Of course, my parents had to grow in their faith and they shared Christ with the three children. On that day in May 1959, a religious household became a Christian home where Christ dwelt. Both of my parents got out of the Ute and moved to the podium where trained people met them for counselling to receive Christ. After Billy’s proclamation of the Gospel, he gave the invitation to repent and to receive Jesus Christ by faith. My religious parents were sitting in their old Ford Prefect utility in the arena of those showgrounds (called fair grounds in the USA). Billy was preaching in Brisbane and his voice was booming out of the loud speaker system at the showgrounds. The change came in 1959 when my parents attended a landline Billy Graham crusade rally at the Bundaberg Showgrounds. But that religion didn’t change the parents and children in our sugar cane farming household. What moves a religious person to become a born again Christian? I was raised in the liberal Methodist church in Bundaberg, Qld., Australia and went to Sunday School and church religiously.
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