Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ
I hope you had a great day walking with the Lord. Things went well on campus and three students Lonie, CJ and Burnella all prayed to receive Christ. 3 others, Aleena, Courtney and Kenia [Kenya] said they would pray later.
Lonie and Aleena [his girlfriend] were sitting in the MAC art center lounge/gallery on a couch and he had his arm around her. They are African American. She was wearing tight jeans with tears in them and had straightened longish curvy hair with highlights. He had a nylon skull cap on and had a thin bit of a mustache. They were good looking kids. They had been to church, which is typical of the African American students I talk to. They listened to me share the Gospel but they hadn’t known how God took away their sins. But at the end they said they wanted to be forgiven. I encouraged them to pray a prayer and Lonie did out loud. Aleena said she would pray “at home”. So I hope she will ask for forgiveness based on Christ’s work for her on the Cross. I told them I would keep them in my prayers and I’ll hope to bump into them again. I could only get them to take the booklets.
CJ was sitting by the doors out the back of the BIC building on the second floor. He had sandy hair, green eyes, wearing jeans and a t-shirt. He hadn’t showered or shaved this morning (or possibly yesterday either judging by his hair) and looked really serious. I was surprised he was willing to talk to me. He was a good-looking guy. It turned out he was going to a Lutheran church that: “Isn’t like a Lutheran Church”.” He had an average build. He described himself as an intellectual and was reasonably sure he would go to Heaven because “God promised that all believers would be let into Heaven.” The question is what do you believe and he didn’t know what Jesus had done to take away his sins. He patiently listened to the Gospel and said he would want to be forgiven. So I asked him, “When you pray for forgiveness, are you thinking you are a reasonably good person [he’d described himself as moral] and God is good so He will forgive you? Or have you been thinking Jesus died for you and are trusting in that?” “I’ve really been lost and confused trying to figure things out,” he replied. So I offered him a prayer he could pray, explaining it. Not taking the booklet out of my hand he read the prayer, praying it. He didn’t want a book to read, saying he had a lot already and I encouraged him to read the Bible, explaining it would feed the bond between him and God. He had the fruit of the Spirit memorized and seemed to get the idea pretty well. He took a Bible study from me but said his e-mail was really full, so I will keep CJ in my prayers and told him so. He said he would too.
I was pretty tanked by the time I came across Burnella sitting looking down from above the SRC revolving doors where the buses come. African American, she had straightened loosely-curled hair, full features, a black low neck t-shirt and black and white print yoga pants on. Nice looking girl. She was very quiet and didn’t say much, but every time I paused to give her an illustration she looked at me and when I went back to reading a Bible verse she hunched over the booklet I held between us, reading along. When I asked her one thing she wanted to do before she died she’d said, “Give myself to the Lord.” That seemed like a good sign that God had been moving in her heart and that energized mine a bit. She was sure she would go to Heaven, but she did not know that Jesus had died to take away her sins. But after I had finished going through the Gospel with her she decided she believed it, wanted to be forgiven and to prayed to receive Christ. I gave her a Bible study and the book Enjoying Your Walk with God to read and got her e-mail, explaining the Holy Spirit to her.
I bumped into some of my lost friends that I hang with and sat and talked with them for a couple hours about morality and stuff and then headed home.
So thanks for your prayers for the ministry on campus and for evangelism today if you got a chance God blessed the day and it was good.
In Him,
Bob Bollow
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