Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
I hope you had a great day walking with the Lord. I had a good day on campus and Lucien prayed with me to receive Jesus today. Now if I can just get about 300 people to come over with blow dryers to melt the sheet of ice on my driveway, I’ll be set.
Lucien was an interesting looking guy. He was good looking and said he had French blood (from a Grandfather in Mexico) and his name was French. His eyes (eyelids) were Asian, almond shaped, clean shaven. He was sitting on the chairs by the lockers I use by the doors, near the waterfall. (Yeah COD has a waterfall; the stone mason working at another part of the school said the stone around it cost $100,000.) It is off now, but you can sit by the bronze life-size buck leaping at the base of it. My tax dollars at work. Lucien was on his phone, wearing oatmeal colored winter cap pulled down low. He had torn up jeans on and a big hooded parka with a plaid lining and looked like he was headed out. I asked him if he’d do a student survey about God and he said sure. When I asked him one thing he wanted to do before he died he said, “Have children.” If a guy says that, through the years in my experience, it is likely he’ll receive Jesus (or is a Christian). Average college guys are not thinking about family life as teenagers. He thought he had about a 90% chance of going to Heaven and said he went to Catholic school. I asked him what he would say to God if He asked, “Why should I let you into Heaven?” “Why not?” he replied. So I began to go through the Gospel with him so he’d know why. He knew Jesus had died for his sins but had not really been trusting in it saying, “I’m not gonna lie. I went to school those years, but after a while…” “It just starts to kind of bounce off,” I said finishing his thought for him and he said, “Yeah.” As far as religious faith went, he had mostly just been rolling with it. We talked for a long time on about how screwed up the Catholic Church was with Homosexuality and things in society. [Here is an article for an example: Homosexual Subculture Thrives at Catholic Seminary ]
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I talked to Lucien about the soul and how only Christianity teaches you have a soul that can be damaged or made more healthy or better in this life.(Though other religions teach there is something that goes on after you die.) The Bible was written by God and tells you how your soul can be blessed and thrive. After we’d been talking for a long time we’d hit it off. I had offered him a prayer to receive Jesus and he silently prayed with me to receive Christ towards the end of my time with him. I gave him a Bible Study and 20 Things God Can’t Do to read, writing him name and the date and “forgiven” in the front along with “By the Spirit’s Power” having explained the Christian life. He gave me his email. It was one of the more enjoyable conversations with a student I’ve had all school year. We shook hands and I told him I would be praying for him through spring and the next school year. When he found out how many people I was praying for he said I could leave him off the list saying he’d be ok. But I promised him I would put him on it and as I got up I said I would be praying for him again and he said kindly he’d pray for me too.
I encouraged some Christian students with the Gospel and got a good seed planted with a girl named Sedona. A pretty girl with stick straight blonde hair and a wide smile, who thought she’d probably need God some day but was just a Christmas & Easter person at this point. She sincerely thanked me for telling her the Gospel as I got up to leave.
So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today. God blessed.
In Him,
Bob