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visit Ligon.org slash 2024. Welcome back to another episode of Five minutes in church history.

Last week we talked about Carl Henry and this week we're going to talk about the other architect of modern evangelicalism

The household name Billy Graham. He was born William Franklin Graham in 1918 outside of Charlotte, North Carolina on a large dairy farm.

Graham's family were Presbyterian.

As a youth, he memorized the Westminster Shorter Catechism and his mom

made sure that he had a steady stream of books coming his way, mostly biographies and missionary

histories.

At 15 years of age, he attended a revival meeting

held by Mordecai Ham in Charlotte,

and there he made, in his own own words a decision for Christ.

He both sought salvation, confessing his sinfulness and praying for God's mercy,

and he simultaneously dedicated his life to God.

He went off to study at Bob Jones College and he spent one semester there and then he went

further south to the Florida Bible Institute in Tampa.

In 1939, Graham left his Presbyterianism behind, was baptized as a believer and ordained in the Southern Baptist Convention.

He then went on to Wheaton College from 1940 to 1943, while a student he was pastor of the United Gospel Tabernacle,

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