Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope you had a good day walking with the Lord. I had a good day on campus. I got a couple seeds planted with some students thinking about Christianity in Bart (ref tall with a beard and goatee, brown curry mop on top of his head) wouldn’t take a book though saying he would get one. Also Alicia (a bit roly poly wearing a t-shirt and high tops, warm oval face, stick straight shoulder length hair), who took a book. I did some fly-by discipleship with a a Christian struggling with some concepts, and Angel and Daniel each prayed with me to receive Jesus today.

Angel was sitting right down the hall from the Einstein Bagel counter in the MAC. He was sort of studying and on his phone so I asked if he’d do a survey. He was open and we talked a long time. He had gone through confirmation in the Catholic Church. Looked like a classic Italian guy, swept back brown hair, the Alberto Tomba look minus the flash. Nice guy. He had on a dark blue t-shirt and jeans. When I asked him what he would say to God to be let into Heaven when he died he said, “I don’t know. I tried to live as best and as well as I could.” He thought his likelihood of going to Heaven was 60/40. He knew Jesus had died to take away his sins, so I explained how that worked and the blood of Christ cleansing him, the imputed righteousness of God in Jesus. He listened closely and said he like the illustrations. When I asked him if he would want to be forgiven for his sins trusting in Jesus or thought something else he pointed at the circle with God inside saying that he’d choose that. So I offered him the prayer explaining it and asking if it was the desire of his heart. And he shook his head acknowledging it was. I asked if he would like to pray that silently, so only God would hear and he said, “Um, yeah,” in a firm stated kind of way. And he took the booklet and prayed to receive Jesus. I told him he could keep it but explained the Christian life to him. He did not have his own Bible so I gave him one showing him the “Where to Turn” section and the “Messianic Passages” section and Jesus words in red. I wrote his name and the date and “forgiven” in the front. I explained that if he would trust in the righteousness of Jesus to be his righteousness the likelihood he would go to Heaven was 100%. I gave him 20 Tings God Can’t Do writing “Just Ask” and “By the Spirit’s Power” in the front explaining that all the things God was asking him to do he’d give him the power to do. I also gave him a Bible Study. As we finished his very pretty girl friend, Fatima sat down, so I gave her the book Bible Promises for You as she said she was spiritual. I told her Angel could tell you how to get to Heaven and having said I would pray for him I told her I would pray for her too. They liked that and were grateful and I headed out.

At the end of the day I found Daniel sitting on the porch at a table out on the patio at the top of the waterfall. He was a practicing Catholic too but said he went with his parents. He looked like a guy into sports having a jock hair cut really short on the sides, light brown blondish hair and a blue t-shirt with some election pronging on it for a school thing. He had the 50’s football player face but wasn’t that big a guy at all. He had grey Adidas sweats on and tennis shoes. When I asked him what he would say to God to get into Heaven he said, “That’s a thinker. I just have to say of the times I put myself last.” I said, “Jesus says the last shall be first and first shall be last and Paul wrote let each of you consider one another more important than himself. So that’s in keeping with the scripture.” He thought he had about a 25% chance of going to Heaven. He knew Jesus had died to take away his sins. I went through the Gospel with him and at the end I asked him if he’d want to be forgiven or thought something else. “My whole life’s story is to get that,” he replied. Pretty much the best answer I’ve gotten all year. So I said if he’d want to be forgiven trusting in Jesus there was prayer he could pray and I talked him through it saying he could pray it silently, “Wanna do it?” “Yeah,” he replied. And he prayed to receive Christ and be forgiven. I gave him 20 Things God Can’t Do and wrote his name and the date and “forgiven” in the front. As I had done with Angel I gave him a symbolic view of the Mass saying when it came that time in the service he could just say, “Thank You.” knowing Jesus had died for him and so he was forgiven. I explained the Christian life living “Inside Out” saying that is what made Christianity different from other religious. “In other religions you do good things on the outside and the Deity is pleased with you and takes you to Heaven or the universe is pleased and you don’t come back as a cow–not really true anyway–but in Christianity you ask God to transform you on the inside, you become a good person and do good things on the outside.” I got up to go and said, “See you in Heaven.” “Alright.” he replied. “Thanks Bob.” “Yeah, you’re welcome,” I said. Thanks so much,” he said shaking my hand. And I headed off to my truck.

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

In Him,

Bob