Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed yesterday and it has rolled right into this morning with continued joy from above. I had a good day on campus yesterday and I’ll be going out today and I’d be grateful for your prayers.

The class I taught a quick segment in went well. I emphasized living “Inside Out” and corrected the notion we worship the same god as Islam. This is really simple to do in about 5 minutes, since the God of Islam is nothing like the God of the Bible.

I got through the Gospel with some peeps that really did not understand it but said they were trusting in Jesus. Lily, a Roman Catholic girl, who said she was trusting in Jesus after hearing the Gospel but said basically she was a good person before. So I hope that is now true at least. One guy, Eli, a football player in the PE lounge, with a rough afro wearing sweats and a here and there beard. Nice guy. I had talked to him last year and he now seemed to understand better and thought he might pray later.  Another churched kid who seemed to think he was good enough to go to Heaven.

I had a good conversation with a girl who had been confused by a cult on campus (that calls themselves MELCHIZEDEK) specifically about the Sabbath day. They say they keep it on Saturday, so your church is wrong to worship on Sunday. This is, of course, a straw man argument if you understand the New Testament which has no Sabbath requirements for the Church. Hebrews 4 teaches Jesus is our Sabbath. 1 Corinthians teaches we are the temple of God. So every day we rest in Jesus, and honor Him with our life. Christianity traditionally changes the Sabbath day to Sunday, but theologically speaking Sunday is not the Sabbath, because every day is the Sabbath for the Christian. Paul encourages us in Rom. 14:5 not to worry about it saying, “One person regards one day above another, another regards every day alike. Each person must be fully convinced in his own mind.” And in Col. 2:16-17 “Therefore no one is to act as your judge in regard to food or drink or in respect to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day things which are a mere shadow of what is to come; but the substance belongs to Christ.” A couple different Cults on campus try to use this to confuse Christians, telling them they go to Church on the wrong day. The BLACK ISRAELITES are another. Victoria confessed that Jesus had died for her sins after saying she thought you went to Heaven by good deeds. I don’t think she really understood how anything worked in terms of atonement. Victoria texted me later to thank me. I think she really understood for the first time how her sins had been paid for and the blood of Christ and righteousness of Christ. The New Testament encourages us not to forsake the assembling of ourselves together, but it makes no difference theologically what day you’d pick to do so. Many churches have a Saturday night service these days. And there is of course nothing wrong with that. But Sunday is not the Christian Sabbath day, it is just a day we get together and nothing is required of us that day we would not do any other day of the week. Though it is good to take a day and rest. Legalistic groups that say they are keeping the Old Testament Law and Sabbath do not even keep the most basic requirements like Ex. 35:3 “You shall not kindle a fire in any of your dwellings on the Sabbath day.” You kindle a fire when you turn on the hot water in your house if you have electronic ignition on your water heater (so if you shower before Church). You also kindle a fire if you start your car, as you spark compressed gas in the cylinder which explodes and burns. Cars run on fire. These groups never think of what they would have to do in the modern world to keep a Sabbath and they all break it in many ways.

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

In Him,

Bob