Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed walking with the Lord. I had a good day on campus and Alfonso prayed with me to receive Christ. Everyone else I spoke with claimed Christ after hearing the Gospel. Initially they didn’t articulate faith alone in Christ or were not sure but the confessed Christ in the end. Alfonso story is below if you have time to spend. Please take a moment and pray he grows in faith.

I was walking around school and came down the stairs to the ground floor of the north side of the BIC building. Initially I began to walk to the PE building but I felt a nudge to go down the tunnel to the MAC arts building instead. I went to the big lounge and found no one to talk. I headed down by Einstein Bagels and Alfonso sat at one of the counter height tables against the glass wall looking out to the small amphitheater where they have outside concerts. He agreed to do a survey. He had a narrow long oval face, was pretty fair skinned for a Latino guy, his ears stuck out a bit. He had a mop of dark hair, the sides were shaved in a fade over his ears and wore a dark grey hoodie, light grey pants and grey tennis shoes. He wanted to be in a movie. He had a bit of an accent. I asked him what he would say to God to get into Heaven. “I do things every day to be better than yesterday—every day is a gift. I heard it said you may be the only Bible someone reads, so you should treat people with kindness and respect,” he replied. I agreed saying that if everyone did that the world would be way better. He thought he had an 80% chance of going to Heaven. I began to go through the Gospel with him and he knew Jesus’ sacrifice had taken away the sins of the world. He listened attentively to the Gospel and smiled here and there not saying anything verbally after saying he knew Jesus had died. I explained that the Blood of Jesus because he was the source of all life cleansed us and paid in His life’s blood for what we had done. When we sinned against someone we took some of his or her life (which really belonged to God). So Jesus blood paid God back for all the imperfect things we had done. Jesus earned God’s righteousness, we don’t go to Heaven because we are good but because Jesus is good and we are connected to Him. God’s righteousness became credit to us when were adopted by God. He made us His children. I explained this was the symbolism in the mass, the Wafer symbolic of His Body and the Wine symbolic of His blood. The Greek word “Eucharist” means “thanksgiving” so when you take it you should just say thank you as it is telling you Jesus died for you and so you are forgiven. Then all God had done was his receiving Christ by faith. I asked if he wanted to be forgiven trusting in what Jesus had done or thought something else using the circles in the booklet. He pointed to the circle with Christ Jesus living in you on the throne of your life and said, “That one.” So I said if he wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer he could pray and I talked through it and asked reading, “Does this prayer express the desire of your heart.” He nodded. I said if he wanted he could pray it silently and I wouldn’t hear him but God would hear and he’d know he was forgiven. “Wanna do it?” I asked and he nodded and he took the booklet and prayed to receive Jesus. I explained to him then the Christian life, praying and reading the Bible saying to read John, asking for forgiveness and asking for the Spirit’s power to transform him. He had a Bible and I gave him Bible Promises for You and wrote his name and the date and forgiven in the front. I gave him a Bible study and The Case for Christ Answer Booklet telling him there was some stuff in it about Easter. I explained some more about what God had done. He was grateful. I said I would see him in Heaven and he said, “OK. thank you!” And I headed out. Later he passed me in the hall with a big smile and I said, “See ya around.” He relied with, “See ya around.” And headed down the hall happy.

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

In Him,

Bob