Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed walking with God in the Spirit.  I had a good day on campus and went through the gospel with an atheist, Jordan, a huge back dude (on the fat side a bit but just big) with a beard who wasn’t a student at school but was willing to hear what the Bible said was the way you got into Heaven. He’d been through some dark days and he felt like God had not shown Himself to him and he’d lost faith. He took the booklet I’d gone through with him and The Case for Christ Answer Book. I also went through the Gospel with 2 Muslims as well with no apparent effect. But Gabe prayed to receive Christ today so that was great. His story is below if you have a moment. Please pray he grows in his faith.

 Gabe was sitting at the far end of the hallway from Bookstore that ends at what might have been the frame for fire doors, at one time. He said he’d do a survey. He had a mop of curls and wore wire frame glasses; he had a smaller mouth with a ready smile. He had on a dark sweatshirt and jeans, had a firm jaw line, friendly guy. I asked him what he would say to God if he’d died and were asked by Him, “Why should I let you into Heaven. He thought a second and said, “I mean, like, I’ve tried serving my life to what was right and righteous to show what a perfect human was. It’s in your hands because you know all really. He knows my sins.” I asked him the likelihood he would go to heaven. He thought it was 100% but qualified that saying, “I don’t have malice in my heart, I sin… [but] I do my best to follow the path of God. Everyone deserves to be in Heaven, or [at least] everyone has a chance to be saved.” He went to a Catholic Church and thought he wanted to be a teacher. I began to go through the Gospel with him and he followed closely and seemed interested in it all the way through. When I asked him what Jesus had done to take away the sins of the world he said, “Sacrifice.” So, agreeing, I explained the Jesus had lived a perfect life and because he was God His life and blood were worth an infinite amount. When He poured out His blood it paid God back for all the imperfect things we had done that we owe God something perfect for. I said this was like the symbolism in the Mass. The wafer is his body and the wine His blood. I explained Jesus gave His righteous to us. I completed all I say in explaining the Gospel. I asked, “Which kind of person would you say you are or want to be?” I explained the two circles in the booklet one was trusting in what Jesus had done and other religions had God on the outside of your life or for Buddhists God was in everything and the world was an illusion. I then said, “So when you are asking for forgiveness for your sins have you thought, I’m a good person and God will see that and forgive me or have you been thinking I know I’ll be forgiven because Jesus died for me? I know you knew the story but had you placed your trust in that to be forgiven?” “I was trusting I was good and he’d forgive me,” he replied. “Well, if you would want to be forgiven trusting in what Jesus had done there’s a prayer you could pray,” and I walked him through it and said, reading, “Does this prayer express the desire of your heart?” He said it did so I said if he wanted to then he could pray it silently and know he was forgiven, “I wouldn’t hear you but God would hear and you’d know you were forgiven.” “Ok,” he said and he took the booklet and prayed to receive Jesus. I went on to tell him about living the Christian life “By the Spirit’s power” I said, “Christianity is inside out not outside in. Other religions you do good things on the outside and God is pleased with you and take you to heaven or the Universe is pleased with you and you don’t come back as a cow or something, that’s not true anyway. But in Christianity you ask God to transform you and you become a good man on the inside and then you do good things on the outside because God has transformed you and made you good.” I gave him Bible Promises for You writing his name and the date and “forgiven!” on the inside. I gave him The Case for Christ Answer Book and a Bible Study on the Deity of Christ. I told him I would pray for him each day until Spring and one year after, “I don’t know if I’ll see you again but I’ll be praying for ya.” He was grateful. I told him about ICR saying there was some stuff he could pick up there to teach to kids. Joe Rogan, Mel Gibson, and the Science They Missed | Expert Reacts

“Well I’ve taken enough of your time,” I said. “It’s all good,” he said cheerfully. And we shook hands. “God bless you,” I said. “God bless you too,” he replied and said thanks and I headed off.

 So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today, God blessed the work.

 In Him,

Bob