Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed walking by your faith in Christ.  I had a good day on campus and Raina came to Christ after a few hours chatting peeps up.  She is a pretty African American girl . Petite with her curled hair.  She was fond of gold, on her nails, big wreath shaped hoop earrings and marble size gold balls covering her purse.  I think she had just come out of class and had plopped down in a hallway chair on the first floor of the BIC building.  Her arms were loaded with several colored folders and she was looking at her phone.  She said right away she would answer some questions.  When I asked her what she would say to God if asked why He should let her into Heaven.  She thought for a bit and said, “I’ve tried my best to follow your Word, what you said we should do. I feel like I deserve to be in Heaven.”  It seems like a good answer on the face of it, but if you think about it her words are really just a religious way of saying, “I am good.”  She went to church.  She wasn’t sure how good she was, as later she said she figured she had about a 70% chance of going to Heaven.  I walked her through some bible verses and illustrations.  She knew John 3:16 and Romans 3:23 and knew Jesus had died.  I continued to talk to her about how she had to be perfect to get into Heaven as her Heavenly Father is perfect.  She knew she wasn’t, and said she wanted to be forgiven for her sins after I had gone through the Gospel telling her, “We don’t go to Heaven because we are good but because Jesus was good and He died for us.”  So I asked her, “When you think about it, when you ask God to forgive you for something you have done are you thinking, ‘Well God is good and I am a good person so He will forgive me.’ Or are you thinking, “I know God will forgive me because Jesus died for me,’ are you trusting in Him?”  She kind of sheepishly said, “A little of both?”  I could tell she felt convicted and that she had not trusted in Christ.  I showed her the prayer and said, “If you really don’t think you have ever trusted before in what Jesus has done for you, you could pray this in your head now like I am not here.  God can read your thoughts.”  She took the booklet from my hand prayed and then I said, “So you can say this is the day you received Jesus.”  She smiled and agreed and said, “I’m going to show this to my mom, she would like this.”  So I offered her another booklet to take and she gratefully took it.  I talked to her awhile about churches and the Holy Spirit and depending upon Him.  She took a copy of the student edition of The Case for Faith to read and a Bible study and gave me her email to send her some stuff.  She might come to Bible study (once I told her Ellen would be there she seemed interested).  Fortunately the Holy Spirit makes people talk to me.

So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today if you had a chance.  P please pray Raina would grow in her faith.

In Him,

Bob Bollow

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