Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope you had a great day walking with the Lord. I didn’t get much sleep and was a little phased out from the pain medication I took in the middle of the night (musta been something I ate). But I prayed God would be strong in my weakness and David and Tatiana prayed with me to receive Jesus today. I gave a book to Laura who was wearing a camo hat and had a camo backpack, had gone to Awana as a kid but was now “Into Science and evidence” I asked her if I gave her some evidence for the faith if she’d want to read it and she said “yeah” so I gave her The Case for Christianity Answer Book. She was really into it and immediately started reading the chapter titles in the front. Had a kinda cute round face and light brown hair, tomboy. I gave her the booklet I’d gone through with her telling her to email me if she wanted to talk.

Tatiana was sitting in a chair, back against the glass wall looking out to the south in the Science building lounge and I sat at her feet as there was no seat near her. She was a pretty girl, kind of had an elegant quality to her but she was nice. Her hair was up in kind of a random bun. She had a Martha’s Vineyard sweatshirt on and gray slacks. She had the perfect eyebrow thing going on and a pretty mouth slightly wider face and sharp features.  She was kind. When I asked her what she would say to God to get into Heaven if he died she said, “Like now?” “Yeah today,” I replied. She thought for a while and said, “I feel like I was trying to find my purpose and do good while I was here and just tried to help everyone that I could.” She thought she had a 60-70% chance of going to Heaven. She went to a Roman Catholic Church pretty far from School. She listened to the Gospel and I asked her what Jesus had done to the way her sins so God could live inside her with His Spirit. “He forgives you?” she tried. I said something like, “Well he does forgive you but this is how it works,” and I began to explain how Jesus lived a perfect life for us He died as the payment for our sins paying God perfectly and his blood cleansed her, His righteousness was to her credit. I explained receiving Christ by faith. She was attentive and I asked her if she wanted to be forgiven or thought something else and she said, “Be forgiven.” So I walked her through the prayer and asked if expressed the desire of her heart. “Yes,” she said. So I said she could pray it silently so only God could hear, “Wanna do it?” I asked and she nodded and took the booklet and prayed to receive Jesus. She handed it back to me and said, “Thank you.” “I said sure and that she could keep the booklet and began to explain the Christian life. She had her own Bible and I explained living “Inside out” by the Spirit’s power. I gave her 20 Things God Can’t Do and wrote her name and the date and “forgiven” on the inside and “By the Spirit” and “Just Ask”. I explained the symbolism of the Mass, commemorating that Jesus had died for her and so she was forgiven and that she should just say “Thank you”. I told her I would keep her in my prayers and that now trusting in the righteousness of Jesus to be her righteousness the likelihood she would go to Heaven was 100%. “Thank you so much,” she said. I gave her a Bible study too and said goodbye.

I found David sitting on the other side of the lounge. He had khaki’s on, work boots and a stiff flat brimmed hat on that said LA with a palm tree. He wanted to make movies. His brown curly hair was completely under it but in front it curled up making a curly awning straight out from his eyebrows against the underside of the cap. He wore a grey hoodie and a puffy snow vest and work books. He had a doughboy face. Really nice guy. He hadn’t understood the Gospel at all or that Jesus had died and so he was forgiven. When I asked him what he would say to God to be forgiven he said, “I would say I asked for forgiveness.” He thought he had a 60% chance of going to Heaven. He interjected a lot of questions as we went through the Gospel together, how much we could sin doing the same thing and be forgiven. I explained that he could ask to be transformed by the Spirit if he received Jesus as his savior, that God would give him the strength to do everything in the Christian life living ‘inside out”. I went back and forth to the Gospel and finally explained through his various questions that he needed to trust in what Christ had done for him on the cross. That God did not forgive him because He was magnanimous but because He got paid by a perfect life only He could provide in Himself. I explained that Jesus had died and his blood cleansed him. “Yeah, yeah I see now,” He said. I walked him through the prayer and he said, “I could pray this every night.” I agreed he could pray it as often as he wanted to if he felt like he’d started to drift and needed to be forgiven but he could pray it right now silently and be forgiven knowing he would go to Heaven. I asked if he would want to do that. “Yeah,” he replied and prayed to receive Jesus. “Thanks so much,” he said when he was finished praying. I gave him 20 Things God Can’t Do and wrote his name and the date and “forgiven” in the inside with “Just ask” and “By the Spirit”. He asked some more questions about the afterlife in the Old Testament and getting up to go to class after about 25 minutes he said. “Sweet, thank you very much.” I said he was welcome and we headed our separate ways.

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

In Him,

Bob