Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope ya had a blessed day filled with all good things from the hand of the Lord. I had slow day on campus and only found one person to go through the Gospel with me. But that girl Angela prayed to receive Jesus. Her story is below if you have time. Please pray she is sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

 Angela was sitting at a table with a couple of medical books open with diagrams of human anatomy. She had long thin braids past her elbows coming out of tight elaborate patterns on the top of her head. African American she had a cute wide face with a pug nose; she was friendly wore a grey hoodie. She sat on the edge of the science buildings lounge on the second floor. They were having a faculty appreciation lunch below her. I asked if she would want to do a student survey for a Bible study group. “I think I already did it,” she replied. “Not with me,” I replied. “The big question is: ‘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?’ So it’s really about the Bible verses that are the answer to that question. So would you like to hear the verses that answer it or not so much?” “OK,” she replied. So I kneeled at her table across from her, since the chairs all had her stuff on them. I took out the booklet and began to go through it saying all I usually say to tell students the Gospel. “Jesus said this,” I said reading John 17:3. “Eternal life is just knowing God because you got the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit,” she nodded. “The holy Spirit lives inside you. So if God lives inside you and you know Him that way it’s like you’re the Energizer Bunny and God’s the batteries, you keep going and going and when you die it’s like you don’t die because God’s inside.” I said the God could not live in some people because of sin and asked what Jesus had done back in History to take away the sins of the world. “Well nothing comes to mind right now,” she replied after a moment of thought. “That’s OK this is how it works,” I replied. And I explained the perfect life of Jesus and His sacrifice where His blood cleansed her and was a payment for sin. His righteousness was to her credit. God adopted her and gave her all these things. Jesus rose from the dead and was the only way. She needed to receive Jesus; believe He was God had died for her sins and rose from the dead. “So if someone would ask why should God let you into Heaven you’d say, ‘Because Jesus died for me. I trust in that.’” I said that would mean she had faith in Jesus and faith saved her. She should do good things to please God but her good things would not fix her bad things. She smiled at the examples I gave and was tuned right in the entire time. After I had asked if she wanted to be forgiven trusting in Jesus, saying he would give her strength to live the Christian life and even for her studies at school, then take her to Heaven when she died, she said, “Um hum.” I said if she wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer she could pray and talked her through it. I asked if it expressed the desire of her heart. “Um hum,” she replied again. So I said she could pray it silently, “I wouldn’t hear you but God would hear and then you’d know you were forgiven trusting in Jesus, wanna do that?” “Um hum,” she said again and she prayed to receive Jesus. I went through the Christian life with her briefly. She had a Bible and I said everything was “By the Spirit’s Power.” I gave her Bible Promises for You and showed her how she could turn a verse into a prayer. I wrote her name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front. “Thank you,” she said, taking the booklet with a smile. I told her I would pray for her every day for a year and if I saw her again I would just wave. I gave her The Case for Christ Answer Booklet telling her a bit of Strobel’s story and a Bible study on the deity of Christ she liked. “Nice to meet you,” I said getting up to go. “Nice to me you as well,” she replied. “God bless your day.” “God bless your studies,” I replied and she said, “Thank you,” and I headed off.

So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today. School has become pretty empty but the Lord guided me to one.

In Him,

Bob