Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope you had a blessed day walking with Jesus. We are promised a relatively warm day tomorrow of 50 but at least we had a bit of sunshine today. Things went pretty well on campus and Josh trusted Christ by faith.  I got some good seeds planted with  Elijah (I gave him the student edition of The Case for Christ he was going to church with a girl friend and was agnostic) & Francesca. They had very similar hair. Elijah’s was pulled back in a bandanna around his head dark brown curls out the back, Francesca’s was more pink than the light brown curls she had begun with and wore her hair in a page-boy.

Josh went to a Lutheran Church and had not realized he was not trusting in the work of Christ but in his own good works until we talked and God convicted him. He was wearing a Blue and red track hoodie and had the thin tall build of a Cross Country runner, grey sweats.  He had a couple days growth of beard that was not coming in too well and an oval everyman face, short brown hair swept a bit to the right with very short bangs. When I asked him what he would say to God to get into Heaven he said, “I grew up Christian, Lutheran… try not to sin, repent if I do and try to be a good Christian.” I asked him what he thought the likelihood was he would go to Heaven and he said, “It’s not up to me but if I had to put a number on it I’d say 60%.” I began to go through the Gospel with him and explained that God had to take away his sins and he knew Jesus had died for his sins. I explained that he did not think it was just believing in Christ but that you had to try to do what was right. So I showed him the verses on the imputed righteousness of Christ and told him the parable in Matthew 22 where the man without the wedding garments was send to hell for wearing the wrong clothes to a party. I said the metaphor sounds crazy but it makes sense when you realize he was not Clothed with Jesus (Romans 13:14) but in his own righteousness. I explained that it was His blood that cleansed us not repenting with an attitude that we would do better, which he had as much said at one point. I said if we are just doing good things we are not doing them in the Spirit’s power, “Paul says, Walk by the Spirit and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh.” When I finished I asked him if he would want to be forgiven for his sins trusting in Christ by faith. I said I knew he had known the story but had he been placing his trust in Christ to be forgiven? He said he would want to be forgiven and hadn’t been trusting in Christ, “Not that I did not want to trust in Jesus I just didn’t know [to do so]–My mind is changed.” So I said there was a prayer he could pray to place his trust in Christ living by the Spirit’s power to do good not his own strength and talked him through it asking, “Is this prayer the desire of your heart?” he said it was so I asked if he’d want to pray it silently. “Yeah that sounds good,” he replied.  He prayed then to receive Jesus and when he finished he said, “It’s just as good reading it the second time if not better… food for the soul.” It turned out he was pretty well read in some apologetics and was getting into Doctrine. He didn’t have his own Bible so I gave him one and wrote his name and the date and forgiven in the front. I showed him the Where to Turn section and the Messianic Passages, which he was interested to read and look up and gave him a Bible study. I explained that now trusting in the righteousness of Jesus to be his righteousness the likelihood he would go to Heaven was 100%. He gave me his email to send him some more stuff and we talked for an hour and a half as he told me stuff he had encountered in apologetics and asked me some questions about it. He was thinking deeply about faith and had as far as I could tell already begun to process a lot of Doctrine.  I gave him an Acts and Facts creation science magazine and a Bible study. I got up to go and he shook my hand and said, “Thank you sir, thank you. It’s Bob right?” I said it was and he was welcome and it was good to meet him and headed home to edit the Bible study I wanted to teach tonight.

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

In Him,

Bob