Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day was filled in joy and peace and believing, abounding in hope in our Lord Jesus Christ. I had a good day on campus and Joe prayed to receive Christ. His story is below if you have some time. Please pray he grows in his faith.

 Joe was sitting in the cafeteria playing a video game on his lap-top. He was a big dude, wearing a bright green hoodie and black pants. He wore wire rimed rectangle glasses and had a day’s growth of beard on a wide face. He had light brown hair a thick mop of curls combed back that was receding a bit. His mouth was on the small side his lips showed a bit of orange from a kind of chili in a cup he’d been eating as I’d interrupted his lunch. He was also playing a video game but he didn’t seem that interested in it as he readily talked with me.  He was a very kind guy. He asked what the survey was about and I just said the main question. “You’re walking down the road and you get hit by a bus so you’re dead and you stand before God and he says, ‘Why should I let you into Heaven?’ what would you say?” He thought about it and said he believed and had tried to be good. Trying to find out what he believed I told him in Christianity God lived inside him with His Holy Spirit. In order to do that God had to take away his sin since God could not be in the same place as sin. I asked him what God had done to take away his sins. “I don’t know,” he replied. So I asked if he would like to hear some Bible verses about how God took away his sins so he could go to Heaven. He said “OK.” So I sat down and showed him the verses where God love him and wanted to know him giving him eternal life. This meant God would live inside him so he could have eternal life. I began to explain further, the Gospel to him. The blood of Christ cleansed him and was how God got paid for what we owed Him. I explained Jesus earned the righteousness of God, which was to his credit. God adopts us and gives us the blessings of His family, the sacrifice for our sins, the blood that cleanses us and the righteousness that surrounds us. And then fills us with His holy Spirit. “So ya got some place to go Heaven, and something to wear when ya get there the righteousness of God.” I explained salvation, receiving Christ by faith. I asked if he wanted to be forgiven trusting in what Jesus had done. He said he would. I asked them if when he was praying for forgiveness if he hoped he’d be forgiven because he went to Church and that kind of stuff or if he thought he’ be forgiven because Jesus died for him. He said he most often just hoped God would forgive him but sometimes he hoped Jesus would forgive him. He wasn’t trusting in forgiveness because Jesus had died for him. So I said if he wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer he could pray I talked him through it. He decided to pray to receive Jesus. He prayed then silently to receive Christ. I asked if he went to Church. He said that his family went to 3 different Churches and he could not remember their names. I asked if they had “Saint” in their names. “Yeah,” he said. So I explained the symbolic idea behind the Mass, “The wafer represented Jesus body and the wine His blood. It is reminding you Jesus died for you so you know you are forgiven so when you take it you can just say, ‘Thank You.” “OK,” he replied. I began to explain the Christian life to Him. He did not have a Bible but wanted one so I gave him the NKJV I had and I wrote his name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front. I showed him all the study helps in it. It lists prophecies fulfilled by Jesus and His miracles and parables and a word index. I also gave him Bible Promises for You and The Case for Christ Answer Booklet explaining Strobel’s story a bit. Then I gave him a Bible study on passages where Jesus claims to be God. “Thanks so much for telling me this,” he said. I said, “Yeah sure,” I said I would see him in Heaven and if I saw him around I would just say hi. He was grateful and I headed off.

 So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today if you had a chance. God blessed.

 In Him,

Bob