Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope you had a great day marching with the righteous. I had a good day on campus an older black student with a beard Darian was close to receiving the Lord and James a Filipino students prayed with me to receive Jesus. His story is below if you have time. Please pray he grows in the faith.

 James was sitting at a counter height table overlooking the MAC lounge in the Art building. There’s a new Japanese display with patio lanterns, which is kinda cool. He seemed to be killing time waiting for a ride. He said he was going to go in a bit but had a few moments. He was a small, some Filipinos I meet really are not very big folks. He was wearing khaki cargo pants and a Black t-shirt on with a picture of a boxer with his taped hands raised after a fight. Boxing is one of the favorite sports in the Philippians I’ve read. He had a mop of a longish pixy cut dark hair parted down the middle, a boyish good-looking face and a Michael Jordan thin mustache. He wanted to make sure his family was stable financially and was a man of few words. I asked him what he would say to God to get into Heaven if he died. “I wouldn’t know how to answer that,” he replied. I asked him the likelihood he would go to Heaven. “I also would be unsure,” he replied. I began to go through the Gospel with him saying that eternal life was knowing God [John 17:3]. I said the problem is sin and asked what is the big thing Jesus does that takes away your sin. “He puts His seed in you?” he relied. “Also because you truly believe and know.” I said “Well, this is how it works” and I began to explain how Jesus had died and his blood and His life were worth an infinite amount because he is God. “He fulfilled prophecy,” he put in. I agreed all that Jesus did was prophesied. I went on to say this cleansed us from sin and that when He poured out his blood it paid God for all the imperfect things we had done we owed God something perfect for. I explained the righteousness of God and receiving Christ in believing on His name. “So if someone were to ask you why God should let you into Heaven you’d say, because Jesus died for me.” I’d explained that the righteousness of God Christ earn was to our credit too. I asked if he wanted to be forgiven trusting in what Jesus had done or thought something else. He said he wanted to be the field Jesus talked about in Matthew. I thought in that moment he meant some kind of new age force. I was a little tired today. Then he said, ‘The soil.” I realized he had heard a sermon on the parable of the Sower and wanted to be the field that produced 100-fold because it had the right soil. I guess I missed the metaphor as Christ is talking about different soils in the same field, which represented the ministry of His own teaching among the Jews before the Spirit entered into people who believed and sealed them. I said then if he wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer he could pray and I talked him through it saying then the Holy Spirit would enter him and he could be the soil in the field that produced 100-fold. I asked if the prayer expressed the desire of his heart. “It does yes,” he replied. I said he could pray it silently; I wouldn’t hear him but God would hear and he’d know he was forgiven and asked if he wanted to do that. “Yeah,” he replied and he prayed to receive Jesus. I pulled out some books quickly and put his name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front as he answered the phone telling him his ride was there. I showed him what I had written in front and told him I would pray for him. I gave him The Case for Christ Answer Booklet and I gave him a Bible Study showing him the prophecy Jesus had fulfilled in the beginning. I shook his hand saying I would see him in Heaven and he said, “thank you” and I headed out.

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

In Him,

Bob