Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,
Hope you have been being blessed. There was no school today so El and I met some of the peeps for lunch and I tromped around with them to estate sales as Ellen returned to work.  Got some wall-paper stripped at the end of the day for 3 hours.  But Wednesday Brian and Nick each prayed to receive Christ.

Brian was sitting in the MAC building upstairs at one of the bar height tables, looking down on the lounge.  He looked like Steve McQueen’s little brother, same hair cut and similar features and hair color.  He thought God would have to decide if he went to Heaven and wouldn’t know why he would be given eternal life.  He was raised Catholic but seemed disappointed that the Church had not answered his questions.  As we went through the Gospel, he asked me if he needed to confess his sins to a priest.  I explained things based on James 5:16.  After I had gone through the Gospel up to the death of Christ and His imputed righteousness he said, “I never knew that.”  He asked if he needed then to go to church to have his sins paid for.  I explained salvation by faith.  He wanted to be forgiven and prayed to receive Christ, but it was almost like he had never prayed before.  He asked afterwards who had written the prayer and I explained there was nothing magical about it but that what it said was what was important.  I told him he could write his own prayers and that some people journal their prayers and wrote them down.  We talked through some other questions he had that were not that unusual.  I gave him The Case for a Creator because he said he was into science, and a Bible study, and told him I’d pray for him.  We shook hands warmly and he thanked me.  After I had crossed over to another building I remembered he had said he only had a family Bible and I’d offered him one.  I walked back to find him reading The Case for a Creator and he seemed happy to get the bible and thanked me again.  Seemed like a nice guy.

Nick was sitting along the wall outside the cafeteria just killing time.  African American, he had a bearded chin and mustache and looked just a little bit like LeBron James, whom he said he’d like to play One on One against someday.  But maybe I just thought that because he mentioned Mr. James.  He had dark gray-black work boots on and a cap and hoodie on with a T-shirt.  His hair was in pencil-thin dreadlocks.  He went to a Baptist Church. I asked him why God should let him into Heaven and he said, “All the people I’ve helped.”  He didn’t seem to know the Gospel at all, but as I finished explaining how he could be saved by Faith in Jesus, His work on the Cross and resurrection from the dead, Nick said he wanted to be forgiven and he believed.  And he did pray to receive Jesus.  That was great.  I explained some more of the work of the Holy Spirit to him as I always try to do, and gave him a copy of Playing with Purpose to read and a Bible study.  I got his email to send him some stuff.  He was “Fly” by his own account and I think that was probably true, his jeans were randomly bleached and torn.  He had style.

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

In Him,

Bob Bollow
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