Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day found you filled up with the fullness of God as you walked with Him in newness of life. I had a good day on campus and Tari prayed with me to receive Jesus. I went through the Gospel with Molly, who thought she had been believing on Jesus already, though she had not seemed to understand the Gospel until I told her. She had mixed blonde hair in the PE, really friendly kid. And I got a quick seed planted with Ashley, a pretty Asian girl at a break in her class in the Science Building. Tari’s story is below if you have time. Please pray he grows in his faith.

Tari was sitting at the base of the stairs where you walk into the SRC building and the bookstore. African American he was a big dude with a short beard and a 3–4-inch afro like a smooth dome on his head. He wore a black polo shirt and faded blue jeans. He had kind of a mischievous grin when something amused him. I asked him if he wanted to do a student survey for a Bible Study group. He said he was in a group already so I asked if he would want to just answer one big metaphysical question. He said, “OK,” without much enthusiasm. So I asked, “You’re walking down the road, and you get hit by a bus. So you’re dead. And you stand before God and He asks: ‘Why should I let you into Heaven?’ What would you say?” He at first said that Christianity was part of his identity. He said he woke up each morning thinking about how he could improve. He had one more line that had something to do with good works towards other in the way he treated them. I said that Christianity was like a blood transfusion. “I have A+ blood, if you fill me up with B- blood by mistake I would clot up and die. So God wants to know and live inside you, transfuse His life into you, fill you with His Holy Spirit, but first he has to make you His type.” So I asked him what God had done to take away his sins. He guessed saying, “The Holy Spirit in you?” I told him the Holy Spirit could not live in him until his sins were removed first. I asked if he would like to hear some Bible verses that explained what God had done, I could show him really quick. He said he would, so I took out a booklet and showed him the verses in it and added more about the Blood of Jesus and the Righteousness of God Christ earned. I explained how Jesus’ blood was a payment of life for the life we owed God for hurting His stuff, taking life. I said that God wanted to adopt Him and give him the blessings of His family, the sacrifice for his sins the blood that cleansed him and the righteousness of God that surrounded him. He received Jesus by faith, so if he believes Jesus was God had died for his sins and rose from the death, not that he just knew the story (which he hadn’t) but that he put his trust in that as a man. So if someone said to him, “Why should God let you into Heaven?” he’d say, “Because Jesus died for me.” That would mean he had faith in Jesus, and Grace, by faith, saved him. I asked if he wanted to be forgiven for his sins trusting in Jesus. Then God could live inside him and give him strength and take him to Heaven when he died. I gave him the Clif Notes version of Islam and the Buddha as alternatives and then asked again if he’d want to be forgiven trusting in Jesus. He nodded. I said if he wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer he could pray and talked him through it and asked if it expressed the desire of his heart. He nodded again. I said he could pray it silently and I would not hear him but God would—would he like to do that? He nodded again so I gave him the booklet and he prayed then to receive Christ. I explained the Christian life to him then. He had a Bible to read and so I gave him a copy of 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 and a Bible Study showing some ways Jesus claimed to be the God of the Old Testament. I told him I would pray a Bible verse for him from now until Spring and one year after asking God to bless him. I got up to go and he said, “Thank you so much I really appreciate it.” And a big smile, “This was great!” You’re welcome I replied. “I’ll see you in Heaven.” “Thank you so much!” he said again and I headed off.

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

In Him,

Bob