Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,
Hope you are having a great day walking with the Lord.   We had a very good day on campus at our table during the Student Life Fair, and  Irvin prayed to receive Christ and Jake committed to Christ.  We also made some good contacts, inviting peeps to the weekly Bible Study.

Irvin was interested in attending a Bible study and was checking out all the books, so I asked him if he was going to church.  He had shoulder-length, tight curly hair that was dark brown and was wearing a black t-shirt with the symbol for a comic book super hero called Deadpool.

He said he was going to church with his grandma down south a ways from school.   So I said, “You wanna answer the 50 million dollar Question?”   He said sure.   So using a version of the great evangelical pick up line for evangelists, I asked him what he would say to God if he died and stood before Him in Heaven and God asked, “Why should I let you in?”   He basically thought good deeds got him into Heaven.  So I said the Bible said something different and I walked him through the booklet I use and add to, giving him all the verses and tales I tell to explain them.   At the end he said he wanted to be forgiven for his sins.  I explained the prayer he could pray by faith and said he could pray it in his head right then, like no one was around, and he said, “In my thoughts?”   (looking to see if I wanted him to pray out loud) and I said, “Yeah” and stepped away a bit.   He had a big smile on his face when he was finished praying.   So I showed him all the various books on the table.   He did not have his own Bible so I gave him a NKJV I had and a modern translation of the NT telling him he could use it to look up a verse that the language was confusing in.  I gave him a copy of a bible study on the Deity of Christ and he took a copy of a book he thought he’d read and said he’d try to get to the Bible Study.

Jake had shoulder-length sandy hair  young face, tall good looking kid.   He had loose jeans on and a t-shirt and was kind of casually looking at the table, saying he might be interested in a bible study.   He said he went to church sometimes.   I asked him a similar version of the same “pick up line” question and he said something about being a good guy.  It was pretty loud in the lounge we were all in, though it is the size of a small gym.   I started telling him the Gospel then and then quoting him verses and asking him finally if he believed Jesus was God, had died for his sins and rose from the dead.   He said he did and so I asked him if he would want to trust in that to be made right with God and he said he would.   I came out from around the table showing him the booklet and explaining the prayer he could pray to ask God and accept His forgiveness.   He thanked me and since his body language had been like a guy who would bolt at any minute the entire time, I let him take it, asking him again and saying if he did trust in Christ that the Bible said that if he would confess with his mouth Jesus was Lord and God and believed in his heart God raised him from the dead he would be saved.   I encouraged him that the prayer was a way he could talk to God about it.   He took the booklet and a Bible study, so I will be praying for him in the hope he has truly believed on Christ.

We had some good conversations with some other students and hopefully the group will grow a bit for Bible Study.

So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and today for the table and evangelism.   God blessed us and it was a good investment of time.

In Him,

Bob

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