The Rev. Billy Graham's ability to bring Christians together through his magnetic preaching of the gospel has gone unmatched.
His legacy as a unifier for evangelicalism, highlighted this week as word of his death spread, stands in contrast to the Christian movement's continued splintering. It is a fact that Ed Stetzer, the executive director of the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College in Illinois, thinks the late-evangelist would grieve.
"He brought together evangelicalism," Stetzer said. "I think today evangelicalism is fractured and fracturing."
The fragmentation is on many levels from how to relate to culture and engage in politics to disagreeing over what the heart of evangelicalism is, he said.
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