to whom it may concern

this is an email my brother wrote to everyone at church.
i am so encouraged my heart feels like it’s going to burst.
(i changed the names so if you want my brother’s friends’ names to pray for them, just ask and i’ll email it to you)

Hi everyone. i just wanted to tell you guys about my friend Tom. He went to my highschool and is attending UCLA right now. For people in Titus (this is the campus ministry that the church I’m at has at UCLA, and in which my brother is involved), he came to bible study on wednesday. Well i just got back from talking with him and i was able to share the gospel with him through Pastor Chung’s nifty bridge illustration. (I highly recommend everyone to learn and memorize the bridge illustration if they haven’t done so. it covers every aspect of the gospel and makes it very understandable) He liked the bible study and he and his friend, Jerry, are planning to come back next week

He was raised up as a Catholic, but has stopped going to church. He is not very strong in his beliefs and admits that he doesn’t know much about Catholicism. He is a nice guy and is very genuine in the things he says. However, there were some things that he was struggling with.

1. i guess after they got back, they were talking about Christianity with another friend, Sylvester. Jerry brought up the point of how we can trust what the bible says if it is written by men.

2. He was also surprised to hear Pastor Chung call Catholicism Satanic. I think this really hit him hard and rightly so. He apparently thought that Pastor Chung was calling him a Satan worshiper and i kinda told him that everyone who isn’t following Christ is following Satan. We are either a slave to sin or a slave to righteousness. I also assured him that Pastor Chung was not attacking his character and went into how Pastor Chung was caring enough to not sugar coat the message.

Please be in prayer for Tom, for his salvation. That God will show mercy upon him. I really hope that we can see another convert this quarter at UCLA. thank you everyone and see you on Friday!!