Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,
I had a great day of sharing today and I hope your day was one where you asked for His guidance and help by His Spirit all the day long.  Today 3 Black students prayed to receive Jesus:  2 girls, Taylor and Briesha, and a guy Jaylan.

Taylor has straight hair in kind of a pixie cut.  She was thin with glasses, short black boots.  She thought she had done a survey with someone before when I asked, so I said, “Did they ask you this question; You are walking down the road and you get hit by a bus, so you’re dead, and you stand before God and He says to you, ‘Why should I let you into heaven?’ What would you say?” First she said she hadn’t killed anyone and then trailed off into good works.  I said the Bible teaches something different and asked if she would like to know what it says . She said she would so I began to go through the Gospel with her.  The death and resurrection of Christ were not what she had been trusting in to make her right with God.  Much of the story seemed to be novel to her.  I told her all she needed to do to be forgiven was to ask, trusting in what Jesus had done for her in His saving work on the Cross, believing, and showed her a prayer she could pray.  She did and asked to keep the booklet.  I explained the work of the Holy Spirit to her in living the Christian life. She said she liked science and we were sitting in the hall of the science building (facing north) so I gave her The Case for a Creator to read.  She liked to read and was up for it.

Briesha had loose, curly hair long down on her shoulders with black glasses, thin, cute kid.  She wanted to adopt a lot of kids but didn’t seem to have any interest in ones of her own.  She went to an Apostolic Church, as did Taylor, and she had some familiarity with the Gospel.  But she hadn’t been trusting in it, saying as to why God should let her into heaven, “Because I tried to be the best I could be.”  So I asked her, after talking her through the Gospel, if she had been trusting in the death and resurrection of Christ to make her right with God.  She said some religious stuff, missing my point, so I prayed and asked her again a bit differently.  She finally understood my question and started to think and said, “Oh.”  Then thought some more and said, “Oh!”.  Thought a bit more, realizing and confessed she had not been trusting in that.  I explained that if she was not trusting in Christ’s work to save her she had not received Christ.  Then she prayed to receive Jesus.  She picked More Than a Carpenter to read and said she did not have her own Bible.  I gave her one and told her a good place to start was in John, explaining “Word” was a name for Jesus and then she had to run to class.

I went and put some more books in my satchel at my locker and came up the back stairs, cutting across the end of the lounge where we have Bible study.  Jaylan was sitting using a phone a bit and had his laptop open.  He said he’d do a survey and was a friendly guy.  He had large features and short hair, good looking guy, played football.  He had some familiarity with the Gospel but had had no idea if he was going to Heaven or not.  Still, he prayed each day (it seemed he prayed the Lord’s Prayer) though he hadn’t gone to church while at school.  He tuned in pretty well and asked some questions.  I asked him also if he had ever asked God to forgive his sins based on the work of Jesus or had been trusting in that.  Or did he just hope he was good enough and God was forgiving?  He said he hadn’t done that.  So I showed him the prayer and he asked if it was a different one than the prayer you pray every day, which through some hit and miss I discovered was the Lord’s Prayer as we said it together.  I said that prayer assumed he had already trusted in the work of Christ to forgive him of all his sins on the Cross a one point.  Seeing that he then prayed to receive Jesus as his Savior.  I explained the Holy Spirit’s work to him and he took the book Enjoying Your Walk With God to read and a Bible study and gave me his E-mail to send him stuff, so that was great.

So thanks for your prayers for the Ministry and today if you had a moment for evangelism.  God really blessed.

In Him,
Bob Bollow