Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
Hope ya had a great day so far walking in the fruit of the Spirit. I had a good day of sharing on campus and Justis and Jazmin each prayed to receive Christ as their savior.
Justis is a basketball player at school. He had a chin beard and a baseball cap on backwards, good lookin’ African American guy. He went to Church regularly but believed he would go to Heaven, “‘Cause I’m a good person”. I walked him through the Gospel and he had understood it in some sense, though he had not understood imputation, and had not been trusting in Christ to save him, but his own effort to be good. He figured he’d only have a 50/50 shot at Heaven. I talked to him about how nothing he had done in life had been perfect. “Even when you made that perfect move to the rim and scored, it was just that move that went perfect, not the entire day and when you think about it you did it for yourself.” “Selfishness,” he said. “Right,” I replied. He wanted to be forgiven, trusting in Jesus’ Blood. I explained trusting in the work of the Holy Spirit to transform him and he took a Bible Study and a copy of Playing with Purpose to read on NBA stars. I also got his email to send him some stuff.
Jazmin was from a Mexican family background, short, about 5″2′, pretty. Long dark hair, almond eyes and a bit wider nose. She had been raised Catholic but her parents were not insistent she define her faith that way. She didn’t go to church anymore. She had not been trusting in Jesus either. When I asked her what she would say to God if He asked her why He should let her into Heaven she said, “I admit my sins but I hope that you can forgive me.” I explained to her the forgiveness of sins through the blood of Christ and she said she’d want to be forgiven and to trust in that. But instead of showing her the prayer, when I might show someone else, I went on to explain the presence of God by the Holy Spirit and His power and Him living inside her. Then I explained she could ask God for that and she said, “God is with me all the time already.” I agreed that He was with her and that the Bible said that (Paul basically says this in Acts 17:27) God is the Creator and with all of us, and she could say she had a relationship with God since everyone does. “Everyone has a relationship with God. The question is do you want to be IN a relationship with God. Where He lives inside you, is with you and has forgiven your sins based on faith. She saw my point then and I said, “God’s like a pretty girl. He just likes to be asked. You know what that’s like.” She laughed and said she got it, and decided to pray quietly to receive Him. I gave her a couple Bible studies since she did not want a book, and told her she had made me happy . We said our goodbyes and she ran to class.
I had a good conversation with an atheist girl, Gina. She was dressed all in black, cute brown haired girl turned off by Catholic Church stuff. I also talked about SED physics with her boyfriend and he thought he’d read up on it. She was softened a bit and took a copy of The Case for a Creator. So I’ll be praying for her and her boy friend, Michael.
So thanks for your Prayers for the ministry and for Evangelism today if you had a chance. God truly blessed.
In Him,
Bob
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