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   From: rccroucher@chopthisoutoptusnet.com.au   
      
   BILLY GRAHAM   
      
   Billy Graham (whose wife Ruth died just a week ago) is a man of   
   integrity, and during his life-time probably spoke face-to-face with   
   more people than anyone in human history. His faith and ideas may be   
   simplistic in some ways, but his essential message - that we need God's   
   love and salvation and 'cleansing from our sins' - is the essence of   
   what Christianity is all about...   
      
   Here some of his friends, especially Bono, pay their tribute to this   
   great man:   
      
   [YouTube video]   
      
   Now my theology is a bit more 'progressive' than Billy Graham's, so what   
   should I do with that?   
      
   Colin Morris, a modern prophet (and, incidentally, past President of the   
   United Church of Zambia), in his challenging book Include Me Out:   
   Confessions of an Ecclesiastical Coward says it well: 'Let it be so much   
   as whispered that Billy Graham is en route for Britain to conduct   
   evangelistic meetings and some of the best brains in the Church mobilize   
   themselves to do a demolition job on him... A Church which can afford to   
   pour that much energy down the sewer has too much time on its hands. And   
   in the polluted atmosphere of clever malice that hangs over the Church   
   at such a time, our claim to offer a Gospel of Reconciliation rings as   
   hollow as the sales-pitch of a bald-headed man selling hair-restorer.'   
      
   -From my Blog on Interesting People   
      
   Visit http://1monthtomeet30interestingpeople.blogspot.com/ for more on   
   the interesting people I've known or heard or read about.   
      
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   Shalom/Salaam!                         Rowland Croucher   
      
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