothed smile with a very short trimmed haircut and beard. He seemed glad to have some direction saying he’d been looking for a book to read.

Early on was slow. After about an hour of getting next to no one to talk to me I felt like I was supposed to head over to the PE building. Since I was pressed to get someone to talk I couldn’t ignore the premonition. I walked through and the PE lounge had a lot of peeps. So I headed up the stair looking for someone sitting alone giving the nod to a guy I had spoken with before heading up the stair. Literally one guy was up there but I knew him and he was studying so I headed back down. Looking over the lounge from the stairs decided to suck it up and try to butt into a group of black male athletes sitting on the counter with jackets on to see if I could get some interest. “Anyone wanna do a student survey?” I got a “No” from a really good looking guy who looked like a smaller Rick Fox (old Lakers player) and the next two guys I asked if they wanted to do a survey. One was more or less unresponsive (Dorian). He had kind of the same hair as the guy beside him kind of rough and every which way on top and short on the sides. Both had facial hair but Malcolm, beside him, had more beneath the chin and jaw line. Good looking guys. Malcolm said he was “already in a group” and began to search for his phone to show me a text. Then had a slight panic, unable to find his phone. So he got up and walked away to where he had been sitting a table away and got it. The text was from CRU. So I said, “I started that group on campus. Ya wanna answer the big metaphysical question?” “Ok” “Say you are walking down the road and get hit by a bus, so you’re dead and you stand before God and He says, ‘why should I let you into Heaven?’ What would you say?” “I would say because I have forgiven myself for everything.” “Well, that is good you have forgiven yourself but why does God forgive you? Everything belongs to God so when we do something wrong we damage His stuff, even if we damage us since we belong to Him too. So how does he get paid for the damage we did to He can forgive us.” I quoted 1John 1:9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.  “So God is just to forgive us because He got paid. Who paid for your sins?” He did not know so I got out a trusty booklet and began to explain the Gospel to Malcolm. I talked about His blood that cleansed him and he said, “He pays with His blood!” And I said, “Blood pays for sin like Discover Card pays for pizza.” and he liked that. I explained Christ’s imputed righteousness and he said, “That’s nice!”  And as I finished that part he said, “So it is all about Jesus.” Right I said. I explained he needed to trust in what Christ had done and that his good stuff did not fix his bad stuff. I asked if he wanted to be forgiven or if he thought something else and he said he wanted to be forgiven. I offered him the prayer and after I explained it he prayed it quietly. I explained the Christian life to him living “Inside Out” and showed him it was a Crew booklet saying how it had come full circle to find him and he laughed. I gave him 20 things God Can’t Do and explained a bit showing him the verses and wrote “By the Spirit’s Power” and “Forgiven” in the front. Dorian overheard it and said, “Hey can I get one of those books? I grew up in a Christian home.” I asked if he believed Jesus was God had died for his sins and rose from the dead. He said, “Yes,” so I said, “Say I believe it,” playing’ with him a little. So he said “I believe it,’ smiled and I gave him the book wrote his name in it and “By the Spirit’s power” in the front too. They talked then about their religious grandma’s. I gave them both Bible Studies on the Deity of Christ they were happy. I wrote down their names than on a card and joked a second and we headed out in different directions.

So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for Evangelism today if you had a chance God gave me courage and blessed.

In Him,

Bob