FINAL WARNING: Setting the Stage for Destruction
in Boston was really an evangelical address in which he asked
the people to come to Christ, to give their lives to Christ. I said,
‘Thank God I’ve got somebody to quote now with some real
authority’.”Graham has called Pope John a “great evangelist,” the “greatest
religious leader of the modern world and one of the greatest moral and
spiritual leaders of this century.” Another time, he said that the Pope
was “God’s instrument for revival in our generation.” In 1994 when
Time magazine declared Pope John as its “Man of the Year,” Graham
said: “He’ll go down in history as the greatest of our modern popes ...
He’s been the strong conscience of the whole Christian world.” In an
interview with Associated Press reporter Richard Ostling, he said he
would choose Pope John as the ‘Man of the Century,’ because he
admired “his courage, determination, intellectual abilities and his
understanding of Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox differences, and
the attempt at some form of reconciliation.” He even wrote the
Foreward to the book Pope John Paul II: A Tribute.The Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph quoted an insider as saying: “Many of
the people who reached a decision for Christ at our meetings (1952
Pittsburgh Crusade) have joined the Catholic Church ... This happened
both in Boston and Washington. After all, one of our prime purposes is
to help the churches in the community...” As early as 1956, Graham
said that he was going to “send them to their own churches– Roman
Catholic, Protestant or Jewish ... The rest will be up to God.” He has
said: “My goal, I always made clear, was not to preach against Catholic
beliefs or to proselytize people who were already committed to Christ
within the Catholic Church.”When a Crusade is planned, a Committee is brought together, made up
of leaders from local churches. Within that group is an Executive
Committee. Whenever someone walks down the aisle to receive
Salvation, the decision card is given to these leaders, and their
respective churches. For instance, the Committee for the 1957 New
York Crusade consisted of around 120 modernists (those denying the
virgin birth, Christ’s resurrection, the divine inspiration of Scripture,
and the existence of a literal heaven and hell), and 20
fundamentalists. The June 19, 1969 issue of the New York Times
outlined his follow-up procedure: