Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

Hope your day was blessed and you felt God near.  I had a good day sharing the faith and had some good conversations with students.  Nettie prayed to receive Christ.  She was sitting on a couch-bench in the upstairs of the Mac Arts building when I came across her.  She is a tiny cute kid, long brown hair and glasses, wearing yoga pants and a black long sleeved t-shirt–seemed like a sweet kid.  I asked her what she would say to get into Heaven and she said, “I’d say something about a chance, like you gotta give somebody one chance.”  She was not that certain she would go to Heaven (50%) though she had gone through the hoops in her Roman Catholic Church and been confirmed.  After I had gone through the Gospel with her she said she felt like you had to earn Heaven by doing good works.  I said, “There are a couple problems with that.  One is how do you know when you have done enough good works?  You may have told a lie but how often do you have to tell the truth for it to be enough?  The Bible never tells you, it just say you have to be perfect so how do you know you did enough?”  I explained that since she was not perfect she would have to stand before God admitting she had lied here and there or stolen an answer.  “What if you are driving too slow in traffic because you are just not paying attention and you just make the light but make the guy behind you misses it.  Then there is a traffic accident right after you go by and the guy is stuck there and it makes him late for work.  It is his 10th time so he is fired.  He goes home and tells his wife, his unemployment leads to the break up of his marriage and his kids turn into crack whores.  All because you stole his time.”  So little things you might think are not big sins might have caused a bad result.  Or even good things, like smiling at a guy and it is a weak moment for him and makes him lust after you and he starts obsessing and breaks off his engagement and it ruins his life.  I told her she would have to be all-powerful and all-knowing to know and do the “Good”.  All-knowing to know what to do and all-powerful to control the results of her actions so they would lead to good results.  I told her a Tolstoy story to illustrate it about an old man who lost his horse but it is kind of long to write out.  (If you want to know, call me sometime or ask me at a wedding or something.) But by the end of all this she said, “I see what you mean.”  So Nettie was persuaded she needed God’s help to do good things and to control the outcome of her actions, making them good.  So she decided to pray to receive Jesus as her savior so God could live inside her and she could live asking for help from His Holy Spirit.  I gave her the Student edition of The Case for Christ to read and a Bible study.

So thanks for your prayers for the Ministry and for Evangelism today if you had a chance.  God blessed and it was Good.

In Him,

Bob Bollow

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