Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,
I hope your day was blessed today, walking in the Spirit. I had a great day on campus and Hannah prayed with me to receive Christ. Hannah was sitting in the BIC building in the second floor hall towards the east end, killing time on her phone. She has long brown hair past her shoulders and a sharp jaw line. Nice looking kid wearing jeans and a jacket. She attends a Roman Catholic Church. I asked her what she would say to God if He asked her why He should let her into Heaven she said, “Well, ’cause I’m like your child. I tried to spend most of my life spreading your message. I text my godson all the time to make sure he is going to church.” That turned out to be her sisters little 2 year old boy. Hannah knew the Gospel story and I thought it would turn out that she had been trusting in Christ’s death on the Cross to pay for her sins and save her. She had been sure she would go to Heaven. I gave her the option of believing and being forgiven with God inside her or something else. She wanted to be forgiven with God living inside her. I asked her if when things went wrong, if she thought she’d be forgiven because she had been trying to please God and He was merciful and she nodded, “Or” I continued, “have you known you would be forgiven because Jesus has died for you and you’re trusting in that? So are you trusting in Jesus or hoping in Hannah and being good.” “I think I am more just hoping” she replied. I told her she could begin just by asking God to forgive her based on Jesus and walked her through the prayer. She wanted to pray and did silently. So that was great. I gave her a copy of The Case for Easter by Strobel to read and she also took The Bible Promise Book to read verses from, though everyone had a Bible in her family. I gave her a Bible study to read as well and got her email to send her some verses and stuff. She thanked me and I headed out.
I had two good conversations with students today who were open to the Gospel and took books from me to read. Maria had shoulder length brown hair, pulled back in a band and glasses. Looked a bit Latina. She was sitting up on the third floor of the BIC Building on some hall chairs. She had gone to church as a kid and used to pray every night as a child, but was not sure what to believe anymore. I talked to her about fulfilled prophecy and she listened very seriously to the Gospel (though she described herself as funny), but she still was unsure as I finished. So I offered her a book, “She decided to read “The Case for Easter”. I gave her a pamphlet from Rose Publishing on ‘100 prophecies Jesus fulfilled’ and encouraged her to pray for God to give her faith. She felt like she had done that, so I hope talking to her was in part an answer to her prayers. I gave her a Bible study too. “Thanks for explaining all this to me,” she said as we parted. I told her she was welcome and I would pray for her.
Rachel had shorter reddish-brown hair just past her chin and a small, tight hoop piercing in her right nostril, pretty, wearing jeans and a t-shirt. She was nice and friendly but said she’d thought she’d done a survey for a bible study yesterday. That would have been Sunday so I think she meant before break. I asked her if they’d asked her the question, “You’re walking down the road and you get hit by a bus. So you’re dead. And you stand before God and He says, ‘Why should I let you into heaven?'” She didn’t think they had asked that, so I said, “Well would you like to know how to get to Heaven?” I thought she was going to say no, but she agreed and I launched into the Gospel with some illustrations and stuff as I ate my Kind bar. I quoted Bible verses to her and she was interested and wanted to be forgiven, but unsure if she believed Jesus was God. I asked her, “Well, you believe in God?” She nodded. I said “So do you think God can do whatever He wants?” She agreed He could. “So then He could become a man?” She nodded again. “So if He became a man, He would tell people the truth, right?” She thought that was true too. “So if you knew all the truth in the political season we are in right now and could expose all the candidates’ darkest stuff, what would they do to you if you started telling everyone? They’d probably get rid of you and kill you.” That gave her pause and she kept listening. So I said “What would God to next if He became a man, told people the truth and it got Him killed? Well, He is God, so He’d rise from the dead. And that is what happened. It makes sense if you believe in God, the rest could happen.” “It does make sense when you put it that way,” she said and seemed to enjoy the story of the Gospel. She liked to read, so after I walked her through a prayer she could pray, I offered her a book and she took the long version of The Case for Christ and a Bible study. A guy had sat down next to us some time along the way and said, “That’s a very interesting book.” “There ya go. That’s one endorsement” I replied. She thanked me, and as I got up to leave I told her I would pray for her. So I will be doing that, and for Maria too.
So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today if you had a chance. God truly blessed.
In Him,
Bob
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