Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope your day was filled with life and peace from the Lord knowing His love for you. I had a good day on campus talking to a couple Christians and also Michael prayed to receive Christ. Please pray he is sanctified by the Holy Spirit. His story is below.

Michael was standing leaning against the counter in the PE lounge. He was a short smallish guy and looked a bit like Mickey Rooney’s little elf faced brother. They are probably the same height. He had a curly/wavy light brown near blonde hair, dense on top short on the sides. He wore a COD team Baseball t-shirt and black shorts and was probably waiting for practice to start. I asked him if he wanted to do a student survey on what he thought about God and stuff for a Bible study group. He said he had a Bible study. “Ya wanna hear the big question you could bring back to the group?” I asked. “OK,” he replied. I began, “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?” “That’s a tough question,” he said thinking. I asked if he’d want to hear the Bible verses that answered it. He agreed. So I got his name and began to go through the Gospel with him. I told him John 3:16 and then 17:3 saying that knowing God was eternal life because He lived inside him. But first God had to take away his sin so he would match God inside. I asked what Jesus had done back in History to take away the sins of the world. “He died on the cross,” he replied. I said, “Right,” and then went on to explain that Jesus blood cleansed him and was a payment to God. “Hum,” he said to a couple of the points I made as if understanding it better or for the first time. I said Jesus earned the Righteousness of God by perfect obedience and could give it to him and God adopted him. I said all this was his when he received Christ, (John 1:12); If he believed Jesus was God had died for his sins and rose from the dead. Not that he just knew the story but that that’s what he put his trust in to be forgiven. So if someone said to him “Why should God let you into Heaven?” he’d say, “Because Jesus died for me.” That would mean he had faith in Jesus. Faith saved him. I asked, “What kind of person are you or would you want to be? Would you want to be forgiven for your sins trusting in Jesus? Then His Spirit would live inside you and give you strength; take you to Heaven when you die. Or do you think something else?” Then I told him a quick difference between Islam with a different god and the Buddha and said, “When you’re asking for forgiveness for your sins are you thinking, ‘I’m a good person I go to a Bible study and try to do the right stuff so I think I’ll be forgiven or are you thinking, ‘I know all be forgiven because Jesus died for me? I know you knew the story but had you been trusting in that to be forgiven? Or hadn’t you put it together before?” He thought for a minute and said, “I think I put it together a little bit.” “Well if you would want to be forgiven trusting in Jesus there’s a prayer you could pray.” I talked him through it and said, “It says here does this prayer express the desire of your heart?” But he only half heard me because a couple of short, brown-haired girls walked together across his vision on the far side of the lounge in volleyball shorts and he was temporarily distracted, possibly thinking they were his height. So I said it again. (He’d really tuned in the entire time very well until that moment.) He was back then and agreed it did. I said he could pray silently it to be sure; I wouldn’t hear him but God would hear and he’d know he was forgiven. “Yeah sure,” he said and he prayed to receive Jesus. I said I had a couple of books to give him and quickly explained the Christian life living “By the Spirit’s Power, Inside Out.” I told him I would pray a Bible verse for him each day for a year, from now until Spring and a year after asking God to bless him. “Thank you,” he said. I gave him, Bible Promises for You and wrote his name and the date and forgiven in the front. I gave him The Case for Christ Answer Booklet and a Bible study explaining it quick. “I’ll see ya in Heaven,” I said. “See ya there,” he replied and I headed off.

So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today if you had the chance. There are not many students left to talk to at school but God blessed today.

In Him,

Bob