Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed today walking in the Light. I had a good day on campus, though I confess I’m running out of steam. Alex and later then Adam each prayed to receive Christ today, 

 Alex was the first person I talked to up on the 3rd floor of the BIC. He was sitting in the hall, his brown hair in a short conservative cut. He had a narrow jovial face with a little bit of the doughboy look to his cheeks and frank features. He was tall as me and slim, wore a grey hoodie and tan skinny jeans. When I asked him what he’d say to God to get into Heaven if God asked him why He should let him in he said, “I think I’ve been a good person so I’d probably say, I’ve been a good person.” He went on to say something like “Sorry you’ve probably gotten better answers.”’ I said that a lot of people say basically that, they might go on to talk about how they cared for their sick Grandma or something but they basically mean the same thing. “There’s an old Beatles song that goes 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 all good children go to heaven,” I sang dryly and said a lot of people believe that.  (“You never Give Me Your Money” Abby Road). He thought he had a 70% chance of going to Heaven and when I asked if he ever went to church he said he was a “christ-er” meaning he went Christmas and Easter. He was from a Lutheran background. He seemed like a real matter of fact guy but as I went through the Gospel he was really interested and listened. He remembered Jesus had died for the sins of the world. I explained that Jesus lived a perfect life for us and then was the perfect payment for our sin and his blood cleansed us so God could live inside us. “OK,” he said taking it in. I explained the imputed righteousness of God in Christ and that, “You don’t go to Heaven because you’re good because but because Jesus is Good and you’re connected to him. I went on to explain he was saved by faith and how your good stuff couldn’t fix your bad stuff. But that God could turn a bad thing into a good thing because He was all powerful and controlled the future. Finally I asked if he wanted to be forgiven for his sins trusting in Jesus or thought something else. “Yeah, I’d be forgiven,” he said as if it seemed like the best choice. So I said that if he’d want to be forgiven there was a prayer he could pray and after I talked him through it I asked if it was the desire of his heart. “Yeah,” he acknowledged. I said he could pray it silently not that I’d hear him but God would hear and He would forgive him and live inside him giving him the strength to lie the Christian life and I asked if he’d like to do it and he said, “Yeah sure.” and he prayed to receive Jesus. He had a Bible but I gave him a copy of 20 Things God Can’t Do and wrote his name and the date and “forgiven” in the front saying he could remember. I also explained the Christian life living Inside Out, First God transforming us on the Inside, we become God men and then we do good things on the outside. So I wrote, Just Ask and By the Spirit’s Power on the inside. I gave him a Bible Study and explained that trusting in the righteousness of Jesus to be his righteousness the likelihood he would go to Heaven was 100%. He thanked me and said he had to get to class in about ten minutes so I said, “Thanks for your time.” “Yeah you too,” he said and headed down the stairs.

 Adam was sitting in the big connecting Science buildings lounge with his back against the glass southern wall. He told me his name and I said, “Like the original.” And he laughed and said “Yeah.” He looked a bit Latino had jet black hair shaved short on the sides and long on top pulled back into a short tail. He had kind of rounded pug nose and a rounded face, look looking’ kid. He wore a black stone earring in each ear. He wore grey sweats, kind of knit with black flex in them and a grey winter coat, black glasses with rectangular frames. I sat on the floor at his feet, “Like you’re a king” I said and he laughed. I asked him what he would say to God if asked, Why should I let you into Heaven and he said, “Why shouldn’t you?” “Yeah,” I said and later told him the reason was sin. He thought he had about a 70% chance to get into Heaven. He said he’d gone to a catholic church when he was a kid but he’d recently gone to a community Church because he’d worked there, I forgot to ask him what kind of job he’d had to do there. He took in the Gospel but he really didn’t seem to know it at all. When I asked him what Jesus had done to take away his sins he said, “He ate the forbidden fruit?” I said, “Nah that was the thing Adam did in the fall, in the garden.” “Oh Yeah,” he replied. So I went on to explain the Gospel and the payment for his sins, everything I had told Alex in a slightly different way, it always changes a bit. In the end I asked if he wanted to be forgiven and have Christ live inside him and he said, “Yeah, one hundred percent.” So I explained the prayer he could pray to be forgiven and said he could pray it, “Not so I would hear but God would hear and He forgive you and live inside you and give you the strength you need to live the Christian life.” I asked if he’d want to do it. “Yeah,” he replied and then checking to make sure he didn’t have to pray out loud he prayed silently and received Jesus. I told him then that if he would trust in the righteousness of God to be his righteousness the likelihood he would go to Heaven was 100% as I had explained earlier that Christ’s righteousness was to our credit, we were clothed with Jesus if we believed. I asked if he had a Bible. “I’ve been planning to get one,” he replied. So I said I could give him one if he wanted and he said, “OK.” I gave him one showing him the Where to Turn section and the Messianic Passages section. I wrote his name and the date and “forgiven” in the front which he liked. I gave him a copy of 20 Things God Can’t Do writing “Just Ask” and “By the Spirit’s Power” in the front. I gave him a Bible study too and told him I would keep him in my prayers. He thanked me and I got up to go and said, “Have a good day.” “You have a better one. Hope I see you soon.” he replied. And I headed out.

 So thanks for your prayers for the Ministry and for evangelism today if you had a chance, God truly blessed. I also gave assurance of salvation and clarified the faith for a couple of different immigrant girls, one from Moldova and one from Ukraine who were already Christians. But I cleared some things up for them and a Muslim guy named Ammar took a Bible study on Jesus claim’s to be God. We had a good conversation though I think I offended him concerning Muhammad’s 9 year old wife at one point. But I apologized and we were cool after that.

 In Him,

Bob