Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope you had a good day walking in the knowledge of Jesus love for you. I had a good day on campus and Ethan & Justina [pronounced Hustina] each prayed with me to receive Jesus. Please pray they grow in faith, their stories are below if you want to spend the time.

Ethan was sitting at the entrance to the tunnel going over to the MAC arts building. He looked Latino and had a small wide flat nose and a share chin, had a curly shorter hair. He had braces on his teeth and had larger rectangle wire rim glasses. He was a smaller guy wearing a tan fleece and wide pale blue jeans. He was ambitious and thought he’d like to have a vacation house someday. 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?” “Um… that’s a hard question,” he replied he thought a bit and said, “I have made some mistakes in life but I learned from it so I think I’d ask for a second chance. If I don’t prove myself with that I would be fine with a second chance.” I asked a % likelihood he would get into Heaven. “At least, I know God is very forgiving—90%,” he said. I began to go through the Gospel with him sitting beside him in a row of chairs. He leaned forward interested in the verses. I asked if he’d ever been to Church and he said he had been an acolyte in the church growing up. I said God had to take away his sins to live inside him and asked if he knew what the big thing was that Jesus had done back in History to take away the sins of the world. He gave me a sentence about how He gave His life. I began to explain then how the blood of Jesus cleansed him and was a payment to God. He was engaged and liked the stories. I explained the righteousness of God to his credit quoting Isa 61:10 & Gal 3:27. “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 in the mansion and drive the cars. You know how they say it’s not what you know it’s who you know,” I said. “Ha yeah,” he replied. I said God adopted him and if he believed that Jesus was God died for his sins and rose from the dead, not that he just knew the story but that he put his trust in that to forgive him it would mean he had faith, and faith saved him. I asked if he would want to be forgiven for his sins or thought something else. He said he would want to be forgiven for his sins. I said if he wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer he could pray and I read through it asking if it expressed the desire of his heart. He said it did. I said he could pray it silently and he agreed and took the booklet and prayed to receive Jesus. I explained to him when he’d finished that the likelihood he would now go to Heaven was 100% trusting in the blood and righteousness of Jesus. I explained the Christian life living “By the Spirit’s Power” and that meant the difference between Christianity and other religions was “Inside out” God transformed us on the inside by the Spirit’s power we become good men and then do good things on the outside. I gave him Bible Promises for You and wrote his name and the date and “forgiven!” on the inside. I gave him a Bible study and The Case for Christ Answer Booklet. “Nice to meet you man,” I said shaking his hand and getting up to go. “Nice to meet you he said with a big smile. “Thank you.” Then he added as I was two steps from him, “That was very insightful.” “Thanks man,” I said with a smile and I headed off.

Justina [The J has and H sound as she is from Argentina] was sitting on a bench outside the glass of the NW atrium lounge. She had a plane oval face, wore no makeup, with a pointed chin thin lips and straight light brown hair parted in the middle to her shoulders with natural flip at the ends. She had a great accent and was upbeat and nice. Her glasses had kind of a butterfly wing shape and had zigzag lightning bolt sides pieces. She wore jeans and had on a brown hooded sweatshirt. She wanted to travel. 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?” “Because I always tried to be, you can’t be perfect. I tried, it’s impossible but to think what would Jesus do? but I always tried,” she replied. I asked her the likelihood she would get into Heaven and she thought maybe 60%, “Nearer to yes than no,” she said with a smile. I asked what Jesus had done to take away the sins of the world after saying God had to take away her sins to live inside her and she said, “He was sacrificed”. As I began to explain the atonement she said wasn’t that what all the sacrifices in the Old Testament were about. I explained that yes the lamb had to be perfect without a blemish, “I guess I don’t really know anything about lambs but that’s what it says. Those sacrifices set aside sin looking forward to the perfect sacrifice of Jesus.” I said all I usually say about the blood and righteousness of Christ and adoption and said all this she could have by faith. I asked if she would want to be forgiven for her sins. “Of course,” she said brightly. So I said if she wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer she could pray. I read it aloud with a line repeated in explanation and when I finished she said, “Amen!” enthusiastically. “Did you just pray it I said. “Yes,” she replied. I explained the Christian life living “By the Spirit’s Power” and “Inside out”. She had to go to class so I wrote her name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front of Bible Promises for You and gave her The Case for Christ Student Edition. “I’ll pray for you each day,” I said. She rushed off saying, “Keep doing this.” “Yes mam,” I replied and she was down the hall.

So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today, if you had a chance. God truly blessed and now I’m off to teach a Bible Study at school.

In Him,

Bob