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William Franklin ‘Billy’ Graham, Junior best known as Billy Graham, is one of the famous evangelical figures of the 20th century. He was born in 1918, in Charlotte, North Carolina (USA). He attended Bob Jones University, now known as the Florida Bible Institute, and Wheaton College. Billy Graham is a Christian evangelist minister, ordained Southern Baptist minister, who dedicated his evangelical ministry, in major city stadiums outside the USA and in the United States of American big arenas. He broadcasted his messages all over the world over the radios and televisions.
The term ‘evangelicalism’, means ‘canopy’, a doctrinal abstract of the Protestantism traditions, denominations organization and church beliefs. The term is derived from …show more content…

An evangelist, is like a salesman who mission is to enter into a virgin market most of the time, so as to an evangelist, his mission is to reach the unreached sinners, the non believers who have not heard or accepted Christ as their personal savior with the intention of proclaiming the gospel of Christ and its righteousness content (Romans1:16-17). According to Billy Graham, his mission was to challenge his audience to Christendom, in repentance, faithfulness and obedience, in order to experience the love of God through Christ’s death and resurrection. Billy Graham, was intransitively motivated, it was as if he recalled the mind of Christ in every country he visited, he was as witty as a serpent and as harmless as a dove (Matthew 10:16), that’s why everyone lovely welcomed him because the audience was not his focus but the good news. Billy Graham’s story about the blind men touching an elephant is one of the astonishing stories that later eludes to as if his gospel reaches anyone and it grasps the recipient
The term evangelicalism is tied to the religious movement and denominational organizations that sprung from a series of revivals in the 17th century by the Methodist Founder John Wesley (1703-1791), the American philosopher and theologian John Edwards (1703-1758), and …show more content…

Dwight D. Eisenhower, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon were considered as Graham’s closes friends. Bill Graham fronted for the love of Christ, he embraced and supported integration in Christian believers, once invited Martin Luther to share a platform with him during the time of the civil right amendment act in America. To the greatness of the awakening spirit of the new born again fire in the Christian community, some theologians observed the movement as simple with no strong roots. Evangelical theme was church mission and not in the proper form of traditional church creeds. This detested many scholars since they observed the movement as not having spiritual beatitudes of regenerating the society from divorces, drug abuse, infidelities and family violence. The evangelical movement was viewed as a typical movement like reformation that had failed to meet the spiritual and moral needs of modern society’s liberal mind, due to its inadequacy of addressing various areas of needs of a Christian believer in a modern world of reason as well as the circular

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