Hey Brothers and sisters in Christ,

I hope ya had a good day and no ill wind was blowing by your house.  Today Josh prayed to receive Christ.

Josh has a rough-topped curly afro and dark rimmed glasses and the random facial hair of the young college man.  He was sitting in the hall on a couch outside the bookstore, and I asked if he wanted to answer some questions about God and stuff for the Bible Study group on campus.  He was up for it.  When I asked him what he would say to God if asked why He should let him into Heaven he said, “Right now?  I wouldn’t fully know what to say.  I’m a believer, go to church every Sunday.  But just me personally, I’m not fully right for Him yet.”  He seemed like he felt he wasn’t being good enough.  He listened to the stories I often tell explaining the Gospel, the imputed righteousness of Christ and his need to be perfect to get to Heaven.   As I went through the Gospel, he knew the story of Christ dying for his sins but he obviously hadn’t been trusting in that.  When I asked him if, when he’d done something wrong, if he had trusted that Christ had died for him to be forgiven or if he’d hoped he was good enough. He thought hard for a minute, saying “It’s kinda hard. I mean I know it (the story).”  “But you haven’t really been trusting?” I asked.  “Right,” he agreed.  “You can ask trust in Him through a prayer if you’d like now quietly in your heart,” I offered. He decided that the prayer I described for him was the desire of his heart after I went through it, and prayed to receive Christ.  That was great.  I explained the Fruit of the Spirit to him, and that living for God was first to ask to be transformed on the inside, not good works to transform us on the outside.  From the things he said as we’d talked, he was trying to earn God’s favor, saying about how likely it was he would go to Heaven. “I got a shot. Should be doing ok.” But now he trusted in Christ.  He happily took 20 Things God Can’t Do to read and a Bible study, giving me his email to send him some stuff.  I told him I’d see him in Heaven and he laughed with some real joy. That was good to see.

I went through the Gospel today with a Muslim student named JT, who was thoughtful and open. I gave him an evangelistic book I’d been given directed towards Muslims, which he said he’d like to have.

I gave the Gospel to a cute Filipino girl named Sam, who was struggling with the different religions she was encountering.  She came from a Christian background but hadn’t trusted in the name of Jesus. She took a copy of the student edition of The Case for Christ.

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

In Him,

Bob