Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,
I had a great day of sharing after Bible Study today. 4 Peeps came to Christ: Julian, Justice, Anthony and Bianca.

I looped around after coming up from our student group locker to stash the Bibles. [Yes, we have a student group locker so we have hit the big time and I save 50 cents a day now that it is colder on a place to toss my coat]. There is a woman in the SSC lounge (it is the largest one in the school right by Starbucks, it is the size of a small gym) I discovered much to my chagrin on Friday, that does not think I am allowed to initiate conversations with students.  It is impossible to have a rule about this if you think about it.  It would mean anyone from the public who uses the library could not ask a student where the bathroom is.  They have no policy on this, some people just act like they do. I prayed all summer that the women who sat at the info table in the SSC would be replaced as they kept calling the cops on me last year for no reason at all. I finally took a class so I could say I was a student. (I might again next semester, got any suggestions?) The old women at the desk were gone in the fall. Now there is a new desk nazi to deal with who hassled me Friday.  Ha, but she faces the stairs so I came into the lounge behind her back and found Justice sitting around talking with Julian.  I asked him if he wanted to do a student survey, (which is actually a questionnaire) but he said he already had. So I asked him his name, not remembering we’d spoken, and when he told me it was Justice I knew it hadn’t been me. So I said, “What did you say to this question? You’re walkin’ down the road, you get hit by a bus, so you’re dead and you stand before God and He says to you why should I let you into heaven, what would you say?” Julian heard the question too and they both had nothing so I said, “Ok, how does God take away your sin.” Justice said, “Repent, you repent.” I said, “Yeah, but what is the big thing God does to take away your sin?” Blank looks. “What washes away your sin?” I tried the colloquialism and that triggered Anthony who was standing around eavesdropping. “His Son dies on the cross!” He said with enthusiasm. “That’s why there are the nail prints in his hands and feet!” Now he is preaching to the other guys but they are not really paying attention to him.  So I said to Julian and Justice, who were still kind of struggling genuinely with the question, “You guys don’t know how to get to Heaven right?” They admitted they didn’t. “Well, do you want to know?” They said they did, so I sat on the ground in case someone looked over from the desk I would be blocked from sight by a bunch of football players. I went through the Gospel with them, not quite realizing Anthony had taken a chair behind them to continue to eavesdrop. Both of them wanted to pray to receive Christ and as they were praying Anthony asked over their shoulders, “Can I have one of those?” talking about the booklet.  I watched him and he was reading some of the pages, which I don’t read except the bible verses so these would provide a different angle on the Gospel just a bit.  But I had handed it to him with the page open to the prayer I had walked the other guys through and after a minute asked him if he had prayed.  He’d been reading a page and said, “Oh yeah.” And he prayed to receive Christ as well. Justice and Julian said they did not read much, not wanting a book, and I talked about the Holy Spirit and living the Christian life.  Julian left his seat so Anthony moved into it and I offered him a book. He wanted one and the description made Justice want a book too so I gave them both a copy of More than a Carpenter.  I gave them my contact email as they wouldn’t let me send them anything. So pretty great, God just lined the whole thing up. And I slipped out of the lounge.

I talked to some other peeps and then was feeling pretty spent by 3 PM, but I thought I would talk to one more student if I could.  I went through the tunnel to the SRC and found Bianca and Dina sitting together looking like best friends with Dina’s head on Bianca’s shoulder.  Both looked Latino, seemed like sweet girls.  Dina didn’t want to talk but just to listen and she encouraged Bianca to do a survey.  She’d been to a Baptist Church a few years before for a time but her father had gone to prison and it seems like some things had changed from that.  She said she would tell God if He asked her why He should let her into heaven, “Because I learned to forgive.”  She thought she had a 50/50 chance to go to Heaven and had a tender heart, but had not understood Jesus had died for her sins.  When I finished going through the Gospel with her she wanted to be forgiven and prayed to receive Christ. She wanted to look at all the books I had and took, The Case for Faith. Dina would not take a book but said to Bianca, you can read it to me. I got her e-mail to send her some stuff.

So thanks for your prayers today for the ministry if you had a chance.  I’ll always go out to do evangelism on Mondays after Bible Study.  God blessed me today it was fun.

The election is coming up soon, don’t forget to be asking for God to have mercy on our country, we are in a bad place.

In Him,

Bob Bollow