Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

Hope you had a great day walking with the Lord.  I had a good day on campus and Rene prayed to receive Jesus.  Chris and Brandon committed to Christ and Matt committed to Christ saying he would pray later.

Rene was sitting on the 3rd floor in a lounge just one floor up and down a bit from where we meet for Bible Study.  She had a pink Chicago Fire t-shirt on and gray yoga pants on with some kind of pink patterned trim up the sides.  Light brown hair, pretty, no makeup, athletic looking, nice kid.  When I asked her what she would say to God to let her into Heaven she said, “I don’t know.”  She went to a Methodist church and wasn’t sure how her sins were taken away.  I think I might have just put her on the spot a bit, and the story seemed to come back to her a little as I went.  But then even liberal churches have probably mentioned that Jesus died (and possibly for sin) at some point.  I asked her, after I had talked through the Gospel with her, if she’d thought about Jesus dying for her sins or had she thought she might be forgiven because He’d died for her or conversely because she was good and consistently religious.  She thought about it and said with some hesitancy, “A little of both.”  So I said, “Sometimes I’ll put it this way: Everyone has a relationship with God because He is their Creator.  But not everyone is IN a relationship with God, where they have trusted in Him to forgive their sins and He lives inside them.  So that is what I am asking you.  Would you like to be forgiven and be in a relationship with God?”  She said she would and so I walked her through the prayer and she prayed to receive Christ.  She said she was studious, so I offered her a book.  She chose The Case for Christ to read.  I explained the work of the Holy Spirit to her through the fruit of the Holy Spirit and taught her a bit from a Bible Study on the Deity of Christ.  She gave me her email to send her some stuff.  As I got up she shook my hand and thanked me, so that was great.

Matt had talked with me before (I think at the book table we’d had) but I hadn’t gone through the Gospel with him, though I’d given him a book.  He’s from a Lutheran background as a kid but did not go to church anymore, though he’d been on mission trips in HS.  He was wearing jean shorts and a t-shirt, had a short beard and short light brown hair, glasses.  He’d enlisted and was headed to boot camp soon.  His dad was a carpenter and we talked about the trades some and then I began to talk to him about the Gospel and quote verses and told him some stories.  He believed the Gospel and said, after I asked him, that he believed Jesus was God and trusted in Christ’s sacrifice for his sins to forgive him, but hadn’t before thought about it.  He had to get to class and said he wanted to pray later.  So I asked him to email me if he’d done so and offered to keep him in my prayers.  He was grateful for talking, so I am hopeful he will give his life to Christ.  He took a Bible study and the booklet with him, so please pray he comes into the truth, or has already.

2 other guys, Chris a Polish Catholic guy with a slight European accent (sandy hair, chin beard, shorts) and Brandon a Black guy (3” afro, good-looking guy, bright smile, full features, jeans on) in the Methodist Episcopal church committed to Christ today.  They were just sitting in the hallway on the second floor in chairs one seat apart and I don’t think they knew each other.  I started talking to them about groups on campus and the homosexuality issue and went through the Gospel as I did.  I showed them the prayer and left them with Bible studies and booklets.  As I left, I asked them if they believed Jesus was God and died for their sins (and both said they did) and then if they wanted to trust in His death and resurrection to be forgiven for their sins.  They said they did and I added that was really what the prayer I had shown them was about.  So I hope they were moved into faith.  I really felt the Spirit in me while telling them the Gospel.  Both of them really seemed to desire the truth.

So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today if you had a chance.  The Lord really blessed the work.

In Him,

Bob

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