Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope you were blessed today in many ways.  I had a good day on campus and finally Peter came to pray to receive Christ. This, after navigating a potential mine field with Amber in the cafeteria. She was an agnostic black girl who turned out to be nice and complimented me for being respectful after I explained to her why all religions do not teach the same thing or even have the same concept of God, care about Him or believe the same thing about the good man and what he would look like. We share a bit of political insight too.  After that, I talked to Sam in the PE lounge, (looked like Bobby Vinton with blonde hair) a local boy who had lost his faith to Physics.  In the end, he thanked me for talking with him.  I recommended to him the work of Barry Setterfield [ Issachar Insight – Chuck Missler and Barry Setterfield ]

and the movie “The Principle” to bring him back to the Biblical world view.  So I will really pray God leads him to that. The physics from these two sources is world changing. http://www.theprinciplemovie.com/  A complete paradigm shift.

Peter was sitting on one of the step seats of the science lounge and I had walked all the way over there, grateful no one had wanted to talk to me as I decompressed from the other two conversations mentioned above.  He was a blonde guy with short side cropped hair and a brush cut on the top. Good lookin’ kid. He was wearing poly workout sweats with a phone bulging in the front pocket.  He was more than happy to talk and had a religious heart.  I asked if he ever went to church and he said “Every week.”  He said it was a hard question to know what he’d say to God if asked why he should be let into Heaven, but didn’t pause much before saying, “I’ve done all you’ve asked for. I’ve gone to confession.”  He was pretty sure that covered him, being 90% sure he’d go to Heaven.  But he was really interested in the Gospel and leaned in to listen attentively.  He broke in with something to affirm each point, usually “Right.” Though when I asked him, “What’s the big thing was Jesus did back in the day to take away everyone’s sin?” he was unsure. “I don’t know” he said. “He did a lot of things…”  I said, “Well here – it will probably come back to ya.” And I began to explain the Cross and the imputed righteousness of Christ.  He was visibly glad to hear it, but I could tell that in spite of his affirmations, it was novel.  “Well, it seems like you hadn’t really put this all together before” I asked. “I hadn’t put it together,” he admitted.  So I said, since he’d said he wanted to be forgiven, he could ask God for forgiveness with a prayer where God could forgive his sins.  “Like when you go to confession, the priest is telling you that God forgives your sins. He can’t forgive them {himself], he’s just a dude.” “Right he’s got the same problems I have” Peter said.  “Right” I replied.  He took the booklet from me and silently prayed the prayer I had explained, to receive Jesus, as I had offered he might do.  I then gave him a Bible study and the book 20 Things God Can’t Do.  That he was glad also to have. It was great talking to a receptive soul, when with the others I’d spent so long talking to, all I could get was amicable discussion and no visible penetration of the truth.  I asked him if he would like to get a bible study in his email, but he said looking at the book and the Bible study, “No this is enough.”  I have gotten that same response a few times before, after someone prayed who had been religious. They were holding in their hand more study related to the Bible than they had ever done before on their own, and it seems to them like it would last a long time.  And with the work of the Holy Spirit, as there are 100 Bible verses in the index in the back of that book, it should keep them for a bit.  Peter thanked me and I headed out.

So thanks for your prayers for the Ministry and for Evangelism today if you had a chance.  Bible study was well attended tonight and we had 8 peeps besides us. Good for COD at night.

In Him,

Bob