{"id":12855,"date":"2022-03-06T00:39:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-06T00:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=12855"},"modified":"2022-03-06T00:39:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-06T00:39:00","slug":"lee-ann-on-one-human-condition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/12855\/lee-ann-on-one-human-condition\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee Ann on “One Human Condition”\ufffc"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good morning,<\/span><\/p>\n

Your message, “One Human Condition”*, was so good!\u00a0 I\u2019m hanging on to that last sentence,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“So, hang in there, fellow sojourner.\u00a0 How things are in this world is not how things will always be.”<\/span><\/p>\n

I watched a Billy Graham documentary just last night, and I learned just how political he was.\u00a0 I thought he just served as a \u201cprayer advisor\u201d for the presidents (from Truman to the second Bush), but that wasn\u2019t it, at all.\u00a0 He was very involved in politics and preached on the evils of communism and how important it was to vote, etc.\u00a0 He even made political commercials for Nixon.\u00a0 During the early 70s, they had a big Billy Graham Day in Charlotte (his birthplace).\u00a0 Businesses and schools closed so they could have a big parade for him, and Nixon rode with him in the car during the parade.\u00a0 The whole event was all contrived just for Nixon to get exposure in the south and help him get re- elected.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

They said that Billy Graham had been called \u201cthe most famous preacher on the planet\u201d during the height of his preaching.\u00a0 Last night, I saw more than ever that it was all just a big performance on a stage.\u00a0 His first big preaching series when he went out on his own was in Los Angeles.\u00a0 He was a friend to many of the movie stars.\u00a0 One guy compared Mr. Graham to Frank Sinatra.\u00a0 He said he had met both of them, and they both had the same charisma (which was probably the truth).\u00a0 But in Christianity, Billy Graham was, and still is, considered a hero!\u00a0 He is the face of Christianity.<\/span><\/p>\n

I remember watching his specially televised sermons with Mama when I was a little girl in the 60s and early 70s.\u00a0 I thought he must be a man of God.\u00a0 He was such a powerful speaker, and all of those people would go down for the altar call at the end.\u00a0 I had no idea that it was all a performance.\u00a0 Another Hollywood show. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I really saw it last night.\u00a0 They showed a few clips of his sermons, and they were so empty.\u00a0 There was nothing said of substance.\u00a0 He would tell them if you feel badly for your sins and want to turn your life around, come down here and ask Jesus to come into your life.\u00a0 That was it.\u00a0 I imagine all of those thousands of people who went down there, felt a little relief at the hope of getting some relief, but then what?\u00a0 Unless they received the One Hope, they were back to business as usual within a few hours.\u00a0 I know that because I\u2019ve answered those altar calls myself.\u00a0 I cried and felt real conviction, and wanted something to help me change, but within a day or two, I was right back where I started.\u00a0 Those kind of \u201csermons\u201d without the Holy Ghost really are “clouds without rain\u201d. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Anyway, this is timely, that I would wake up to see what should be the rest of that documentary in this writing.\u00a0 It\u2019s such a mess in all of that political world, and Christianity is a big part of that world.\u00a0 I felt it last night as I was watching that.\u00a0 I was so thankful I know the truth and can see Billy Graham and Christianity for what it is!\u00a0 I\u2019m relieved to know I don\u2019t have a part with any of it. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Lee Ann<\/span><\/p>\n

*See post March 6, \u201cOne Human Condition”, by Pastor John Clark, Sr.)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Good morning, Your message, “One Human Condition”*, was so good!\u00a0 I\u2019m hanging on to that last sentence,\u00a0 “So, hang in there, fellow sojourner.\u00a0 How things are in this world is not how things will always be.” I watched a Billy Graham documentary just last night, and I learned just how political he was.\u00a0 I thought […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12855"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}