Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed with good things from the Lord who provides all your needs. I had a good day on campus and Vincent prayed to receive Jesus. A Latino guy Junior believed the Gospel was true hearing it the first time he actually said, “Wow!” a couple times. But he was unwilling to commit to Christ. He said, “This was really cool,” and was appreciative. But he took The Case for Christ Answer Booklet. He was short with a heavy beard and short bangs. Please pray Vincent is sanctified by the Spirit and Junior comes in. I also bumped into Sal who trusted in Christ last week. Some good things had been happening for him with his former girlfriend, Yolanda, that we’d both prayed for and he was walking in the Lord so that was great to hear.

 Vincent was sitting at the long set of tables near the stairs in the PE waiting for someone he was picking up. He had a thin mustache and a goatee and looked to be 50 years old. He wore a black fleece and sweats. He said he wasn’t a student and went to Willow Creek Church; he wasn’t interested in talking about the Gospel. He thought he was going to heaven because of the good things he had done in life. After I asked him if he wanted to hear the question he could ask around to tell people about Christ. He reluctantly agreed. 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?” He basically said he did good things. I asked if he would like to hear some Bible verses. He said they had Bibles at home; then said some weak things about why they were not read. So I kind of pushed on that a bit and said Christianity was like a Blood transfusion I have A+ Blood, if you fill me with B- blood I would clot up and die. So God wants to transfuse His life into you and fill you with the Holy Spirit, but first he has to make you His type so He has to take away his sins. I asked him what the big thing was Jesus had done back in History to take away his sins. He reiterated that he had done good works. I said that’s what you have done what does Jesus do to take away your sins? He didn’t know. I asked if I could show him some Bible verses and I somehow quickly slipped out a booklet and began explaining the verses. I explained that Jesus lived a perfect life and the Bible said, “You are to be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect.” [Matthew 5:48.] If he stood before God he’d have to admit he had not lived a perfect life. So I explained God could say, “Well everything here is perfect. “I’m perfect and it’s a perfect place; you don’t fit in here.” But if He said that we’d all go to Hell because nobody is perfect. But God could technically say that because Heaven isn’t just a place it’s the presence of God so you have to be perfected to enter in to it. So this is what God does.” I went on to explain Jesus lived a perfect life for us and the extra credit of that life is stored up like extra credit in a class. Then He went around telling people the truth. So they got ticked at Him and they killed Him. But that’s what Jesus wants; He wants to die. I explained Jesus 1 John 1:7, to cleanse; now God can live inside you. I told of the payment of His blood for what we owed and the Righteousness of God He earned by His perfect obedience and perfect fulfillment of the OT law. The righteousness of God for us was predicted in Isaiah 61:10 and fulfilled Galatians 3:27. “So you don’t go to Heaven because you are good, you go to Heaven because Jesus is good and you are connected to Him,” I said. I explained all this was ours as the blessing of God’s family through adoption. I said he had to receive it by faith. Not that He just knew the story but that that’s what he put his trust in so that if someone would say to him, “Why should God let you into Heaven?” he would say, “Because Jesus died for me.” This would mean he had faith in Jesus. Faith saved him. I asked if he would want to be forgiven trusting in what Jesus had done or thought something else explaining the different God Islam had and the Buddha who was not looking for God. He said he would want to be forgiven. He signaled those waiting for him now that he’d be with them shorty and they went over by the door. I said if he wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer he could pray. I read it with explanation and he said, “Right.” I said he could pray it silently. “Oh yeah,” he said and took the booklet and read it again and said OK and prayed. “Thank you, I really appreciate it,” he said and shook my hand. I explained living, “By the Spirit’s power Inside Out”. I said let me give you a Book. I gave him Bible Promises for You suggesting he could read a verse each day. I picked a short verse and said how it could be turned into a prayer. I wrote his name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front. He was happy with that. I also gave him The Case for Christ Answer Booklet and told him the story in a couple sentences. He said he hoped I would find some students to tell this to and I said, “Yes, they don’t even know how to live but though you did you now have security knowing Jesus died for you.” He agreed. As he walked to the door I said, “I’ll keep you in my prayers.” “Please do,” he replied and he headed off smiling.

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

 In Him,

Bob