Comments on: The Weak-Knees of Billy Graham

By: The Advanced Soul

The Advanced Soul — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 14:16:22 +0000

Is it just me, or has Larry King had like 5 heart attacks and 5 divorces. I guess that’d be a broken heart for each.

By: javaguy

javaguy — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 18:37:34 +0000

To add to my previous comment. I realize that the main issue hear is Billy’s inclusive style which appears to exclude Christ. I kind of touched on it in my previous comment, but feel that I should explain more. Billy Graham’s job is not to be a reference book that people can look to in order to establish doctrine. His job is to introduce people to God, or rather introduce God to people. I will admit that I have not heard Billy preach since 1979 (or so) in Spokane WA, but the problem with blogs like this is that we take one person’s opinion of someone and accept it as fact. That gets the roller coaster moving and once it starts, it is hard to stop. How many people who have jumped on this bandwagon have actually heard Billy preach in recent years? I am quite certain that he does mention Jesus Christ. He is not so exclusive of Christ that someone would mistake him for something other than a Christian. His Crusade is very thorogh and at each stop in their travels, they do their homework. They have thier own resources as well as having information on local churches handy so that when a person leaves the crusade, they can find a church and learn doctrine there. Billy’s purpose is to plant the seed so that local churches, pastors, laypeople can cultivate it, fertilize it and help it grow. One thing I do know. Billy doesn’t base his ministry on attacking others. He actually preaches from the Word and has something positive to say. I am becoming frustrated with how many people I have found who call themselves Christian who spend all their time telling how other people are not behaving in a Christian way and attacking their ministries when that person’s own ministry is 90% attacking others and 10% actual instruction from God’s Word.

By: javaguy

javaguy — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 03:42:45 +0000

Wow! So much condemnation and finger pointing. Can anyone truly say that anyone is worse off for having heard Billy Grahm preach? When Jesus healed people, he sometimes simply said that their faith had healed them, now go and spread the word. Did Jesus always tell the ugly with the beautiful? Did Christ not heal some and send them away with nothing but hope in their hearts? Does the seed need to contain the weed as well in order to grow? I am dismayed that some people are so eager to tear down those who are doing God’s work simply because they may not be doing it the way they think it should be done. Billy Grahm is all about sowing the seed. He doesn’t have a home church where people can go and hear him every week. He doesn’t promise that all will be easy once you have been saved. Some are called to be prophets, some teachers, some garbage men, some waste management workers. My point is that Billy Graham is doing what he was called by God to do and if any one person has come to Christ through his ministry, there were hosts of angels singing and rejoicing because of it. I, personally, don’t want to be the one to crash an angelic party. Maybe we should start using the gifts that God has given us and stop wasting our efforts on judging who is using theirs.

By: Corinne

Corinne — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 05:50:20 +0000

I found this site through Slice and I am glad I did. When Billy Graham came to San Diego in 2003 (which is where I have lived all of my life) I was not too thrilled. Almost everyone told me I was being stubborn or too “Ray Comfort” and that God used Mr. Graham to preach the gospel and I shouldn’t be so against the outreach. My problem then and is still that he didn’t preach the gospel, he preached the parts that were easy to take, but he didn’t preach the God or Jesus Christ of the Bible. Some would like to blame it on age but I have read and heard of PLENTY of brothers and saints in the Lord who were taken at an old age who were still as doctrinally sound and zealous as they were in their prime… We need to stop being respectors of persons and be concerned about our God being represented correctly! From one “half-Irish”, “mostly Calvinist”, thanks! I can’t wait to enjoy this site!

By: Last Row

Last Row — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 19:29:43 +0000

Everyone is Dogmatic

Here’s a nugget from the pen of Ken Ham . Love him or hate him what he says here is pretty accurate:
“Many think that some people are dogmatic and others are not. It is not a matter of whether or not you are dogmatic or not, but of which…

By: Lazaro

Lazaro — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 19:18:47 +0000

dogmatic, what a loaded word… here’s what it means:
characterized by or given to the expression of opinions very strongly or positively as if they were facts

so SCOT you’re not dogmatic? Isn’t the following statement dogmatic? “It’s time we put down our theological dogmatic Weapons and embrace the world around us.”

We are all dogmatic it just depends what dogma you want to be dogmatic about.

By: Johnnie Burgess

Johnnie Burgess — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 01:20:55 +0000

(John 14:6) Jesus said to him, I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life; no one comes to the Father but by Me.

Jesus said the only way to the Father was only through Him. It does not matter what some famous preacher says. If what they say does not agree with what Jesus said it does not matter what the preacher says.

By: erik

erik — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 21:48:55 +0000

eriC, –when you say world, does this mean WORLD or world? 8-D hehehe…