Hey Brothers and sisters in Christ,
I hope you were blessed today and guided by the Lord. I had a good day today hanging for an hour of discipleship with one of the peeps and Neel prayed to receive Christ. Strangely there is not much to tell about Neel’s conversation with me since he didn’t have time to answer any questions. I saw him sitting on the sunken steps of the Science building lounge, dressed in jeans and a hoodie with a pale blue athletic team shirt of some kind partly hidden by his jacket. He looked to belong to some Mediterranean people group in background, if I had to guess, olive skinned. Good looking guy. He said he attended a Baptist church. He had a day’s growth of heavy beard and his hair combed back like a Ken doll does (sorry for the description but I’m pretty ignorant of haircut terminology). I asked him to do a survey and he was up for it but said, “Well how long will it take?” I told him about 7 minutes, but he didn’t have that long. So I offered him a booklet to read about it since the last question is “What do you think of Christianity as described in this booklet?” I superficially began to describe Christianity to him as a blood transfusion, where God wants to transfuse His life into you and live inside you. But first He has to make you his type. He has to take away your sin. Since Neel told me he went to a Baptist Church, I said, “So what is the thing Jesus does back in history that takes away your sin?” He struggled briefly and I realized he did not know the Gospel. But realizing I did not have much time, I asked him if he had 3 minutes to “understand this” and he said he did. So I quickly launched into the Gospel with him, going through bible verses. And he listened intently with his fingers over his mouth contemplatively. After I finished, he said he’d want to be forgiven and have God live inside him, trusting in Christ. I asked him, as I often do, if when he asked for forgiveness if he thought he’d be forgiven for being good or because he had been trusting in what Jesus had done for him on the Cross. I restated it a couple different ways. “It’s the second one,” he replied, and said he had been trusting that he was good and God would forgive him. I’m glad he went on to restate it because I wasn’t sure which option he had heard as “the second one” after restating it for clarity a couple times myself. I walked him through a prayer he could pray. “You could pray this right now if you like, and God would forgive you and begin to live inside you if you want. Just pretend I’m not here and God reads your thoughts.” He did then pray and I had just enough time to explain to him the work of the Holy Spirit in the Christian life. Then he was getting texted, I think, for his ride. I gave him The Bible Promise Book and he took off. It might have all happened in just over 5 minutes.
So that was good. I encouraged some Christians on security of eternal life based on Christ’s imputed righteousness and that was the day of conversations.
So thanks so much for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today if you had a chance God blessed.
In Him,
Bob
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