Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,
I hope you day was blessed.  I had a good day on campus talking with students and Frangela {friends call her Fran}.  She was sitting by the bookstore and I was more or less on my way out.  But she said she would do a student survey for the Bible study group and we talked.  She had stick-straight black hair, past her shoulders and very dark skin, African American, thin features. She said she had most recently gone to a Bible Church not far from school.  She thought of herself as God’s child but she did not know how God took away her sins.  So I went through the Gospel with her which was novel to her.  She said she wanted to be forgiven.  When I asked her if she had ever asked God to forgive her sins based on what Jesus had done she said, “No.”  So I walked her through the prayer at the back of the booklet I use, and after asking her if it was the desire of her heart and she said it was I said, “So you could pray this right now and receive forgiveness for your sins quietly in your head like I’m not even here.”  And she said, “Ok.”  Then she stopped and said, “Right now?”  And I said, “Sure.”  So she prayed to receive forgiveness by Christ’s death on the Cross.  I gave her a copy of The Case for a Creator, since that was the book she picked, and a Bible study.  I explained the Fruit of the Spirit to her as the way to live the Christian life.  She thought she might have heard of it before so I wrote down the passage [Galatians 5: 22+23].  The Bible thinks of us like we’re trees [Psalm 1:3] and trees produce fruit, even a pine tree produces pine cones.  The fruit God wants to produce in us is “love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control”; This is how we live the Christian life, not by just trying harder but by asking God by His Holy Spirit to give us more of any of these attributes when we lack them. Then I left campus grateful not to be harassed by the cops.

I had a great time explaining the Gospel to Kevin, too.  He was taking a Philosophy course on world religions and was really interested in the Gospel, though he had gone to Church as a kid he hadn’t heard it explained that way.  I also gave him The Case for Christ student edition as he said he might want to have a relationship with God and would think about it.  Several times he said, “Oh!” in kind of a “Now I get it” way.  I will be praying for him and Abby, a girl on Thursday who was very close to committing her heart to Christ.  She was a cute, curly-haired kid who was an Usher at her Presbyterian church, sitting Indian-style in the sunlight outside last week.

So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for Evangelism today if you had a chance.  God blessed the work of preaching the Gospel.

In Him
Bob Bollow