Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed.  I had another great day on campus. Megan prayed with me to receive Christ and Nick committed his life to Christ.  Also Lenell, a guy I spoke with last year who is a Christian, had told me his brother, Malik, was not living for God at all and had gotten into the gangs in the city.  I gave him a copy of Playing with Purpose, which is testimonies of players in the NBA who are Christians, to give to his brother who loved basketball.  He said his brother was completely changed by the book, is out of the gangs and out of the city and living for the Lord.  So that was great to hear.

Nick was sitting in the hallway in the BIC.  He was wearing a winter cap with a mop of curly hair poking out from underneath.  He was on the short side and wore sweats.  Clean shaven, nice looking kid, he seemed privately pretty religious though he didn’t go to church regularly anymore but only on holidays. He said sometimes he would go to church when he felt lost or didn’t know what to do and it would comfort him.  He said he would often pray privately in his room and had a Bible and said he found comfort that way as well. When I asked him what he would tell God if He asked why He should let him into heaven, Nick said, “If you look at all the things I’ve done there’s plenty of reasons not to let me into heaven.  But I apologized for them and never took advantage of a person.”  He did not know how God had taken away his sins, so I explained the Gospel to him and he took it all in as the hall filled with people.  He said he’d like to be forgiven, so I walked him through the prayer and he said yes to the question, “Is this the desire of your heart?” But he suddenly looked at his phone and realized he was late for class. It was a minute until noon. “I have to go to class, I’ll pray this later,” Nick said. I said that was fine, but asked him if he now believed Jesus was God and that he had died for his sins and rose from the dead.  “Yes, I do,” he replied.  “And do you trust in this to make you right with God?  I asked. “Yes,” he said.  So I quoted Rom. 10:9 “if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved.”  And said “So based on your confession to me, you can know you are going to heaven. But you need to say this to God and pray.” He smiled and said, “Ok”.  I gave him The Bible Promise Book and got up to leave.  “Thank you very much,” he said gratefully.  I said, “You’re welcome.” And we parted.

I was hanging around the PE building and some of the black girls I know who like me that I met last year called out, “Hey Bob!”  I gave a mock bow and they said, “Come over and teach us something from the Bible.”  This doesn’t really ever happen, but these girls really liked the stories I tell them. So I walked over to the half circle couch they were all sitting in. Emike (nice looking long straight hair and round glasses a bit wider nose and Clarke (very long extension braids to her waist, sharp features, pretty) were friends from last year.  Sitting next to them, Brionna was a girl who prayed to receive Jesus last week. I did not recognize Brionna at first because she now wore fashionable round glasses (like Emike) and had her hair straight up in sprouting pony tails instead of straight down out of a baseball cap. She has braces.  Lexi walked up in the middle, chin length hair, cute pixie face, short, straight leg slacks on and Megan sat across from me. She was a girl I had not met.  She was pretty, a little darker long hair coming down out from under a winter cap, yoga pants on, face a bit rounder than Clarke.  They are all attractive black girls and first they said they wanted me to tell them why they had problems with guys.  “You girls have problems with guys?  Pretty girls like you?”  I asked. That made them laugh and Clarke asked me again to teach them something. So I quoted John 1 to them, the first verse, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”  I said this was a name for Jesus from when He appeared in human form in the Old Testament.  “What?”  Clarke said “I don’t understand.”  So I explained the call of Jeremiah where he says, “The word of God appeared to him and then touched him on the mouth.”  And I reached over as if I was gonna touch Brionna on the lips but instead said, “Ha, but that would be creepy.”  And I pulled back and they laughed.  I explained there were places in the Old Testament where Jesus appeared as a man, before he was a baby and grew up on earth, as the Angel of Jehovah. I explained how it was Jesus in the burning bush that Moses saw.  I explained the Trinity to them a little bit. At one point Megan stopped me and said, “Wait, Jesus is God. I thought Jesus and God were separate?”  I realized then she didn’t know the Gospel, so I began to teach it to her.  I said, “Say someone finds out I’ve been talking to a pretty girl named Megan and they said ‘Yeah I know her. She said she talked to you. She’s a white girl with red hair and freckles.’  Then I said ‘no she’s a pretty black girl.’  Then you would know it was not the same Megan.  That’s just like if you say you believe in Jesus but do not say He is God.  If you describe Him different, he is a different Jesus.”  “Oh!  Clarke exclaimed, “I get that now.”  So I explained that Jesus was God and went through the Gospel with Megan. She wanted to trust in Jesus and that He died for her to forgive her. I walked her through the prayer and she prayed quietly to receive Christ.  I gave her a Bible then as her family had a Bible, but she did not have her own.  Clarke then said she wanted one, so I said I would have to bring her one later since I only had one with me.  I gave her and Megan the  Bible Promise Book and a Bible study to read.  I helped her find John 1 in the Bible, marked it and explained the Holy Spirit to her.  So that was great.  Lexi told her to read the booklet through and we talked about some other stuff that had happened to me. Some other black guys who walked up said hi to me and little by bit I said good bye and slipped out.

Anton then grabbed me and wanted to pray with me.  He’s a guy who prayed with me earlier in the year, so I gave him some counsel for a while, prayed with him, and headed home.

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

In Him,

Bob

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