You know, Billy Graham tried but was never able to come to Utah to hold one
of his evangelistic crusades or missions.
The Gospel message
of Evangelistic Crusades is not biblical.
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 later.
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.&raqu
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.&raqu
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.»
In 1988, I started my first church in Buffalo, New York, on the heels
of a Billy Graham
Evangelistic Crusade.
Some 47 years and 18 UK based
crusades later, the 82 - year - old Graham has handed over the leadership
of the Billy Graham
Evangelistic Association (BGEA) to his son Franklin, 47.
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 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.
Readers will grow weary at times
of Martin's repeated descriptions
of the workings
of each major
crusade, but the detail builds an interesting picture
of how the Billy Graham
Evangelistic Association became a «revival machine»
of remarkable efficiency and effectiveness.
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.
I am not sure that the $ 50 million per year number is accurate, but regardless, the Billy Graham
Evangelistic Association does a lot
of good with that money other than just hold
crusades.
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).
I wonder if there might be a more effective way
of spending hundreds
of millions
of dollars for
evangelistic purposes than Evangelist
evangelistic purposes than
EvangelisticEvangelistic Crusades?
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.»