Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

Hope you had a great day walking with Jesus.  I parked my truck facing the sunshine and was grateful the cab was above freezing when I got back to it.  And Jade prayed to receive Christ on campus.  She is an African-American girl, cute kid, long wavy hair and pink boots that looked like UGGs.  She had on a black fleece and yoga pants with a Nike swoosh on the hip.

She was sitting on the second floor of the PE building doing pretty much nothing and didn’t really want to do a student survey.  It seemed like she was just being lazy though, so I asked her, “Do you know how to go to Heaven?”  She hesitated and so I asked, “Do you wanna answer just one question?”  She said ok so I told her my name and got hers and I asked her, “Say you are walking down the road and you get hit by a bus so your are dead. And you stand before God and He asks, ‘Why should I let you into heaven?’ What would you say?”  She thought for a second and said, “Because I deserve it.”  I explained, “That is not what the Bible says.  Do you want to know what it says?”  She said she did and I started talking her through the Gospel, telling her stories and stuff to help to illustrate it.  She had no idea how God took away her sins.  I talked about Jesus imputed righteousness to her, explaining it was like credit in a class given to give her an A, though she was getting a zero.  “So you don’t go to Heaven because you are good but because Jesus is good,” I explained.  I asked her if she would want to be forgiven for her sins and she said she did.  So I asked her if she believed Jesus was God and had died for her sins and rose from the dead.  She said yes, so I walked her through the prayer asking her if this was what she wanted and she said yes.  I said she could pray it in her head like I wasn’t there and I sat down where I had been kneeling next to her on the floor.  She turned to me and asked, “So I say it out loud?”  I said ” No, God can read your thoughts.  You can pray it in your head.”  So I watched as she prayed and she got a big smile on her face handing the booklet back to me.  I talked her through the work of the Holy Spirit ,giving her Gal. 5:22,23 to read, telling her she could keep the booklet.  I gave her a Bible study and explained some of it to her.  I got her email to send her more stuff.  She took More Than a Carpenter from me to read too, so that was good.  She goes to a church regularly.  She thanked me and I told her I would pray for her.

I had a couple other good conversations with students today, one who was searching for God.  Jon had a hard time believing. A self described Mexican, speaking of his family; “We are Mexicans and my mother is very religious.  She really loves God.”  He had done some drugs and had some strange spiritual experiences and felt God was telling him to stop.  I agreed and warned him about it, talking to him about things the Bible said about the spiritual world.  “This is blowing my mine right now,” he said.  He had been looking for a sign from God to give him faith.  I explained the Gospel to him and that faith was a gift from God and he should pray and ask for it.  He agreed to that and was going to begin reading the Bible.  I suggested that my finding and talking to him was probably the sign he was looking for and he seemed to agree to that.  He was very interested to learn the Gospel and I gave him The Case for A Creator.  We had a great talk.  I also went through the Gospel with Robin, a guy raised in a Unitarian background.  His family used the church for social reasons he said.  I gave him The Case for Christ and he seemed really interested to read it. Both seemed grateful to talk

So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for Evangelism today if you had a chance.  God really blessed today.

In Him,

Bob
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