12 Tributes to Billy Graham: 'The Finest Man I Ever Knew'

By Michael Gryboski, Mainline Church Editor Twitter

Michael Farris

Michael Farris, who heads the Home School Legal Defense Association, speaks at the American Legislative Exchange Council in 2013.
Michael Farris, who heads the Home School Legal Defense Association, speaks at the American Legislative Exchange Council in 2013. | (Photo: YouTube / Citizens for Self-Governance: Convention of States Project)

Michael Farris, CEO of Alliance Defending Freedom and chancellor emeritus of Patrick Henry College, posted to his official Facebook page a statement in which he explained why he believed Graham was a great man.

"But he was not a great man because he was good. He was a fantastic and charismatic speaker. But he was not a great man because he was charismatic. He counseled presidents. He was not a great man because of this either," wrote Farris.

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"Billy Graham was a great man because he understood that every person who ever lived was a sinner in need of a Savior. And with love and compassion for lost people like we all are or were, Billy Graham told us the Good News that Jesus came to save sinners."

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