“He preached in more than 70 countries and authored more than 30 books in his 48-year career, teaching Christians to engage with skeptics and arguing that the Christian worldview has robust answers to humanity’s existential questions.” - CToday
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I would listen to him sometimes and think several things:
1- I wish this guy quoted more Scripture…
2- I often thought, yeah, that’s true…
3- And other times I thought, ugh…
4- Then I’d wonder why this guy always used people with Imperial accents (Canadian, Australian, British, Caribbean) and never Americans on his radio broadcast (and speakers mostly) even though he was supposedly based in Atlanta (just a small observation)
5- Then sadly, the scandals at the end (sexual/emotional relationship with the woman that was never clearly explained and just dropped by most, and then the supposed cover-up of an abortion of his brother’s girlfriend back in the 1970’s…)
I did at times learn interesting things from him, and I did appreciate the sum of his ministry.
One thing that sticks out was just a year or two ago there was a broadcast of a conference he was at with a lot of heavy hitters on radio, in a panel discussion about why youth were leaving the church, and he added something to this effect which broadened it out in my mind to the whole church, “the reason people backslide, so to speak, is because they never really encounter the Lord Jesus face to face. It’s more intellectual belief or acceptance than a real relationship. It takes time in the Bible and prayer to encounter Jesus. But when you do, you are changed and no one and nothing can take that away from you.” (Loose paraphrase of what I remember)