Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed with some good things that gave ya joy. My stomach seems better so that’s a blessing and Juan and Armen each prayed with me to receive Jesus today. Please pray their faith is strengthened and they are blessed even more in the future. If you feel like making time to read what happened it’s below.

 Juan was sitting in the lunch room finishing lunch and he said he only had 5 minutes. He was a good looking guy had a bit of a Spanish language accent, dark hair short on the sides hair and rectangular rimmed glasses, had a professional looking face, wearing a baseball style long sleeve shirt and jeans, warm smile square features. I asked him if he wanted to answer just one big question and when I asked him what he would say to God if asked, “Why should I let you into Heaven?” He replied, “Why not.” I’ve gotten that answer before and I told him that a professor I had in college the semester before I had them asked that on a midterm, “Why?”, One guy answered “Why Not?” and turned it in and he gave him an A. “Well you wanna know why not? Or not so much?” I asked. “Sure,” he replied. So I quickly went through the gospel with him. He listened closely taking it in well saying, “like a heritage,” when I explained how we were adopted and given the sacrifice for our sins the blood that cleansed us and the righteousness of God that surrounds us. I asked if he wanted to be forgiven with God living inside him and he did but he said he’d gone to several churches and did not feel like they were offering people anything they actually needed. I said this was not about if you want to commit to going to church this is if you want a relationship with God because your sins are forgiven and He lives inside you. So I explained the Christian life living “inside out”. I said if he’d want God inside giving him the power to live the Christian life there was a prayer he could pray. He said he’d prayed a prayer something like that at 3 different churches, some kind of prayer anyway. I said, “But you didn’t understand it before?” “Well, they never actually explained what it meant.” I thought later that would explain why you would keep praying a pray asking God for a relationship or some other vague Christianeze type thing. I’ve heard several sermons in just the last couple years offering people a heightened experience of some kind with God, raise your hand type moment. Once Christ had never been mentioned and two other times there was never any mention that they needed to trust that Jesus was God, had died for their sins and rose from the dead. It sadly does not surprise me at all he had prayed for something like this and never been saved on three different occasions. I said, “Would you like to pray with understanding now, so it would count?” He said he would and prayed out loud the prayer to receive Jesus. He was happy. I gave him 20 Things God Can’t Do and wrote his name and the date and “forgiven“ in the front and he thanked me. I gave him a Bible Study on the deity of Christ and he said he really had to run to a meeting. I said cool I would pray for him every night for the next year. “Thank you so much.” He said a couple times and shook my hand and we both headed out.

Armen was sitting in the hallway. He was dressed right out of 1969 and I told him his jeans were cool and reminded me of the 70’s. They were big bell bottoms almost out to the end of brown leather boots. The bottoms were cut off where they had 6 inch square button flap pockets sewed on the edge. He had an off white bell sleeve shirt on and a silver bracelet on his right wrist with a cool western style rectangular stone on top. He wore circular lenses, sunglasses, that he took off a bit later as we talked. He was a good looking guy with a kind of every which way mop of mostly straight hair that could have been Native American in color and a pointed chin I saw later. l asked if he’d like to do a survey for a Bible Study group. He asked about the Bible study and as I have been doing lately I gave him a flyer for the Biker Bible study I teach 3 of 4 times each month. Since we can’t get a study going this year at school. I asked if he’d like to answer just one big question and he said OK. So I asked what he would say to God if he died and was asked why should I let you into Heaven. “I could say I don’t know but I should just think about it,” He thought some and said, “I’ve done my best, seems kind of weak but I guess I’ll just say that.” I asked the likelihood he would get into Heaven and he said 15% saying he’d have to do more. So I asked if he would want to know what the Bible said was the answer to the question and he said, “Yeah.” So I went through the Gospel with him emphasizing all the things I always do particularly that he would not go to Heaven because he was good but because Jesus was good. I was interrupted by a guy at one point walking down the hall who did not like my face shield. I asked if he was a representative of the school and he claimed to be faculty. I began to offer an explanation my lawyer thinks is viable. Basically if someone can’t see your face you do not have free speech expression in communicating the Gospel. As an aside: There are no scientific studies showing a face mask is superior to a solid plastic shield. Or demonstrating the efficacy of either from the Doctor’s I have heard lecture on three separate occasions. Judy Mikovits, Lee Merritt and Richard Fleming. [They are each interviewed here: https://www.brighteon.com/channels/hrreport ] But I only got out the worlds, “My Lawyer…” and he threatened to call security on me. I said, “OK.” He stormed off and I finished explaining the Gospel to Armen who said he did not think the unidentified faculty was serious about calling security. But I said I thought he probably was. I asked if he wanted to be forgiven with God inside him and explaining how we are transformed on the inside and do good things and are transformed more and more as we go through life. “Like a chain reaction snow ball.” Armen put in. I agreed just like that. He wanted to be forgiven and when I walked him through the prayer he said, “It’s a place to begin,” and I agreed. He took the booklet and silently prayed to receive Jesus. I gave him “Bible Promises for You” writing his name and the date and “forgiven”. He thanked me. I gave him a Bible Study on the deity of Christ explaining a bit to him. And I gave him The Case for Christianity Answer Booklet. He was grateful and I got up from leaning on the wall beside him and told him I would pray for him every day for a year. He was grateful and I saw his face without his mask as I got up and he grinned at me and I headed out. I was at school another hour but was not approached by anyone else.

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

In Him,
Bob