Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day was filled with reminders of His grace as He was with you. I had a good day on campus and Bobbi prayed to receive Jesus today and Maryellen confessed Christ after I went through the Gospel with her. She was an older sales lady at the counter at the resale shop (looked like she had 10 years or so on me with short iron-grey hair). I went there after school. Please pray these people grow in their faith.

Bobbi was sitting alone in the SW corner lounge of the Science buildings later in the afternoon. She had brown hair pulled back behind her head and was wearing a baggy Chicago Bears sweatshirt. She had a cross about the size of a quarter around her neck, crisscrossed with two lines of small diamonds. She had on semi round brown-framed glasses and a wider cute face, seemed solid, like a Bears fan, and was friendly. She went to a Christian Church. She said she hoped to marry. I asked her, “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?” “Um.. Wow, that’s a good question,” she replied. I guess I’ve done so much good in my short time here. I’m 22.” “Well, I’ve definitely been here longer than you,” I joked. She thought the likelihood she would go to Heaven was 100%. I began to go through the Gospel with her explaining eternal life as knowing God where He lived in her with His Spirit. I asked what the big thing was that Jesus had done back in History to take away the sins of the world. “He died,” she said after a moment. I began to illustrate with stories or metaphors what Jesus had done living a perfect life for her. His blood cleansed her and was a payment to God. I think it all was familiar except for the righteousness of God Christ earned to her credit. I said all I usually say, God adopted her and to have all these blessings she needed to receive Christ by faith. Grace by faith saved her. I asked if she would want to be forgiven for her sins trusting in what Jesus had done or thought something else. I asked if when she was asking for forgiveness if she was thinking she had done good and attended church so God would forgive her and paused and she agreed she had thought that. “Or were you thinking I know I’ll be forgiven because Jesus died for me. I know you knew the story but had you ever put it all together trusting in Jesus?” I asked. “That’s a good question, I don’t know,” she replied. “I have always thought God was with me.” He has been with you, Paul says in Acts we are all His offspring. So really we are all children of God. But some have the Rights of a child of God. Think about it like one day when you have kids all the kids on the street everyone looks out for but only your kids have the rights to the refrigerator.” She saw the point and liked the analogy. I said if she wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer she could pray and talked through it and asked if it was something she thought she would want to do. “100%,” she said so I said she could pray it silently and she took the booklet and prayed to receive Jesus. When she finished I told her the likelihood she would now go to Heaven was 100% trusting in the blood and righteousness of Jesus. I wrote her name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front of Bible Promises for You I also gave her The Case for Christ Answer Booklet and told her Strobel’s story. I gave her a Bible study and I told her I would pray a Bible verse for her each day from now until Spring and one year after asking God to bless her. I explained the Christian life living by the Spirit’s power, “Inside out”. I got up to go and she shook my hand and said, “Thank you so much. It’s nice meeting you Bob.” “Thank you, it’s nice to meet you too Bobbi,” I replied 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