Billy Graham

BILLY GRAHAM

Billy Graham (whose wife Ruth died just a week ago) is a man of 
integrity, and during his life-time probably spoke face-to-face with 
more people than anyone in human history. His faith and ideas may be 
simplistic in some ways, but his essential message - that we need God's 
love and salvation and 'cleansing from our sins' - is the essence of 
what Christianity is all about...

Here some of his friends, especially Bono, pay their tribute to this 
great man:

[YouTube video]

Now my theology is a bit more 'progressive' than Billy Graham's, so what 
should I do with that?

Colin Morris, a modern prophet (and, incidentally, past President of the 
United Church of Zambia), in his challenging book Include Me Out: 
Confessions of an Ecclesiastical Coward says it well: 'Let it be so much 
as whispered that Billy Graham is en route for Britain to conduct 
evangelistic meetings and some of the best brains in the Church mobilize 
themselves to do a demolition job on him... A Church which can afford to 
pour that much energy down the sewer has too much time on its hands. And 
in the polluted atmosphere of clever malice that hangs over the Church 
at such a time, our claim to offer a Gospel of Reconciliation rings as 
hollow as the sales-pitch of a bald-headed man selling hair-restorer.'

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