Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

So how was your day?  Good I hope.  Mine was good in that Damian, a black guy, prayed to receive Christ.  I had a rough conversation out of the gate with an Atheist girl named Tori.  She seemed interested to talk to me, but I think it turned she wanted to vent.  I got the typical questions…why is Christianity teaching all homosexuals go to hell?  I said it does not teach this, but if they practice it they are condemned.  As recently as the 1960s the preponderance of psychological practice taught Homosexuality is dangerous for you and destructive . Male homosexuals live shorter lives and since God does not want you to destroy yourself and others he is opposed to it . Lesbians, we would maintain, are not happy and in most cases have no hope of family or the security of a male, [who has been largely replaced by the state now and is probably a large reason many single women vote democratic.  Not that many Republicans are shining banners of small Government, but the Dems have the social program provision rep.].  I told her if she had a child, she would not let them play in the street or with their dad’s electric chain saw and we are like children to God.  Basically societal rules preserve us.  I explained other religions were not offering Heaven, but that Romans 1 basically teaches that if people would live up to the ethical code God has placed in them by giving them knowledge of Himself, they would be justified.  But they do not and so they are without excuse.  When she first began to ask questions and I could see where it would go I said, “Well, I will tell you what Christianity teaches if you promise not to get angry and we can just discuss it.”  She promised, but ended up throwing the booklet more or less at me as she stormed off in the end.  This, I was grateful for, since it has my contact information on it and really did not much want her to have it.  I told her that the Bible teaches there really are no atheists (Based on the idea of Romans 1) and I agreed with that and basically thought people were just angry at God or wanting to do as they wished.  She did not really argue with that in the moment.  What upset her most was that she thought she should be allowed into Heaven and given the chance to decide after death.  I said “so you don’t think there should be justice?”  She said she did and was up for people going to hell if they had told God F you.  She just did not realize she was doing that.  I offered her the book The Case for a Creator as she said she was rational, suggesting religion was not.  She did not want it.  She said some stuff that would be considered really offensive to Christians, but hey, I’ve heard it all b4 and I get peeps are just angry about something.  But when I agreed with her that she would go to hell for her unbelief as would anyone who was not a Christian, she blew a gasket.  “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.”  It kind of threw me off, but then I spoke with a nice black lady who was a Christian and took my side and let me teach her some stuff so that was great. Hung with some of my student friends who I dig and then rolled back out.

Damian was just sitting killing time. He had somehow dropped out of basic training for the Marine Core and was talking classes.  Nice guy; glasses, shaved head, not a big dude at all.  As I went through the Gospel he seemed to know it, though he had appealed to good works to go to Heaven.  I talked to him about that and it was obvious he had never committed his life to Christ nor had he thought in terms of Christ’s work to forgive him.  It was kind of like he assumed that was how it worked somewhere in his mind at one point and then never given it another thought.  But he wanted to receive Jesus and prayed.  I gave him More than a Carpenter to read and he thanked me.  I told him I would keep him in my prayers.

So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today if you had a chance, God was with me.

Bob Bollow