Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I had a great day of sharing today; I hope you were blessed today as well. Today two students prayed with me to receive Christ, Stephanie and Franklin and I had a good conversation with a Muslim Student Sho, from Pakistan who took the student edition of The Case for Christ from me to read and How Good is Good Enough by Andy Stanley. He was really searching and said he had done a lot of bad things and a lot of bad things had been done to him. He’d investigated other religions and found help through counseling that was Christian ideologically as he reiterated it. We talked a while until his ride came and he took my phone number to talk more.

On two separate occasions I went through the gospel, [or tried to with the second who had to run] with students who are into a new cult at school. It seems to be from their teachings they are The World Mission Society Church of God. I have seen and overheard several Koreans talking up students trying to get them into personal Bible studies, a similar tactic is used by the Church of Christ (who teach Baptismal regeneration — not the Christian denomination found all over the South). WMSCG people walk around asking students if they have heard of the Mother God, which turns out to be some Korean chick whose now dead husband was the second coming of Christ. They believe any number of things I won’t bore you with I shot down about 6-8 of them one by one as one girl took me to passages she had highlighted in a bible. It was a lot like talking to a Jehovah’s Witness, they show you a passage or quote one, you explain how this is obviously a misinterpretation of the plan language found there, they jump to the next one. One she showed me involved a claim for the preexistence of humans b4 they are born on earth (as angels who have sinned and were sent down from heaven) using the language of God’s final speech to Job, in which ironically is God actually telling Job he was not there at the foundation of the world and had not been born, or existed, yet. I am not sure how much progress I made. On another occasion I had come behind them after they had talked to a student and warned them and told them the Gospel.

Stephanie was sitting in the MAC (MCAninch Arts Center), did a survey with me and believed the Gospel after I went through it with her. She is Asian, cute, moral and attended a Catholic Church until College started eating up all her time. But the Gospel all made sense to her though she had not known how God took away her sins and when I asked her if she had ever prayed to be forgiven based on what Jesus had done for her on the cross, she said she hadn’t but wanted to and to have God’s Spirit live inside her, so she prayed to receive Christ. She took a copy of More than a Carpenter from me to read and a Bible study on the Deity of Christ and said, “This is good, because I hear that sometimes, people say Jesus wasn’t God.” So I think she was interested to read and she was enthusiastic about the Lord.

Franklin was sitting on a decorative chunk of limestone on the newly grassed slope by the cafeteria doors chilling in the sun b4 class. He is a pretty big, nice looking Latino guy, and friendly. He had recently moved to the area and didn’t have a Church yet. I could tell he took to the Gospel right-away and while I talked him through stuff he would say, “Oh,” and “I see.” He also did not know how God took away his sins, he was an honest guy. He felt like he was in a relationship with God so I explained the difference between having a relationship with someone and being in one saying everyone has a relationship with God as their creator but not everyone is in one where He lives inside them, I compared it to a girlfriend and a friend who was a girl that he never asked out. He saw the difference. I asked him if he had ever asked God to forgive his sins based on what Jesus had done for him on the cross, he hadn’t and wanted to and did. I also gave him More than a Carpenter and a Bible study and got his e-mail to send him some stuff.

So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and today if you had a chance. It is beautiful in Chicago all the flowering trees have come out all at once from the heat, it was 87 today. And God has provided many people who have come to Christ through your prayers, 74 so far this school year. Thank you for your help.

Blessings in Him,
Bob