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Skrevet af Alan Navaratnam   
Fredag, 13. august 2021 09:02

I have sometimes quoted the controversial Billy Graham.  Already in my young days in America, I met good, godly leaders who would say, “We like his message, but not his methods” referring to his co-operation with liberal deluders and, not the least,  with the Roman catholic church.  That raised my eye brows too.

I never commended him for that, and yet we have to understand his passionate motives which were the salvation of sinners no matter what.  Some got furious when he even preached the gospel in Russian orthodox churches.  But we must say with the apostle Paul, “It is the Lord who judges…”  (1 Cor. 4:4).

His passion for the gospel is catching.  We have free access to his ministry on many videos, and I must admit that I know of no other preacher who presents the gospel so simple and powerful as he did.  It prompts me to do likewise on my small scale.

Let me share with you one recent example.  Last Saturday I went to a catholic funeral to show respect to the family of one dear friend from Sri Lanka.  Why did I really go?  Was it because of my sympathy with Catholicism?  No, on that score I firmly side with Luther in his dramatic rejection of the pope and his deluded papists.

So I went along hoping to get a chance to witness to some lacking a saving experience with Jesus Christ.  God  let me do that, praise  Him!  I don´t care where I go if the gospel and the love of Christ drives me. In our national Lutheran church things are not better.  They claim to be Lutheran, but they don´t know his gospel.

I  sympathize with Billy Graham´s passion. Don´t you?  Maybe I´m wrong, but “it is the Lord who judge…”  My business is to be true to the gospel, for “woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!”  (1 Cor. 9:16). – “and be ready in season and out of season”  (2 Tim. 4:2).  Do you agree?

By the way, the Catholics showed me great kindness and openness and would kindly help when they noticed my physical handicap. So they made my day as the free course of the gospel made theirs!

May 25, 2021 - jn

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