Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope you had a blessed day walking with the Lord in His will and it brought ya joy. I had a good day on campus and Taylor and Zach each prayed with me to receive Jesus. David also turned I believe, a 5×5 black dude with a watch cap on and a teddy bear face, wearing a blue hoodie and black sweats was in the science building. He struggled with the idea that someone far more wicked them him would also be forgiven, though he’d said he wasn’t a great person and did not know why God would let him into Heaven. “I’ve never killed somebody… that’s not really a good reason,” he admitted. I went through the Gospel with him and he knew Jesus had died. He had questions about the payment for sin. I finally pointed that that was the root of some of his questions and asked, “Say I offer to give you a million Dollar lottery ticket but if you take it I am going to give a 5-million-dollar ticket to some exceptionally wicked guy over there. Would you take it?” “Well yeah!” he said. “Ok then brother just take the ticket, let God deal with the other guy. If he says he believes,” I replied and he smiled. I said, the evil guy might be a psychopath that’s lying anyway.  I showed him the prayer said he would pray later. I asked as he got up to get to his ride in the Science Building hall on the first floor. “Lemmie ask you; Do you believe Jesus is God died for your sins and rose from the dead? Do you believe that is a true story?” “I’ve always believed that was a true story,” he replied. “And do you put your trust in that to be forgiven for your sins,” “Yes,” he replied. I reached out with a fist and said “Then your sins are forgiven Brother.” He fist-bumped me and got a big smile and said, “Thanks.” And he headed off.  The other 2 stories are below if you have some time. Please pray they grow in faith and please pray that David will pray to solidify it in his heart.

Taylor was sitting in one of the cut outs where there’s a table and chairs facing out on the student services lounge. She was a pretty African American girl with tight curly hair pulled back in a bun. She had an oval face and fair skin; her nose pierced in the septum with an omega shaped silver piece was sharp. She wore a white blouse and black leggings. I asked her if she wanted to do a student survey for a Bible study group. “Oh I’m in a group,” she replied. I asked what it was called just out of curiosity and she said she had just joined it at a Church in Naperville so I asked her if she’d like to hear the question you can ask to help share your faith. She agreed so I asked, “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’m a good person?” she replied. I asked if she’d like to hear the Bible verse that tell you how you get to heaven, “Or not so much?” “Ok,” she replied and I began to go through the Gospel with her saying all I always do about the blood and righteousness of Christ, His death and resurrection, salvation by faith and not by being good enough. She hadn’t seemed to remember that Jesus had died for her sins. I asked if she would want to be forgiven trusting in Jesus. “Yes,” she said. So I said there was a prayer she could pray and talked her through it and asked if it expressed the desire of her heart. She nodded. I said she could pray it silently and asked if she would like to do that and she that and she nodded meekly and prayed to receive Jesus. I explained the Christian life, living by the Spirit’s power, “inside out”. I gave her Bible Promises for You writing her name and the date and “forgiven I the front. I also gave her a Bible study on the deity of Christ and The Case for Christ Answer Booklet. I told her I would pray a bible verse for her each day from now until Spring and one year after and she thanked me and I thanked her for talking with me and headed off.

 I talked to Zach in the PE building. He was a slightly built guy, short, with a mustache and somewhat angular features. His hair looked like the top had been shaped by a bowl and it fanned out into curls. He ran cross-country and was a mile runner on the track team. He wore a black hoodie with tie-dye blue rings and black pants and white tennis shoes. 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 bit and thought there was a word for it. He finally said, “I don’t know. I’m still working on that, trying to be a better person.” He thought he had a 50/50 change of going to Heaven. Nice guy, he only went to Church on Christmas Eve and said it was a Presbyterian church. I began to go through the Gospel with him and he knew that Jesus had died to take away the sins of the world. He really tracked with everything I was saying and tuned right in. When I had finally explained that “God got paid” by the blood of Jesus and also He lived a perfect life for us, His righteousness to our credit by adoption. I said he was saved by faith. I asked if he wanted to be forgiven for his sins trusting in what Jesus had done or if he thought something else (with the CliffsNotes version of Islam and the Buddha) asking again, “Would you want to be forgiven for your sins?” “Obviously,” he replied with a smile. I said that if he wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer he could pray and talked him through it asking if it expressed the desire of his heart. He nodded. I said he could pray it silently, “Wanna do that?” “Yeah,” he replied. “Just pretend I’m not here,” I said. “OK,” he said and then prayed to receive Christ. He didn’t have a Bible but used his phone so I gave him one showing him some of the helps and showing the marker in John. “I read that already on my phone,” he replied. I wrote his name and the date and “forgiven” in the front. I explained living “By the Spirit’s Power” and “Inside out.” I gave him Bible Promises for You and a Bible study on the deity of Christ and The Case for Christ Answer Booklet. 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. “Thanks,” he said. “I needed this, I’ve been trying to get closer in my relationship with God.” I said that was great and I didn’t know if we’d cross paths again but I would be praying and not to worry if a year from now I forgot his face, God knew his name. He grinned and said, “Alright.” Then I headed out. I was at the bottom of the stairs leaning against the wall for some back pain and writing down what he looked like as he came down and headed past and he gave me a wave. I waved back and he headed out the doors to the lot.

 So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today if you had a chance though I forgot to send a notice. I know someone was praying, God truly blessed.

 In Him,

Bob