Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed and your had a lot of joy in serving Jesus. I had a good day on campus in as much as Luke prayed to receive Jesus today and he was a great guy.  I got a couple seeds planted that I hope were not shallow.

Luke was sitting in the third floor lounge, one floor up and a hop, skip and a jump east of where we have Bible study, which is a bigger lounge about half the size of a gymnasium.  He had a flat top crew cut and looked like the blue collar stunt double of Ricky Schroder, in his clean shaven days. He looked a bit weather beaten somehow. He wore heavy blue nylon workout sweats and a blue jacket. He said he’d do a survey and turned out to be Roman Catholic. I asked him what he would say to God if he died and was asked, “Why should I let you into Heaven?” “I’ve always been religious, you know go to church on Sunday. I’ve always been a pretty good person in my opinion.” He thought he had about a 95% chance of going to Heaven when he died. He was really affirming of the ideas I was communicating to him. Pretty early on in our conversation, I could see he was sincere about his religious practice and I was hopeful he would receive Jesus once he understood the Gospel. I explained that Jesus was the perfect payment for his sins because when you ruin something of someone else’s you owe them something perfect to replace it. God owns everything and we own Him something perfect to replace what we have damaged in the world. But we can’t do anything perfect. So in order to be Just, God has to pay himself. “I like that analogy,” he said.  I explained everything concerning the Gospel and he knew Jesus had died for his sins. But he had not known His righteousness could be to his Credit or placed his trust in the work of Christ. I explained everything, asking if he’d want to be forgiven trusting in Christ so He could live inside him. “I do want that, it makes sense.” He thanked me for stopping to talk to him and I thanked him for his time. Most students would not give any to me today. I said there was a prayer he could pray to receive Christ’s forgiveness and he said, “Oh cool.” As I explained it he was running short of time to get to class and he said, “Could I pray this later?” I said, “Well if you’ll take a moment to pray it now, I will keep you in my prayers each day until next Spring and for one year after because then I will know.” “OK,” he agreed and prayed to receive Jesus crossing himself as he finished and saying, “That didn’t take as long as I thought.” I showed him the things that make up the Christian life in the booklet that spell out GROWTH. “I like that acrostic,” he said as I explained it to him living “Inside Out.” I gave him 20 Things God Can’t Do writing his name and the date and “forgiven” in the front, “Awesome, thank you,” he said taking the book. I explained now trusting in the righteousness of Jesus, the likelihood he would go to Heaven was 100%. He got up to go so I quickly gave him a Bible study and he shook my hand and said, “Thank you Bob.” I said something like, “Yeah sure.” “I learned a lot in these last 10 minutes. Thanks for talking with me.” And he headed off.

So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today God truly blessed. Tomorrow we’ll do a book table for the clubs and activities day. Ellen and I often see someone come to Christ at a book table so we hope God will bring fruit.

In Him,

Bob