Numbers are immaterial. No where in the epistles do any of the writers intimate that doing odd things in public in order to talk to people is a measure of godliness. This "Billy Graham" mentality is unbiblical and detracts from the true message of the Gospel. And rest assured there is not going to be one person in the entire history of the human race that was among the elect that is left out at the last day. John 6:44ff.
Numbers are immaterial. No where in the epistles do any of the writers intimate that doing odd things in public in order to talk to people is a measure of godliness.
Ummm... I don't know about that.. raising people from the dead is pretty odd to a lot of people these days. Getting out of jail without keys and then "evangelizing" your jailer in his home, talking to him and his family would be quite odd to many people today. Having a couple of members of your congregation fall over dead, right in front of you, because they told you a lie about how much you donated to your church would classify as very odd. Talking to a few thousand people who spoke different languages (that you didn't speak) and have them all hear you talking in their own language, would be quite an odd way to evangelize, I would say... LOL ...
I mean, I could come up with some more odd ways to evangelize, if you were interested... :-)
This "Billy Graham" mentality is unbiblical and detracts from the true message of the Gospel.
And I always thought that Billy Graham did a good job of telling people about the Gospel of Salvation. It always seemed to be "right on" to me...
Perhaps you're thinking about some "peculiar variation" of the Gospel of Salvation that is not in the Bible (like a lot of cult groups do) ... I don't know... I'm not saying that you are presenting the Gospel of Salvation, according to the Scriptures, in a wrong manner, but I'm just saying that Billy Graham always presented the Gospel of Salvation just like the Bible told it.