Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,
Hope ya had a good day walkin’ with Jesus.  I had a great day talkin’ to some peeps and Christian, a good lookin’ black guy with a slight under bite and an easy way about him, prayed to receive Christ.  He was wearing skinny jeans and gray old-school styled sneakers with gray laces.  He had an inch and a half afro and his cap turned around backward.  He said he’d been looking to get back into church lately and had tried a few the last couple months.  When I asked him why God should let him into Heaven he said, “Because I believe.  Isn’t that what most people would say?”  I said, “Actually most people would say, ‘because I’ve been good.’  “The problem is you can’t be good enough.  Just like the problem with saying you believe is ‘what do you believe?'”  He grinned and said, “Yeah.”  I began to go through the Gospel with him and he agreed with every little point.  I actually assumed he was a Christian and knew the Gospel, but when I was finished and he said he’d want to be forgiven.  I said, “Well then the question is:  Have you been trusting in what Jesus did for you on the Cross or just in your own moral goodness, that you were a good person and God was Good, and hoping you’d go to Heaven?”  (He had said, as we began talking, he thought he had a 50% chance of going to Heaven).  At first he said he thought a little of both.  That would put him in the category of many peeps that go to church and meeting me was just a reminder of what he needed to be trusting in, but as we talked more he finally said he had really just been hoping he was good enough to go to Heaven.  So I showed him a prayer he could silently pray and he decided to do it.  I gave him the Student Edition of The Case for Faith and a Bible Study to read and explained the Holy Spirit to him.  Then he said he couldn’t come to Bible study when we had it, as they lifted for football.  He was a pretty big dude, half again of me.  But he said, “Is there a time we could get together and just study the Bible?”  I said sure and if he wanted he could give me a time.  I’d send him a Bible study if he gave me an email address and we could set up a time.  So we’ll see if that works out.  I gave him a Bible study and taught him some things about the Holy Spirit and growing in Christ and we shook hands and I headed out.

I bumped into a couple of my peeps that I pray for then, (in a corner lounge where they often sit.)  Bee, who trusted Christ praying with me 3 years ago, and Victoria who I had gone through the Gospel with last week.  So I asked her if she’d prayed and she said yes that she had “talked to God about it last night.”  So that is great.  She told me her mom used to put her shoes under her bed so when she went to get them in the morning she would be on her knees and remember to pray.  So if her mom has been praying for her that will help her walk.

So please pray for Christian and Victoria (who received Jesus on time release from when I spoke to her).  I took Bee and Namra (a muslim Indian girl I know) and Victoria out to a late afternoon lunch then (they are all BFF) and we talked about a lot of stuff for about an hour and a half at a Thai place in Wheaton.  So I will try to get Victoria a Bible and pray for her even more.

In Him,

Bob Bollow

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