The Rev. Billy Graham -- one of the most famous evangelists in the world -- recently reminded followers of a popular speech he made in 1973, titled "The National Crisis," and said that today America is diseased by sin and faces some of its biggest challenges, the Christian Post website reports today (May 3, 2013).
"Our newspapers and our television screens are bringing news of a hundred and one dangerous problems that are rocking the world. Each day seems to add to our already impressive number of crises here at home -- an accelerating crime rate, mass murders, soaring drug use, rampant inflation, pollution, the breakdown of families, a jittery stock market, the 94-year-old evangelist said.
Reflecting on his 1973 speech -- after the Supreme Court decision on Roe v. Wade which legalized abortion in the country -- Graham said that during the past year, "American people have suffered an emotional trauma that has had few parallels in our history."
Despite political tension and the still struggling economy, the evangelist said that the real crisis that confronts people in our nation is moral and spiritual, not political or economic. "If we fail to solve this moral and spiritual crisis, we may be doomed like the great nations of the past," Graham warned. He concluded that to solve our crisis, "Our nation must seek again the way of God and walk in the law of God."
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