Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
I hope you had a great day walking with the Lord.   I had a good day sharing the faith and watched the Lord bring two students to Christ.   The first was a girl Jessie, who was sitting on a bench in the Science building in the 2nd floor hallway waiting for a class to begin.   She is a pretty black girl who had over a half dozen piercings in her right ear, straight shoulder length hair with some tinted strands and black pants and a long hemmed blouse.  She said she wanted to travel to Dubai someday and I told her there was a non-stop flight 17 hours from Panama.  She could go down and beach it for a few days and then head out.  She thought that would be great.  She is from a Roman Catholic Background and knew of Christ’s crucifixion.  When I asked her why God should let her into Heaven she said, “That’s a hard question.  I didn’t do anything to deserve to go to hell.”   I explained how she would have to be perfect to deserve Heaven and walked her through the Gospel, explaining Christ’s imputed righteousness to her.   She followed closely and when I asked her if she would want to be forgiven, trusting in what Christ had done for her, she gave a firm emphatic “Yes”.   So I asked her if she had ever asked God to forgive her based on what Jesus had done for her on the Cross, or if she had just been hoping going to Church and being religious would save her.   It was then latter, and she said she would like to pray to receive Jesus.  I showed her a prayer she could pray silently and she did.   I gave her a Bible Study on the Deity of Christ and More than a Carpenter to read.  I also explained the work of the Holy Spirit in giving us the power to live the Christian life and she seemed happy.  I invited her to the Bible study on campus, so we’ll see if she comes.

Sam was sitting in the MAC Arts building next to the Gallery space on the West side of the big lounge.   He was just listening to his phone waiting for a bus that stopped not far outside the building.   He is a volleyball player, over 6 feet by a few inches, slim with very short hair nearly shaved.   Kind of classic good looking athletic guy, baggy athletic shorts and a College of DuPage T-shirt short sneakers with ankle socks.   He said he went to the Bible Church in town.   When I asked him why God should let him into Heaven he said, “Right now in my life… He would have no reason to let me into Heaven right now.”   I asked if he thought he might get in on mercy and he thought he had an 80% chance.  I thought he might be trying to earn eternal life, so I began to go through the Gospel with him.   He didn’t finish the verses for me as if he knew them, but I could see it was familiar that Christ had died.   So after going through several verses and details I asked him if he had been trusting in the Blood of Christ, in His sacrifice on the Cross and imputed righteousness to go to Heaven, or if he had been trying to do good works.   He thought just a moment and said he’d been, ” …Trying to be good enough to get in.”   I explained trusting in Christ with some word pictures and he said, “Oh I see.”  And he wanted to be forgiven, trusting in the Work of Christ.   So I offered him the prayer he could pray and he did silently in his heart.   I explained the Fruit of the Spirit (which he had heard about) and relying on the Spirit’s power to live the life in Christ, walking by the Spirit.   We talked about some other Spiritual things and he said, “When I left home this morning my parents said, ‘Maybe you can meet some Christian people who will help lead you closer to God this year.’ And now I met you!”   And he grinned with a perfect smile.   I gave him a Bible study and Playing with Purpose to read as I walked him toward the bus.   I unfortunately talked too long as I made him miss his bus.   I offered him a ride, but he thought it was still coming as people were in the bus stop.  But I saw him in a lounge later where we have Bible study so I knew he’d missed it.   I offered him a ride again, but he laughed and thanked me and said his ride would be here in 22 minutes (looking at his phone).

I also chatted up some peeps I’d shared with last year.   I had a couple other conversations with some guys who seemed close, both wanting to take booklets (Alex, a big dude with a short ginger beard and Ed, white guy with dark hair, Baseball cap and sharp features, who said he wanted to think about it.  He took the book and occasionally went to a good church in Naperville) So I will pray for them for a while.

So thanks for your prayers today.  God heard and was faithfully leading me by the Spirit.

In Him,

Bob Bollow
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