Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

Hey hope ya had a great day.  Things went great on campus and Britany and Omari prayed to receive Christ.  Britany was the first girl I talked to today.  She had shoulder length hair, loosely curled.  She is African American, wears glasses, looked older and professional somehow.  I almost did not talk to her thinking she was not a student, but once we began to talk she seemed her age.  She said she wanted to become a famous artist.   I reminded her many of them were starving during their lifetimes and she laughed.  When I asked her what she would tell God to get Him to let her into Heaven she said, “I have tried to be the best person I could be, believed in God my whole life and loved people that loved me.”  After she said that, Luke 6:33 drifted through my head, “And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.” She had not been to church since she was a kid but she was sure she would go to Heaven.  As I went through the Gospel she had not remembered it.  But I could tell she had begun to believe as I went through the Bible verses with her.  I asked her if she would like to be forgiven and she said she would and she listened as I showed her a prayer she could pray and then she prayed it silently.  “I feel so good just from praying that,” she said.  I gave her a Bible Study and More than a Carpenter to read and explained the Holy Spirit’s work in her life.  She gave me her email to send her some stuff and thanked me for talking with her and I said I would see her in Heaven.  She was really nice.

Omari was watching some kind of interview on his computer as I walked up and simultaneously texting on his phone.  He had a cap over his ears, had sharp features for an African American guy, bit of facial hair, looked kind of like Rick Fox who used to play for the Lakers only shorter and smaller.  But he said he’d answer some questions.  He seemed to be a Christian in his answer to what he would tell God if asked why he should get into Heaven.  “I believe everything I do is influenced by God and Religion and He’s my savior.”  He was less sure he was going to Heaven somehow though.  Just a 75% chance he said.  So not even a C-grade at a Big-Ten school.  I went through the Gospel with him and he seemed to know it in part.   But he turned off his interview to listen and took it all in.  I asked him if he would want to be forgiven and he said yes.  So I asked him, “When you are asking for forgiveness, what are you thinking?  That you are a good person and go to Church and God is good and will forgive you.  Or are you thinking that Jesus died for you and so you are sure you will be forgiven?”  “I’m thinking 2 things,” he replied.  “One that He is forgiving and Two that I tried.”  I pointed out that that was not why God let people into Heaven, but because Jesus had died for their sins.  It dawned on him then he had not really been trusting in Christ and I told him he needed to ask for forgiveness based on what Christ had done for him and trusting in that, He agreed and he prayed and accepted God’s forgiveness based on Jesus.  He’d said he’d like to have lunch with LeBron James, so I gave him the book Playing with Purpose on believers in the NBA and a Bible study, barely getting in an explanation of the work of the Holy Spirit as Omari ran for his ride.  But enough to explain how living the Christian life was done trusting in God’s power and it did not please God otherwise, as it done from faith.  He went to Rock of Ages in the city though, so I think that’s a good church from what I know of it.

Thanks for your prayers for the Ministry and for Evangelism today if you had a chance.  God was with me and blessed my time.
In Him,
Bob Bollow

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