Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
I Hope your day was truly blessed today walking with him. I had a good day on campus going through the Gospel with 7 people. One a Muslim, Muzammil from Pakistan heard the Gospel for the first time and was interested to understand the good deeds of Christ are to our credit. I’ll pray for him in the hope something might strike him later, very friendly guy. 7 is a lot for the present times with fewer people around, but 2 were very quick and they took the booklet to think about it. One running to class, the other to a meeting. Also Demo and Kori each prayed to receive Christ today. Please pray for them if you have some time. If you have time for the longer stories they are below.
Demo [due mo] was sitting in the lounge on the NW corner of the 1st floor of the BIC. I had not realized he was on the phone but he asked how long it would take and excused himself saying he would call them back. He had some short braids poking out from under a trucker style hat sitting high on his head, turned backwards and to the left. Since he was wearing a mask, I never saw his face. But he was medium build, African American wearing a hoodie and jeans. He said he wanted to get baptized. He had no assurance of salvation because he was trusting in his works in part to qualify him for Heaven. When I asked him what he would say to God to get into Heaven he said, “I am a believer, even though I feel like right now if I die I wouldn’t make it. I made my bed and I have to sleep in it. I do believe.” He thought he had a 40% likelihood of going to Heaven. When I asked him what Jesus had done to take away his sins so God could live inside him he said, “He was crucified.” I agreed and went on to explain how the Blood of Jesus was a power in the world to cleanse us from sin and it is His righteousness, not ours, that we claim before God. After I finished the Gospel I asked him if he would want to be forgiven, trusting in what Jesus had done. He said he would and so I walked him through the prayer again asking if he would want to begin trusting in Jesus and be forgiven, and starting today, asking for God to make him the kind of person He wanted him to be and not do it on his own. “Yes sir,” he replied. And I gave him the booklet and he quietly prayed to receive Jesus. I gave him Bible Promises for You and wrote his name and the date and “forgiven” I the front. I explained living the Christian life “Inside Out”. I also gave him a Bible study on the Deity of Christ and told him I would pray for him. He thanked me sincerely and I headed off.
The last person I talked to today was Kori, a black girl. She plays basketball at school and had long braids big eyes and a pretty full face with a bit wider nose I saw as I walked away. She was sitting in an atrium lounge on the South side of the ground floor of the BIC. She thought she had a 40% likelihood of going to Heaven. She had not been to Church in a while but said she wanted to go back. When I asked her what she would say to God to get into Heaven she said, “That’s a hard question…” Then thinking a bit more she said, “I probably would ask Him to forgive everything I’ve sinned, [forgiveness] for sinning.” She knew Jesus had died to take away our sins and so I went through the Gospel, encouraging her that she could place her trust in that and the Righteousness of Jesus, not her righteousness, is what she could rest in. I said God is not like a bad boyfriend who, when you tell him you screwed up, he is shocked or says, “we’ll see how you do” qualifying his forgiveness. But He knows the future and immediately forgives us and has a plan to make it into Good. When I had finished, I asked her if she would like to be forgiven with God inside or thought something else and she said, “Forgiven with God inside.” So I said there was a prayer she could pray and walked her through it, asking if it was “the desire of her heart.” She nodded and I said she could pray it right now, knowing she was forgiven and asked if she’d like to pray and she said, “Yeah,” nodding. She prayed then to receive Christ. I told her now that she was trusting in the Righteousness of Jesus to be her righteousness the likelihood she would go to Heaven was 100%. I gave her a Bible Study also and Bible Promises for You writing her name and the date and “forgiven!” on the inside and told her I would be praying for her. She was grateful and I headed out.
So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today if you had a chance. God truly blessed. I also got to speak briefly to another ministry’s Bible Study group today and went through the Gospel and explained the Biblical basis for Contact Evangelism.
In Him,
Bob