Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed walking with God.  We had a good day doing a bit of discipleship on campus and later Taj prayed to receive Christ.  He is a Black guy who is from Matteson, IL playing football at COD.  He has dreadlocks to his shoulders, not that big a guy, just a wisp of a goatee on his chin.  He was wearing what looked like a track suit and red hiking boots.  He was just sitting on the stairs in the PE building, in the exact spot Duke was sitting last week.  And they could have been brothers except Taj is smaller.  He seemed pretty bright but he had no idea how God took his sins away through the work of Christ.   Even when I said, “it’s with the Cross” he showed no sign of recognition, though he said he went to church regularly back home with his mother.  The thing he wanted to do before he died he said was “make his mom happy.”  He struggled over the idea of why God should let him into heaven,  just saying, “I never gave up on anything.”  Which tells you some of the ethic he was raised with, since for most part the question sounds like, why are you good enough to go to heaven or what good thing have you done to earn it.  This was true for him.  But he listened to the Gospel attentively and was actually excited that Christ’s righteousness was to his credit.  He wanted to be forgiven when I asked him, after I went through the Gospel with him and I walked him through the prayer and he prayed it out loud as we sat.  I gave him a copy of Playing with Purpose to read, as he was into the NBA, and a Bible study on Jesus’ claims to be God.  I got his e-mail to send him some stuff, so that was good.  As I left he was really happy.  I got to talk only briefly to one other girl who said she was not going to have time so I gave her a booklet and a Bible study in the hope she might learn more.

So thanks so much for your prayers for the Bible study and evangelism today or just for the ministry if you had a chance, God truly blessed.
In Him,
Bob Bollow

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