Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

Hope you had a nice Valentine’s Day.  El got some flowers and a poem (they don’t have to be that good since she love me) and we had some of those kick-back gift cards from credit card points to go to Macaroni Grill.

Mike came to Christ today.  I found him sitting in a corner table in a vending machine lounge off the outdoor atrium (the landscaping of which looks like about 40K of effort, my tax dollars at work).  He was a husky white guy with a crew cut and an oval face which was nearly expressionless.  He did smile once or twice, but I started praying for him in a subtext in my head while I went through the Gospel with him, realizing I was starting to worry about his lack of reaction.  I’m trying to relate to people and read them as I go when on campus.  I speed up or slow down, say something differently and most people track pretty well.  But I wonder some if it even matters and if I don’t cause myself pointless stress.  “Faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ” [Romans 10:17] and this is what brings people to the Lord.  So in one sense I am just along for the ride, watching the answers to prayer.  But Paul writes in 1Corinthians 9:22 “To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak; I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.” So I believe I am supposed to be prayerful and use whatever intuition God has given me or ability to fit in, but by my view it is a miracle I can still get someone to talk to me on a campus at my age.  Mike smiled at my attempts at humor (ha, well most of them) but was pretty stone-faced otherwise. But he did not look around more than a glance or two and seemed at the very end to really tune in.  He had gone to church periodically at one near his house and he said the gospel contained things he thought he had heard b4.  So I asked him if, when he’d prayed for forgiveness, he held in his heart that Christ had died for his sins and that had made him right with God or if he just thought he was a pretty good guy and God was forgiving.  He thought more the second and decided he wanted be forgiven based on what Christ had done.  I gave him the Student Edition of The Case for Faith and a bible study. He reached out and shook my hand and said, “Thanks, I really appreciate it.” I said, “I hope I see ya in Heaven,” smiled and went out.

I went through the Gospel with 7 others and got some positive responses where they thought they might pray or wanted to believe so I gave them a book.  So it was a good day walking in the Spirit.

Thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism if you had a moment today.  It is still getting peeps to talk to me and receive Jesus.

In Him,
Bob Bollow