Posted on 05/19/2020 6:16:41 AM PDT by US Navy Vet
When Ravi Zacharias was a cricket-loving boy on the streets of India, his mother called him in to meet the local sari-seller-turned-palm reader. Looking at your future, Ravi Baba, you will not travel far or very much in your life, he declared. Thats what the lines on your hand tell me. There is no future for you abroad.
By the time a 37-year-old Zacharias preached, at the invitation of Billy Graham, to the inaugural International Conference for Itinerant Evangelists in Amsterdam in 1983, he was on his way to becoming one of the foremost defenders of Christianitys intellectual credibility. A year later, he founded Ravi Zacharias International Ministries (RZIM), with the mission of helping the thinker believe and the believer think.
I had never even HEARD of Ravi Zacharias.
He wasn't THAT old.
Thats how I felt about RC Sproul too!....( Reformed Theological Seminary)
RIP faithful servant. I first started listening to his lectures and reading his books in college which gave me a solid understanding of apologetics. An amazing man. Look forward to meeting him in heaven.
“Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on, ‘Yes’ says the Spirit, ‘that they may rest from their labors and their works follow them.’ “
Rev 14:13
He was relatively young. 73, I believe. I wasn’t a follower, but I know he did have many who loved his teaching and will sorely miss him.
One of my grandsons is named after him. Israel Ravi T......
Our son sent this article a couple hours ago.
Thank you for the ping.
I so loved that man.
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