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Taxed with Arn's findings about his Seattle crusade, Billy Graham mildly observes that the resulting cup of faith might better be seen as 15% full than as 85% empty. He also points out that many of his converts may join churches later...
...swept out the amphitheater, what exactly remains from a Billy Graham crusade? For years skeptical critics have wondered, but there has been little follow-up research on those who come forward to make public "decisions" for Jesus Christ. Last week a Graham admirer, a Baptist research executive named Win Arn, provided some...
...findings were not altogether encouraging. As a director of the Institute for American Church Growth in Pasadena, Calif., Arn advocates a "bottom line" analysis of evangelism. In his eyes, the only reliable measure of any crusade's success is the number of people who become "responsible church members." In 1976 a Billy Graham crusade drew 434,100 people to Seattle's Kingdome in eight days, and 18,000 people "came forward" to profess faith in Christ. Arn's survey, done a year later and just released, reveals that of these, 54% were people simply rededicating themselves...
...Williams points us back to pagan nature with the Hemlock family -Daddy Tim, hunter, farmer, "maker of things"; Mother Eugenia, keeper of the kitchen garden and hearth and the two Hemlock children, Son Arn, 9, and Daughter Jen, 7. This is the family primeval, whose only contact with civilization is the annual visit of the Traveler, who trades lead shot, gunpowder, needles, salt and flint for the Hemlocks' superbly crafted knives and moccasins...
Corrupting Culture. Jen gets lost in the valley while looking for a cow -and Arn goes after her. He proves himself a doughty little camper as he saves his sister from freezing and starvation. The children then tramp from one cliffhanger to the next before rejoining their despairing parents...