Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed and things are good. I had a good day on campus and Joe prayed with me to receive Jesus. I got a good seed planted with Micheal as well who took a Bible study and the student edition of The Case for Christ from me. Bearded guy in a ball cap jeans and work boots in the Science Building sitting in one of the cubbies looking down at the lounge. We got side swiped on the way home from a wedding on Saturday going somewhere around 60 on the tollway, guy fell asleep it seems so we brought the car in to a shop tonight. God had an angel caring for us is seems as the guy just bounced off and went over a couple lanes and hit the brakes before he went into the back of another car but we stayed in our lane and were unscathed. Ya never know what might happen.

Joe was sitting in a lounge in the BIC just chilling out between classes on the north-side ground floor. He was wearing a Sox cap said he wanted to find a way to work for them in marketing for a career. “Getting people to come to the park.” He had on a gray hoodie under a tan jacket, skinning jeans and work boots. He had that boy next door look, strangely similar to an another guy I’d talked to this year, Sam. The fresh faced kid thing. When I asked him what he would say to God if he died and He asked, “Why should I let you into Heaven?” He said, “I think I’m an overall nice person, I try to do the right thing on most occasions.” As I went through the Gospel with him he knew Jesus had died for his sins. It was really great to talk to him, he was really enthusiastic and engaged and in agreement with each point of the Gospel, His death, His blood cleansing us and Jesus imputed righteousness. So I asked him if he would want to be forgiven with God living inside him or thought something else. “I would want God living inside me,” he replied. I explained that he hadn’t had the right answer to the question of how he would get into Heaven but I might have caught him off guard with the question. I said I knew he knew the story but when he asked for forgiveness for his sins was he thinking he would try to do better and God was forgiving or had he thought, “I know I’ll be forgiven because Jesus died for me.” I asked if he had been trusting in Christ’s work for forgiveness. “Not until now,” he said, smiling seriously.  So I said “Well if you’d like to place your trust in that, there is a prayer you could pray” and I explained it as I went. “Lord Jesus I want to know your personally” so I want you to live inside me “Thank you for dying on the cross for my sins” so you’d be grateful “I open the door of my life and I receive you” or I believe “you are my Savior and Lord” Lord means God “Thank you for forgiving me of my sins and giving me eternal life. Take control of the throne of my life. Make me the kind of person you want me to be.” I said he could pray that silently in his heart, not so I would hear but God would and he could be sure he would be forgiven and God would live inside him. “Wanna do it?” “Yeah,” he replied. “Just pretend I’m not here,” I said. “Alright,” he replied. When he finished praying to receive Jesus I explained the Christian life living by the Spirit’s power and gave him a Bible Study on the Deity of Christ and 20 Thing God Can’t Do writing his name and the date and “forgiven” in the inside and “By the Spirit’s Power” I explained everything God was asking him to do He would give him the power to do he just needed to ask. “Just ask,” he replied. I told him the parable about wearing God’s righteousness in Matthew 22 and a couple other things and he was visibly happy. It was great. He gave me his email to send him some stuff and I got up to go saying, “It was really nice to meet you.” “You too, thanks so much,” he said shaking my hand. I told him I hoped he got that Sox job and he laughed and I headed out.

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

In Him,

Bob