Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed walking with Him.  I had a good day on campus and Heyley, Brionna, Lexi and Dan all prayed to receive Jesus today.

Dan was the first guy I talked with and he was sitting on the hallway back to the lounge at the NW corner on ground floor of the BIC.  He was wearing a baseball cap turned backwards and had a shaggy beard, sandy hair and sharp features.  Looked like a good old boy if we were in the South.  I asked him if he died what he would say to God if asked why He should let him into Heaven.”Well, let’s see… that’s a good question.”  He thought more and said, “Let’s see,” again.  ‘”Cause I’ve tested my faith in many different ways.  I’m a firm believer in God and Heaven and I’ve done the best I could on earth.”  He thought he had about a 75% change of ending up in Heaven.  He was going to church every day of the week to show he was serious about Lent.  Lent begins tomorrow, so possibly he meant he intended to go.  I went through the Gospel and he seemed to have some “ah ha” moments, realizing how it all fit together, though he hadn’t understood the Gospel.  But the familiarity of it came back as I talked him through the Good News.  I tied the atonement into a symbolic view of the Mass that he agreed with.  I asked him if he wanted to be forgiven and he said he did and then began to say, “I made the leap of faith, believed in God, what other people believe is up to them.”  “Yes, it’s America, people are free to believe as they wish,” I said. “But the God you have chosen to believe in says He died for you.  Would you want to trust in that to be forgiven and have God’s Spirit living in you to have the strength to live the Christian life?”  He said he felt like he had never really trusted in that and had kind of just “pushed the button” of acceptance of religious practice.  “Not with your heart,” I replied.  “Right.” and he decided to pray to receive Christ.  He was truly grateful and relieved to think of himself trusting in Christ’s imputed righteousness.  “So I’m ok,” he stated about being right with God and I said he was.  He thanked me again.  I left him with a Bible study, The Bible Promise Book  and The Student Edition of The Case for Christ.  I’ll be praying for him.

I headed over to the PE building after a few hours of back and forth and had a couple good conversations.  I sat down with Heyley (Haley) and Brionna who were just chatting on the lounge couches upstairs by the workout area.  Heyley was a strawberry (wavy/curly/long) blonde haired girl in a pink jacket, cute, kinda tough kid.  Brionna had straightened black hair down past her shoulders coming down in waves out of a black baseball cap.  She had braces and was pretty, African American.  She thought she’d like to be a professional dancer of some kind. She was an athlete.  Heyley wanted to go to South Africa, saying her church took trips there.  She said she was Southern Baptist but her church was Charismatic.  Brionna had been to church when she was young.  When I asked them why God should let them into Heaven, Heyley said, “I spent my time on Earth very useful, I lived life.”  Brionna said, “I haven’t done much wrong, I don’t wanna go down below, that’s a harsh place.”  They were both reasonably sure they’d go to Heaven.  Heyley said 80% and Brionna said 75%.  Neither of them knew how God took away their sins.  I was going back and forth trying to keep them both engaged on either side of me and then Lexi plopped down with one leg through the donut shaped, ring table in front of us and began listening attentively.  She had chin-length hair, a white ball-cap with a black bill on and was wearing workout clothes, short African American, cute kid.  And that is literally all I know about her except she’s not a reader since after I later gave her a Book on Bible Basics she handed it back saying she honestly wouldn’t read it and I should give it to someone who would.  Well, the Church is filled with peeps who never read a book on Bible Basics and never will. Hey people are sheep.  Just as Lexi sat, (in God’s perfect timing) I began to explain the Death of Christ for their sins and His righteousness being to their credit if they were adopted into God’s family. “Ya marry a millionaire, ya got a million bucks. You get adopted into a Billionaire’s family you get to live in the mansion and drive the cars.  When God adopts you, you get the blessings of being in His family. The righteousness of Christ is a gift to you.”  Lexi interrupted with a question on Tattoos which I answered. She then let me go on.  In the end they all wanted to be forgiven.  I got Lexi’s name and shook her hand firmly and she said, “Damn Bob!”  teasing me about the grip, so I played that up a bit.  I opened a book for each of them and each prayed a prayer to receive Christ and be forgiven.  I gave them all Bible Studies to read but only Heyley wanted a Bible Promise.  They happily took the booklets.  I messed a bit with them some and left them to their day.

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

In Him,

Bob

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