Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed today and you had joy in serving Jesus. I had a good day on campus chatting up the peeps and reconnecting with some who had received Christ recently and Michael prayed to receive Jesus.

Michael was up on the third floor of the BIC in the hallway basically killing time until class. He was a big guy, had some weight on him and was wearing a brown zip up hoodie and shorts (though it never broke freezing for a high temperature today). He had a stick straight mop of brown hair, a bit of a mustache and chin beard, smaller head. Nice guy. When I asked him what he would say to God be let into Heaven he thought aloud a bit and then said, “I believe in Him. I pray to Him every day. Yeah I broke a couple sins but I asked for forgiveness for them.” He thought he had a 50/50 chance of going to Heaven saying, “I didn’t kill anybody, nothing big.” He’d been raised Catholic. I went through the Gospel with him and asked if he knew what Jesus had done to take away his sins. “He forgives you?” he tried. I said He did, but that God was just and He can forgive you because He gets paid with the perfect life of Christ. After I had explained the sacrifice of Christ and His cleansing blood he said, “OK,” in understanding. I explained His righteousness could be to his credit and receiving Christ by faith, asking Michael if he would want to be forgiven or thought something else. He said, “Be forgiven.” So I explained that if he wanted to place his trust in Christ, there was a prayer he could pray and I read through it, asking if it expressed the desire of his heart. “Yeah it does,” he replied. I said he could pray it silently, God would hear. “Sure,” he replied. And he prayed to receive Jesus. I explained living  “Inside Out” by the power of the Spirit, that God would give him the power to be transformed if he would ask. He had his Grandfather’s Bible which I said I thought was cool and so I gave him a copy of 20 Things God Can’t Do writing his name and the date and “forgiven “ in the front and “Just Ask”. I also gave him a Bible Study. I told him I would keep him in my prayers and got up to go and he said, “Thanks you, you have a nice day.” “God bless you man,” I replied. And he said, “You too.”

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

In Him

Bob

I should as soon attempt to raise flowers if there were no atmosphere, or produce fruits if there were neither light nor heat, as to regenerate men if I did not believe there was a Holy Ghost.

… Henry Ward Beecher