Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed walking with the Lord. I got tied up in conversations with several people I knew on campus and only got to go through the Gospel today with 2 people. One guy was a Christian, and Shanice prayed with me to receive Jesus.

Shanice was sitting alone at a set of tables, eating a salad, in the big Student Services center Lounge where we have Bible Study.  She had a V-neck t-shirt on and a button blouse pulled over it. Her straight hair was pulled back tight upon her head back into a pony tail. African American, she had an oval face and pretty skin. She was nice and went to a Christian Church. I asked her what she would say to God if asked, “Why He should let her into Heaven?” She thought for a minute with a “Hmm…” so I wrote that down and she said, “I’d say more than that.” And I laughed and said I was just kidding.  She laughed too and then said, “‘Cause I believe in God.” She thought she’d have about an 85% chance of going to Heaven.  She listened closely to the Gospel as I presented it to her and knew Jesus had died for man’s sin. At the end she wanted to be forgiven, so I asked her if, when she asked for forgiveness she was thinking she’d been pretty good person and God was merciful and forgiving or if she’d been trusting in Jesus. At first she thought it was a little of both. “I think when you do something wrong you try to do something to make up for it,” she said. “Yeah to try to balance things out. But you really can’t do that,” I replied. She agreed. “But there are times when things happen [for your benefit] and I know it had to be God,” she said. “I’m not really asking you that,” I replied. “You are right that God is with you. Everyone has a relationship with God because He is their creator, but not everyone is in a relationship with God where He lives inside them because they are forgiven, trusting in Jesus.” She thought about that and decided she had never really trusted in what Jesus had done on the Cross to be forgiven. So I offered her a prayer to accept God’s forgiveness and explained it to her, talking her through it. I told her she could pray it silently like I wasn’t there and she said, “I was kind of praying as you read it,” but she took it from me and prayed. I explained the Christian life, living “inside out” to her and gave her a Bible Study and the book 20 Things God Can’t Do. She liked the book and thanked me and was happy. I stood up to go and shook her hand and said “Nice meeting you.” She said, “Nice meeting You!” with an exclamation on the you. So I was really glad to have talked with her.

So that was my day.  Tonight we had Bible Study and an Islamic guy Micheal who has been coming heard most of a presentation on Islam.  He took the notes and asked for some outline pages I had on the Quran from Jay Smith, who is a polemic debater at Speakers corner in London. He wants to develop an apologetic for these things, but the notes from the Bible study were comparative facts with Christianity for the most part. Hopefully Jesus will be able to break through to him when he sees the weakness of the Quran.

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

In Him,

Bob