Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your week was blessed walking with the Lord. I had a good week serving the Lord. Ashton a family friend prayed with me to receive Jesus on Easter in North Carolina and Tyrell, Kevin, Ali and then on Thursday Evan each prayed to receive Jesus as their savior and no longer hope in being good enough. Please pray each of these is will be sanctified by the Spirit.

 Evan was sitting on the floor in the hallway that heads south in the PE building out to the outdoor theatre by the MAC. He was wearing jeans and cross trainers and had on a red and black flannel shirt open over a t-shirt. His hair was a shaggy mop in strings that went down to his shoulders and he had a random beard that was short but had been left to come in wherever it would for a few weeks, thin mustache. His glasses were two and a quarter inch wide rectangles that turned his look from mountain man into computer guy. I asked him if he wanted to do a survey, “about what ya think about God and stuff” and was surprised a bit he said yes. I sat on the floor beside him. He didn’t have the look of an interested party somehow (there’s not really a look). But when I asked him one thing he’d want to do before he died he said, “Get married have kids.” That answer is a tell that a guy will receive Christ or is a Christian. 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?” “My parents and my grandparents,” He replied. “What about them?” I asked. He explained that they were dead and it would be nice to see them again. He did not seem to have clear assurance what would get him into Heaven as he thought the likelihood he would go there was 40%. He listened to the Gospel as I went through it and when I asked what Jesus had done back in History to take away the sins of the world he said, “Well, He was crucified.” As if to say, Well, there’s that. I explained all I usually do of Jesus living a perfect life for us earning the righteousness of God by perfect obedience and fulfilling the law and then that His blood cleansed us and was a payment to God. God wants to adopt us and give us these blessings of His family; we’re then saved by faith receiving Christ. I asked if he would want to be forgiven trusting I what Jesus had done or thought something else. “Probably forgiven,” he replied. I said if he wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer he could pray. I talked him through it and asked if it expressed the desire of his heart. “I’d say it does,” he replied. I said if he wanted to he could pray it silently and I wouldn’t hear but God would hear, “Wanna do it?” “Sure,” he replied and he took the booklet and prayed to receive Jesus. When he finished he said, “Thank you.” I explained the Christian life to him a bit beginning with reading the Bible. He liked the Bible on his phone as it had a lot of different versions. It turned out he had an aunt he said was, “More Christian than me.” She had a Bible version she really liked he did not think was on his phone but he was cool with just the phone app. I gave him a Bible study explaining it a bit and he said he had been going to a Bible study for a while, some of his High School friends had put together, they now went to different colleges. I don’t know if they were local or met on line. I wrote his name and the date and ‘forgiven!” on the inside of Bible Promises for You. I also gave him The Case for Christ Answer Booklet and explained Strobel’s story a bit. I told him I would pray a prayer for him each day until a year from this Spring asking God to bless him. “Nice to meet you,” he said as I was moving to get up to go. I shook his hand saying, “Nice to meet you too, I’ll see you in Heaven.” And I headed off.

 So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism if you had the chance. God truly blessed.

In Him,

Bob