Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed with opportunities to serve the Lord. I had a good day on campus. Manuel and Johan each prayed with me to receive Jesus. Tnya [tin nay ah] was close today committing to Christ saying she would pray later. She was pretty African American with classic features and long braids. Their stories are below if you want to read, please pray for them and the family of Charley Kirk.

I had a strange thing happen at the counter in the cafeteria where when I was going through the Gospel at the days end. The guy began filming me as I got about 2/3’s through then—pratfall style—leaned his chair back and fell to the floor. He then got up unharmed. “Don’t do that again,” he said.  He might have been emotionally disturbed. He would have been too big to push over but my hands weren’t near him. I just asked him why he did that and said he could have just asked me to stop. I put my stuff away and walked off. There are cameras there so I don’t see how he could make anything of it since my hands were not near him but hey, kind of unnerving, strange thing.

Our Bible Study was a bust today as two students had a last-minute thing and the others who committed did not show. So I prayed for 10 minutes waiting and then decided I could do some evangelism. Manual was sitting at a table with a large silver cross around his neck and said he’d do a student survey. He had kind of a block oval face, a mustache, with a mop of curly hair on the top short on the sides. He was a bit bigger than me in size. He wore a brown over-shirt like a jacket with a black t-shirt and jeans. Latino coloring. I asked him what he would say to God if he died by getting hit by a bus and He asked, “Why should I let you into Heaven?” “I’m not sure,” he replied. “I’m not sure I deserve to move on to Heaven. I believe in God. I love God—I don’t know if I could go into Heaven I still have a lot of stuff to work on before I could be close to enter those gates.” He said he thought the likelihood he would get into Heaven was 25%. I began to go through the Gospel with him and he knew Jesus had died to take away the sins of the world. He listened closely to everything the blood filled with life as a payment to God that also cleansed him and the righteousness of God Christ earned that could be to his credit by adoption. He needed to believe on the work of Christ and receive Him by faith. I asked if he would want to be forgiven trusting in Christ or thought something else. I added, “When you are asking for forgiveness for your sins are you thinking you’ll be forgiven for your sins because you are a good person or have you been thinking I know I will be forgiven because Jesus died for me? So were you trusting in Jesus or hoping you were good enough?” “The second option,” he replied. So I said there was a prayer he could pray if he wanted to be forgiven and I read through it asking if it expressed the desire of his heart. “I think it did yeah.” I asked if he would want to pray it silently and he said, “Yeah.” He prayed then to receive Jesus. I explained then that the likelihood he would get into Heaven was 100% trusting in the righteousness of Jesus and His blood. He did not have a Bible but had wanted one so I gave him one. He didn’t want to take it at first but I explained they were donated by gifts. I wrote his name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front. He thanked me. He’d said he had a hard time finding a good church. I gave him Bible Promises for You I also gave him The Case for Christ Answer Booklet and bible study. I told him I would pray a Bible verse for him each day from now until Spring and one year after. “Thanks a lot,” he said as I got up to go. “Thank you for talking with me,” I replied. “Of course,” he said and I headed off.

Johan was sitting in the long hallway that runs to the Book Store. His features looked a little African American as he had a classic nose and the coloring, a handsome milk chocolate tan from summer. But he was a Latino guy with straight hair in back and the top tinted and curly, a manila envelope color. He wore a black hoodie with white letters that was a souvenir from Myrtle Beach NC but he said with a smile it was his brother’s. He’d never been there. He wore Jeans and was a good-looking guy, small in stature. He wanted to “Retire my parents,” meaning he wanted to provide for their retirement not the “mob hit” type of “retire”. I asked him what he would say to God to get into Heaven if he died. “That’s a good question,” he said. Adding he hadn’t thought about it. He didn’t know what to say so I asked if he went to Church and he said he did off and on, “I should go more.” I asked what he thought they would say would get him into Heaven. “A relationship with God,” he said with a bit of uncertainty. Well, you think you might say that, ‘I have a relationship with you.’” He agreed that sounded about right but didn’t seem convinced.  He thought he had a 50/50 chance of going to Heaven. I went through the Gospel with him asking what Jesus had done back in the day to take away the sins of the world. He couldn’t think of anything so I just said something like, “This is how it works.” Then I explained the Blood of Christ as a payment to God purifying him and His righteousness. I explained God adopted him. He needed to receive Christ by faith.  He leaned in with each point as I went back to booklet after an illustration. He took it all in liking what was said. I asked if he would want to be forgiven trusting in what Jesus had done, then His Holy Spirit would live inside him and give him strength. Or did he think something else like Islam or Buddhism. So did he want to be forgiven? “Yeah that one,” he said pointing at the circle with Christ on the throne of his life. I said then if he wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer he could pray.  I read through it and asked if it expressed the desire of His heart. “Yeah,” he replied. So I said he could pray it silently, I wouldn’t hear him but God would hear and he’d know he was forgiven. “Wanna do it?” I asked. “Yeah,” he replied and prayed to receive Jesus. I said then the likelihood he would get into Heaven was 100%, trusting in the blood and righteousness of Jesus. He did not have a Bible so I gave him one and wrote his name and the date and forgiven in the front. He was grateful and I also gave him Bible Promises for You, The Case for Christ Answer Booklet and bible study. “Thank you, nice meeting you,” he said as I got up to go. “You’re welcome, have a good one,” I replied. “Have a nice day,” he said 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

Once again, Prayers for the family of Charlie Kirk.