Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed with all good things in Christ. I had a good day on campus. Derek and Micheal each received Jesus today. I also got a couple seeds planted, so I hope a couple others will turn to the truth. I’d be grateful for your prayers to bless these guys. The description is below if you want to spend the time.

Derek was sitting in the computer lounge as I walked in, with a colorful page open on his laptop so I thought he wasn’t studying. But he might have been. It turned out he was studying computer graphics at school. He was a thin guy with a narrow face and a shadow of a mustache and beard that did not reach it. He suggested I had probably seen him around in the past (as if he’d seen me) and I took him to mean past years. ‘Well I can’t really see ya right now cause of the mask,” I said with a smile.  But he pulled it down a second and looked really familiar. He had cornrow braids and the ends came down to his collar in back. He wore a workout jacket and a t-shirt with a lot of pictures on it I couldn’t decipher. He asked what the survey involved and I gave him the main question. Asking what he would say to God if he died and was asked “Why should I let you into Heaven?” He said the answer seemed to have a lot to it, he didn’t really know. I said it was understandable, telling him Christianity was like a blood transfusion where God wanted to transfuse His life into Him, to live inside him with his Holy Spirit, but first He had to take away his sin. I began to explain the Gospel. He had not trusted in Jesus yet, but agreed to everything I said as I spoke. When I asked if he would like to be forgiven, trusting in Jesus or thought something else he said, “I would want to be forgiven.” So I said if he wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer he could pray. I explained it to him and he seemed to be reading it as I gave it to him. I explained living “Inside out” where God transforms you and you become a different person able “By the Spirit’s Power” to do what God was asking him to do. I gave him a Bible Study and the Book 20 Things God Can’t Do writing his name and the date and forgiven in the front. Then I gave him the booklet and he said, “Where is that prayer at?” I showed him and asked if he had prayed it. “I usually pray in the day later,” he said. So I asked, “Do you believe Jesus is God, died for your sins and rose from the dead? And do you place your trust in that to be forgiven?” He said “Yes.” “The words can come later then.” I said. He asked about a Bible study, having talked to a friend of mine that has a different one. So I talked to him about the time and asked him to email me about coming. When I got home, he’d sent me an email so I’ll check up on him and see if we can connect some more.

I walked to the end of the hall on the south side of the ground floor of the BIC and as I came to the end where I would usually go over to the PE building, I felt like I was supposed to go outside. I exited and came out on the outside theatre of the MAC arts building. No one was around except a girl studying. Some students on their laptop are actually taking a quiz or in on online class this year. So I wrote some stuff down and checked my phone and started up the grass hill to go up to the PE entrance and on the hill sat Micheal. He was a thin, real good looking black guy, looked young. Had a shadow mustache and wore black skinny jeans shredded on the knees and a black t-shirt. He said he’d do a survey. It turned out he considered himself a Christian, which he told me as I explained the prayer to Him. But his response to the question was his own righteousness saying, “I tried to do everything I wanted to do without hurting anyone.” He went on to say that he felt like the Bible taught if you do that you’ll be OK. When I asked what the likelihood was he would get into Heaven he said, “I have a lot of life to live. I hope I go there. I would say I’d get a solid 70%.” After I went through the Gospel with him and he said he would want to be forgiven, he said he was a Christian and had forgotten to mention that.  I helped him to see that what he had been trusting in was that he would hold up his end and always do the right thing, not hurting anyone. But that he was not perfect and after a life lived there would be times he hadn’t done that. He agreed. So I explained if he would trust in Christ’s righteousness and not his own, the likelihood he would go to Heaven was 100%. I talked through the prayer with him asking if he had prayed it and he said he’d read it through as I had gone through it. So I said, “Amen?” And he said he had done it in his head. I gave him a Bible Study on ways Jesus claims to be God in the Scripture. I wrote his name and the date and “forgiven” in the front and he said he would like to come to a Bible study. We talked about when he was done at school and he said he’d send me an email so I hope we’ll connect again.

So thanks for your prayers for the Bible study and for evangelism today if you had a chance. God blessed and I made some connections I hope will get stronger.

In Him,

Bob