Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed and life was grand. I had a good day on campus chatting with the peeps. Josh prayed with me to receive Jesus.

I felt provoked to head up to the third floor of the BIC as I approached the elevators at the back southwest corner. Maybe being tired as I am at this point in the semester I just felt like a ride and up feels like progress. But I soon found Josh sitting in the hallway on a bench outside a glass walled lounge so God had probably nudged me. I asked if he’d like to do a student survey and he said, “I will if you would like me too,” thinking to do me a favor I think, which is what I was trying to do for him. I replied something like I would if he was willing and introduced myself and sat down getting his name. He had bright red hair and a thin mustache, bit of a chin beard, all to match. He was a good looking kid. He wore dark blue nylon sweats and a lighter blue t-shirt. He said he went to Catholic Church regularly when I asked. When I asked him what he would say to God if He asked why should I let you into Heaven? he said, “That’s an interesting question…” and began to ponder over it a bit. “I might not been the best at fulfilling the 10 Commandments but it does not mean I’m a bad person.” So I began to go through the Gospel with him and he tuned right in with a good spirit as I explained you had to be perfect to get into Heaven (Matthew 5:48), which would mean if God left it at that everyone would go to Hell and he saw the problem. He remembered Jesus had died for his sins and I explained that, how His blood cleansed us from all sin and He died in our place his righteousness was our righteousness. He wanted to be forgiven for his sins and I suggested he might not have realized all this before to commit his life to it as a man but if he wanted to trust in what Jesus had done to take away his sins there was a prayer he could pray. Finishing explaining it I said, “It says here, does this prayer express the desire of your heart?” He said it did. So I said if he wanted to he could pray and then know his sins were forgiven, and God would like inside him, silently in his heart. “Not so I could hear but God would hear,” I said. “Why not,” he replied. And I handed it to him and said, “Just pretend I’m not even here.” “Exactly,” he replied. It seemed like he took a long time to pray but I think at one point we were both waiting for the other to look over. He did not have his own Bible so I gave him one writing his name and the date and “forgiven” in the front which he liked. And I showed him there was a “Where to Turn” section in the back and one on Messianic passages. I also gave him a Bible study on the Deity of Christ and 20 Things God Can’t Do writing “By the Holy Spirit’s power” in the front explaining everything God was asking him to do he’d give him the power to do. His class was starting in minutes so he had to go. “Thank you Bob, I appreciate it,” he said shaking my hand. “Yeah, you have a good one,” I replied. “I’ll see you in Heaven you can tell me how it went.” “Sounds good,” he replied. “Merry Christmas!” I said over my shoulder as I walked off. “Merry Christmas to you as well,” he replied and we parted ways.

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

In Him,

Bob