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Billy Graham’s Final Contradiction

March 1, 2018 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - Billy Graham, clarity, eternal life, evangelism

Billy Graham went to be with the Lord he loved and served. Here is his final column (see the image below). I thought it was a good one until I read the last sentence. At the beginning of the last paragraph, Graham explained he will be in heaven, not because of the works he did,

Paradoxical Evangelism

May 16, 2017 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - evangelism, Islam, muslims, paradox

A psychologist friend recently came back from a missions trip to Muslim Africa. He said he used the “paradoxical intervention technique” while evangelizing and found it worked. It went something like this… My friend starts talking to a Muslim shopkeeper and mentions he’s a Christian from America. Shopkeeper: Do you Christians really believe in three

What’s Your First Sentence in Evangelism?

September 2, 2016 by GES Webmaster in Blog - Believe, Christianity, evangelism

by Bob Wilkin, Originally published in the September/October 2008 edition of Grace in Focus The First Thing You Say Is Vital Journalists are trained to put the heart of their story in the first paragraph. That initial paragraph is called the lead and it is considered vital that it draw the reader in and tell

Robert H. Gundry’s Confusing Definition of Faith in John 3:16

March 21, 2016 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - definitions of faith, evangelism, gundry, John 3:16

Every Sunday, millions of Christians hear a confusing gospel message. I’m not talking about a false gospel message. A false gospel is where everlasting life is made to depend on faith plus. Faith plus love. Faith plus fasting. Faith plus baptism. Faith plus repentance. Faith plus belonging to this or that denomination. Faith plus