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Study Section 13: Heroes between 1918 - 1927

13.1 Connect.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to preach to 80 million people? What if nearly 3
million of these people accepted Christ as their Savior? Would not that be amazing? That’s
exactly how God used Billy Graham to serve him during his life. He lived a long life of almost 100
years. Then there is Jim Elliot, missionary to the Auca Indians of Ecuador, who lost his life in
martyrdom at age 29. In his short life, how many people did he win to Christ? The answer is,
“only God knows, but it is in the millions!” How is this possible, that a person can live such a short
life, yet affect so many for the cause of Christ? We will learn how that is possible in this lesson…..

13.2 Objectives.

1. The student should be able to describe the life of Billy Graham to bring the Gospel to 80 million
people.

2. The student should be able to describe the life of Jim Elliott’s and his quest to bring the Gospel to a
people who had never heard in Equator and who suffered martyrdom at their hands.

3. The student should be able to describe the life of Elisabeth Elliott, Jim’s wife, as she successfully carried the
Gospel to the Auca in Equator.

13.3 Billy Graham 1918 – 2018

https://www.christianitytoday.com/history/people/evangelistsandapologists/billy-graham.html

"When God gets ready to shake America, he may not take the Ph.D. and the D.D. God may choose
a country boy … and I pray that he would!"

The litany of accomplishments is familiar. Billy Graham has preached the
gospel of Christ in person to more than 80 million people and to countless
millions more over the airwaves and in films. Nearly 3 million have
responded to the invitation he offers at the end of his sermons. When America needs a
chaplain or pastor to help inaugurate or bury a president or to bring comfort in times of
terrible tragedy, it turns, more often than not, to him.

For virtually every year since the 1950s, he has been a fixture on lists of the ten most
admired people in America or the world. Thus, it is hardly surprising that a Ladies Home
Journal survey once ranked the famed evangelist second only to God in the category
"achievements in religion."

Into the spotlight
Born near Charlotte, North Carolina, in 1918, Billy Graham first attended Bob Jones College, but he found both
the climate and Dr. Bob's strict rules difficult. He then followed a friend to Florida Bible Institute, where he
began preaching and changed his denominational affiliation from Associate Reformed Presbyterian to Southern
Baptist. To round out his intensive but academically narrow education, he moved north to Wheaton College,

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