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I think many people on this site are very capable of analysing the effectiveness of preaching. Can we use the example of Billy Graham - one of the best in the business to say why he was top of the pile. Our news in the UK has just said that he was high in the
integrity field and always wanted the transparency of his finances to be crystal clear so he could not have achieved what he did by subversive means . I want to know how a successful evangelist comes about . Why for example did he shout a lot? Was he reasonable or logical or consistent? Was he just a good salesman who found god? Were his tactics the same as salespersons? How many of his converts stayed converted? perhaps we will never find out - but now is the time to ask. Did anyone who was converted by him subsequently blame him for not following through on promises?

Mcflewster 8 Feb 21
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Billy Graham, had a perfect speaking skill. He just found religion and off he went! He really had a simply message, delivered with a convincing open style. I am convinced that most of his appeal was his delivery! Even i, am impressed when he is speaking at the pulpit...and nearly wishing he had something for me! He kept his message simple and to my knowledge never envolved himself in some scandalous affair or situation. I heard on the news that he was worth 9 million dollars...not a lot compared to other televangelist. I also heard that it is suspected that his son Franklin wrote his last books. In my mind, he is just one of those 'decent people'...that could be from any religion.

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He was promoted by publishers Randolph Hearst and Henry Luce: Born on a prosperous dairy farm and educated at Wheaton College, Graham first gained national attention in 1949 when the publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst, searching for a spiritual icon to spread his anti-communist sentiments, discovered the young preacher holding forth at a Los Angeles tent meeting. Hearst wired his editors across the nation, “puff Graham,” and he was an instant sensation.

Hearst next contacted his friend and fellow publisher Henry Luce. Their Wall Street ally, Bernard Baruch, arranged a meeting between Luce and Graham while the preacher was staying with the segregationist Governor Strom Thurmond in the official mansion in Columbia, S.Car. Luce concurred with Hearst about Graham’s marketability and Time and Life were enlisted in the job of selling the soap of salvation to the world. Time, alone, has run more than 600 stories about Graham.

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Once I found out that Billy Graham was peddling the idea of chasing down a Jewish zombie and asking him to forgive you for something done by two naked people who chatted up a serpent in a magic garden, I couldn't stop thinking of him as a complete buffoon. The only thing that's changed is his status as the late Reverend William Buffoon.

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This might be a little helpful. It doesn't reveal much, but it gives a general idea.
Just another christian charlatan.

[time.com]

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Just like any other sales pitch, it is all about building excitement in the product and engaging the customer. convince them that they NEED what you're selling, and the product sells itself. It is brainwashing and subtle hypnosis and so many other persuasive arts all rolled up into one.

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Never been affected by preaching... even when Oral Roberts visited Puerto Rico. Didn't worked on me.

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LOL!
His converts are likely a good part of the 85% white evangelicals who voted for Trump and champion the NRA. I've never seen anyone change for the better after "conversion" except maybe for certain Haitians, who gladly exchanged Christianity for voodoo, since it allowed them to prosper.

The Haitians even read the Creole New Testaments for themselves, and many took it literally-raising the dead, seeing people healed from deadly diseases, seeing miracles.
The missionaries, of course, went to doctors because they could, and didn't do miracles.

I don't think "god" had anything to do with the miracles, but the people sure did. Jesus himself said that "ye are gods" and told people that if they told a mountain to fall into the sea, it would obey them, never mentioning that it should be "god's will" or stipulating a pious act. In fact, the Greek word translated "whosoever" includes all declensions, thus including non-humans in that promise.
According to physics, we participate in creating our own universes/reality.

“I regard consciousness as fundamental and matter as derivative from consciousness." – Max Planck, theoretical physicist who originated quantum theory, 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics

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