{"id":934,"date":"2011-10-07T15:38:58","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T19:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/?p=934"},"modified":"2011-10-07T15:40:45","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T19:40:45","slug":"why-i-can-never-hate-billy-graham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/why-i-can-never-hate-billy-graham\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I love Billy Graham…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\u00a0I can never hate the man who should receive a lot of credit for me coming to Christ.\u00a0 Over the years I have disagreed with him on many things he has said and practiced.\u00a0 I believe differently about the details and I do things in church work differently than Dr. Graham.\u00a0 But I have never come to a place where it seems ok for me to vilify him as I have seen others do over the years.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, he was the only preacher I would give serious attention to.\u00a0 I do not know why that is the case.\u00a0 But when he came on television I was riveted and I paid attention and thought about his words.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Then in June 1974 my twin brother and I began a spiritual search to find a church that “sounded” like Billy Graham.\u00a0 We were twenty years old and not raised in church.\u00a0 We began to attend various kinds of churches, listening to see if it sounded like Billy.<\/p>\n

When we came to the West Huntsville Baptist Church in Huntsville, Alabama, we knew we had come to the right place.\u00a0 While mulling over the claims of the gospel of Christ, my brother and I spent two months attending services and studying the Bible’s teachings.\u00a0 Then on August 18, 1974 through the message and ministry of Dr. Sam Wolfe, the pastor of the church, both my brother and I answered the call to trust Christ.\u00a0 That day I trusted him as my savior.\u00a0 I certainly cannot deliver myself from my sin.\u00a0 I have not gotten over the impact the gospel of Christ had in my life that day.\u00a0 Much of the credit goes to Dr. Graham.\u00a0 Because of that, I will never ever be able to express an out of bounds negativity or downright hatred for such a man who has served as a servant of the Lord to bring many to Christ.\u00a0 When I get to heaven, I will look him up and hug his neck and say “thanks.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0I can never hate the man who should receive a lot of credit for me coming to Christ.\u00a0 Over the years I have disagreed with him on many things he has said and practiced.\u00a0 I believe differently about the details and I do things in church work differently than Dr. Graham.\u00a0 But I have never […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,40],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=934"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":938,"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions\/938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}