Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope you were blessed today walking with the Lord. We had a beautiful sunset. I had a good day on campus, though I had a hard time getting many peeps to talk to be before class. So I walked around afterwards, in the afternoon. Basically everyone turned me down again but Jermain, an African American student, talked with me and prayed to receive Christ.

I’ve had something of a problem with quite a few students this semester, getting them to answer some questions about God, as another campus group has been walking around doing spiritual student interest surveys without going through the Gospel with the students. They have talked to a lot of the peeps I have come across. These students have no idea what the Bible has said about eternal life in Christ, but have been inoculated from talking about it further. But hey, maybe they were never going to come to salvation and it is saving me some time. But it is hard to look at it that way, and I don’t. Jermain said basically the same thing when I talked to him. He had filled out some questions already. So I asked him if he had answered a question about what he would say to God if, after he died, God asked him why He should let him into Heaven. He said he hadn’t answered that, so I asked him if he’d like to know what the Bible says about how to get to Heaven. “Yeah, you can tell me,” he replied. Jermain was laying down on one of the cushioned benches in the hall of the BIC on the second floor. He had a beard and thin mustache and had his hood up on his red hoodie, wore black sweats and bright green running shoes. He went to a Baptist church. I sat on the floor beside him and began to tell him the Gospel and asked him what the big thing was that Jesus did to take away his sin. “The biggest thing?” he asked struggling. I said “Yeah, the big thing He did when he was alive on earth?” He finally admitted he didn’t know and couldn’t think of anything.  I explained the atonement to him and it didn’t seem like he had heard it before. He got a bit of an “Ah hah” look on his face, stroking his beard on his chin, when I explained Christ’s imputed righteousness to him and he said, “Wow.” He was a great guy, upbeat. Finishing up I asked him, “It seems like you haven’t put all this together before right?” “I never put the big picture all together”, he replied. “This changes my perspective, changed everything.” So I asked if he wanted to be forgiven with God living inside him trusting in what Jesus had done or if he thought something else. “Forgiven with God inside,” he replied. I walked him through the prayer then he could pray and he did quietly. Finishing he said, “I can keep this and pray it at night.” I agreed it was a good prayer to pray.  I explained the Christian life to him more and asked him if he had a Bible. “My mom’s got one and at church they have one [in the pew] and we all share it.” I offered him one of his own and he was glad for that and I wrote his name in it and the day he trusted Christ. I gave him the book, 20 Things God Can’t Do writing “By the Spirit” and told him about the power of God living inside out. I got his email to send him more stuff walking him a bit through a bible study fast as he got a phone call to meet someone. I got up to leave and he thanked me a second time, “Thanks a lot.” He said he might come to Bible study so I hope he will.

A girl Lissette was really interested and wanted to be forgiven but was not sure if Jesus was God so I gave her the student edition of The Case for Christ to read so I’ll pray for her to come in too.

So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for Evangelism today if you had a chance God was at work to bless our efforts.

In Him,

Bob