“But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, unwavering, without hypocrisy. James 3:17

Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
I had a great day of sharing.  A friend posted the above verse on fb today and I felt like that came into play today. By the end of the day two Students had come to Christ. Kenya a Black student, (American though not Kenyan) and Alex a Black guy who was Catholic. Kenya was sitting in the lounge off Starbucks waiting to be called into one of the administration lines in the Student Services Center. It worked out perfectly that I was able to due a survey with her and she prayed to receive Jesus before the little disc vibrated and blinked her turn was up. She was like many Christians believing their own goodness or even obedience saves them saying when asked why she should go to heaven, “Because I lived by His rules on earth.” But it is not enough to live by His rules and no one can do that perfectly anyway so it was the ticket in no one makes it. We have to trust his death and resurrection has paid the price for our sins, believing this we know Him as His Spirit enters us by faith. She did believe and prayed and I gave her a Bible Study on the Deity of Christ and More than a Carpenter to read, inviting her to Bible Study. I get in trouble with the cops sometimes in that lounge but I was able to sit on the floor out of sight at her feet to talk with her. Ha!
I passed Alex sitting on a bench outside the lounge and asked him if he wanted to do a student survey, he said he’d just done one. So I asked, “Oh did they ask you this question? You are walking down the road and you get hit by a bus, and you stand b4 God and He asks you, ‘Why should I let you into heaven?’ What would you say?” He said, “No, they wanted to tell me about the father god and the Mother goddess.” I laughed and said, “Yeah, I’ve talked to those people b4.  It turns out the Mother goddess is some chick in Korea.” We laughed and he was like, “Really. They didn’t mention that.” I pointed out that, “If that was their opening line you would know they were nuts so they slip it in on you over time, I think.”‘ We talked some more and I said, “Well, you wanna answer my question?” He said he went to Church and was good and I said, “Well would you like to know what the Bible says about it?” and he said he would. I went through the gospel with him. It turned out he went to Catholic Church every other Sunday. I asked him if he had ever had a time when he had asked God to forgive his sins because of what Jesus had done for him on the cross. He hadn’t and wanted to pray for forgiveness that God might live inside him and did. I gave him More than a Carpenter to read as well and a Bible study and talked him through confession and the Mass.
I had a crazy long apologetic discussion with a liberal couple. It was like walking on eggshells but they conceded my points and I got them to basically acknowledge a transcendental apologetic, (or a presuppositional idea) that knowledge is made possible by a God or god-like intelligence that has created the under-pinning order of the world that science then discovers. This allows communication. And that morality itself comes from religious ideas that are Christian. Also that, “Natural Law” fails, for us in practice, as humans as we are unable to practice a law code like beasts have, lions for example will kill or drive off the head of another pride, eat or simply kill the previous male head lion’s young and then mate with his previously held mates. For lions we do not call this cannibalism, murder and rape, but we would have to call it that, if, adapted by natural law some human did the very same thing. Natural Law leads to sadism ethically. The guy wanted to appeal to Logic, but why should things be logical? Once again there is an order discoverably mathematic that makes logic a “common sense” appeal. Why should this be if the world came from chaos? Why does the Human Genome consist of transferable code from one set of parents to an offspring? The girl wanted to say she “did not believe in black and white” until I asked her if she thought it was ok to have sex with your children. She had to concede there were some things she called “black”. We talked about homosexuality and I pointed out there was some people we both thought should not legally be able to marry, polygamists, parents marrying their children and so on. So good discussion, after I had explained the gospel, but stressful. It took about 45 minutes and began while he was waiting for her to get out of class.
I talked to a cool artist Raphael at the end of the day. African American guy. I ended up giving him a copy of The Case for Christ. He has seen some apparitions of beings on thrones made up of language or words, [sort of like the code in the ‘Matrix’ if you have seen the movie] pretty trippy stuff and I warned him about darkness. He also once seemed to have had this language come on him and he spoke it, yet he did not believe in Christ. He sees this language at times as if through a transparency, and claims the beings he had seen seemed “very peaceful” communicating with him through emotions and I warned him more than once [2Corinthians 11:14] “…Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.” He knew the gospel though not imputation. Had read a lot of Christian books about Heaven and Hell. But He let me pray over him and I prayed God would show him a vision of goodness. He was very talented and I’ll be praying for him.
Tomorrow is a book table day for the clubs and activities fair. Please pray for the fruit of that that we might get a good Bible study going. And pray for Alex and Kenya and even Raphael if you would that they might come closer to Christ.
In Him,
Bob