Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope ya had a good day walking with him. I had an interesting day on campus and Christian and Gian each prayed with me to receive Jesus. It was a pretty straightforward presentation of how I teach through the Gospel but at the end after they prayed two Muslims walked up wanting to talk, Muhammad and Fido. This in the end strengthened the faith of the guys who had prayed since the Muslims could not well answer the questions I put to them and I turned their questions around on them. Please pray these Christians grow in their faith their story is below.

I walked outside to go under the roof of the outside area of the cafeteria heading over from the science buildings. Christian and Gian (PR-Man) were sitting at a table and I asked them if they wanted to do a student survey for a Bible Study group. Christian immediately said he’d do it and Gian followed after. The later was not excited about giving me his real name and since he had a Puerto Rico  black hoodie on with bold lettering saying the country I suggested I could call him the Puerto Rican or PR-Man. He liked PR-Man so we went with that. Christian had a round head little meat on him with a well trimmed haircut very short on the sides little fuller on top. He wasn’t tall. He had a mustache and a bit of chin beard. Gian had curly hair and a cap on narrow face bit of a mustache as well, he was slight and short both wore jeans. When I asked them what they would say to God to get into Heaven Christian said, “Because I am a good person.” Gian said, “Because I have worked.” Work of course is a virtue. They both thought they had a 50/50 shot of going to Heaven. I did not get a lot more information from them and straightforwardly went through the Gospel. Both wanted to be forgiven, Christian said, “Yeah,” and Gian echoed him. Both said, first Christian, they wanted to pray. Christian took the booklet and held it praying. Gian then did in a different manner, first trying to rest the booklet on a bottle so he could fold his hands; he gave up and pinched the booklet and very solemnly bowed his head and prayed. I put some of the verses I had only put I Christian’s booklet and managed to write “Inside out” in both books describing the Christian life. I was in process of giving them each books and writing their names and the date and “forgiven!” on the inside. The Muslims invited themselves. Possibly believing they had some deal breakers to use on Christians. But I started in with them right away when they said they believed Jesus was a prophet suggesting we did not. I asked if they believed Jesus did miracles. Both agreed they did. “Do you believe Jesus walked on the water?” They did. So I took out a Bible Study on the Deity of Christ and said, “The question is why did Jesus do the miracles he did? The reason he walked on water is found in the Old Testament.” I showed them in the Book of Job 9:8 “Who alone stretches out the Heavens, “You know how the universe is expanding,” I said. And marches on the waves of the sea. “The real reason Jesus walks on the water is to tell them He is the God of the Old Testament. Fido took the Bible Study and tried to criticize the ides God eats. But I pointed out the Bible says He ate with Abraham and that Jesus appears in the Old Testament as the Angel of Jehovah. “You mean he appeared as a man?” “Yes, “ I replied telling them God was in two powers in the Old Testament, an incorporeal God that if you experience Him directly you vaporize and one like a man who talks with them and eats. I told them they were plural beings like God they had a body like Jesus they had a will or a mind like the Father and they had emotions like the Holy Spirit. I explained the Bible says God emptied Himself to become a man and that since we are made in the Image of God if you subtract enough out of God you get a man. I explained some virtues to them like humility. I said the God of the Old and New Testament is not like their God the Bible says He is love. The Quran does not say this. “Yes it does,” Fido replied. I said “No, it doesn’t,” “It says he is merciful,” he said. I said it is not the same thing. “Mercy is not love. If I am a king and someone is caught stealing and the penalty is to cut of his head but I send him to prison I have had mercy on him. But that does not mean I love the guy.” Muhammad tried to say mercy was repeated actions and I said one action of mercy is still mercy. I said, “Do you believe God can do anything He wants?” Yes they both agreed that He could. “Then why can’t He become a man?” “Why would God do that?” they asked. I said it is not our right to ask God why He does something that may even be blasphemous to question God but God does this to communicate to us what God is like, to become a man so we can understand this. I explained God was paid, by the infinite blood of Christ, and so He was Just and this was what our society was based on. We went on a bit more. Christian and Gian were both appreciative bit had to leave and took their books at one point. I told them I would pray for them each night until the spring and one year after. I asked Gian if he wanted a book and asked if he wanted his real name in it. He told me his name then and I could tell he appreciated it. In the rush I don’t know if he took a Bible Study as he had gone in to connect with a friend briefly when I gave one to Christian so I may have forgot so hopefully I will see him again. I also gave Christian The Case for Christ Answer Book the Muslims did not seem to want one. But Christian took one. I sat a bit longer with my new Muslim acquaintances that I imagine the Devil had sent to derail my conversation but it built the new Christians faith instead and I could tell by the expressions on the guys they were grateful. Christian was grinning since his side had won. Fido took a picture of my friend Hesham’s phone number after I brought him up. So maybe the conversation will continue with Pastor Shehab.

After this I had a long conversation in the cafeteria where I snuck a bit of the Gospel into a discussion on the Russian war and Slovakia, turns out their power price has doubled though they have nuclear and they closed the aluminum factory, it is a country half the size of IL.. Later I went tag team with one, then two, then one, than another evolutionary minded students. They were misinformed on a few facts. So I had some fun there too. But I just left them with as many questions as I could that they could not answer without trying to make a case for mine except with the first two and slipped away. The truth is cutting edge science is discrediting Evolutionary theory and there is not enough evolutionary time for humans to evolve. The Human Genome based on mutations is no more than 10,000 years old.

So Thanks for your prayers for the ministry and evangelism today. God blessed and protected me.

In Him,

Bob