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<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a><\/a><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/i><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/i><\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\nOn March 4, 2019, Billy Graham\u2019s book Happiness of Living in Christ. Billy Graham\u2019s Sermons<\/em> was presented at the Ss Cyril and Methodius Institute of Post-Graduate Studies (CMI). The book was prepared by the Poznanie Publishers as part of a joint project of the CMI and the Billy Graham Evangelical Association.<\/p>\n
The book was presented by the CMI rector and the chairman of the Department for External Church Relations (DECR), Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, and the president of the Billy Graham Evangelical Association, Rev. Franklin Graham, the son of the famous preacher.<\/p>\n
Opening the presentation, Metropolitan Hilarion said, \u2018Billy Graham was not just an outstanding preacher of the 20th<\/sup> century, but also a legendary man\u2019 whose sermons brought together whole stadiums of people.<\/p>\n \u2018Billy Graham loved Russia and was not shy of this love\u2019, His Eminence stressed, \u2018In spite of the confrontation between the USSR and the USA, Billy Graham did not just use to come to our country but also addressed large audiences, including in America, speaking about our country.<\/p>\n The metropolitan pointed out to Billy Graham\u2019s Christ-centered sermons. \u2018He was a Protestant preacher but the spirit of his preaching was Orthodox. Trough vivid images he managed to bring the Gospel\u2019s message home to people and even convince non-believers\u2019.<\/p>\n \u2018Our Churches have much in common, and our moral positions coincide in many ways\u2019, His Eminence summed up his remarks.<\/p>\n The son of the preacher and continuer of his cause, Franklin Graham, too, spoke about his father\u2019s love of Russia and the Russian Church: \u2018My father\u2019s heart was very much disposed to the people of Russia; he prayed for them, He came not for the sake of politics and for speaking about Christ Who assumed our sins\u2019, the leader of the Evangelical Association recalled.<\/p>\n In spite of the fact that Billy Graham \u2018did not want to be spoken about himself but wished that all the glory should go only to God, he was delighted at the publication of this book\u2019, the preacher\u2019s son recalled. Metropolitan Hilarion and Franklin Graham also recalled with warmth the only meeting His Eminence had with Billy Graham, which was a great joy for the both.<\/p>\n CMI Press Service<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On March 4, 2019, Billy Graham\u2019s book Happiness of Living in Christ. Billy Graham\u2019s Sermons was presented at the Ss Cyril and Methodius Institute of Post-Graduate Studies (CMI). The book was prepared by the Poznanie Publishers as part of a joint project of the CMI and the Billy Graham Evangelical Association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":171113,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,1,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}