Dr. Billy Graham

This is the man who most makes me proud of being a Wheaton College grad. Now he's begun his next-to-last crusade, in LA. His final crusade is scheduled to be in New York next June. The NY Times is covering his LA crusade. Not a bad article, but its unfortunate that they assume that everyone there are Christians. The whole point of the crusade is to win new people to Jesus Christ. It's ironic that the Times calls his words soothing. Here's their quote, "We go to church. We pray. We're good people. We're moral people," Dr. Graham said. "But He looks at us through His own righteousness and He sees the defects in all of us. Sin." Most people don't like to be called sinners.

In another bit of irony, the Times turns the whole piece into a commentary on the election. Some of the points they raise are good ones, but I still have to ask, "WHY did you go there?" The only political comment they could get out of Graham was that he called Bush after the election to offer his congratulations.

Anyway, an important article, not necessarily for the content at the end, but for who the article is about. Praise the Lord for Dr. Graham!