Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed with all good things from Above. I had a good day on campus. I had a talk with one student, Sebastian on the assurance of salvation and the unforgiveable sin and then had a Bible study. Only Andrew showed up but he peppered me with questions for an hour and 20 minutes. Then I walked around doing some more evangelism and found Kylie who prayed with me to receive Christ. He story is below if you have the time please pray she grows in her faith.

Kylie was sitting just off the main south side hall of the BIC at the corner on a bench in the connecting hallway. I had walked past her and she seemed to be studying doing a paper with math problems on it. But I had a nudge to go ask her so I went back and asked if she’d do a survey. She asked how long it would take (I said 6 or 7 minutes which proved to be wrong) and she agreed. She had naturally curly blonde hair with some dark blonde mixed in it, it fell just past her shoulders. She wore no makeup had rosy cheeks a small pretty mouth and wore sweats. She was preparing to be a nursing student. I asked her what she would say to God to get into Heaven and she said, “Um… I would say,” and thought for a minute. “’Cause I followed You for my whole life and I put my trust in You and I listened, so He should let me into Heaven.” I asked the likelihood she would get into Heaven she said it was 100%.  I asked her if she went to church and she went frequently with her boyfriend to a Church with a nondenominational evangelical sounding name far west of campus. I began to go through the Gospel with her and I explained that knowing God was that He lived inside her. But like a blood transfusion first He had to make her his type by taking away her sin. I asked what the big thing was God had done to take away her sins with Jesus. “He forgives you,” She replied. I asked what he had done to forgive you. “God knows we’re not perfect, He’s not stupid, so He has to forgive us.” I agreed God wasn’t stupid and said, “Yeah that’s not how it works.” And I began to go through the gospel with her. Explaining with illustrations Jesus had lived a perfect life that we were supposed to live, then dying on the cross his blood cleansed us and now we were perfect and holy and God could live inside us. I explained it was how God got paid. “OK,” she replied. Then I explained the righteousness of God Christ earned and she was “Clothed with Jesus”. She would not go to heaven because she was good but because Jesus was good and she was connected to Him. God adopted her and gave her all this. She could have all this by receiving Christ. By believing Jesus was God had died for her sins and rose from the Dead, she would demonstrate she had faith. Not just knowing the story but putting her trust in it. Grace by faith saved her. I asked if she would want to be forgiven for her sins trusting in Jesus or if she thought something else. “Definitely forgiven,” she replied. So I said if she wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer she could pray and I walked her through it asking if it was the desire of her heart. She nodded. I said she could pray it silently; I wouldn’t hear her but God would hear and she’d know she was forgiven. “Wanna do that?” I asked. She nodded again and she took the booklet. “Just pretend I’m not here,” I said.  She prayed then to receive Jesus. She said then “I have to tell you, I had a stomach ache today and I was a little late for class so I decided to just sit here and do homework instead of going into class or I wouldn’t even be sitting here.” She said she thought it was a connection God had made happen.  “God gave you a stomach ache,” I agreed and then said that I had initially walked past her but felt a prompting to go back. She got kind of a “well there ya go” expression on her face in response.  I explained the Christian life to her living “By the Spirit’s Power.” I said this could give her strength and insight as a nurse in helping people. She had not understood the “Fruit of the Spirit” so I gave her Gal 5:22&23 to look up saying she could ask for joy when she was down or for self-control to help her study. I told her I would keep her in my prayers and would pray a Bible verse for her each day from now until Spring and one year after asking God to bless her. I gave her Bible Promises for You and showed her how she could turn a promise into a prayer. I wrote her name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front and she thanked me warmly for it. I also gave her The Case for Christ Answer Booklet saying I knew she was busy but there might be something in there she’d like to read. Finally I gave her a Bible study, explained it and said I’d stop bugging her. She thanked me 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