Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

Hope you had a great day walking with Jesus.  I had a good day today and Junior prayed to receive Christ.  Everyone was a no show at Bible Study.  That’s the breaks of late.  Community college students are pretty easy going in their commitments.  We are fine with whatever God brings though, so Ellen and I talked for 40 minutes and each ate a cookie.  As we got up to leave, Gil, who prayed to receive Christ this year walked in so I walked over and talked him through some of the Bible study I’d printed up and we talked for about an hour until he left for class.  That was good as he sent me his email to get some more stuff.  I headed out as I had to get my guitar to go to my lesson that gives me student rights on campus (not that great yet).  Junior, from Ghana, was sitting on the window ledge in the doorway out to the lot and I felt prompted to talk to him.  He was a good-looking guy, dark skinned with a pretty heavy colonial accent to my ear.  He had a shorter afro and a bit of a goatee.  When I asked him why God would let him into Heaven he said, “I’m a Christian, I follow God’s way… go to church, what’s in the Bible, knowing that why shouldn’t you let me in.”  So kind of a less miraculous version of Matthew 7:22.  But this kind of response isn’t uncommon and often, after hearing the Gospel because the student I am talking to thinks of themselves as a Christian and knows Christ died, they will assume they have been trusting in that regardless of their previous response.  Junior had a similar one but I reminded him what he had said, and explained what I meant again and asked him what he had been trusting in.  He thought for a moment and said, “In my own goodness.”  So I offered him a prayer he could pray and having said he wanted to be forgiven and prayed it.  So that was great.  I gave him a copy of More Than a Carpenter to read.  I also gave him a Bible study on the Deity of Christ and got his email to send him some more things later this week.

So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and may God bless you this week as walk by His Spirit.

In Him,

Bob Bollow

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