Canadian Mennonite Brethren and Billy Graham
— The then brand-new English language magazine of Canadian Mennonite Brethren — there were no less than three articles on the rising evangelical star and an appearance on the cover, as well as other “notes” throughout the year. I gather from this coverage that there must have been some questions about how MBs might respond to the Graham phenomenon. Certainly public opinion about him varied.The emphases of these articles can probably tell us something about MB concerns and values of the time. Three matters seemed especially important: his finances, his humility and his relationship to theological liberals.
G.D. Huebert’s Billy Graham: An evaluation (Feb. 16), assured readers that charges of Graham being a multi-millionaire weren’t true — Graham made a “regular salary” of $15,000. The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association was incorporated as a non-profit, Huebert said, and its finances were audited.
A second article in the same issue told something of Graham’s biography, including newspaper owner William Randolph Hearst’s order to “puff Graham.” Since then, the article said, there is “probably no better known Christian in the world.” This second piece too detailed the evangelist’s salary, as well as the total receipts and expenses of the crusade in Philadelphia. Graham’s humility was also emphasized.
Then, in the June 8 issue, a “World View” — short notes presumably written by editor Rudy Wiebe — referred to the Chicago campaign. “Whatever one may think about Graham,” it said, “one fact remains clear: he claims no credit for himself.”
In the June 29 issue of MB Herald , who had been an “active participant” in the Chicago event, wrote a report and strong personal endorsement of Graham. One of the questions Stobbe sought to answer was, “Is Graham liberal?” — in reference to crusade associations with those “reputedly liberal in theology.”
Stobbe stated that far from Graham compromising, “he was taking every opportunity to assail modernist and neo-orthodox theological weaknesses.” He also said counselor trainees coming from “non-fundamentalist” began to be converted. Graham used “neo-orthodox terminology” in some sermons, Stobbe said, only to point out that he “meant” a term used by fundamentalists. The word “commitment,” for example, meant to be “saved.
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It noted that at a Christmas service at the Pentagon, Billy Graham had said, “Jesus Christ was not a pacifist, and freedom must be defended by war, if necessary.” The writer continued, “One wonders on what passage of Scripture he can base his
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You know that old saying, “You are what you eat.” Well, it’s true because your body can only use the nutrients from that food you take in to repair and remodel itself. If you feed yourself junk food, then don’t expect to be the next olympic athlete. I bet you already knew that though. You are a smart crowd. However, consumer culture limits our ability to be the best that we can be by advertising junk that we don’t need directly to our face day in and day out. What purpose does this all serve? Is it to make us want that junk or is it maybe something deeper, perhaps to make us slaves to others? No, I think it is actually none of the above. Consumer culture works to make us slaves to our own selves by making us feel inadequate if we don’t have the latest trend or the new snack food. It feeds off our base human desires to fit-in and be accepted by our fellow man.
What if I told you that by not conforming to this crazy culture, you might fit-in even better with the right crowd of people? Then, you might be very happy to free yourself from the weight and pressure to conform. You might be even more inclined to attend those dance classes you never tried or finally run that marathon because society finally stopped telling you what to feel and you actually started feeling what was real. That would be pretty great!
Where am I going with all this? Well, you might not be surprised if I related this in some way to Jesus, but I will anyway because it is only through Jesus that we can be ourselves. For not only does he not judge us in the way society does or can, but even better, he only asks that we believe in him and his power. He stands as a confidant actively encouraging us to be a better us: to love more, to give more, to do more, and more importantly, to be more. For when we build our lives with his guidance, then we express the grace that only he can provide. Just as the good nutrients from food work to give us stronger bodies, the well informed guidance from Jesus works to give us a stronger spirit.
For as we can become slaves to society, so too can these slaves to society become us again. Only through a complete comparison can we see that the bad nutrients of consumer culture warrant our much valued attention. For we lose a bit of ourselves every time society tells us what we need to wear or what we should do. As the eroding cliff of our individuality slowly drops into the sea of conformity, we must realize that only Jesus Christ himself can reverse the process and raise up those lost pieces of ourselves to where they once sat perched overlooking the sea of others (right where they should be). When we only let Jesus into our sights during church, we forget and quite often we miss his message. The casual Christian ideal where God is only present at church needs to end as only when we embrace Christ 24/7 can we finally begin to learn about who we are with his help.
RT : It is the mercy of God that has given us hope, broken our sin, and made us brand-new creations in Christ Jesus ~ Carter Conlon
RT : It is the mercy of God that has given us hope, broken our sin, and made us brand-new creations in Christ Jesus ~ Carter Conlon
It is the mercy of God that has given us hope, broken our sin, and made us brand-new creations in Christ Jesus ~ Carter Conlon
Our spirits become brand new creatures in Christ Jesus, but our souls are saved when renewed with the Word of God :21 :2
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