Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed walking with the Lord. I got my electrical problems sorted out in my Bathroom, had a loose wire it seems. Today on campus was successful too and Justin prayed to receive Christ. I got some good seeds planted giving The Case for Christianity Answer Booklet to Grant, a white guy in a white hoodie with the hood pulled up, looked like a young James Cagney. Mica a pretty blonde girl with rose-colored yoga pants on was close to faith saying the Gospel was “probably right” so I gave her the same book to help her sort things out. Jovany a short Latino guy with a crew cut and a day’s worth of beard, looked like a Longshore dock worker thought he might pray later. Finally Anthony a white guy with sharp features and a light beard, ball cap on backwards heard the gospel and thought he might pray later but I’d already made him 5 minutes late for class so he had to run.

Justin was sitting in a longue with vending machines on the first floor of the BIC on the North side. He had a thick beard, no mustache and a rag wool cap on, boot leg jeans and a fleece green on the shoulders and brown beneath, few freckles kind of the good old boy look. He said he was raised Catholic and was in that church until he turned 18, then he went to some Christian churches and now thought of himself as a Christian. When I asked him what he would say to God to get into Heaven he said it was a tough question, “Probably say, I did my best to help people in most or every situation I could, that’s a tough one… that’s heavy… that’s a deep question.” I asked him the likelihood he would go to Heaven and he said, “80%. I feel like I’ve been pretty good. I’ve made mistakes but…” I began to explain the Gospel and he knew Jesus had died to take away our sin. I explained that that was God’s just payment for our sins; He pays Himself so that he can be both Just and Forgiving. I explained that we owed God perfect payment for what we’ve done to damage His world but cannot pay so God’s perfect life in Christ pays. I explained this righteousness was a gift to Him by faith. That he did would not go to Heaven because he was good but because Jesus was good and he was connected to Him. I taught him a lot of what I tell students and asked him if he thought he want to be forgiven or thought something else and then said, So would you want to be forgiven trusting in Jesus? That’s basically the last question.” “Makes sense,” he replied. So I went with that and said if he’d want to be forgiven trusting in Jesus there was a prayer he could pray and I talked Him through it and said, “If you wanted to take a minute and pray it silently, not like I’d hear you but God would hear you’d know you were forgiven.” “Yeah, I’ll do it,” he replied. And he prayed then to receive Christ. I told him he could keep the booklet and explained the Christian life to him living Inside Out where everything God was asking him to do He’d give him the power to do by the Spirit. I gave him 20 Things God Can’t Do and write Just Ask and By the Spirit’s Power in the front along with his name and the date and “forgiven’. I gave him a Bible Study on the deity of Christ telling him that in trusting in the righteousness of Jesus to be his righteousness the likelihood he would go to Heaven was 100%. I got up to go and said, “Merry Christmas.” “Yeah Merry Christmas,” he replied. I then told him I’d keep him in my prayers through the spring and then a year after. “Thank you very much,” he replied. “Have a great one.” “You’re welcome,” I said and headed off.

So thanks for your prayers for the Ministry and for Evangelism today if you had a chance, I had some good conversations and help some Christians with faith also.

In Him,

Bob