Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
Hope you are having a blessed weekend walking with the Lord. I had a good day Thursday on campus, though it was cut short by an eye appointment (had a broken stitch in my eye from surgery they had to pluck out). But Danny prayed to receive Christ with me. He was sitting on the ground floor of the BIC building in a lounge on the back side of the 1st floor. He had a coat on and a dock cap, but he talked to me for awhile even though he was bundled up to head out. He wore skinny jeans, was a good lookin’ kid. He is from a Catholic background and goes to church regularly. He said he couldn’t tell God why He should let him into Heaven and felt like it would be selfish to do so. As I went through the Gospel I asked him how God took away his sins and he kinda guessed. “He forgives you?” I explained the work of Jesus on the Cross for him and His imputed righteousness telling him, “You don’t go to Heaven because you’re good. You go to Heaven because Jesus is good.” So I asked him if he would like to be forgiven and trust in what Jesus had done for him to forgive his sins and make him right with God. He said he would and prayed to receive Christ. He was a nice guy and into the NBA so I gave him a copy of Playing With Purpose to read and walked I him through a Bible study on Jesus’ claims to be God in the NT. I explained the work of the Holy Spirit to him and asking for the fruit of the Spirit to give you the strength to live the Christian life. I told him that God wanted a relationship with him and just like in a relationship with a girl, the thing he would want most is for her to believe him and him to be able to believe her. That is what God wants too. He wants you to believe Him, to have faith. I got his email to send him some stuff.
I hope the Gospel firmly took root in Danny on Thursday and God will continue to grow him up in Christ by His Spirit.
Thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for Evangelism yesterday if you Got a chance. God blessed the work, though my time on campus was shorter than I’d have liked.
In Him,
Bob Bollow
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