Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
I had a good day of sharing the faith today.  I encouraged a few peeps in their faith and nudged one guy a little closer, Lord willing, and helped a Lutheran Girl see where her trust and hope needed to be.  And a guy Mark prayed to receive Christ.  Mark was sitting in the hall in the science building, just kind of hanging, and was up for doing a student survey.  He had dishwater-strawberry-Blonde hair, easy going looking, bit of a beard just starting to show.  He had grown up Roman Catholic until he was 13, been an acolyte, gone to Catholic school and “heard it every day”.  But in high school he’d gone to West Chicago public school and “The atmosphere was different”.  Then his parents began to argue about religious things, his mom wanting to try a different church.  They tried one, but his dad he said somehow thought this was “like back-stabbing”, though he wasn’t sure what his dad had meant by that.  The end result was that they no longer attended Church at all.  When I asked him why God should let him into Heaven, he thought for a bit and said, “I don’t think I have an answer for that to be honest.”  He thought he’d have a 50/50 shot at Heaven.  I went through the Gospel with him and it rang true to his heart, and he said he would like to be forgiven and have God live inside him.  I asked him, as I often do, if he thought he had ever asked God to forgive him based on what Jesus had done.  He told me a story about wrestling with his 4 year old brother when he was 6, and how his kid brother’s arm had accidentally been dislocated.  He got spanked and his brother got his arm popped back into place by their pediatrician and came home with a teddy bear, so no big deal.  But he had felt bad and asked God to forgive him, so he knew he’d done it b4.  So I talked to him about asking God for forgiveness, consciously thinking that Jesus had paid for his sins on the Cross.  I used the analogy I sometimes use of meeting Derek Rose in a club and having a Bulls Cap on and him offering me a ticket to a game in his sky box.  I jump at it, and show up at the gate where he has left a ticket for “Bob” attached to his name.  “But, I say my name and when they ask me who left the ticket, I protest saying, ‘My name is Bob and don’t you have a ticket for me?'” The guys says, “Look we must have 50 ‘Bobs’ in here.  You gotta have the name of who left you the ticket.” I said, “So forgiveness from God is asking in the Name of the one who provides it.”  He saw the point and I went through the prayer with him.  I thought he would put it off when he said, “Can I have a copy of this?” meaning the booklet.  I said, “Sure.” But then he took the booklet and prayed to receive Christ.  I explained walking by the Spirit to him in living the Christian life by God’s power, gave him a Bible study and asked him if there might be a book he’d like to read.  He said he was majoring in science, so I gave him The Case for a Creator and I left him my e-mail.

So thanks for your prayers for the Ministry and for evangelism today if you had the chance. I am always so grateful for the prayers of God’s people.

May God Bless you today as you walk with Him,

Bob Bollow