Table of Contents
Introduction: America's Pastor Goes Home Marshall Shelley xi
Part 1 When God Calls
1 Global Champion of the Pure Gospel J. I. Packer 3
2 What It Means to Be "Born Again" 9
3 How to Know You Are Saved 15
4 God's Love 27
5 Growing as a Christian 31
Part 2 The Power of the Gospel
6 A Life of Devotion John N. Akers 39
7 The Book That Gives Life 45
8 How Christ Frees and Unites Us 47
9 Rekindling Our Passion for the Lost 51
10 The Revolutionary Gospel 55
11 The Crucial Importance of Evangelism 65
12 Why the Word Matters So Much 81
13 Maximizing the Message and the Method 93
Part 3 Guard Yourself
14 Avoiding the Traps of Celebrity by William Martin 105
15 Beware the Great Illusions 117
16 When Tolerance Becomes Sin 123
17 Confronting Racism 133
Part 4 My Challenge to God's People
18 The Hero of the Evangelicals by Philip Yancey 139
19 Choose Leaders Who Rely on God 143
20 Recover the Priority of Evangelism 151
21 Respond to the Harvest 165
22 A Bright Tomorrow 173
Part 5 Upon Further Reflection
23 Why I Founded Christianity Today 181
24 Evangelicalism Today 191
25 My Role in the Watergate Crisis 203
26 What I Would Have Done Differently 213
Part 6 The Graham Legacy
27 The Humility of Greatness John R.W. Stott 217
28 Graham the Bridge Builder Richard John Neuhaus 223
29 Growing Up "Graham" Ruth Graham 227
30 More Than a Role Model Tullian Tchividjian 231
31 An Unlikely Friendship Tony Carnes 237
32 The Evangelist of Our Time by the editors of Christianity Today 245
Afterword: Seven Things I Learned from Billy Graham Rick Warren 251
Notes 267