Word: christly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Billy's theology is plain, pointed and graphic. Like a Biblical Baedeker, he takes his listeners strolling down Pavements of Gold, introduces them to a rippling-muscled Christ who resembles Charles Atlas with a halo, then drops them abruptly into the Lake of Fire for a sample scalding. His language is a strange, original blend of farm-boy idiom, Shakespeare, the New Testament and the newest slang. Sample Grahamism, aimed at those who protest that they were raised in good Christian homes, therefore don't need to be "converted": "Just because you were born in a garage, does...
BILLY made his own "decision for Christ" at 16, as a lanky farm boy in Charlotte, N.C., who played first base for the local semi-pro team and dreamed of the big leagues. One night, during the invitation at a revival, Billy nudged a school chum in the ribs and stage-whispered: "Pal, I'm goin'." Billy went all the way: he began to study for the ministry. He went to the St. Petersburg Bible Institute in Florida, then Illinois' Wheaton College (where he met his wife), then accepted a pastorate in Western Springs...
Luther always accepted the church as a "divine institution." He differed from the Catholics in denying that its structure was a divine institution as well. He believed that the church exists "wherever Christ is preached and accepted in faith." Consistent with his religious attitude. Luther felt that the authority of nations also rested "upon a divinely instituted order" and not "upon a contractual agreement between the citizens." His political theory was pegged to the maxim: "Obedience is the supreme duty of the citizen...
...good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers . . . Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven...
...only natural ... to remove antiquated forms and look for new ones." ¶"Without being a follower of dialectical materialism, the Christian must recognize as correct the foundation of economic analysis in Marxism and Leninism." ¶"Socialism today gives the Christian the best chance to fulfill the aims of Christ and to practice practical Christianity. The doctrine developed by Karl Marx for the erection of a better social order found exemplary realization in the socialist Soviet Union...