It was reserved for his biographer Karl Benrath to justify him, and to represent him as a fervent evangelist and at the same time as a speculative thinker with a passion for free inquiry, always learning and unlearning and arguing out difficult questions with himself in his dialogues, frequently without attaining to any absolute conviction.

Billy Graham ( evangelist ) | Billy Graham, who attended BJU for one semester, was later at odds with the University

In view of this complex and multi-layered history it is meaningless to speak of a single " author " of John, but the title perhaps belongs best to the evangelist who came at the end of this process.

* Rex Humbard ( 1919 – 2007 ) The first major TV evangelist ( 1950s, 1960s & 1970s ), and at one time had the largest TV audience of an evangelist in the U. S.

His strong awareness for the importance of names in the creation of a public image showed itself again during his presidential run when he threatened to sue NBC news for calling him a " television evangelist ", which later became " televangelist ", at a time when Jimmy Swaggart and Jim Bakker were objects of scandal.

He was an evangelist living in Coalinga, California at the time of his death.

On Saturday, September 2, 1972 Norman also performed at the Festival of Light-sponsored Festival for Jesus held in Hyde Park, London, which was filmed and released as a 50-minute documentary Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music ?, which featured Norman's 1972 song of the same name, which was written in response to the criticisms of Christian Rock music by American evangelist Bob Larson, whom Norman regularly lampooned at his concerts.

Since the 1970s, Yiye has been a laborious evangelist, visiting almost all Latin American countries, many North American cities, and parts of Europe at one time or another.

During the month of February 1878, the people of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Rocky Hill brought an evangelist, Miss Lizzie Sharp, to conduct revival meetings in their church.

In 1998, snake-handling evangelist John Wayne " Punkin " Brown died after being bitten by a timber rattler at the Rock House Holiness Church in rural northeastern Alabama.

A week later at a service in Toronto, Baptist evangelist Justin Peters, who wrote his Masters in Divinity thesis on Benny Hinn and has attended numerous Hinn crusades since 2000 as part of his research for his thesis and for a seminar he developed about the Word of Faith movement entitled A Call for Discernment, also demonstrated to the hidden cameras that " people who look like me "— Peters has cerebral palsy, walks with arm-crutches, and is obviously and visibly disabled —" are never allowed on stage [...] it's always somebody who has some disability or disease that cannot be readily seen.

Sunday had been an ardent champion of temperance from his earliest days as an evangelist, and his ministry at the Chicago YMCA had given him first-hand experience with the destructive potential of alcohol.

Each year, he conducts at least five Graham Festivals around the world as an evangelist associated with the BGEA.

Garner Ted Armstrong ( February 9, 1930 – September 15, 2003 ) was an American evangelist and the son of Herbert W. Armstrong, founder of the Worldwide Church of God, at the time a Sabbatarian organization that taught strict observance of seventh-day Sabbath, holy days typically associated with the Jewish faith, and other observances derived from the Old Testament scriptures.

Here some years afterwards, according to, where he is described as " the evangelist " ( a term found again in the New Testament only in Ephesians ; 2 Timothy ), he entertained Paul and his companion on their way to Jerusalem ; at that time " he had four daughters which did prophesy ".

Kinison played on his former role as a Bible-preaching evangelist, taking satirical and sacrilegious shots at the Bible, Christianity and famous Christian evangelist scandals of his day.

The American evangelist Billy Graham attracted 257, 181 people to a series of prayer meetings held at the stadium over the summer of 1984.

His 1975 track " Power " married frenetic Led Zeppelin guitars to the impassioned exhortations of a Southern American evangelist at the same time that hip hop was discovering the potency of the same ( and related ) kinds of ingredients.

Three actors from the original film have cameos in the remake, appearing on the televisions the survivors watch: Ken Foree, who played Peter from the original, plays an evangelist who asserts that God is punishing mankind ; Scott H. Reiniger, who played Roger in the original, plays an army general telling everyone to stay at home for safety and Tom Savini, who did the special effects for many of Romero's movies and played the motorcycle gang member Blades in the original Dawn of the Dead, plays the Monroeville Sheriff explaining the only way to kill the zombies is to " shoot ' em in the head.

And at this the evangelist was hinting when he said, " Lo, the star went before them, till it came and stood over where the young Child was.

The book follows a fairly standard format in which each separate Gospel book opens with a evangelist portrait of the author and a large decorated initial, or incipit, at the beginning of the text.

In 1990, Bradshaw left his career as a successful disc jockey in New Zealand to become a pastor and evangelist after giving his heart to Christ.

According to his website, he has personally preached to over 120 million people, making him the second most influential Christian evangelist in history, after Billy Graham.

In the episode featuring actor Michael Keaton as a shyster whose con of the moment was parading as a paralyzed born-again evangelist, Martin accepts an invitation to watch a sermon preached by Keaton's character.

Father Divine preached with Morris in Baltimore out of the home of former evangelist Harriette Snowden who came to accept their divinity.

Jemima Wilkinson ( 29th November 1752-July 1, 1819 ) was a charismatic American evangelist who preached total sexual abstinence and the Ten Commandments to her Quaker " Society of Universal Friends.

Elder Juan P Ortega, licensed as a lay evangelist, preached at Chacón through the 1880s.

As " the Messenger ", Baker preached with Morris in Baltimore out of the home of former evangelist Harriette Snowden who also accepted the divinity of Samuel Morris / Father Jehovia.

* Billy Graham, evangelist, preached his first sermons as a licensed assistant / youth pastor at the Tampa Gospel Tabernacle of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in 1933-1937.

While Billy Graham faithfully preached " salvation by faith in Christ alone " throughout his 60 year ministry as an evangelist, he has recently made controversial comments that border on inclusivism ( but he does not like to refer to it by the term, because he is concerned that many people mean universalism when they refer to inclusivism ).

George Whitefield, the Gloucester-born evangelist, preached here

Along with Calvinist evangelist George Whitefield, Edwards preached that God is " in the now " and that there must be an " urgent call for languid will ," in response to the half-hearted will that the Half-Way Covenant allows.

He at first preached as an Anglican evangelist before becoming independent.

Booth was encouraged to be an evangelist primarily through his best friend, Will Sansom.

He later came to know a prominent leader in the movement, Alexander Campbell who encouraged him to become an evangelist, spending his time travelling around the eastern States of America preaching, until eventually settling down as a preacher in Philadelphia.

The church was established by Saint Mark, an apostle and evangelist, in the middle of the 1st century ( approximately AD 42 ).

The necessity of an evangelist office in the church organization has been reinforced repeatedly, based on the passage in Ephesians 4: 11, which states, " And he gave some, apostles ; and some, prophets ; and some, evangelists ; and some, pastors and teachers ".

An evangelist – patriarch's primary responsibility was to provide special blessings to members of the church ; these blessings were considered one of the eight sacraments in the RLDS Church.

Ideally, an evangelist is free from administrative responsibilities in the church in order to allow them to be fully responsive to the Holy Spirit.

However, the term evangelist is rarely used for this position, the church retaining the term Patriarch, the term most commonly used in the days of founder Joseph Smith, Jr.

The most prominent reference to the term evangelist in the denomination's literature is found in its Articles of Faith, derived from the Wentworth letter, a statement by Joseph Smith in 1842 to a Chicago newspaper editor that the church believes in " the same organization that existed in the primitive church ", including " evangelists ".

Ecclesia and evangelist portrait s. A number of biblical passages, including those describing Christ as a " bridegroom " led early in the history of the church to the concept of the church as the Bride of Christ, which was shown in art using a queenly personification.

The evangelist divides history into three stages: the first ends with John the Baptist, the second consists of Jesus ' earthly ministry, and the third is the life of the church after Jesus ' resurrection.

In traditional depictions, such as paintings, evangelist portraits and church mosaics, St. Luke is often accompanied by an ox or bull, usually having wings.

* Dwight L. Moody – 19th century evangelist whose church was burnt down in the fire

He toured with an evangelist in his teens, playing the church organ, and in his late teens he began to find work playing jazz.

The evangelist in some churches is one that travels from town to town and from church to church, spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ.

The title of evangelist is often associated with those who lead large meetings like those of Billy Graham, possibly in tents or existing church buildings, or those who address the public in street corner preaching, which targets listeners who happen to pass nearby.

It is now the church of Christian pastor / evangelist Ernest Angley and was renamed Grace Cathedral.

McQueen attended his local church, Ventura Missionary Church, and was visited by evangelist Billy Graham shortly before his death.

The church's Advisory Council of Elders, acting on a clause in church by-laws added in 1981, was to select a successor after his death, yet Armstrong reportedly worried about the ramifications if certain individuals, such as his son Garner Ted or evangelist Roderick Meredith were selected.

Tkach had worked closely with former church executive Stanley R. Rader prior to Rader's retirement from active service with the Church, and had been ordained to the ministerial rank of evangelist along with Rader and Ellis LaRavia in 1979.

Frisbee was a key evangelist during the growth of the Calvary churches ; Smith was one of the few pastors who welcomed in the hippies who after coming to faith, eventually became known as Jesus people, and thus allowed for the dramatic future growth of his affiliate church network.

Bishop Owens was a noted evangelist of the church and pastored several churches including: Bostick Temple in St. Louis, MO ; Well's Cathedral COGIC in Newark, NJ ; and Greater Community COGIC in Marietta, GA.

In 1745 Shubal Stearns ( 1706 – 71 ), a member of the Congregational church in Tolland, Connecticut, heard evangelist George Whitefield.