Well Done Good and Faithful Servant

In the 1960’s my grandma took me to a Billy Graham Crusade in Denver. Following the message, I watched as thousands of people responded to the altar call, left their stadium seats and filed onto the stadium floor to accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior. Across the country pastors and church leadership criticized Graham’s methods claiming he did not know the heart of the respondents. Were they repentant, did they confess sin and did they really understand the meaning of becoming a Christian? The apostles were teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection of the dead. The priests, captain of the temple guard and the Sadducees were greatly disturbed, “They seized Peter and John, and because it was evening, they put them in jail until the next day. But many who heard the message believed, and the number of men grew to about five thousand” (Acts 4:3-4 NIV).