Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,
How’s the life?  I hope you had a blessed day walking in the Spirit.  I had a good day walking about on campus where two girls, Erika and Denaisha (Den-asia), prayed to receive Christ.  I also had some good encouraging talks with some peeps.  I started to talk to a guy who I later learned was Anton, an athletic looking African American guy with an afro.  He said, “I’m interested but I have to go to class.”  So I gave him a booklet to read in the hope I would run into him later.  He passed me in the hall later in the afternoon walking with two other black student friends, Louis, a tall thin guy and Jemari, a bit shorter and stocky with a shaved head.  Anton said, “Hey I read through part of that booklet it was good.”  So I stopped them with a question, “Great, so how does God take away your sin, what is the big thing Jesus does?” “He died,” he answered. I said, “Right” and then I went into some analogies about how God’s Spirit in us is like a blood transfusion.  We have to be made His type by Him taking our sins away so He can transfuse his life into us and live inside us.  I told them “It’s like you are the energizer bunny and God is the batteries.  If he lives inside you–you keep going and going and when you die it is like you don’t die because you go to Heaven.” I talked them through Imputation; like extra credit in a class where you were getting a zero but you are given another student’s extra credit who dies and is the teacher’s pet and had 1,000 extra points in a class where only 10 peeps are left.  They were really enthusiastic and Jemari said, “Hey can I have one of those booklets too?” and Louis said, “Me too.”  They were from a church background but had not clearly heard the Gospel before where they received the righteousness of God by Christ’s imputed righteousness which was to their Credit.  I showed the prayer they could pray to be certain they had committed to trusting in what Christ had done for them.  So I am hopeful they either came to saving faith or at least understood things better.  I gave them each Bible studies I had in my satchel, a couple on the prophecies of the Messiah and to Anton one on the deity of Christ.

Denaisha was sitting by the doors waiting for a ride and said she’d answer some questions.  Shy, thin, quiet girl, African American but her features were white though she was dark skinned.  She wore her long hair in braids that were curled and fell down past her shoulders, her hair had some highlights and looked like about 16 hours of work.  She was 100% sure she was going to Heaven and had been attending a Baptist church in St. Louis.  But they had not found a new Church up here.  She didn’t know how God took away her sins however, even when I tried to prompt her by saying, “What is the big thing Jesus did to take away the sins of the world?”  So I explained the Gospel to her slowly and clearly with the analogies I use and the Bible verses in the booklet and some others I throw in.  She said she wanted to be forgiven when I asked and so I said she could ask to do so and walked her through the prayer reading, “Does this prayer express the desire of your heart?”  She read it through again to herself and said, ‘Yes.”  So I offered her the prayer to pray, asking her if she would like to pray it in her head to God and she said she would and did.  As I explained the Holy Spirit to her and trusting in God’s power to live the Christian life, her ride called.  I gave her a Bible study and the book More Than a Carpenter to read.  She did not want to get emails and ran for her ride and I told her I’d pray for her.

Erika was sitting in one of the cubbyhole overlook, looking down onto the science building lounge.  She is studying to be a nurse. Long dark hair, cute, olive-colored skin.  Her dad is a pastor and when I asked her if she stood b4 God, why should he let her into Heaven, she struggled a bit and said, “I followed the Bible.”  I said, “That’s a good answer,” and asked her if she thought she was going to Heaven.  She was sure she was and so I asked her how God took away her sin.  She knew Jesus died and I started talking her through how God lived inside her and said, “Here I’ll just show you this booklet to help you share your faith.”  I walked her all the way through and she enjoyed it.  Then at the end I asked her if she had been truly trusting in what Jesus had done for her on the Cross to save her and make her right with God, asking Him to forgive her based on that, or if she had been going to church and was raised a Christian and just thought she was ok.  She thought about it for a moment and said, “I have never done that.”  I said “Well you can” and I walked her through the prayer and asked her if she would like to pray it.  She said, “Yes,” and did.  She had to run for class, but I got an explanation of the fruit of the Spirit in, and she (not liking to read much) took a Bible study and a copy of a new DVD we just got to hand out this year “Jesus Fact or Fiction”  It has the Jesus film on it and 50 short answers to questions about the Christian faith.  She gave me her email and as she ran off she said, “Thank you, that helped a lot.”

So thanks for your prayers for the ministry today and for evangelism if you got a chance.  I had a great day.  Please pray for Erika and Denaisha to grow in Christ and for the guys Anton, Louis, Jemari to truly commit their lives to Him.

Blessings,
Bob Bollow

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