Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
Hope your day has gone well and you had a good day yesterday.  I’m a bit late with this since my computer is being temperamental, need a new one actually.  But Thursday went well on campus and Jose and Nick both prayed to receive Christ as Savior.

Jose was the first person I got to talk to and he was sitting in the cafeteria eating a Subway sandwich.  He is from Spain and looked it to me.  Nice guy, straight brown hair over his ears a bit.  He had no accent though and understood English fine.  At first he told me he had “never sinned” in response to the question; “Why should God let you into heaven?”  But I asked him if he had ever lied and he confessed he had, so I said, “So what you mean is you haven’t done anything too big, not that you are perfect,”  and he shook his head.  I went through the Gospel with him and he thought that confession might take away his sins.  He hadn’t thought at all about Jesus.  In the end he wanted to be forgiven for his sins and prayed to receive Christ.  He took a copy of The Case for a Creator to read and a Bible study and a Bible as he did not have one of his own.  He’d been going to the Catholic Church some.  I encouraged him to begin reading in the Gospel of John and talked to him about the Holy Spirit.  He was enthusiastic and I got his e-mail to send him stuff

Nick was sitting just outside the cafeteria in chairs against the stairs where you head up to the second floor.  Dark brown hair and a days-growth of beard on his face.  He is Roman Catholic also and did not really understand the Gospel.  He was really interested in the heart motivations for ethics, and the religious forms he had been doing seemed empty to him.  He had no confidence of salvation, which was accurate.  We talked for some time and I answered a lot of his questions and told him the Gospel.  In the end I asked if he had ever asked God to forgive his sins based on what Jesus had done for him on the Cross, and he said he hadn’t.  I asked him if he believed Christ was God and had died for his sins to make him right with God and trusted in that and he said, “Yes.”   “Well,” I said, “if you would want to be forgiven, all you have to do is ask,” and I showed him a prayer he could pray.  He did pray, and I gave him some direction ethically after that, giving him a copy of Enjoying Your Walk With God, as he had not understood walking in the Spirit.  I also gave him The Case for Faith and a Bible study.

I had a good day talking with some other students as well. Thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism if you had a chance Thursday.  God was with me and used us.

Blessings,
Bob Bollow