The Leadership Secrets of Billy Graham

by that resistance in ways undesired and undesirable,” says Wills.
“The tradition must be repristinated if it is to be worth following.”
What this means for leaders is that even preservation requires
growth, learning, and continual renovation. Graham board mem-
ber Bill Pollard said, “Everything—including relationships—tends
to deteriorate with time unless the new, the improved, the
changed is added.”
This is what Billy Graham was doing by his habit of asking
people to teach him. He was repristinating his relationships and
his understanding.

Points to Ponder

BILLY GRAHAM:

In God’s economy, a person must go down into the

valley of grief before he or she can scale the heights of

spiritual glory.... One must come to the end of “self”

before one can really begin to live.

THE BIBLE:

God chose the foolish things of the world

to shame the wise;

God chose the weak things of the world

to shame the strong.

1 CORINTHIANS 1:27

The Leadership Secrets of Billy Graham