Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed walking with Him.  I had a good day walking around campus.  Tristan prayed with me to receive Jesus and I went through the Gospel with two different Islamic guys on either side of the BIC building.  Burham from India and Muhammad from Pakistan.  Muhammad and I spoke for a long time and I gave him several pieces of information in pamphlet form as we touched upon their content.  He had taken a religion class and now was taking an Old Testament class.  I gave him stuff on why we trust the Bible records, 100 prophecies Jesus fulfilled and a track on Jesus in the Quran that I had also given Burham.  Both were friendly amicable guys.

Tristan was the last guy I spoke with.  I was pretty tired, still feeling a bit under the weather, but thought I would ask one more person as I headed toward the lockers.  He was sitting on the ground floor of the BIC building in a lounge looking at his computer and killing time it seemed until Basketball practice started at 3:30.  When he stood up at the end of our talking, he seemed several inches taller than me, maybe 6’5″s or so.  He had a mop of dark brown hair and hadn’t shaved for a couple days, showing where a sparse beard would come in.  He wore black athletic shorts and a black fleece pullover and high-tops.  He hadn’t been to church in awhile, saying he used to go to church with his aunt where she worked.  When I asked him why God should let him into Heaven he said, “You know, I have been thinking about this lately.”  He thought some more and talking about Church he said, “I’d like to get back into it… a church is a good thing to have. I think it is necessary and It’s important.”  When I asked him if he thought he had an answer to the question he said, “I don’t know.”  He didn’t have much hope he’d go to Heaven and gave it 55%.  As I went through the Gospel with him, I asked if he remembered at all how Jesus had taken away his sins and he couldn’t remember anything. But he tracked right along with the Gospel and so in the end I asked him if he would want to be forgiven for his sins, trusting in Jesus and have God living in him.  Thinking, he said, “Most people would want to do that but the question is after.”  He wondered about sticking with it and finding a church and I explained how the Holy Spirit living in Him would give him the strength when he asked to live the Christian life.  I showed him a prayer he could pray and asked if it represented what he wanted, “Pretty much, yeah, ” he replied so I asked if anything about it wasn’t true for him and he slowly read it again and said, “Nope.”  I asked if he’d like to pray and he said, “Yeah.”  And he quietly prayed to receive Christ.  There was a family Bible at home so I gave him one of his own, encouraging him to begin by reading in John and explaining the Holy Spirit a bit more in the Christian life.  I gave him a copy of The Bible Promise Book and a card for the Compass Church.  He said he’d email me and ran to practice.

So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today if you had a chance.  God truly led me and blessed.

In Him,

Bob

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