Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope you had a good day today walking with the Lord.  I had a good day sharing the faith with the peeps on campus and Joe prayed to receive Christ.  He was sitting with his coat on, on the second floor overlooking the revolving doors in the SRC near the Book Store.  He wore glasses and looked like he would be studying computer science.  Really nice guy, slim, wearing jeans and had a light brown kind of a mop head of hair.  He attends a Catholic Church, and when I asked him what he would tell God to get into Heaven he thought for a moment and said, “I did some volunteer work”.  This may not sound very impressive to you, but I would venture to guess most people could not say they’d even done that.  He later said, “I never did anything terrible.”  Put that way it seems like Heaven is less a reward than kind of a default position for just not having massively screwed up.  He was a good-hearted guy and I pointed out to him, when I explained Christ’s imputed righteousness, what I often say, “So you don’t go to Heaven because you’re good but because Jesus is good.  Otherwise it would be prideful to claim we were going to Heaven thinking we were worthy.”  And I pointed out he was trusting in his own goodness, thinking some volunteer work would help him get in to Heaven and he agreed.  When I asked him if he wanted to be forgiven, he said enthusiastically, “Yeah definitely that,” pointing to the circle where Christ lived inside him, forgiving him.  After he had prayed to receive Christ, I helped him to think of the mass as a time to remember Jesus had died for him and be grateful he was forgiven.  I walked him through a Bible study on the deity of Christ and explained the work of the Holy Spirit to him in living the Christian life.  He said he did not have a Bible of his own, but his dad did.  So I offered him one and he wanted one to read.  I also gave him a copy of More than a Carpenter.  He shook my hand and thanked me and we agreed to see each other in Heaven.

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

In Him,

Bob Bollow

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