Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed walking with God in Christ. I had a good day on campus and Nate and Michael each prayed to receive Christ as their savior.

Nate was sitting down the hall from the PE lounge on a bench, listening to his phone and didn’t want to talk to me, saying, “I just talked to some people upstairs about all this stuff.” He said he went to Calvary, a good church about 10 miles west of school. He was wearing dramatically torn up straight-legged jeans, kinda short, had a short beard and short-cropped dark brown hair, black t-shirt, soft eyes. So to try to get him to hear the Gospel I asked “Did they ask you this question: ‘You’re walkin’ 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?’ What would you say?” “No” he replied. “Well what would you say?” I pressed a bit. He wasn’t sure, so I went into an analogy of Christianity like a blood transfusion and said, “So God wants to transfuse His life into you with His Holy Spirit. But He has to make you His type. He has to take away your sin. So what takes away your sin?” “Blood,” he replied. So I asked “Whose blood?” “God’s blood?” he answered, but he wasn’t sure and suddenly his answer [he must have heard somewhere] didn’t make sense to him.  So I asked him if he wanted to know what the Bible said about how he went to Heaven and he said, “OK.” I went through the Gospel with him and he focused right in and tracked with it. And he wanted to be forgiven. At the end I said, “It kind of seems like you hadn’t put all this together before, right?” He agreed he hadn’t and I said that if he wanted to place his trust in what Christ had done for him, he could pray and ask for forgiveness. I talked him through the prayer, saying he could pray it in his head like I wasn’t even there. Nate took the booklet and prayed it and said, “Thank you.” By the end he had thanked me three times. I talked him through living a life asking for God help through the Holy Spirit, and I gave him 20 Things God Can’t Do writing “By the Spirit” in the front. I gave him a bible study as well. “Well, you are going to a good church so I’ll pray for until spring and then for a year after each night,” I said. He thanked me again sincerely and I thanked him for giving me some time and headed off.

I had about 40 minutes until my class on world religions started and I wanted to stay kinda at that end of the school, so I went to the cafeteria and found Michael, a black guy, at the end of one of the counters munching on a burrito (which sat and got cold once we began to talk). He was up for answering some questions for the bible study group. He had a very neatly trimmed mustache and beard in a narrow line from his ear down his jaw line and a short afro, wearing jeans and a powder-blue shirt. Real nice guy, warm, slightly round face. When I asked him what he would say to get into Heaven, he said, “Honestly I feel like I’m not worthy yet. There’s so much more to do. I’ve got a chip on my shoulder [to do it]. I’ve been good to others, been positive. But I can do so much more.” I went through the Gospel with him. Michael knew Jesus had died for sin, but he had not understood His imputed righteousness or realized he had been offered eternal life if he trusted in it.  He wanted to be forgiven, so I asked him, “So when you’ve asked for forgiveness, are you thinking, ‘God will forgive me because He is forgiving and I’m going to try harder not to do it again’ or are you knowing you are forgiven because Jesus died for you?  I know you knew the story, but have you been trusting in His work? Or is that something you still need to do?” He smiled and said, “I still need to do that.” So I offered him the prayer and talked him through it and he prayed silently to receive Jesus. So that was great. I gave him 20 things God Can’t Do, also writing “By the Spirit” in it and the date and told him he could remember that was the day he had gotten right with God. I got his email to send him some stuff and collected my things to go. He said, “God bless you, thank you.” And I blessed him back and headed to class.

So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for Evangelism today if you had a chance. God blessed again through prayer.

In Him,

Bob