Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,
I hope your day was filled with God’s guidance as you walked in the Spirit.  I had a good day on campus, preaching the good news and Shane prayed to receive Christ as his Savior . He had short hair, receding a bit at the temples, and a faint growth of a beard.  He goes to a Lutheran Church in Winfield not far from where I live.  Pretty straight up normal looking guy.  He runs track at COD.  He was sitting in the PE building killing some time and said he’d answer some questions.  He said he thought God would let him into Heaven because he believed and was sure he would go.  He knew Christ had died for his sins, but still tuned into the Gospel closely and as I finished said he would want to be forgiven.  I asked him if, when he prayed for forgiveness, he just figured he was a good guy and God would forgive him, he went to church and stuff, or if he thought that he was trusting in what God had done for him with the Death of Christ on the cross.  “What should I be thinking or what am I thinking?” he asked.  “What have you been thinking?” I replied.  “The first one you said,” he responded.  So I explained that he really had not received Christ.  I’d already told him I grew up in the Lutheran Church and so I said, “You know when you are a kid you go to church with your parents and do what they do, but you’re in college now, you’re a man, and you have to decide what you believe for yourself.”  He agreed and I walked him through a prayer he could pray where he told God he wanted to accept His forgiveness and receive Christ, telling him he could pray it in his head.  He took the prayer from me and prayed it and smiled.  I said, “Hey, your sins are forgiven, not because I say so of course but because that is what the Bible teaches.”  He smiled and nodded.  I explained asking for the help of God in everything by the Holy Spirit living in him.  I found out he was really into the NBA and gave him the book Playing with Purpose and a Bible study on Christ’s claims to be God in the NT.  We talked for a while.  He was a great guy, and when I got up off the adjacent couch where I’d been sitting to leave he stood to shake my hand and thanked me and was visibly happy.  That was great.  I got his email to send him stuff but must have copied it down wrong as it came back, so I’ll look for him next week to see if I can get it again.  Please pray I find him so I can send him another Bible study.

I had also had a long, encouraging conversation with a French speaking girl from the Congo.  Her name was Gypsia,  and she knew Christ.  She’d been saved in Africa.  It was good to hear her story of how God had brought her to faith.

So thanks for your prayers for the Ministry and for evangelism today if you had a chance.  God answered.

In Him,
Bob Bollow

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