Perhaps I’m not really as informed as to ‘God’s Ways’ as you are - but where do you come by the notion that ANYONE who may have made a mistake, will be judged more or less harshly by God?
That scripture can be read in a number of ways.
If there is ‘judgment’ at all, I think that God will look upon and judge Billy Graham very kindly, as compared to many others of us.
And after all: it isn’t OUR place to ultimately judge our fellow man - it seems we have too many beams in our own eyes, for that.
But God sees into the heart and into motivation in ways that we who try to judge our fellow man cannot.
I think it’s important to beware of arrogantly attempting to take on what is not our, but is God’s, responsibility.
And by what are we to judge? By the standard of the Word of God.
And what does Peter say about the Word of God? “Scripture is of no private interpretation”.
So be a Berean, those Jews who, after hearing Paul preach the Good News, put Paul to the test of scripture, and Paul commended them for doing so.
Scripture is the Truth. There are no shades of meaning. If you have a doubt about one aspect of the Word, you cross-reference it with another phrase or definition or usage elsewhere in the Bible...
...because the Bible interprets itself. It IS God, remember. The Word IS God... and then “the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us”.
“Teachers shall be judged more harshly than other Christians” which is why Paul warns people who want to be in leadership in a church, because they will be judged by God in a stricter fashion.
Please reread your Bible. You are dead wrong. We are NOT to judge unbelievers, of whom God is the judge. We ARE to judge fellow Christians as to their adherence to “that which has been preached”.
Lord bless. But Billy Graham of course knew that he would be held to a higher standard by God when he set out to be a preacher.
It is healthy to give honor where honor is due, and God will even posthumously give honor in this manner, but we are always to put Christian leaders to the test of Scripture. Again Paul commended the Bereans for doing so.
And P.S. There needs to be a distinction between judging someone hypocritically for the sins you yourself commit (as Jesus warned) and “judging” a Christian who is preaching false doctrine or in error or in immorality. Of these “we are the judges”.