Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed.  I had a good day on campus and Alexander prayed to receive Christ.  He was sitting in the hall of the BIC building, wearing a grey V-neck viper pull over, grey sweats cut off to make shorts and blue Adidas with white stripes on his feet.  He had short brown hair and a slight mustache.  He reminded me of Tony Stark, the character on this TV show I have only seen once or twice called “Agent Carter”.  (The actor’s name is Dominic Cooper.)

Alexander said he was raised Catholic but now went to a Christian church.  He is the second person I spoke to this year who prayed to receive Christ with this backstory.  In both cases, I think the Church they attended rang more true to them but too rarely preached the Gospel as a commitment to trusting in the blood of Christ in His sacrifice. And they simply continued to believe in their own good works.  (Will was the other student like this.)  When I asked Alexander if he died, what he would say to God if asked why He should let him into Heaven? He said, “I lived life the clean way.  I don’t know… something along those lines I would hope.  What would you say to that question?”  “Well, I’m a Christian.” I said.  I asked him the likelihood he would go to Heaven and he said, “I don’t think I would say.”  Leaving it up to God, I think he meant.  I said, “Yeah that’s ok. A lot of people would say that.”  I began to explain the Gospel to him like a blood transfusion, where you have to have blood that matches your type. We have to become God’s type because He wants to transfuse His life into us.  But there is sin in our lives.  So God takes away our sin and then we are perfect and holy inside and we match God and He can live inside us.  Alexander couldn’t remember how his sins were taken away, but seeing the Cross in the booklet I then pulled out, he said, “Oh Christ died.”  “Right,” I said, “but there is more to it than that.”  I explained the imputation of Christ’s righteousness and that we don’t go to Heaven because we are good, but because Christ was good and that he needed to trust in that.  As I finished, Alexander said he would want to be forgiven, but felt like it would have to come at the end of his life as he would sin again.  I said, “Yes, you will, but when you ask God to forgive you based on Christ’s sacrifice and righteousness, the Holy Spirit enters you and seals you.  You become a New Creation and sin cannot destroy you in the way it once could.”  He saw that God would change him and decided to pray to receive Christ. He prayed aloud, sitting next to me, crossing himself to begin and finish.  So that was great.  I asked him if he had a Bible of his own or a family Bible and he said his mom had one he could use. It was kind of worn out.  So I gave him one. He was grateful and thanked me a couple times and shook my hand as I left him.  He said he’d email me if he had any more questions.  I also gave him a Bible Study and The Bible Promise Book.

I encouraged some other Christians today and got some good work done. Thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today if you had a chance.

In Him,
Bob

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