Go Tell America

This is the Truth Network. How ambitious should we be about the gospel of Jesus Christ? How hot is hell? How glorious is heaven?

How beautiful is the truth of a Savior who came and died for us? And how then ambitious should we be in sharing the gospel? How ambitious are you Let me turn it back. Let me look in the mirror. How ambitious am I in sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ?

I'm Stu Everson. This is Truth Talk Live, and I am so glad you're here. And we are going to sit down with a man who has a storied resume in football at the highest level, and he has gone on to be an evangelist. This guy is ambitious for the gospel. So we have Exhibit A, on the line with us, and he's coming to North Carolina, to Mount Airy, North Carolina, to do a huge crusade. So all of you in the southeastern United States listening to Truth Talk, I hope your ears perked up. All of you listening across Ohio and the Rust Belt and in Utah, all of our friends across Virginia, I hope your ears perked up, too, and I hope your prayer nodules and your prayer sensors are perking up, because God's about to do something. I know you're mighty in Mount Airy, North Carolina, but you might say, why do we need another evangelistic crusade? Let's just stand our holy huddle and let's just kind of share with our neighbor. Why do we need to bring in these big hitters?

And there are some major big hitters coming in, so let's put them on the hot seat. Let's bring them on the show. Evangelist Rick Gage, God bless you, brother.

Thanks for braving the airwaves here. Well, Stu, after I heard you're older, I'm ready to get saved again, buddy. Well, the altar call.

We've got to wait a little bit. You're going to invite a lot of you to get saved here in a couple weeks. It's an honor to be with you. I was in your office there many years ago, and I love your family, love your dad. I ran into your dad many, many years ago at Adrian Rogers' funeral.

I got to meet him for the first time, and then he introduced me to you. So from afar, you've been a friend for many years, and we appreciate your heart and your ministry up there in North Carolina. Well, thank you, and we're so grateful for what you're doing, although some may take issue. They may think, what is a guy doing booking these big old football stadiums, civic centers, college sims, gyms, bringing out these Christian artists, making all this noise, and sharing the gospel? I mean, some folks might say, Rick, they might say, that's not my style.

What is he thinking? You know, just kind of go about your business. Tell us why you're so ambitious, and why you're making all this noise, and why you're coming to North Carolina. Well, I believe it's because the gospel is the only message that will change a man's life. But we're coming to North Carolina there in Surry County, and just across the state line, as you well know, is Virginia. And there's a church up there in a small community in Cana, Virginia, that's been bringing their students to our Go-Tel student camp there at Liberty University over the last three or four years. And our summer camp ministries had a huge impact, not just on the student ministry of that local church, which happens to be called Hope Community Church, but it's had a huge impact on the entire congregation. And they had already been praying, they had already been praying for a large-scale evangelistic outreach event, and we met with them last November, and pitched the vision of bringing all the Bible-believing churches together in that part of the world. We're calling it the Blue Ridge Go-Tel America Crusade, and we just said, hey, let's get as many of the Bible-teaching churches in that area to come together in unity for one purpose, to reach every unsaved person in the Blue Ridge region. And that was their heartbeat, that has been their prayer and their vision, so the ball, Stu, began rolling for this large-scale evangelistic campaign last November. We have made about ten trips into Mount Airy and that region over the last, you know, eight, nine months, preparing for this Crusade. We had the honor to be with Dr. Billy Graham in his Crusade in Philadelphia in 1992. We spent two or three days with their evangelistic team that week, and T.W. Wilson, who was Billy's right-hand man at that time, told us in a hotel banquet room, he said, if you guys are going to be involved in large-scale evangelistic campaigns, there's two things you must have. One is leadership. You've got to have the right people leading this large-scale campaign. And then he said number two is preparation.

And by the way, prayer is part of preparation. So we have got strong leadership, and we've been preparing for this campaign now for nearly nine months, and the kickoff, as you know, is September 8th through the 11th, and we're going after every law sold in the Blue Ridge region that we can for the glory of God. Wow, and you've got pizza parties, you've got big-time speakers come in. We're going to talk all about that, what all is involved in this thing. We're going to invite everybody to get involved.

Everyone can play a part. Someone needs to send a check to support this thing. It ain't cheap to do these things, but they're making a big splash, and if you've got a question for evangelist Rick Gage about this methodology, if you've got an issue, let's get it out. If you have any suggestions, or if maybe your life was changed at an evangelistic crusade like this, you may just want to give this pastor, this evangelist, an attaboy on the air.

The phone number is 866-34-TRUTH, toll-free 866-348-7884. This is a big deal, friends, and this is something that's just, what's fascinating to me, what's encouraging is, Brother Gage, you mentioned Big Stu, my dad, who, he went to a big crusade as a young, early teenager to Greensboro, North Carolina, from the foothills of Virginia, just outside Mount Airy, and that's where he really had just a powerful encounter with the Lord that was a real turning point in his life. And he talked about that quite a bit, and he talked about how there's just something about those events, there's a concentration of the Holy Spirit working, a lot of prayer. And here you are coming back to his roots, you know, right there, you know, Uncle Ralph put us all on the radio, and Cousin Kelly's still up there at WPAQ, WSYD, and they're promoting this crusade. And all our relatives, 98-1, this is so exciting. Will you tell us what's involved in this when we come back? We've got to take a quick break. We've got evangelist Rick Gage talking with us when we come back. How ambitious are you about the gospel? If you've got a question, if you want to make a comment, 866-34-TRUTH on Truth Talk Live after this quick break, don't touch that dial.

More coming up. Truth Talk Live! You're listening to the Truth Network and TruthNetwork.com. Okay, these are some big dates to remember for all of you across North South Carolina, Virginia.

Mount Airy, North Carolina, also home to Mayberry, September 8-11, 2024, just a few weeks away for you listening live. You're going to be a part of a powerful event that involves a star-studded cast of some powerful evangelists, athletes, just really, really encouraging time, answering the questions. Why am I here? Is there a God?

What happens when I die? Led by evangelist Rick Gage with Go Tell Ministries, Go Tell America. Who is Rick Gage?

How would you answer that question, sir? Well, Stu, I grew up in a Christian home. My father, Dr. Freddie Gage, who went to be with the Lord in 2014, he grew up on the north side of Houston, Texas.

He grew up, was a victim of a broken home, dysfunctional family, never been to church in his life, was involved in gangs and drugs and alcohol and crime and prostitution, you name it. And he and my mother, I think he was 17, my mother was 15 when they got married, and she had never been to church in her life and grew up in a dysfunctional home and victim of a broken home, etc. And two Baptist laymen out of the Melrose Baptist Church there on the north side of Houston went out knocking on doors one day and led my grandpa Clarence Gage to Jesus. And the Melrose Baptist Church was having a revival, and they brought in an old-fashioned evangelist by the name of Dan Vestal Sr. And my grandpa, who had just got saved, led to Christ by two laymen out sharing the gospel in the neighborhoods and knocking on doors, he went to my dad and said, Freddy, I want you and Barbara to come to this church revival. My dad laughed at it, and my dad said, I ain't going to no church revival.

My grandpa said, yes you are. And my grandpa grew up on the Houston Ship Channel, and he lived in bars and fights before he got saved. And to make a long story short, my dad and my mom both ended up going to that church revival on a Sunday night. The evangelists got wind that Freddy was in the service, and the thought was if Freddy Gage would get saved, maybe the whole north side of Houston might get saved.

That's how much influence my dad had with that underworld crowd. He preached the gospel, gave the invitation, many responded to the call of God, but my dad's in the back with my mom, had his hands gripped on the back of that pew. And they don't teach this in seminary, Stu, but the evangelists left the platform, and he walked all the way to the back of the auditorium where Freddy was standing. Tears were streaming down the cheeks of the face of the evangelists, and he leaned over and said, Freddy, why don't you come and give your life to Christ tonight?

And one of those tears, Stu, fell from his cheek and hit the back of my daddy's hand. And when that tear hit the back of my daddy's hand, the Spirit of God invaded my daddy's heart, and my dad slipped out, my mother right behind him, and they went down to that altar, and they got on their knees and said, oh God, be merciful to me, a sinner. That's how my daddy got saved, and it wasn't long after his conversion experience that he started traveling with the evangelists who preached the night that he got saved, and he was sharing his testimony, and he went back to the crowd that he used to run with, and started leading them to Christ, and it became evident that God's hand was on Freddy's life, and he answered the call to be an evangelist.

And he spent about 50 years on the sawdust trail, traveling all over the world, conducting evangelistic campaigns and crusades and revivals, etc. So I've often said, Stu, if anybody should have been a champion for God, it should have been me. I grew up in a Christian home, my father was a nationally known evangelist, had a godly mother, brought up in Bible-believing churches, been surrounded, you know, growing up being surrounded by great men of God, so I've often said if anybody should have been a champion for God, it should have been me. And one Sunday morning, Stu, when I was about eight years old, we lived in a little town outside of Houston called Friendswood, Texas, and we attended the little First Baptist Church there in that little town, and one Sunday morning I walked down the aisle during the altar call, the pastor leaned over, shared a few words with me, prayed with me, handed me off to a lady who had a clipboard with a card on it, she helped me fill out that card, and then after the service, I was standing up there at the front, and people came by and they said, Ricky, we're so happy for you, we're going to be praying for you. I showed up that night with an extra change of clothes, and I went through what's called water baptism. So for nearly 18 years of my life, I professed to be a Christian because of what I did when I was an eight-year-old kid. I did okay for a while until I became the age of a lot of the kids that we speak to now across the nation in our crusades and our school assemblies and summer camps, and just to be very frank and very honest, Stu, there wasn't anything different between me, this preacher's kid, and my classmates and my teammates.

You may say, well, what do you mean? Well, I went to the same parties they went to, I would cuss like they would cuss, I would drink beer like they would drink beer, I'd party like they would party, I'd sin like they would sin, I'd smoke dope like they'd smoke dope, but guess where I'd be on Sunday morning? I'd be in church. And that's where I lived my life all the way through my high school years, and then I'd go off to college. I'm on a four-year football scholarship, and Stu, when your kids go off to college, and they're 100 miles, 200 miles, 300 miles away from home, Mom and Dad's not there to knock on your dorm room door on Sunday morning and say, hey, Rick, it's time to get up, get ready for Sunday school in the church. Man, you can sleep in when you go off to college. And for four years, Stu, I slept in on God. Had no desire to get up on God's day and go hear God's man preach God's book to God's people, because that wasn't where my heart was at.

My heart was full of the world, my heart was full of sin, my heart was full of self. And so I get out of college after playing four years of college football, all I know is, you know, football. So I go into the coaching profession, and here I am now climbing the coaching profession ladder thinking that someday I'm going to be the next Nick Saban.

And for the older generation, I'm going to be the next Tom Landry. But I'm coaching at Texas Tech University. In fact, our head football coach was Jerry Moore.

He was the head coach at Texas Tech, and as you know, he was the head coach for about 20-plus years up there at Appalachian State University. Yeah, legendary. Yes, sir.

Legendary. So anyway, my dad called and said, Rick, our good friend, evangelist James Robinson, is going to be preaching in the church up there in Lubbock. Why don't you go here and preach? And I said, Dad, we're in the middle of recruiting. I made him sure I'd be in town next weekend. He said, well, son, if you're in town, I'd like for you to go hear James preach. And I'd heard James preach before.

I was a junior high kid, went to one of his stadium, Crusades in Pasadena, Texas. And to make a long story short, that following Sunday night, I went to the Trinity Church there in Lubbock, Texas. I was late getting to the service. I don't know if you've ever been late going to a church service, but I was late getting there. And I just kind of slipped in and sit way in the back, you know, where all the religious people sit in our churches. And the place was packed out to capacity. I mean, standing room only.

When's the last time you was in a Sunday night service in a local church and it was standing room only? Well, that was the picture that Sunday night that came to hear James Robinson preach. And he preached a powerful, penetrating sermon on the subject of repentance.

And God used that message that Sunday night, January 15, 1984. Well, tell us what came out of that when we come back. Now, we want to hear the rest of the story, like Paul Harvey says, on Truth Talk Live.

We've got a surprise special guest coming on with us that you're going to love, but we've got to take a break. Folks, stay tuned. Listen on the Truth app. If you can't hear us on your station, stay tuned. We're Truth Talk Live and how this man became an evangelist and what's happening soon in your area.

You're listening to the Truth Network and truthnetwork.com. How does a man go from a rebel rouser, party animal, roughneck, big-time athlete to an evangelist? When in souls, Proverbs 11 30, the fruit of the righteous, the tree of life, he that winneth souls is wise, and he's coming to a neighborhood near you. Been all over the country, crisscrossed this country, this globe, sharing the good news of Christ. He is evangelist Rick Gage, and his ministry, Go Tell Ministries, is coming to Mount Airy, North Carolina, and they're coming. And there's a bunch of pastors that have gotten together.

Let's go back to another pastor who's very excited this morning, who wants to be a part of it. They're taking financial contributions. You might pastor a church in Dayton, Ohio, but send these guys a couple grand to help reach souls in North Carolina, so you'll be able to meet someone in heaven one day because of your generosity.

They're trying to raise the funding. They've got my buddy Austin Kavanaghs, the world-renowned weatherman, who's now a pastor up in that area, in this area, the foothills of Virginia up near Mount Airy, Dobson. He's a great man of God. All kinds of friends like that are involved, and we're pushing it hard at all of our family's radio stations. Cousin Kelly's blowing the whistle up there, sounding the announcements on WSYD, WPAQ, and Cousin Brian, and Cousin Debbie on WBRF. Classic country, 98.1, and we're promoting it across the Truth Network.

Rick Gage, a lot of people are spreading the word on this, a lot of people are excited. We caught you mid-sentence telling us how you went from being kind of halfway in, kind of a Sunday-only Christian, kind of nominal, and suddenly you're on fire for Christ, spreading the Gospels and the Vandals. Tell us what happened, what triggered and set you on this ambitious crusade for souls? Well, it was the convicting power of the Holy Spirit, Stu, and I was in that James Robinson church service that Sunday night in Lubbock, Texas, and when that altar call was given, it was as if the Spirit of God said loudly and clearly in my heart, Rick Gage, you've had many chances to get your life right with me, and that was true.

And if you reject my call again on your life, if you reject my call on your life again tonight, you'll have no more chances. And Stu, I believe with all my heart, if I would have left that service that night, not doing business with Almighty God, and being killed on the way home, or OD'd on cocaine in my apartment, this preacher's kid would be in hell today. And if there's one thing that I'm grateful for, I am grateful for the mercy and the patience of Almighty God. Because the Bible teaches, Stu, in 2 Peter 3, 9, the Lord is long-suffering. He is patient toward us.

He's not willing that anyone perish, but that all come to repentance. And when that altar call, when that altar call was given that Sunday night, I made a beeline to that altar, got on my knees as a 25-year-old football coach weeping and sobbing with a broken heart, with a repentant heart. I was like a thief who just got caught robbing a bank. I just surrendered and said, God, here's my life. I'm giving you my heart, I'm giving you my soul, I'm giving you my life tonight. Whatever you want to do in and through my life, I freely give you my heart and my life tonight.

And really, that was the attitude of my heart, Stu. That was the night that Rick Gates got right with God. That was the night that my name was written in the Book of Life. And I left that service that night, a new creation in Christ. I went home to my apartment, called my mom and dad, shared with them what God had just done in my heart, called my three brothers who happened to be all three ordained ministers of the gospel. I told them what God had just done in my life.

Man, they all rejoiced. I picked up my dusty Bible sitting on a shelf in my apartment and stayed up till 3 o'clock in the morning reading the Word of God. And for the first time, the Word of God became life to my soul. And the next morning, I walked into the football building there at Texas Tech and I began to share with a lot of those coaches what God had just done in my heart, went out to the weight room and told our strength coach what God had done in my life, because he was a dynamic, on fire man of God. He walked his talk. And I always kind of kept my distance from Mike, but I wanted Mike to know what God had just done in my heart.

And man, he gave me a great big old hug and prayed with me in his office, and then introduced me to a Bible study that he was involved in. He was involved in a Bible study with a group of men who had a passion for the Word of God, they had a passion for lost souls, and he said, Rick, I want you to get plugged in. I want you to start attending these Wednesday morning Bible studies. I said, Mike, you tell me when and where I'm there.

I'm all in. He said, Rick, we get together every Wednesday morning at 3 AM. I said, 3 AM?

You guys take this stuff serious. Well, guess where I'm at the following Wednesday morning at 3 AM? I'm inside of a home with a group of men who had a passion for the Word of God, they had a passion for lost souls. It wasn't long after that, Stu, I left Texas Tech, started traveling with my evangelist father, and it was the first time I was on the inside of his ministry, and really began to understand what he had been doing all these years as a traveling itinerant evangelist. But I still had an itch to get back into coaching, and so I'm putting out feelers and working the phones, etc. And Liberty University had just hired a new head football coach in the spring of 1984, and I flew to Lynchburg, Virginia. My dad, Freddie, was the first Southern Baptist evangelist to ever preach in the pulpit at Thomas Row Baptist Church back in the late 60s. In fact, Jonathan Falwell, who's the chancellor today of Liberty University and the pastor there at Thomas Row Baptist Church, he was saved under one of my dad's meetings up there back in the 70s.

But anyhow, I flew up there to Lynchburg, Virginia, interviewed for the running back job, and the new coach hired me on the spot, so I moved from Texas to Lynchburg, Virginia, and coached there for two years, and during those two years, Stu, I lost ambition and I lost the fire for coaching. And I was right in the middle of Dr. Jerry Falwell Sr.'s worldwide evangelistic ministry. He was building a Bible college, he was touching the world for God from a little town called Lynchburg, Virginia, and that passion and that vision captured my heart, and so God made it clear to me, he was calling me, and I'll tell you what Manly Beasley once told me in his home in January of 1986, because I wanted to know for sure, how can you really know God's called you to preach? How do you really know God's called you to the ministry? Because my dad would always say, son, if you can do anything else, do it, because he wanted to make sure it was God calling you. And Manly Beasley said, Rick, if God's calling you to the ministry, you will be miserable doing anything else.

And boy, was he ever right. So I resigned from coaching there at Liberty. Dr. Falwell gave me a scholarship to go through their seminary, which I did. That was in 1986, and we've been on this sawdust trail, traveling all over the world, trying to do all that we can to help advance the Kingdom of God, and what Billy Graham did for over 70 years in the major cities and large venues all over the world is what God's called us to do at Rule America. We believe that people in small towns like Mount Airy need Jesus just as much as people in big towns need Jesus.

And the problems we have here in the Atlanta, Georgia area, you've got the same problems right there in Surry County, North Carolina. So we're honored to come to this part of the state and partner with all the pastors and lay leaders and churches in that part of the country to come together in unity to do the one thing that's dear to the heart of God, and that is reach lost souls for Christ. To God be the glory.

I love it. That's the voice of evangelist, Rick Gage, Go Tell Ministries. He went forward in a crusade, and he literally did what the name of his ministry is, taking Christ's words literally, Go Tell Everyone. And he's passionate. He's coming to North Carolina, Mount Airy, to be specific. He'll come to a place near you, and we're going to hear some details about that event. But we've got a caller. D. Wayne is on the phone. Let's put him on. D. Wayne, now you say you want to—this is an interesting caller—you say you know about this guy, you say you knew his daddy.

I don't think that's possible, sir. Go ahead with your call. Oh yeah, I knew his daddy. I had him preach at Liberty.

I knew his mom. I had the joy of taking them several times from Lynchburg over to Roanoke and just hearing their stories about a guy named Rick Gage. And Stu, you know me, with Date the Word, I can't let the day of July the 9th ever go by without thinking about Rick Gage, because that's the verse that says we must let us go and tell. Go and tell.

And if we don't go and tell, we have failed. Rick Gage, D. Wayne Carson here. How are you, sir?

D. Wayne, I'm doing great. Stu had told me that y'all have been connected now for quite some time, and you're living there in that part of the state of North Carolina, but I was telling Stu about how you and Rob Jackson, how God greatly used y'all's ministry back in the day there at Liberty to impact those Champions for Christ, and no telling how many lives have been changed and the impact that's been made for the calls of Christ because of the ministry y'all had together there at Liberty University. Man, good to hear your voice. Good to hear what God is doing with you all these years. We were privileged. I'm telling you, to be able to work under Dr. Falwell with what you said, I loved it, the vision.

I just wrote a thing for Liberty alumni and said what was so impressive about being at Liberty, and I said we were with a man who had a vision to reach the world. Hey, we gotta take a break. Dr. Carson, I think you and I have a date in Mount Airy in a couple weeks, and we're going to talk more with Rick Gage. What a blessing, what a reunion!

How about that? More coming up in Who's Gonna Be in Mount Airy. What do you hear? The guest speaker. You're listening to the Truth Network and truthnetwork.com I can't believe I'm even saying these words to all these people in the same sentence. What do Don D. Costin, the president of Liberty University, a two-star general, a major chaplain, Miller Gibbs, a standout Appalachian State football player, grandson of Joe Gibbs of Joe Gibbs Racing, Blake Gross, Avie York, major worship leaders, Tony Nolan, Ken Freeman, evangelist, and my friend, evangelist, Passion for Christ, former college football coach and standout player, Rick Gage.

What do they all have in common? They're all going to be in a massive facility in a beautiful open-air space in Mount Airy, North Carolina, September 8th through 11th with a powerful Go Tell America crusade where you can invite your friends to hear some wonderful speakers, but to hear the gospel. Rick Gage, some of these people may be hearing the gospel for the first time, and you're doing something that I just absolutely love. You're inviting people into a relationship with Jesus Christ to come repent of their sin.

Is this true, sir? That's exactly what this outreach event is all about. We have learned it's a lot easier to get a lost pagan to come to a neutral site venue, whether it be a football stadium or colosseum, or like this Veterans Memorial Park there in Mount Airy.

It's easier to get a lost person to come to a neutral site venue like that than it is to come to our sanctuaries at 11 o'clock on Sunday morning. Jesus said in Luke 14, 23 that we, the church, were to go out to the highways and the hedges and compel them to come in so my house, heaven, might be full. So we're doing all that we can to help the churches and the spiritual leaders, the people of God up there in that Blue Ridge region, to reach the laws. The scripture says in Luke chapter 15, there's only one thing that causes heaven to shout, and that's when a sinner repents of their sin. And Bible studies don't cause heaven to shout. I went to three Bible studies after I got saved, going to church doesn't cause heaven to shout.

Listen, the only thing that causes heaven to shout is when a sinner repents of their sin and places their faith and trust in Almighty God. So that's the whole purpose of this outreach. We've been told that some 70 plus percent of that area is unchurched.

But it's not just that area, Stu, it's all over the nation. We have 72 million Gen Z'ers today in America. In fact, my daughter, Anna, works for the North American Mission Board, and her boss is Shane Pruitt, who is the next Gen leader for the North American Mission Board. He told me not long ago, he said, Rick, we've got 72 million Gen Z'ers in America. He said 57 million of those 72 million do not have a personal relationship with Christ.

We call that a mission field. So we all believe, and you know this to be true, the urgency and the need to reach the Lord has never been greater. Amen. And you're bringing all these people together. And to go to this event in Mount Airy, North Carolina, at the big Veterans Memorial Park, you're talking about September 8th through 11th.

That's just two weeks away. And you're doing a Veterans Night, you're doing a Youth Night, you're doing all these things. It's got to be, what, 50 bucks a head to get in there, Reverend Gage, Evangelist Gage? 50 bucks, 100 bucks a ticket.

Talk to me now, what can we do? Can we get a discount, or what are you... The Gospel's free, but it's free.

Just like going to church on Sunday morning at 11 o'clock, they don't charge you to go sit in that sanctuary. So we do have some great leaders that will be with us that week. You mentioned Don D. Costin, he's a great man of God. He spoke at our camp this past summer. And like you said, he is a two-star general. The local leadership want to have a special emphasis one night of the four-night campaign to honor our military and our veterans.

I love that. So Don D. will be with us on Monday night to share his story. Ken Freeman will be speaking one night. He was saved in a Freddie Gage local church crusade many, many years ago.

Come on! Incredible evangelist, incredible man of God, incredible communicator. Tony Nolan, who grew up on the other side of the tracks in Jacksonville, Florida, will be with us one night to share his story. And then I talked earlier today with Miller Gibbs, and first time I've ever talked to him in my life. Man, I have fallen in love with this young man's heart.

He has been working now with his grandfather's company called Joe Gibbs Racing. He'll be sharing his story on Youth Night. That'll be Wednesday night, September 11th. So we've got a power pack lineup that week. We just need the people of God to bring their lost family members, their lost friends, their lost classmates, their lost teammates, their lost neighbors, their lost co-workers. Bring them. Go pick them up and bring them. Go buy them a T-bone steak there at 13 Bones in Mount Airy and bring them to the service where they can hear a clear presentation of the gospel all four nights of that campaign.

Okay, it's coming up. Now, you know, we brought a character witness in to make sure that everything this mighty man of God is saying is true, and Dr. Duane Carson, you know this man, you know his dad. Give him a quick shout-out before we get back to our wrap-up with Brother Gage.

Dr. Carson, how about all this stuff? Well, there's no question with Rick Gage and all these guys that are lined up. They're going to hear the precious message of the gospel, the truth that every man is lost, every man is in need of a Savior, and they're going to hear what will change not just their earthly life, and he will change their earthly life, but it's going to change most importantly their eternal life. And I hope that not only will we have people now starting to pray for this week to happen, praying for souls to be saved, but we'll start having people weeping, weeping for people to be saved. We've got to see a revival in this nation.

We can't have 50-some million millennials not saved. How about that? Hey, Dr. Carson's hosting next Wednesday on Truth Talk Live, so Doc, maybe you can interview a couple of these other cast of characters. How about that? We'll work on that, Brother Gage.

How about that? Yes, sir. On the national show here. Maybe get Gibbs in here and get Cost to just even do a quick phone, and you know, all of our folks listening in Lynchburg on 93.7 FM in Roanoke, 101.5 FM. We've got folks listening all over Richmond, Virginia on 97.7 FM, Dayton, Toledo. So we've got to spread the word, and there's a lot of people that love this work. Hey, Doc Carson, thanks for popping in, man. We're so grateful for your ministry to date the word and your friendship to Rick Gage.

That's pretty cool stuff. Praying for a great revival. Take care, Dwayne. God bless you, buddy. Blessings, Rick.

Rick, I wish you were flying the wall about an hour ago when Doc Carson and I were having coffee, talking and telling some Rick Gage stories and talking about your pops. But you know, just the powerful, how you guys just picked up after not seeing each other for years, the powerful you two we have in Christ. And I want you to emphasize, this crusade you're doing, people are like, okay, what are his motives? Is he trying to build another religion? Is he trying to get more organized religion going? Talk about the nature of this, the spiritual nature and the beautiful grace of God, this gospel you're proclaiming.

Can you talk about that just in our few minutes left, Brother Gage? Well, as I said a while ago, and it's very clearly stated in 1 Corinthians 15, that the gospel is the death, the burial and the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ bled and died on a Roman cross 2,000 years ago for the souls of mankind. The Bible says that all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.

I was born in 1958. When I was born out of my mother's womb into this world, I was born separated from God because of sin. I was born with a sinful nature. I still have a sinful nature.

But when I got saved January 15, 1984 in Lubbock, Texas, God put his nature in my heart. And so the Bible says the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. You can't get to heaven because you're a Baptist or a Methodist or a Catholic. There's only one way to get to heaven, and that's through Jesus and the shed blood of Christ and what he did first on the cross of Calvary. You can't get to heaven because of baptism.

My dad used to say this too, if baptism, if water could save you, he said I would get a fire hose and I'd spray everybody down. But I believe if a person's truly been saved, listen, if a person's truly been saved, they won't have a problem getting a tank of water to let the whole world know that they've given their life to Christ. The Bible says in Romans 5-8 that God proved his love toward us, and even though we were yet sinners, the Bible says Christ Jesus died for us.

And the Scripture says in Romans 10-9 that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and you believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you can be saved. And then, Stu, the greatest promise in all the Bible, Romans 10-13, and whosoever, and whosoever, Stu, is anybody. I don't care what color your skin is.

I don't care if you're rich or poor, educated, uneducated. I don't care if you're a Mormon. I don't care if you're a Catholic, a Baptist, a Muslim. The Bible says whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

And that term saved, Stu, has become obsolete in many of our churches. So we are going after every lost soul that we want to reach every family, every young person, every adult, every neighborhood. We want to reach the whole town for God. Listen, the greatest thing that your listening audience can do for this evangelistic campaign coming up September 8-11, the greatest thing they can do is pray. If Billy Graham could be on the phone with us today, he would tell your listening audience the three greatest things you can do for this crusade coming up in Mt. Eric September 8-11 is, number one, pray, number two, pray, and number three, pray.

That will be the key to the spiritual impact of this campaign. And then I'll close with this. Give the website so people can donate and all that stuff and know the dates. What's the website? GoTellCrusades.com.

GoTellCrusades.com. Let me close with this. All that God does do, he does do prayer. Amen. Wow. Rick H., God bless you. Praying for this great event.