Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope your day has left you filled up to the fullness of God walking with Him in newness of life. I had a good day on campus. I had some good life/discipleship conversations with 2 different guys who prayed to receive Jesus earlier this year. Also Dominik prayed with me to receive Jesus today. Please pray he grows in the sanctification of the Holy Spirit. His responses are below.

 Dominik was sitting on a couch by the doors on the second floor of the Mac Arts building that empty out on to a patio that is a 15 yard walk outside to the nearest BIC building doors. He had a navy-blue bandana around his head and stick straight light brown hair coming down on either side of his ears the front went to his jaw line, grey eyes. The back, longer, fell into a faded red hoodie. He wore cargo pants in Camo pattern and high tops. He had a sharp pointed nose and a straight jaw line, was clean-shaven. He said he wanted to become a musician and when I asked what he played he said, “Guitar”. 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?” He breathed out thinking and said, “That’s a good question.” He thought more and said, “I’d say I don’t know.” I asked if he went to Church and he said he did when he was younger. I began to go through the Gospel with him quoting Jesus as saying eternal life was knowing God. But sin kills you and God gives you life, so God can’t be in the same place as sin, so He takes away your sin.” I said it was like a blood transfusion where God has to make you His type. I asked what Jesus had done back in History to take away the sins of the world. “He dies for us,” he replied. “Right on,” I said and I began to explain how it all worked. That Christ lived a perfect life was a sacrifice to God, His blood cleansed him and was filled with life and paid God back for all the life we owed. I couldn’t tell if what I said was tracking with him at all. Thinking later I remembered one of the words he used to describe himself was standoffish. I prayed silently as I talked saying all I have memorized this year to say. I said God adopted him into His family and gave him all I had explained, “The sacrifice for your sins the blood that cleanses you and the righteousness of God that surrounds you.” Christ rose from the dead. Jesus is the only way and he needed to receive Him; to believe and put his trust in that Jesus was God had died for his sins and rose from the dead. That would mean he had faith in Jesus. Faith saved him. “So would you want to be forgiven for your sins trusting in Jesus or do you think something else?” I asked saying the Spirit in him would give him strength for everything. “I’d be forgiven,” he replied. So I said if he wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer he could pray and talked him through it and asked, “It says here, ‘Does this prayer express the desire of your heart?’ Would you say it did?” “Yeah,” he replied. So I said he could pray it silently, “I wouldn’t hear but God would hear you and you’d know you were forgiven. Wanna do that?” “Yeah,” he said again. I handed him the booklet and he said, “Thank you,” and prayed to receive Jesus. As soon as he finished I said the likelihood he would now go to Heaven was 100% trusting in the blood and righteousness of Christ. I went through the Christian life with him. He said he had a Bible on his phone so I encouraged him to read in John. I said the Christian life was living by the Spirit’s Power and the Holy Spirit could increase his creativity as a guitarist and help him in everything. Christianity was unlike other religions, it was “inside out”. First we are transformed on the inside them we do good things on the outside. He said he appreciated it. I gave him a copy of Bible Promises for You and showed him how to turn a Bible verse into a prayer. I wrote his name and the date and “forgiven!” on the inside. I handed it to him and he said, “For me?” “Yeah,” I said. I also gave him Strobel’s The Case for Christ Answer Booklet and told him the story. I finally gave him a Bible Study on the Deity of Christ. I told him I would pray a Bible verse for him each day for the next year asking God to bless him. “Thank you, I really appreciate this Bob. I’ve been wanting to look into this so this really helped me out,” he said. I said he was welcome and I’d be praying and I 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