Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,
I hope you had a good week walking with God in His word. I had a good week on campus and 4 students each prayed with me to receive Christ. Earlier in the week Jack, V, & Jacob, then Anthony, prayed to receive Jesus on Thursday. Another guy named Jack who was sitting in the hall on the way to the bookstore genuinely thanked me after I read through the prayer with him saying he could pray it silently, took the booklet and trotted off. He’s said he wanted to be forgiven had to run to class, had a square jaw youthful slender and tall and a curly blonde head of hair. So I hope I will see him again. Stephanie, a small round-headed Latina in the cafeteria thought she would pray later. I asked her a day later when I saw her and she said she still planned to but had forgot. Anthony’s story is below if you have the time please pray these all grow in their faith in Christ. Thanks for your help.
Anthony was sitting I the hallway on the 2nd floor of the BIC waiting for his class to begin. He had on baggy green athletic shorts and a grey t-shirt. He was short and had a curly brown mop of hair a friendly young face, small nose. He said he wanted to be a cop. I asked him what he would say if he died and God asked him, “Why should I let you into Heaven?” He thought for a moment and said, “I don’t know.” He hadn’t been to Church since he was young. I asked what he thought they might say at Church got someone into Heaven. “Living a good life,” he replied, “Not cursing other people or hurting other people.” He thought he had a 50/50 chance of going to Heaven. He listened to the Gospel as people walked by. I was not sure if he was connecting or not so I prayed as I talked God would be at work. I sensed from the flow people were headed to class and he would be so as quickly as I could I touched all the points of the Gospel. He knew Jesus had died to take away the sins of the world. So I just continued on saying this is how it works explaining the cleansing blood of Christ, the perfect man who was God. He gave His life to pay God back for all the imperfect things we did that we owe God something perfect for. I explained the righteousness of God and salvation by faith using all the Bible verses. I asked if he wanted to be forgiven or thought something else. “I’d want to be forgiven,” he said. So I said there was a prayer he could pray if he wanted to be forgiven and he listened as I explained it and then I asked, “It says here, ‘Does this prayer express the desire of your heart?’ So would you say that it does?” “Yeah,” he said. I said he could pray it silently if he wanted to be forgiven, and asked if he wanted to and he once again said, “Yeah,” So I said “OK.” And he took the booklet and prayed to receive Jesus. I told him the likelihood he would now go to Heaven was 100%. I quickly explained the Christian life living “Inside > Out” by the Spirit’s Power. I found out he had a Bible and so I gave him Bible Promises for You writing his name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front. I also gave him The Case for Christ Answer Booklet. I told him I would pray for him each day until Spring and one year after and gave him a Bible study as he stood up to go. “Sorry to take so long,” I said. Though it hadn’t probably been 10 minutes. “Oh no problem,” he said and he headed off down the now empty hall with 3 minutes to get to class.
So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism this week God worked in some hearts and I was grateful to have an opportunity to share with some. They are tearing up the center of campus to rebuild all the administrative offices that were but15 years old. It’s rumored to be a 2-year process.
In Him,
Bob