Word: grahams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also troubled by the insistence on instant decision for Christ. As a young faculty friend of mine remarked to me at one of the Burr B sessions, "Dr. Graham makes a sacrament out of the decision for Christ." It becomes immediately apparent that there is no other way to religious commitment and any other pilgrimage is unacceptable. By any standards, this is a gross distortion of the nature of Christian commitment...
...Billy Graham was with us last week and it was a pleasure to have him in the Harvard community. Yet I think it, should be clearly understood that he does not represent Protestant thinking and speaks only for himself. I say this because personally I have always felt that Dr. Graham combines a most appealing sincerity with an incredible understanding of Christian thought and theology. I say incredible because I don't know of any reputable Protestant seminary that teaches the kind of theology that he represented here last week...
...impression that a simple reading of the scriptures will provide all the answers to life. Never a word is said about biblical criticism or the contemporary understanding of textual material. In the matter of authority, the teachings of the Church or the development of theology are never mentioned. Billy Graham gives to the Bible a kind of authority that would make even Martin Luther uncomfortable...
When he finally called for a commitment from his audience, Graham asked them to join him in prayer, then to fill out cards with name and address and to put them in boxes. There were two boxes, one for Harvard and one for Redcliffe. Thirty-one cards were dropped through the slots...
...Remember," Graham said, "you're going out into a world almost on fire. Go with Christ in your heart. I'm fool enough to believe something can be done about our world. Together we can change our world. Christ started with 13 apostles. It only takes a handful; you could be that handful...