Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed and things went well. I had kind of a long day on campus walking around for about an hour and a half or more before I could get anyone to talk to me about Jesus. Though I did talk to some guys handing out Christian books briefly and one of the Guys I had gone through the Gospel with last year and his friends in passing. There really are not many students sitting around by the point in the semester, a lot have dropped their afternoon class(s) realizing they had taken on too much along with their job they do for money. So ya have to hope to come across someone who was headed out the door but decided to sit for a minute before heading out the door or their ride was late. I think this turned out to be true of Jack, who prayed to receive Christ.

He was sitting by the door facing north to the parking lot sitting on a padded bench. He was a small good looking guy, looked about 15 but said he was 18. He had a sandy mop of hair and wore jeans and a blue coat with a back pack at his feet, had small features and several beauty mark freckles (could have played an elf in the Christmas play). I asked if he’d like to do a student survey for the Bible study group, what he thought about God and stuff. Jack asked what it was about and I said, “Its questions like, say you’re walking down the road, and you 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?” He thought for a minute and said, “I don’t know what I’d say.” So I said, “Well would like me to show you some Bible verses that tell you how to get to Heaven and answer the question?” He said something a bit noncommittal like, “Well, I guess you could.” I had not talked to anyone for what was now approaching 2 hours so that was enough of an opening. I sat down and took out a booklet to show him some of the verses I was about to quote and began to go through the Gospel. I asked if he had ever gone to church and he replied, “Not for a while, unfortunately.” He was responsive to the verses I shared. I explained the perfect life of Christ and His sacrifice for his sins and His blood that cleansed him explained how Jesus had earned the righteousness of God by perfectly fulfilling the Law and now could give it to Him, it was to his credit. “If you marry a millionaire ya got a million bucks or if ya get adopted by a billionaire you get to live in the mansion and drive the cars. So God adopts us and makes us His children and then He gives us His stuff. He gives us the sacrifice for our sins, Jesus dies so we do not have to die eternally in Hell. The blood cleanses us so God can live inside us and He gives us the righteousness of God that surrounds us. So ya got some place to go, Heaven and something to wear when ya get there, the Righteousness of God.” I summed up Christianity for him again and asked if he’d like to be forgiven for his sins so God could live inside him or thought something else. He asked me to say it again, I did, he and answered, “I would like to be forgiven.” I said, “Well if you have not trusted in Jesus before there is a prayer you could pray. Do you believe Jesus is God, he died for your sins and rose from the dead?” He said he did after a moment of thought so I walked him through the prayer and asked reading the line “Is this prayer the desire of your heart?” “Yeah,” he said looking at the words. “Well if you wanted to you could pray it right now, not liked I’d hear you but silently and God would hear your prayer and forgive you, wanna do it?” “Yeah, sure.” He took the booklet and to pray and said, “So do I do it within myself?” “Yeah just inside, God can read your mind.” He silently prayed then and received Christ. I told him he could keep the booklet reading the rest and said this is how you live the Christian life.” and went through life Inside out by the Spirit   He did not have a Bible so I offered him one. “What’s it look like?” he asked. Then he saw it looked cool, my friend bought me some with leather look covers. I showed him the Messianic passages section and the “Where to Turn” passage and the Messianic passages fulfilled lists. I wrote his name in the front and the date and “forgiven”. I gave him a Bible Study and a card for Compass Church in Wheaton saying he could check out the messages on the website on the card. I wrote “By the Spirit’s power” in the front of 20 Things God Can’t Do. I explained everything God was asking him to do he’d given him the power to do. He got up to leave and shook my hand and said, “Well, thanks for showing me all that.” “Yeah, if I don’t see ya again I’ll see ya in Heaven.” I replied. “Yeah, thank you so much.” I headed down the stairs and off to a class my friend Hesham invited me to sit in on, on Islam, and he out the door to his car.

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

In Him,

Bob