Hey Brothers and sisters in Christ,

I hope you day was blessed with good things from above. I had a good day on campus and Jamai & Luke each prayed to receive Jesus. Their stories are below. Please pray they grow in their faith.

I got a couple of good seeds planted too with Collin (real short sandy hair and short beard), a guy clean and sober for 3 years. He took The Case for Christ Answer Booklet and a Bible study understood the gospel completely for the first time. In the PE building a few Lacrosse players were sitting and one I’d gone through the Gospel with before, of the other 2 Piero was a Christian but Mike wanted to think though the Gospel and was close. He had brown hair and an Errol Flynn mustache wearing a Lacrosse T-shirt.

Jahmai [j my] was sitting on a bench on the outside of the corner lounge students sit to wait to take a test just down from the doors that lead to the water fall. His hair was in ringlets out 5 or more inches from his head like he was wearing fireworks. His skin was on the fair side for a black guy and his features were more Euro than traditional African American. He was wearing a black hoodie and sweats with white piping down the edges. He was a friendly nice guy. 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?” “That’s a really good question,” he replied and thought for a little. “I was always faithful in the Lord. I’m not a perfect person but I definitely pray every morning,” he finished. I asked the likelihood he would go to Heaven when he died and he said, “I can’t say,” he replied. I began to go through the Gospel with him and asked what Jesus had done to take away his sins. “You ask for forgiveness,” he guessed. I said Jesus did forgive and this is how it works and began to explain how God became a man to cleanse us from out sins by dying and pouring out his blood as a payment to God for what we owed God. Jesus earned the righteousness of God and we inherited this righteousness by adoption. He took everything in attentively looking at the booklet rarely at me. After explaining being saved by faith I asked if he would want to be forgiven for his sins. He pointed at the circle with Jesus on the throne I had explained as Christ living inside him giving him strength through life and taking him to Heaven when he died. I said if he wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer he could pray and I talked him through it and he said “OK.” I said he could pray it silently, “Wanna do it?” I asked. “Yeah” he replied and he prayed then to receive Christ. When He finished I said the likelihood he would now be forgiven was 100% trusting in the blood and righteousness of Jesus. He had a Bible and went to Church regularly. I gave him Bible Promises for You and wrote his name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front. I also gave him The Case for Christ Answer Booklet and I told him Strobel’s story and gave him a Bible study. I told him I would pray a Bible verse for him each day from now until Spring and one year after asking God to bless him. He said he was just sitting here planning to study for a test and take it. I said I would pray for his test and asked if he wanted to pray now. He said he did so I took off my hat and prayed he would do well and God would help him recall everything to mind but that was not God’s plan he would be guided by whatever happened. He thanked me and I said I would see him in Heaven and he could tell me how things went and I headed off.

I came across Luke sitting in the cafeteria. He looked a bit like Rick Fox the old Laker’s player but was darker and with a slightly shorter face, he wasn’t as tall. He wore a black and white Jersey black regular shorts and his afro was about an inch high. He was clean-shaven.  He hoped to play professional soccer. 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?” He thought a minute and said, “Because I believe He is the Higher Power.” He thought he had a 30% chance of going to Heaven. He went to a Lutheran church and went a lot when he was younger but he hadn’t been in a month. I began to explain the Gospel to him and he began to track with me. I asked what Jesus had done back in the day to take away his sins and he said, “He rose from the dead,” then added, “He died on the cross.” He asked, as I had explained that Jesus died to pay for our sins and cleansed us, if anyone went to Hell. I said they definitely did saying they had to receive Christ to avoid it and receive the rights of a child of God. I went back and explained the righteousness of Christ and that God gave him through adoption. I said he had to receive Jesus and believe on His name. “So if God would say to you, ‘Why should I let you into Heaven?’ you’d say, ‘Because Jesus died for me.” “How do you have to say it?” he asked. “Can you say it any way or is there a specific tone of voice. I said it was not an incantation like magic words you had to believe in your heart. I asked if he was fast, he said he was. I said so when a guy with the ball is coming toward you, then you are making a calculation of where he is trying to get to and you trust in your speed to get you there, to get to where the ball will be. He agreed. So like that you have to trust in Jesus to get you to Heaven. That registered. I asked if he would want to be forgiven and he said he, I would be forgiven.” I said then there was a prayer he could pray and I asked if it expressed the desire of his heart. He took the booklet and read through the prayer and said, “Yes.” So I said he could pray it silently and he gave a sound of agreement and took the booklet and prayed to receive Jesus. When he finished he reached out and shook my hand and said, “Thank you.” I explained that the likelihood he would not go to Heaven trusting in the blood and righteousness of Jesus was 100%. “I like this,” he said. I said, “I’ll right that down and that you shook my hand.” “I’ll shake it again,” he said and did with a grin. I gave him Bible Promises for You and wrote his name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front. I told him I would pray a Bible verse for him each day until Spring and one year after. I told him Strobel’s story and gave him The Case for Christ Answer Booklet, and a Bible Study. He said he would try to make the one at school. “Thank you it was great to see ya,” I said. “It was great to see you too thank you for coming into my life,” he replied. I said he was welcome and headed out.

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

In Him,

Bob