Hey brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed and ya kept warm as the winter closes in and the trees are stripped bare. I had a good day on campus and Tanner prayed with me to receive Jesus.

I went up to the third floor of the BIC when I first got to school and Tanner was the first guy I talked to. He was wearing a Jacksonville Jaguars cap and a hoodie pulled up over his head. He had a bit of facial hair, and a square jaw, sharp features. It turned out he was in The Knights of Columbus at his church. He said his dad and his uncle were in it and when his dad asked him to join, at first he wasn’t that up for the meetings but his dad said, “You get a sword and a cape.” So he decided to go for it and it was fun to be part of the ceremonies at church. When I asked him what he would say to God to get into Heaven he said, “I don’t know, that’s a good question. I would say I think I’ve lived a pretty good life, not the best but I’ve tried to keep in line.” He thought he had about an 85% chance of Going to Heaven. He knew Jesus had died for his sins and listened closely to the Gospel. When I was explaining how we are clothed with Jesus (His imputed righteousness) I said, “So it’s like ya got someplace to go, Heaven, and something to wear when ya get there, you know like the cape.” He liked that. I finished I said so which kind of person are you or would you want to be, would you want to be forgiven for your sins with God living inside trusting in Jesus or do you think something else?” I gave him options of what other religions would say and said, “You know you grow up in the church and you just go along with stuff.” He agreed. But then you have to decide if it is what you want to follow. I said if he wanted to commit to Christ there was a prayer he could pray and I walked him through it. He said He had struggled some with faith and had been into science and his dad had talked him through it. I talked with him about the complexities of DNA, one cell being as complex as the city of NY at rush hour. I said that studies of the Human Genome have shown that every generation passes on mutations and they grow in number. He said he knew that from Biology in college. I said that  due to this we are actually on a trajectory towards extinction, we are not evolving up. People cling to it because they do not want to believe in God. “Your kids are not going to give birth to the first X-men,” I said and he laughed in agreement. I talked about the gaps in the fossil record too. I gave him a copy of the student edition of The Case for a Creator later. I asked if he’d like to pray and receive Christ and that if God lived inside him he would give him the power to do everything He was asking him to do. I said he could pray silently. “Hmm,” he hesitated, he breathed out like he was bracing himself for something and said, “Yeah sure.” And took the booklet and prayed to receive Christ. I explained living inside out by the Spirit’s power and wrote that, his name and the date and “forgiven” in the front of 20 Things God Can’t Do showing him the verses in it. I said, “When you are at church you know the wafer is symbolic of Christ’s body and the wine of His blood and it is commenting that Jesus has died for you, so you are forgiven. So when you take it you can just say, “Thank you.” that sounded good to him and we agreed church could be a little hard to get into sometimes. “Thanks you,” he said as we got up to leave. “Yeah, it was nice meeting you,” I replied. “It was nice to meet you as well.” We shook hands and I said, “Have a good week,” and headed out.

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

In Him,

Bob