Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,
I hope your day was blessed. I had a good day on campus planting some seeds and encouraging some believers. Tim prayed with me to receive Christ. He was sitting on the set of chairs outside the cafeteria, killing some time. He had on an NBA Champions hat (he later said his Grandma had sent it to him), jeans, cross-trainer shoes and a Robert Morris College sweatshirt. Tall, long legged guy. He kind of looked like the classic American with a day’s growth of beard on him. When I asked him why God should let him into Heaven he said, “I know I wanna help people. The reason I’m going into Psychology is I wanna be a therapist to try to help people.” He had gone to Church when he was younger, but his relationship with his father had broken down for some reason, (it seems like he left them). He went to a nondenominational church before that. I’m not sure how much he knew of the Gospel, but he listened politely as I explained how his sins were paid for and Christ’s righteousness imputed to him. I asked and he wanted to be forgiven and have God live inside him. I also asked him if he believed Jesus was God had died for his sins and rose from the dead. He thought for a second and said he did. So I asked him if he would want to trust in that to be forgiven and he said, “Yeah I would.” I walked him through the prayer and said he could pray it quietly in his heart. He checked to make sure he needn’t pray out loud and prayed silently. So that was great. I gave him a Bible because he didn’t think he had one. He said he liked the NBA, so I gave him a copy of Playing with Purpose. I had explained how Curry (one of the best shooters in the NBA right now) took thousand of shots to get that way, but that Christianity was first asking God to transform us on the inside and then living that way on the outside. Not rehearsal but transformation. I also gave him a book to help him investigate the Bible called Bible Basics and a Bible study. I effectively left him with a handful of books and a Bible study, telling him I’d pray for him. He seemed to be something of a dad at times to his 2 younger brothers so I told him I’d pray for him about that and headed out.
So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today if you had a moment. I got some seeds planted too and God blessed.
In Him,
Bob
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