Dennis shares a story from his time answering the Jesus Film phone line:
There was a line at headquarters that people could call if they’d seen the Jesus Film and had questions. One day there was a call from a guy named Lance. He said, “I have done a lot of bad things in my life. I just got this Jesus video – I didn’t really want it, but the people said it couldn’t hurt and I ended up taking it. Today I was feeling really bad, so I watched the video. I was so moved by the message of Jesus that I had to call somebody.”
I talked to him for a while and shared the gospel with him. I asked him if he wanted to accept Christ, and he said, “I wouldn’t have called if I didn’t want to.” So I had the opportunity there to pray with him. Someone had given him a Bible, and he opened it then for the first time. We went through some verses on assurance and then he got the Yellow Pages (Pre-Google) and looked for a church he could go to that Sunday. We distributed 250,000 films across Canada, but Lance was an actual person that God had touched who we could see.