Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope you were blessed today.  I had a good day on campus and Nezlly prayed with me to receive Christ. Also, I gave The Case for Christ to 2 girls who were sympathetic to the Gospel but were just unsure Jesus was God (Sam and Sara).

Nezlly was sitting on the corner of a row of chairs on the first floor of the BIC on the southwest corner where I use a locker.  I hung up my coat and saw her looking at her phone with a coat on and her back pack on her back.  I had to go to bathroom, so I went a few steps down the hall and prayed that if she was sitting there when I got back I’d talk to her.  She was, and was willing to answer some questions for the Bible Study Group. She had jeans on and very long, wavy-brown hair, pretty girl.  She went to a Catholic Church and had recently asked her priest for a good readable Bible to buy. “I was going to go to Barnes and Nobel to get the one he recommended.” she told me.  She wanted to “help people less fortunate than her” and when I asked her what she would say to God if asked why He should let her into Heaven she said, “I wouldn’t want to brag to Him about all the good things I’ve done. I feel like no one is 100% a good person. Maybe He’ll have me do a task for it, to work for it. I don’t know.” She was interested in the Gospel as I explained it to her, and quoted and read verses to her. She asked me some things that might differ between Catholic teaching and other churches and I explained some of it to her and said it depended upon the priest. “I have heard some who believed just what the Bible said and nothing more,” I said. She thought she might have a 60% chance of going to Heaven. When I explained imputation to her she said, “Wow” and expressed agreement with much of what I said as I spoke. I asked her if she’d like to be forgiven, having explained living the Christian life by the Spirit and she said, “I’d want my forgiveness through Jesus.” So I offered her a prayer, helping her see it was a way of committing herself to God working in her and living through His power. I said she could pray the prayer in her head, like I was not even there, and God would hear her thoughts.  She took the booklet as I looked down and prayed to receive Jesus. I explained that when she took the Mass, she could remember she was forgiven, as the bread was symbolic of His body and wine His blood and that Jesus had died for her sins. I ended up giving her a Bible and writing her name in it and the date. I don’t know if she was still going to buy one, as I told her it would be fine to have two of them to compare how they said what a verse meant. I gave her 20 Things God Can’t Do and wrote “By the Spirit” in the front, reminding her about living the Christian life “Inside out.” And I gave her a Bible Study. She stood up to go and thanked me warmly. I said she was welcome and I would be praying for her.

So thanks for your prayers for the Ministry and for Evangelism today if you had a chance. God truly blessed.

In Him,

Bob