Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,
            I hope your day was truly blessed walking in the Lord.  I had a great day talking with the students and Brooke and Rod prayed to receive Christ.
            It was a beautiful day today so I walked outside the buildings some and I came across Brooke, a pretty brown haired girl was wearing jean shorts and a long sleeve black shirt with Hollinger written down the arm.  She had sandals on, bling-ed long nails and long eye lashes that made shadows on the cheeks in the bright sunshine, sitting outside the BIC building on a bench.   I walked past her since she was looking at some papers, but another guy turned me down and as I passed her again she agreed to answer some questions about God.  She wanted to become a Nurse and change the world.  Brooke had attended a Methodist Church growing up and had faith of a kind.  When I asked her what she would say to God if He asked her why He should let her into Heaven she said, “Because I believe.  I’m faithful and loyal to my friends.  I’ve made a lot of good choices and bad choices, but I’ve learned from them and said I’m sorry and all that.”  She really thought she’d go to Heaven because of her behavior. “If you are sorry, but if you are rude and don’t care you know you won’t go.”  So little by bit I showed her Bible verses and helped her see that she needed to trust in the sacrifice of Christ, not having thought of Him before.   When I said, “So you don’t go to Heaven because you are good, but because Jesus was good,” she said, “Oh” realizing she’d not known that.  She wanted to be forgiven and trust in Christ, having Him live inside her to give her the power to live the Christian life.   So I explained the prayer to her and she prayed to receive Him quietly.  She took the booklet and I explained the work of the Holy Spirit to her a bit more by the Fruit of the Spirit.  She said she wasn’t much into reading but was up for taking More than a Carpenter.   She took a Bible study too and gave me her email for another one.  She was really nice and she seemed grateful to have learned about Christ.

            Rod was sitting in the Science building lounge a while later in the day at the other end of school.  He was from the Philippines and looked his nationality, with straight, dark, short hair and almond shaped eyes.  He had a blue polo-styled shirt on and was wearing green pants and white tennis shoes with a wisp of a mustache and some growth on his chin.  He’d gone to Catholic church some as a kid, but it had lapsed in his family of late.  His parents were both Doctors in the Philippines and were studying to be able to practice here.  I began to explain how knowing Christ was eternal life because we’re one with Him,  His Holy Spirit living in us.  “The Holy Trinity,” he put in and I agreed (realizing once again that evangelism is easier with those raised with some pseudo-Christian religious background).  When I asked him why God should let him into Heaven he said, “I haven’t done any severely bad deeds in my life.”   I explained how he had to be perfect to be in the presence of God in Heaven, and that nothing he had ever done was entirely perfect.  “No altruism,” he put in, seeming to agree.  I talked to him about the need for enlightened self-interest but that, “Yes, unless in a last moment of your life you threw yourself on a grenade to save your companions, you have probably never done something entirely selfless.”  I explained to him how, through the life blood of Christ, his sins were paid for and cleansed and the He died in his place.  Rod realized he had not been trusting in the sacrifice of Christ but in his own goodness, hoping God would be merciful, as when I’d put it to him that way he’d nodded.  So after I had talked him through everything and he’d said he wanted to be forgiven I asked, “So it seems like you really haven’t had a chance to trust in this before right?”  He agreed and so I talked him through a prayer and he prayed to receive Christ.  He was very grateful and I gave him a Bible to read and explained the work of the Holy Spirit giving him a card from Church since he hadn’t been attending.  I gave him a Bible study and got his email to send him some stuff.

            I had some other conversations with skeptics and believers that I think helped them today too.  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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