Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed today and you proved what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect. I had a good day on campus and Alex and Ella their stories are below if you have some time. Please pray they grow in faith. I gave assurance of salvation to another Baptist girl (Faith) and also gave a book to a guy (Itzel, curly long hair wearing a watch cap in the cafeteria) who’d heard nothing of the Gospel growing up in a non-churchgoing family who said he could figure it out on his own.

 Alex was sitting on a bench in the MAC arts center lounge on the other side of a false wall they put in for display space, making something of a hallway. He had straight brown hair shot and flat to his head and a small mustache, bad skin like I had in college. He had a boyish face, might have been Latino but didn’t go to Church anymore. He wore a Mardi Gras print button down shirt under a jacket and jeans. He had an oval face with a pointed chin. He was meek. I asked him one thing he would like to do before he died and he said, “Get a family.” Becoming another example of a guy who if they say they want a family they will later demonstrate they are already a Christian or will pray to receive Christ. (It’s a tell.) 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?” I’d probably say, ‘I always followed You, even though there’s times when You seemed angry with me. I always asked for help and for Your forgiveness.’” He thought he had a 50/50 chance of going to Heaven. I explained God loved him and wanted to live inside him with His Holy Spirit and asked what Jesus had done back in History to take away the sins of the world. “I actually don’t know,” he replied. So I went on to explain that Jesus had died for him as a payment for what he had done and His blood cleansed him. I explained the righteousness of God. I told him God wanted to adopt him and he could be saved by faith. I asked him if he wanted to be forgiven for his sins or thought something else. “I would choose to be forgiven,” he replied. I said then, “If you’d like to be forgiven there’s a prayer you can pray.” I talked him through the prayer and asked if it expressed the desire of his heart. He nodded. So I said he could pray it silently I wouldn’t hear him but God would hear and he’d know he was forgiven. “Yeah,” he replied.  And I said, “Just pretend I’m not here.” “OK,” he said and he prayed to receive Jesus. When he finished I went on to explain the Christian life, praying reading the Bible and living by the Spirit’s power “Inside Out”. I told him the likelihood he would now go to Heaven trusting in the blood and righteousness of Jesus was 100%. 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.  I gave him I gave him The Case for Christ Answer Booklet and Bible Promises for You writing his name and the date and “forgiven!” on the inside. I also gave him a Bible study and explained it a bit. “It was nice to meet you,” I said shaking his hand. “Thank you,” he replied. “I’ll see you in Heaven,” I said. “Thank you,” he said again gratefully and I headed off.

Ella was sitting alone in a lounge with vending machines on the first floor, north side of the BIC. The back of it empties into a hall. She had a pretty small face and wore pink plastic rimmed glasses. Her earrings were gold butterflies the size of a nickel and she had a press on gold star on her upper lip. She had a Latina skin tone and small features and a pointed chin. She wore black and white leather Nikes and jeans and had several chains around her neck and a button up black blouse. I asked her one thing she would like to do before she died. “Honestly get closer to God. I haven’t been doing that. I’ve been distracted lately.” She said she recently bought a Bible but hadn’t done anything with it yet. 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?” “I would say don’t let me into Heaven. I’m not worthy to be in His presence.” She thought she had a 40% chance of going to Heaven. I began to go through the Gospel with her and she knew Jesus had died to take away the sins of the world. So I went on to explain what that meant for us, explaining his blood and righteousness in the manner I always do. I explained that he had died and rose from the dead she said, “right.” I said then that God adopted her and all the work of Jesus was hers received by faith. I asked if she would want to be forgiven trusting in what Jesus had done, then he could live inside her with the Holy Spirit to give her strength and take her to Heaven when she died. I then gave her the CliffsNotes version of Islam and the Buddha. “So would you want to be forgiven for your sins or do you believe something else?” I want to be forgiven,” she said. So I said if she wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer she could pray and walked her through it asking if it expressed the desire of her heart. She nodded. I said she could pray it silently; I wouldn’t hear her but God would hear and she’d know she was forgiven. “Wanna do that?” I asked. She nodded again and took the booklet and prayed to receive Jesus. When she finished she made the sign of the cross. I explained the Christian life to her praying and reading the Bible and said the Spirit would give her power to do what she needed to do. She could pray and ask God to remind her to read the Bible if she wanted. I handed her the booklet and she said, “Thank you sir.” I told her the likelihood she would now go to Heaven trusting in the blood and righteousness of Jesus was 100%. I gave her Bible Promises for You and wrote her name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front. I gave her The Case for Christ Answer Booklet and a Bible study explaining that. 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. She was happy and I got up to go saying, “I’ll see you in Heaven.” “Thank you sir,” she said again and I headed off.

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

 In Him,

Bob