Word: christs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...series of events that would convulse the entire country." But that was not all. The Presbyterian Church declared church segrega tion "morally indefensible," the Baptists announced their conviction that the government's policy "had no sanction in the New Testament and was diametrically opposed to the teaching of Christ," and the Methodist Church joined in criticism...
...Brothers felt that the isolation of Paraguay was not in keeping with Christ's injunction to let one's light shine before men. In 1953 they sent a group to settle at Rifton, N.Y. in the Catskill foothills. It has prospered, expects this year to make and sell $124,000 worth of children's toys...
...smugly ignorant letters stating to what Billy Graham could convert Catholics are answered by Augustine, Francis of Assisi, Thomas Aquinas, and the endless line of other saints. "Pope and priest" are precisely what Billy is short of-Christ-given authority and Christ-bearing sacraments...
Also on the plus side, Odiorne rates suburban indifference to sects and even the suburban tendency to conformity, which he finds is modeled on "the proper mixture of doctrinal emphasis on the Bible, the Lordship of Christ, witness in life and by word...
...than the population of the world was then." Billy is reaching them by TV (the Trendex for the first live telecast of his New York crusade was 8.1 or 18% of the total audience, as compared to Perry Como with 20 and Jackie Gleason with 12.5). More "decisions for Christ," his headquarters reports, come in from televiewers than from the live audience in the Garden. The live audience is alive too: about 58% of the Garden decisions have been first-time public conversions, but only 7%-8% were made by people who were previously unaffiliated with any church. The average...