Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed walking with Him. I had a good day on the beach and Will and Keyton each prayed with me to receive Christ. A girl, Adrianna that looked about 15 and from a Cuban descent said she would pray later after I went through the Gospel with her. She got up to swim with her friend just as a boy Hunter with red hair and freckles sat down and asked what we were talking about. She said we were doing a survey and I asked if he wanted to do it. “You should do it,” she said as she ran toward the water. After hearing the Gospel, Hunter said he might be willing to trust in Christ at some time later, but because his father had abused him and divorced his mom he was having a hard time trusting God right now. He was a sharp kid, very quick. I talked him through it and encouraged him, writing some Bible verses for him. He took the booklet and ran over to where his sister had congregated. I had a very long conversation with Tiffany who had a lot of fears and was worried about who to trust. She was also in high school.  I went through the Gospel with her and she was an Orthodox Christian. I answered Bible and social issue questions for her, one after another (for over 45 minutes I think) and gave her the booklet and the Bible Promises for You book having encouraged her to get into the Scripture more for answers to her questions. I got up to go and she said, “Keep doing this, this was awesome.”

 Will was a good looking black guy with multiple chin length braids coming down from under his white ball cap. He was wearing long brown skinny jeans with fashion torn knees and had a tool pouch on his belt of some kind on his right hip facing away from me. He was sitting flat on the sand and said he’d do a survey. When I asked him what he would say to God to get into Heaven he said, “My heart.” “You got a good heart?” I replied and he nodded. He was 100% sure he was going to Heaven. I began to go through the Gospel with him and asked him how God took away his sin. He wasn’t sure, but then as I turned to the page with the cross on it and talked about how Jesus lived a perfect life for him he said, “Oh Jesus,” remembering the Gospel a bit possibly. I kept explaining How Jesus perfect life was to his credit and the blood of Jesus had cleansed him from sin so God could live inside him. I read 1Corinthians 15:3-6 but must have read it too fast as he stopped me and asked what was that again. I was sure to clearly state the verses in a pace after that letting him take them in reading John 14:6: Romans 5:8; John 1:12 and Ephesians 2:8,9. He decided to pray to receive Christ after thinking about it and deciding he’d been trusting in his goodness and had not put the gospel together completely. I gave him Bible Promises for You and wrote his name and mine and “Just Ask” in the front. I told him I would pray for him each day for the next year. He told me to keep doing what I was doing and something affirming I forget as I was walking away and I thanked him.

 I asked a few more people after talking to Tiffany for so long with no takers. Went through the Gospel with another guy, Darrell, He was a Latino based on his accent, who professed to be a Christian and to have known the Gospel he had not seemed to know. But he took the booklet.

 I was starting to feel the sun and approached some guys, later joined by 3 attractive girls. Keyton was among them at the end of a wooden beach bench said he’d talk with me later if I was coming back but I said I thought I was headed out. He was thin and lanky, showing a Roman Number tattoo on his chest about as thick as a thumb. I asked him if he would answer the one big question. He agreed and I said, “You’re walking down the road and you get hit by a bus. So you’re dead, and you stand before God and He asks “Why should I let you into Heaven. What would you say? He thought for a while and said, “I don’t know.”  I said, “Well do you want to find out I can tell you how to get into Heaven real quick?” He agreed and his 2 male friends were not feeling it so I gave them some grief to make them laugh and they chilled and he listened they showed no interest. He knew John 3:16 and the Gospel began to come back to him a bit. He listened closely and had a cross tattoo and a long inked quote with God in it I did not get the angle to read. As I finished going through the verses and he felt like he was in agreement and would want to have God live inside him and be forgiven. I asked if he had been thinking he was good enough to go to Heaven or had been really trusting in Christ or his good works. I walked him through the prayer and he was reading it aloud a bit as I did. He said he had been trusting in Jesus and then to make his case said he went to a Christian camp and had been to church. So I pointed out that was just good things he had done. The girls had walked up by about 3/4^th’s of the way through. I asked if he’d want to pray to be sure he had told God he was trusting in Jesus and he agreed and prayed. I think he took the booklet then and put it with his stuff and I asked if anyone else would like a booklet. Abby a blonde girl asked for one. I told Keyton I would pray for him and he said I should pray for one Chase with a curly mop of hair and a Led Zeppelin shirt on and said I could pray for him. His friend Collin was unresponsive. I showed Abby where the prayer was since she had heard most of what I had to say and she thanked me and I headed out.

 I finished the day in another long half hour philosophical conversation that did not seem to get very far with a 5 by 5 black guy Marko. He had thinning hair on top and a chin beard sprinkled in with gray. He wore a black t-shirt and shorts and had gotten almost as dark as his shirt from the sun. He was sitting on a camp chair with a built in awning on the top shielding the very top of his head. He really enjoyed the talk he said, as I got up to go, saying I obviously had found my purpose, something he wanted to fulfill himself he’d said earlier. But I could not move him off his monism. I did leave him my card. He fired a lot of questions at me but he had landed on: everyone believes what they believe based on things they grew up with where they lived. Having been all over the world he felt that was true everywhere. I said in so many words that if that was true that was the only reason he believed what he believed and was not much of a truth claim. It was enjoyable and I liked him, I hope God changes his mind.

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

 In Him,

Bob