Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope you had a good day today walking with the Lord. It was a beautiful day outside as I walked through it a few times between buildings. No one was willing to talk to me outside that I asked but Maria and Rachel each prayed with me to receive Jesus.

Maria was sitting in the hall of the BIC building the southeast side. She wore a t-shirt and jeans and was a bigger person that average, not fat. Her face kind of reminded me of the Mona Lisa, only prettier, when she smiled her teeth barley showed in a half circle opening. She hadn’t been to church for a while but came from a Roman Catholic family. She had a slight accent and looked Latina with long brown hair and a point to her chin. When I asked her what she would say to God if she died and He asked: Why should I let you into Heaven? She said, “Hmm, because I’ve done great things… good things. I’ve also done some bad. I wouldn’t complain if He told me No.” She thought she had an 80% chance of going to Heaven. As I went through the Gospel I asked her if she knew what Jesus had done to take away her sins. “Yes,” she replied as if saying she knew that Jesus had taken away her sins. She listened to the Gospel and my explanation of the imputed righteousness of Christ and his blood to cleanse her. I asked her if she would want to be forgiven trusting in Jesus or thought something else, “No forgiven,” she replied. So I suggested she might not have understood all this before to trust in Jesus to be forgiven and she agreed. So I said if she’d like to be forgiven there was a prayer she could pray and talked her through it asking if it was the desire of her heart and she nodded. I suggested if she’d like to pray silently right then only God would hear and she would know she was forgiven. She gave a small smile at that and a slight laugh and took the booklet and prayed to receive Jesus. I explained the Christian life to her then and the power of the Spirit to live inside her. I explained symbolic view of the Mass saying she could just say thank you in taking it knowing she was forgiven. He did not have her own Bible but did not want to take a book from me of any kind but she did take a Bible study on the deity of Christ. “This is 100%,” I said pointing at the question of the likelihood she would go to Heaven. “Because since you’re trusting in the righteousness of Jesus to be your righteousness, how righteous is Jesus? 100% righteous,” I said answering my own question. “And what’s His righteousness worth? An infinite amount…” Yeah that’s pretty cool,” she replied. And I said I’d see her around and headed off.

Rachel was sitting at the counter in the cafeteria and was finished with her lunch so was willing to do a student survey. Her dark brown hair was pulled back and up, she has pretty large eyes that looked Indian and was dark skinned but from other things I’d guess she was Latina. Kind of a round pug nose. She wore grey yoga pants and had light blue v-neck t-shirt on. She went to St Peter’s a Roman Catholic Church. When I asked her what she would say to God to get into Heaven she said, “Because I’m generally a good person. I try to help people out.” She listened to the Gospel, interested, and she knew Jesus had died to take away our sins. She listened to all of the Gospel with interest. So at the end I asked her if she would want to be forgiven by trusting in the work of Jesus so God could live inside her or thought something else. She pointed at the circle with God inside her believing on Jesus. “Well it seems like you hadn’t put all this together before and were just hoping you were good enough to go to Heaven.” She nodded. So I said if she’d like to trust in Jesus there was a prayer she could pray to know she was forgiven and I explained it to her saying she could pray it silently so only God could hear and would she like to do that. “Sure,” she replied. And she prayed to receive Jesus. I explained the Christian life to her living “inside out” by the Spirit’s power, explained a symbolic view of the Mass and that in trusting in the righteousness of Jesus the likelihood she would go to Heaven is 100%. She did not have a Bible so I gave her one and showed her the “Where to Turn” section and the “Messianic” passages telling her Jesus words were in red. She thanked me. I wrote her name and the date and “forgiven” in the front. I also gave her a Bible study on the Deity of Jesus. I told her I would see her in Heaven being old I’d get there first and show her where all the cool places are and she smiled and said, “Sounds good.”

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

In Him,

Bob