Also, in a recent missions newsletter that I read, the writer made this statement, «Of the hundreds of thousands who make decisions for Christ in
the evangelistic crusades in the third world nations (like Africa), only a tiny fraction end up regularly attending any church.»
Not exact matches
Could you help me with letting me know what studies are showing «that only 6 % of people who «come forward» at an
evangelistic crusade are any different
in their beliefs or behavior one year later.»
In recent years, studies have shown that only 6 % of people who «come forward» at an evangelistic crusade are any different in their beliefs or behavior one year late
In recent years, studies have shown that only 6 % of people who «come forward» at an
evangelistic crusade are any different
in their beliefs or behavior one year late
in their beliefs or behavior one year later.
In 1988, I started my first church in Buffalo, New York, on the heels of a Billy Graham Evangelistic Crusad
In 1988, I started my first church
in Buffalo, New York, on the heels of a Billy Graham Evangelistic Crusad
in Buffalo, New York, on the heels of a Billy Graham
Evangelistic Crusade.
In the process, he developed and cultivated an extensive network of evangelical leaders and Christian businessmen who would sponsor and support his evangelistic crusades and who would cooperate with each other in myriad similar venture
In the process, he developed and cultivated an extensive network of evangelical leaders and Christian businessmen who would sponsor and support his
evangelistic crusades and who would cooperate with each other
in myriad similar venture
in myriad similar ventures.
Staging revivals that he called «
crusades» around the world, the founder of the Billy Graham
Evangelistic Association has reached untold millions of people
in person.
Crusade evangelists believe it is okay to use compelling and persuasive techniques to get people to come forward at an
evangelistic event, if it results
in the person saying a prayer or making a decision to follow Jesus.
Let's just say that the Billy Graham
Evangelistic Association had decided to spend their money on relational evangelism training instead of
crusades, and that
in 50 years of operations, they trained only 1 % of the lower estimate of 300 million Christians worldwide, or 3 million Christians.
Megachurches have not historically been the beneficiaries of large
evangelistic crusades (which have been fairly non-existent
in America over the past 20 years or more, actually).
That is how much evangelical Protestants spend annually
in support of a vast array of parachurch groups, ranging from Campus
Crusade for Christ, World Vision, and Prison Fellowship to countless
evangelistic ministries.
And yet
in this exquisite farce, the response far exceeds that of modern, urban,
evangelistic crusades among the well churched.
It is impossible to state how many people might be Christians today because of Graham's
Crusades, but
in 2007, the Billy Graham
Evangelistic Association estimated that he'd preached to 215 million people.
My reply is that if all the statistics of all the
evangelistic crusades reported
in just the last 10 years were accurate, then we would be living on a planet fully Christianized — several times over.»