A man grabs Bruce's hand in a restaurant, crying, and says, 'Sir, would you pray with me? I don't want to go to hell.'
The episode opens with a brief description of the Fellowship Tract League's global reach: 5 billion tracts, 200 countries and territories, 90 languages, all distributed free since 1978. Pastor William Burroughs is identified as the regular Wednesday speaker, while this Thursday edition features Bruce DeLange sharing personal evangelism stories. A listener letter from Africa is read from a man named Ikey, who writes that he was saved through tract number 110 and asks for prayers and more Christian books and tracts. DeLange then tells the first story, set in a Texas restaurant where he was dining with the Rochester family during a meeting. He noticed three Spanish-speaking men sit nearby, retrieved his Spanish-language tracts, and approached them. One man in a yellow shirt spoke a small amount of English. DeLange gave each man a different Spanish tract and returned to his seat. He and his companions then watched all three men read the tracts, passing them around when finished. When DeLange walked past on the way to the dessert bar, the English-speaking man grabbed his hand with tears in his eyes and said 'Sir, would you pray with me? I don't want to go to hell.' DeLange prayed with him in the restaurant, and the other two then held up the backs of their tracts, showing they had signed a decision indicating they trusted Jesus as their Savior. DeLange presents this as one of three people saved through the tracts in that encounter. The second story is set in the Woodlands Mall in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where DeLange describes approaching six young men aged approximately 16 to 20 who were standing at a counter. He told them he could show them how to know they were going to heaven, facing initial skepticism including heckling from one and doubt from another. He used the verse 1 John 5:13 as his primary text, asking the group whether they believed the Bible was the word of God and whether God could lie. All six said they believed the Bible was the word of God. DeLange gave each a gospel tract, stepped back to allow them to read the prayer on the back, and when he returned, all six said they had prayed and asked God to save them. He closes with a theological reflection: the ability to approach strangers boldly comes from a daily prayer to be filled with the Holy Spirit rather than from personal confidence.
