Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed walking with Jesus and your bracing for the winter, since they say it’s gonna be cold. I had a good day on campus. Matt prayed to receive Jesus.  I got a bit of a seed planted with a girl from a Mormon background which she had rejected. She said she was into science. He name was Becca and I did not have a lot of time with her but I did get through the Gospel before she had to run to class and gave her a creation magazine called Acts and Facts. She had short hair died a sort of rusty red that she’d been falsely promised would be orange at the salon. She had a square jaw pretty face.

Matt was sitting on the second floor by the elevators and said he’d do a survey for our Bible Study group. He had shoulder length hair some of which was down and some was up in a pony tail, he had a band around his head, earrings in his ears. He was breaking out, so it must have been a hard week and had strawberry blonde hair, wearing sweats. He was a really nice guy he went to an Episcopal church which he described as “like the Anglicans without the hate.” I think he was making a joke but the Episcopal Church is even more liberal than the Anglicans. I asked him why God should let him into Heaven and he said, “Now?” “Yeah right now,” I replied. “I’d probably say you shouldn’t.” When I asked the likelihood he would go to Heaven when he died figuring he had a bit more time until then he said, “60-40  I’ll turn my life around [by then].” I went through the Gospel with him and he knew it all except the imputed righteousness of Christ. I asked if he would want to be forgiven and he said, “I believe I know it’s real I just haven’t been walking in the light.” He said there were things he had done right and what he had done wrong but I explained he didn’t go to heaven and have his life weigh in scales because Jesus righteousness was all he could appeal to to go to Heaven, not his own righteousness, he needed forgiveness not more good works. I said the answer to that was to not be in his own strength but live by the power of the Spirit. I shared the quote with him at the end of the booklet then: Your walk with Christ depends on what you allow him to do in and through you empowered by the Holy Spirit not what you do for Him through self effort. And I explained he needed to give his life to God trusting in Christ’s work to forgive him and Holy Spirit to give him strength to live the Christian life. He didn’t want to ask for forgiveness because he felt like he would do the same thing again and it was just one more thing “to add to the pot” of the things he’d done wrong. I said it sounded like he was talking about the scales again. I said that sometimes we repeat our failures but when I sinned I ask God to make me a better man not to just forgive me and little by bit He does. I said if he wanted to be forgiven and trust in Christ to live inside him and give him the Christian life there was a prayer he could pray and talked him through it saying he could pray it silently in his heart, “But maybe you have as I read it?” “Maybe,” he said, meaning he hadn’t he’d just read along. “Can I take this booklet?” I said he could but “why don’t you just pray and give me some joy.” He agreed then and prayed and was grateful. “Your sins are forgiven,” I said as he finished and he grinned at me. I gave him Bible Promises for You writing his name and the date and “forgiven” in the front which he really liked along with a Bible study. I explained that trusting in the righteousness of Jesus to be his righteousness now the likelihood he would go to Heaven was 100%. “Thank you,” I said getting up and shaking his hand. “Thank you,” he said gratefully. And I headed out. Please pray the Lord gives him strength as he’s in bad church.

Thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today if you had a chance, God blessed. And I had another conversation with Edgar who was still thinking about if he needed to pray to be forgiven and stopped me in the lounge where we have Bible Study, (gap tooth Latino guy with braces) to talk about it. I think I finally got him to understand the difference between believing in Jesus and trusting in Him to be saved.

Blessings,

Bob