Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope you had a great day walking by the Spirit. I had a good day on campus, and Nicole prayed with me to receive Christ as her Savior.

Nicole was sitting in the hall on the third floor of the BIC. I had gone up there first thing to drop off a form with our faculty advisor. She had brown hair that was pulled loosely back in a bun, some strands framing her face. She wore a pink fleece and skinny jeans with a tear in one knee. Pretty girl, long eyelashes. I asked her if she wanted to do a student survey and she said, “I think I already did one of those.” So I asked, “Did they ask you, ‘Say you’re walking 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 they didn’t ask that.” she replied. “I don’t know,” was her answer. “Well would you like to know how the Bible says you get into Heaven?” I asked. “Yeah,” she said. So I sat down and just asked her the questions in the survey. But when I asked her why she’d go to Heaven she said again, “I don’t know. I really have no idea.” She said she went to a catholic church often and thought she had about a 90% chance of getting to Heaven. So I began to explain the Gospel to her with Bible verses, and the righteousness of Christ imputed to her. She did know Jesus had died for her sins but hadn’t put it all together or trusted in that for forgiveness. She wanted to be forgiven and was thinking she was a good person who went to church so God would forgive her sins. So I offered her the prayer and she prayed to receive Christ. I explained that living the Christian life was “Inside out” compared with other religions. “In other religions you do good things on the outside and the deity is pleased with you and takes you to Heaven. Or the Universe is somehow pleased with you and you don’t come back as a cow. But in Christianity, you ask God to transform you on the inside and the Spirit transforms you into a good person and do good things.” I explained. I gave her Zwingli’s view on the mass as symbolic, saying she could remember, when she takes it, that Jesus died for her and so she can know she is forgiven. I got her email to send her some more stuff, and gave her a Bible Study and the book 20 Things God Can’t Do, writing her name and the date and “By the Spirit’s Power” in the front. I explained that if she was trusting in the righteousness of Jesus to be her righteousness, the likelihood she would go to Heaven is 100%.  Nicole was happy about that. I got up to leave and she said, “Nice to meet you.” And I said “Nice to meet you too”.

So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today if you had a chance, God blessed. Wednesday is a book table day to invite kids to come to Bible study.

In Him,

Bob