an interview with talk-show host David Frost, Graham said, “I believe that the gospel is preached, however badly or with however many mistakes. . . . The Holy Spirit is the communicatory agent; that people are really not listening to me after about ten or fifteen minutes if I’m really preaching the gospel. I think they’re listening to another voice inside, the voice of the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit is applying and communicating.”57 Graham thus insists that the spiritual birth is essentially
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