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...people, the largest numbers of his career. But the response in Sydney could actually be more significant. The crowds may be modest, but over three days, 1,555 out of 25,000 who attended have answered the invitation, coming forward to profess their relationship with the risen Christ. The actual ratio is 6.1%, a better record than Billy's over three previous Australian swings. And over 80% of those responding are under age 25. They are the future of arena revivals, the harvest of souls still waiting to be taken--by one Graham or another...
...then die, and that's it? Is there some kind of plan that has been ordained before time for me? They want to know. The Gospel message is the message of love. God so loved the world, everything that's in it, that he sent his son Jesus Christ to die for it. That's how much he loved it. He wanted to make a way for you and me, an escape for us to get to heaven. All we have to do is just believe it and recognize him, ask God for forgiveness and invite Christ by faith into...
...understood it. "I prayed and attended church," he says. "But I found the things in the world pleasurable and fun, and I didn't like being around Christian people." He had come to identify full Christian commitment with hated authority: "I was afraid if I surrendered my life to Christ I'd have, like, spiritual handcuffs on me. I had this picture of this God in heaven who had, like, a big stick, and if I surrendered my life, he'd just wait for me to go to the left or right and clobber me." At the same time...
...assist a Graham friend with a tour of the Holy Land. But several days later, in a hotel room in Jerusalem, he reread what might be called the New Testament's great amnesty clause, Romans 8: 1: "There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus." Then, as Franklin writes, "I put my cigarette out and got down on my knees beside my bed. I was his...The rebel had found the cause." Now all he needed...
...national landscape. A 4,000-respondent poll by the University of Akron lists Evangelical Protestant as the most common religious self-identification in the U.S. (26%), followed by Catholic (23%) and mainline Protestant (17%). Beliefs closely associated with Evangelicalism--that salvation comes only through faith in Jesus Christ, and that the Bible is inerrant, or utterly truthful--are held by almost half of all Americans. And yet the Graham influence over this important movement is not what it used to be. Evangelicals have never been a single church with a hierarchy, explains Mark Noll, director of the Institute for Evangelical...