Hey sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope you had a great day walking with Jesus. I found 7 people to talk to about the Lord again today. Vladimir took The Case for Christianity Answer Book today so I am hopeful God will use that in this life. Ryan trusted in Jesus praying to receive Christ. Anthony also prayed to receive Jesus who I went through the Gospel with yesterday. He said sort of said he’d think about it then. I bumped into him outside Starbucks and he said, “Hi” Hey Anthony,” I replied.  “I wanted to let you know I prayed, and I feel so much better,” he said. “Great I have been praying for you. That’s really great thanks for letting me know.” I replied and he shook my hand. So thanks for your prayers for the ministry of evangelism on campus and these students. God Blessed. The stories are below if you have time.

Ryan was sitting in the Science building lounge on the second floor; there is a corner lounge that overlooks the big lounge below from the West side. He had a blue shirt on and blue jeans. He had a goatee postage stamp size beard on his chin and a mustache and black thin rimed rectangular glasses. He had a mop of curly brown hair and expressive face high, long, thin eyebrows. Kind of reminded me of Groucho Marx with a thin mustache.  I asked if he wanted to do a survey and he asked what it was about so I told him the main question. He said he didn’t know what he’d say.  I asked if he wanted to hear some Bible verses that gave the answer to the question. He said sure and I said, “So you want the verses or do the survey?” “Both” he said. I asked him again what he would say to God if asked, “Why should I let you into Heaven?” He replied, “Don’t you know me?” He’d had some time to think and try to be funny. But it played right in to what I would tell him about knowing God, that God wanted to live inside him. He thought he had an 80% chance of going to Heaven. He interjected that he thought God loved Satan, as He had created him and he was God’s child. I said the Bible nowhere said God loved Satan. I said Satan had lost his position as one of the Sons of God and others like him were held in chains of darkness waiting judgment. I said Satan would one day be thrown into the Lake of Fire and be destroyed there. “Oh,” he said. I don’t know what point he was about to make but he decided he’s been wrong about it. He said he heard voices sometimes and they would tell him things both good and bad. I said the Bible says to test the Spirit’s and that no evil spirit can claim Jesus is Lord God. I said if he asked God to forgive him trusting in Jesus he could ask God to take the thoughts of Satan out of his head and He would. I said everyone gets a bad thought sometimes and I do that sometimes. He did not think all the thoughts were bad. So I said he could ask God to take the thoughts of Satan out of his heart and if the thoughts stopped he’d know they were from Satan. He knew Jesus had died for his sins but had not trusted in this to be forgiven or been to church for a while and so we went back and forth on some things. I asked if he wanted to be forgiven and at first he’d said he was more interested in forgiving himself. I said that was pop psychology and he really could not forgive himself. He could try to forget about things but he could not fix them or pay someone back for doing them or fix himself. If he saw someone again it would still be awkward. But he could ask God to help others forget his errors and to make them into good, if he loved God and was called according to His purposes (I had quoted Romans 8:28 to him and referred back to it). This is what in the end persuaded him to receive Jesus I think, he saw God’s power to change things in his life, forgive and repair them. And after I had gone through the Gospel and explained things concerning Satan and then voices in your head, he prayed to receive Christ. I gave him Bible Promises for You and wrote his name and the date and “forgiven!” on the inside page. I explained now trusting in the righteousness of Jesus to be his righteousness the likelihood he would go to Heaven was 100%. I explained living “Inside Out” by the Spirit’s power. I also gave him a Bible study on the deity of Jesus based on his actions and statements in the Gospels. “Thank you,” he said as I got up to go. I told him I would be praying for him each day every day through a year from this spring and asked if he had anything I could pray for him now. He said his parents were going through a bad divorce so I said I’d pray about it. He was living with his dad and the other brother was 21.

Yesterday I was going through the Gospel with another guy Brady who wasn’t sure about Christianity. I gave him The Case for Christianity Answer Booklet at the end. But in the middle Anthony had walked up and I felt someone staring at my back. He had a clean shaven face though it did not seem to be producing much if any beard as yet. The birth dot on his face (beauty mark?) was part of his boyish good looks, he was shorter and had a mop of curly hair. Wearing jeans and a t-shirt. I thought it was another dude who interrupts sometimes who is a little off-balance before I turned to see Anthony. “What’s up?” I asked.  He asked if I was still doing interviews. I had asked him before (I think last school year) and he decided to do one saying he had seen me around. I said I could after I was done. He sat and overheard a lot of what I said. But afterwards I went outside to one of the tables by the waterfall around the corner with him and we talked. When I asked him what he would say to God to get into Heaven he said, “I do what I can to help others and help myself. I was a Boy Scout and made it up to Eagle Scout. I do what I can to help my community.” He worked hard. He said he did what he could not to get caught up in social media or look at his phone. That seemed a virtue in part it seemed as his X-girlfriend had an ongoing relationship with a guy on line, she had otherwise never met and now “dated”. He felt she’d been kind of emotionally cheated on him while she dated him and was enthralled with on line guy. He also said something about being a, “God and Country” kind of person. When I asked him the likelihood he would go to Heaven he said, “I’ve done what I can to fix mistakes and make other people happy, 80%.” He had overheard bits and pieces so I went through the Gospel again letting him finish an example if he’d caught it. I emphasized he would have to be perfect to enter Heaven. He had not been trusting in Jesus but said he wanted to be forgiven. I walked him through the prayer and he took the booklet and closed it. So I figured I had misread his intention. But I felt like he was close so I prayed for him a few times yesterday and today he had trusted in Jesus and prayed so that was great.  I thanked him for telling me today and for coming up to ask to talk yesterday. He said, “Sure,” and thanked me and shook my hand as I mentioned.

So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism on campus. God has truly blessed this year.

In Him,

Bob