Posted on 02/22/2018 11:06:16 AM PST by Retain Mike
Sometimes he was more expansive, as in June 2005, when, at age 86, after 60 years of preaching on the road and in diminishing health (primarily from advanced Parkinson’s disease), he reluctantly “retired” from public “crusade” evangelism. It was at a final three-day campaign that attracted a cumulative total of some 230,000 people to Flushing Meadows in New York City. In an interview during that event, a Charisma magazine reporter popped the same remembrance question.
Replied Graham quietly: “I want to be remembered as a person who was faithful to God, faithful to my family, faithful to the Scriptures, and faithful to my calling … a man who dedicated his life to the Lord and never looked back.”
With Graham’s death on Feb. 21 at age 99, millions of people across the world—those who knew him longest and best, those whose lives were impacted in some way by his ministry, even many who knew and admired him only from a distance—are remembering him for those graces, and much more. Countless others over the intervening decades who preceded him in death would have special reason to thank God for him, judging by accounts of surviving loved ones.
(Excerpt) Read more at world.wng.org ...
According to the WaPo, Mr. Graham was not perfect.
I was about 11 years old when my church youth group attended a Billy Graham Crusade Stadium Event. He called us all to come on down from the stands for salvation and I followed the descending crowds. Eventually I was met by a person who took my name and address. Weeks later I received Crusade stuff in the mail that offered literature and elicited “offerings”. I was just a broke kid so I wasn’t saved.
Yep, he sure was human. The article covers that aspect.
And according to some idiot writer for teen Vogue magazine, he is in hell, and he was evil . Go figure.
If somebody considers Billy Graham evil, what the heck do they think of someone such as bin Laden?
Then again, liberal idiot Keith Olbermann recently said, that Trump has done more damage to America than bin Laden did. Some people have twisted minds.
At age 11, of course you would not be in position to make donations. Of course accepting Christ is not dependent on making a donation to any preacher or organization.
Does someone owe me an apology?
Check the mirror...
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