Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope ya had a great day and had joy and peace in believing and now abound in hope. I had a good day on campus and encouraged some Christians in the faith and Alex Prayed with me to receive Jesus. Please pray he grows in faith sanctified by the Spirit. His responses are below if you have time.

 Alex walked up and sat on a hall bench in the east science building on the second floor facing north. I had almost met him at the moment he sat down and he said he’d do a student survey. He had a few days growth of beard and wore black framed glasses his face was the shape of a melon with a modest nose and thin lips. He was a pretty tall guy maybe 6’2” and wore a long sleeve grey T-shirt and grey sweats and bright red shoes.  I asked him for three words to describe himself and with a heavy Latino accent and slightly broken English he said, “student in college, no money, made a promise to my parents,” the last of which I gathered was why he was in school. One thing he wanted to do before he died was, “keep promise, make my way, have a family and be together.” 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?” “Umm, I made mistakes. If He can do… before I die, if He can… [I would] do better now, I’ll go to Heaven for now.” I asked the likelihood he would go to Heaven when he died, “50/50 because I made mistakes [I could] do better,” he replied. I asked if he ever went to Church and he hesitated like he was thinking and I said, “Sometimes?” He said, “I go…”. “Once in a while,” I filled in and he nodded. He later said the last time he had been to Church was for his father’s funeral. “So a sad time,” I said and he nodded. I began to go through the Gospel and asked what the big thing was Jesus had done back in History to take away the sins of the world. He hesitated and said, “Yeah,” so I don’t think he knew. I began to explain that God became a man Jesus and lived a perfect life. So we were to supposed to live a perfect life. You had to be perfected to get into Heaven. He began nodding and so I explained that Jesus died and His blood cleansed us and paid for sin. He kept nodding so I just continued to explain at a regular pace with illustrations but without stopping about the righteousness of Christ. I said that God adopted him and gave him the blessings of His family, the sacrifice for his sins the blood that cleansed him and the righteousness of God that surrounded him. He needed to receive Christ; to believe, “Jesus was God died for your sins and rose from the dead. Not that you just knew the story but that that was what you put his trust in so that if someone said, ‘Why should God let you into Heaven?’ You’d say, ‘Because Jesus died for me, I trust in that.’ That would me you had faith in Jesus. Faith saves you.” I read Eph 2:8 and 9. I asked if he would want to be forgiven for his sins trusting in Jesus then He would live inside him to give him strength and take him to Heaven when he died. Then I said Islam had a different God and a cast off line about the Buddha who was not looking for God. “So would you want to be forgiven for your sins?” I asked again. “Yeah,” he replied. I said if he wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer he could pray and talked through it. I asked if it expressed the desire of his heart. “Yeah,” he said again. So I said he could pray it silently and God would hear. He took the booklet and prayed aloud to receive Jesus. I quickly went through the Christian life and asked if he had a Bible. His family had one and that was enough he thought. I explained then that he could live by the Spirit’s power. I said Christianity was inside out not outside in first we ask God to change us then we will do good things. I gave him the booklet. I said the likelihood he would now go to Heaven was 100% trusting in the blood and righteousness of Jesus. He grabbed his backpack up to go to class so I quickly gave him Bible Promises for You and wrote his name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front and said I would pray for him. He went into the classroom but I remained and wrote some stuff down. No one was in the room yet, I gathered by some conversation I overheard and he came back out, probably to go to the bathroom and walked past me and said, “God bless you.” “Thank you, I will pray for you each day for the next year. And he headed off.

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

 God truly blessed.

In Him,

Bob