Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day was filled with life and peace in the Holy Spirit. Last night’s Bible study had 5 students and I went through the Gospel. It was good and I think 3 students there will pray to receive Christ as they said they would. Victoria, Madeline and Antonio. I’ll check next week. I had a good day on campus today. I found out Tate from last October (I had prayed for him all summer) had prayed to receive Jesus. He was a changed man and was sitting at the same table in the P.E. building. Tate’s a tall solid built strawberry blonde now former Methodist. He now had a beard he’d been clean-shaven. He had said he would pray when he was alone last October and it turned out he had. “I picked up what you are laying down when you were taking about the crucifixion,” he also said then having said when we met he was trusting in the good things he had done to get into Heaven. He’d only thought he had a 50/50 chance to get there. I gave him The Student Edition: The Case for Faith today.  He drives in from Indiana 2 days a week. Then Teinua from Africa and Kaden whose father is a pastor in Indiana both prayed with me to receive Jesus. Please pray they grow in their faith. Their stories are below if you have time today.

I came across Teinua [t new ah] sitting in the hallway just a little down from the tunnel exit over to the PE building where I had been speaking with Tate. He had short hair close to his round head, he was dark skinned with classic African American features. He wore a long sleeve dark grey shirt and black pants. He said he wanted to have a closer relationship with Jesus. I asked him “You’re walking down the road and you get hit by a bus. So you’re dead. And you stand before God and he says, “Why should I let you into Heaven?’ What would you say?” “’Cause I… I follow His word, I obey His word. I seek Him out every day. I prioritize Him.” He replied. “I don’t want to oversell myself,” he said then as a disclaimer. He thought he had a 50/50 chance of going to Heaven saying you couldn’t know how things would go. I began to go through the Gospel with him and he knew Jesus had died to take away his sins when I asked. He had an earnest look on his face as I continued and explained the work of Christ on the cross His blood to cleanse him and pay for his sins. I explained the righteousness of Christ. “So Jesus is your robe of righteousness, He’s your garment of salvation. You don’t go to Heaven because you are good but because Jesus is good and you’re connected to Him. Like if you marry a millionaire you got a million bucks or if you get adopted into a billionaire’s family you get to live I the mansion and drive the cars.” I explained God adopted him and the blood and sacrifice and righteousness would be his as a result. I talked about being saved by faith and how his good things could not make up for his bad things. I asked him if he would want to be forgiven trusting in what Jesus had done or thought something else. I then added, “When you are asking for forgiveness for your sins are you thinking God will forgive you because you are a good person or have you been thinking I know God will forgive me because Jesus died for my sins?” “This has been hard,” he replied talking bout what I had explained to him. “I knew Jesus would forgive me…” “But you were not really trusting in what He had done,” I put in. “But yeah,” he said. I said if he wanted to be forgiven trusting in Jesus there was a prayer he could pray and I asked if that was something he thought he needed to do. “Yeah,” he said. “I said he could pray it silently and he took the booklet and prayed to receive Jesus. I explained the Christian life living by the Spirit’s power. I said the likelihood he would now go to Heaven was 100% trusting in the blood and righteousness of Jesus. He had the identical promise book I give people so I gave him The Case for Christ Answer Booklet and wrote his name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front. I also gave him The Student Edition of the Case for Christ. I gave him a Bible Study. He asked what had made me talk to him and I said I liked talking to black students because I often found them spiritually sensitive and I saw the cross around his neck. “But I think God leads me to people,” I replied and he agreed. He thanked me and I shook his hand and told him I would keep him in my prayers each day from now until Spring and one year after. And I headed off.

Kaden was sitting at the counter in the cafeteria. He had fair skin for a black student and full lips a smaller noes and a square jaw long face. He had 5 inch pencil width curls in kind of a mop. He wore a black hoodie and Grey shorts. Good-looking guy. He had come here to play basketball and was a shooting guard and sometimes a point guard. He hoped to get a scholarship for his efforts when he transferred out so he could study to be a computer engineer. His dad was a pastor in Indiana. When I asked him what he would say to God to get into Heaven he said, “I would say I did my best to live in a way that pleased you,” he replied and confidently said the likelihood he would go to Heaven was 100%. As I went through the Gospel with him asking what Jesus had done to take away his sins he knew Jesus had died.  I told him the Gospel using the illustrations I always do explain in that Jesus had said he was to be “perfect as your Heavenly Father is Perfect.” As I had also said to Teinua I explained the righteousness of Christ and salvation by faith not works. I asked if he would want to be forgiven for his sins trusting in what Jesus had done for him. I also asked if when he was asking for forgiveness for his sin he had been thinking that he was good enough or had really been trusting in what Jesus had done and that was why he knew he would be forgiven. He said he had “never gone into it in depth like you just taught me.” He said it had always been drummed into him at church but he hadn’t put it together to be forgiven, “Yeah I was just trying to feel better,” he said, about getting over screwing up. I said if he wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer he could pray. I walked him through the prayer and asked if he thought it was something he still needed to do. “Yes, “ he replied and he prayed to receive Jesus. I quickly explained living by the Spirit’s Power. I gave him, Bible Promises for You  and I wrote his name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front. I also gave him The Case for Christ Answer Booklet and a bible Study. I told him I would keep him in my prayers each day from now until Spring and one year after asking God to bless him. He shook my hand and I said, “God bless you.” “God bless you too,” he replied. “Thank you,” I said, “you know for the blessing.” He smiled and headed out happy.

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

In Him,

Bob