Word: arnes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Around Cowboy" competition--sang it last season with his touring rodeo cowboy band. Last June in Casper, Wyoming, Mayhan came riding out into the rodeo arena on the back of a bucking bronc, dismounted, jumped up onto a stage full of guitar-picking cowboys and broke into song: "Cowboys arn't easy to love and they're harder to hold. He'd rather give you a song than diamonds or gold. Lone Star belt buckles and old faded Levis and each night begins a new day. If you don't understand him and he don't die young...
...find Research Executive Win Arn's thinking that the success of a Billy Graham crusade depends on the number of people who join churches [Jan. 23] ambiguous. I am a convert to Christianity with the help of Graham's preaching and am not a church member. The man does preach the truth, and one who is willing to face the truth will know that...
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...
...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...
...also have added: How many preachers can produce 1,285 new church members in a week's work? Graham's results, moreover, are far better than those from Bill Bright's much ballyhooed "Here's Life, America" campaign. In a study of Indianapolis and Fresno, Arn's institute found that a dismal 97% of the people who made "decisions to accept Christ" over the telephone never joined a church...