Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed and you walked in the Spirit. I had a good day and Ruben prayed with me to receive Christ. During the rest of the day, a girl Stephanie, who was really searching, gave me some time. I talked her through a lot in the PE lounge and gave her The Case for Christ student edition. And another guy Donovan was close to praying, but had to run for his ride and thanked me. I gave him 20 Things God Can’t Do. I talked to him in the hall in the BIC building, so I hope I’ll find out he trusted the Lord. Two Roman Catholic girls, Maidy and Kim (both were attractive Latina girls), one in the Culinary building and the other in the hall way of the BIC, said they’d tell God about their works to get into Heaven. Then they changed their mind and said they were trusting in Jesus after I went through the Gospel with them. That happens almost every day. I think these students are coming to faith in Christ (kind of finally putting it all together) but it is tough to tell if something changed when they don’t pray with me. And I am asking them an unfamiliar question, so maybe they are right. I always show them the prayer, suggesting they could use the booklet to share their faith with a friend, which I of course hope they will do (and they themselves might pray later). After I read through it and the line, “Is this prayer the desire of your heart?” I say, as if they were sharing it with someone else, “That’s what you believe right?” Maidy & Kim both said “Yes.”  So hopefully some students come to have a genuine moment of faith that way if they had not yet been trusting. Both girls thanked me when we parted. I gave Kim a Bible Promise Book, as she only had a family Bible but did not want to take a Bible from me.

Ruben, a good looking Roman Catholic guy with a light mustache and a goatee, (he also looked Latino) was sitting at a table on the edge of the science building lounge looking down on it from the 2nd floor. I asked him if he’d like to do a student survey on what he thought about God and stuff. But like many often say each day, he said he already did one. [Other Christian groups at school (one that used to be called Campus Crusade among them), do a survey asking questions about religion and never go through the Gospel. I often find students who don’t want to talk to me about God because they think they already did with someone else. I’m not sure why groups do this. Ironically enough it is keeping some people from hearing the Gospel by giving them a religious survey. Crusade records how many “spiritual conversions” they have, so I guess that’s the point for them, so this number is increased in their paperwork.] I chatted with Ruben, asking him if they asked what he would say if he died and stood before God and God said “why should I let you into Heaven?’ “No, they asked me if I went to church, why I went to church and where I went to church,” he replied. “Well would you like to know what the Bible says about how you get to Heaven or not so much?” I asked. “How long will it take?” he asked. “5 or 6 minutes,” I replied and he agreed. I went through the Gospel with him and Ruben wanted to be forgiven for his sins. I asked if he was trusting in Christ when he asked to be forgiven, or if he was going to church and trying to do the right thing and hoping that would be enough to be forgiven. He said, “I was just trying to be a good person.” He wanted to be forgiven for his sins with God living inside him and he prayed with me to receive Christ. I walked him through Zwingli’s representational view of the mass and explained walking by the Spirit. I gave him 20 Things God Can’t Do, writing his name and the date, saying that he could know that was the day he had gotten forgiven by God. He took a Bible study and I told him I’d keep him in my prayers. He kind of apologized for putting me off initially, saying he thought it was just going to be more of the same. But the Lord had moved in his heart to hear.

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

In Him,

Bob