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Beth Moore might be the surprise one on the list. She has a following outside of the Southern Baptists (my wife was part of a women’s study of a Moore book at our old Vineyard church in Michigan) and might become a leading speaker to a broader evangelical audience.

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Where has his teaching really led? His ecumenicalism has reached new highs or lows depending on how you look at it and also consider that he said he thought Bill Clinton would make a wonderful evangelist.And Mr Schuller is another one whos gospel I would highly question.
Im not trying to be disrespectful here but I think Mr Grahams judgement has become somewhat delusional and putting anyone on a pedestal without discerning what they really think and teach is spiritualy unwise.
This ecumenical emerging church movement should be very carefully looked at by each and every one of us and discerned with the utmost scrutiny and dillegence.If we substitute harmony for substance we are in very deep trouble.My 2 cents!!!

I don’t think people ever really get replaced by other people. The roles tend to just break apart and re-coalesce around others. But I have to say that as a whole, the coming crop look like pygmies compared to their forbears of even a generation ago.

Can the whole list from the post together make up for even Billy Graham, J.I. Packer, John Stott, Corrie Ten Boom, and Francis Schaeffer? Perhaps their books have been exceeded, already. But I think the question is really about another category. Something like “personality” but without the celebrity connotation.

Dr. Graham is the last of the great modern day evangelists the likes of D L Moody, Billy Sunday, Gypsie Smith, John R Rice, and others.

Billy Graham was faithful to the simple gospel of Jesus from the start to the finish and tens of thousands were introduced to the Saviour through his preaching.

Today we have many great orators, men who have large numbers of followers, but what is sorely lacking is the simple gospel of Christ. All the other stuff is largely usless when it is presented at the expense of the good news about Jesus.

Paul had great results without the cunning words of man’s wisdom, without stories and fables, without glitz and glamor…yet many men today think they can be sucessful using those things Paul rejected.

The next Billy Graham? Nope, and there will not be a next Spurgeon or Alexander Campbell or Winston Churchill or Patton or ……

His Peace,
Royce Ogle

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Have to totally agree that if there were one he would be more likely to come from Africa or possibly, another part of the third world.

Ironically probably here in the UK we’d go for some American before we’d go for one of our own or an African. We’re that stupid

I have to say in terms of the younger crowd over here in the UK Rob Bell has made the biggest waves in the last years (after a few people realised that Mel Gibson probably wasn’t gonna turn out to be the next Billy graham although the angle of it not coming from the same media quarter is quiet interesting) In fact the same leader I heard saying that is now raving about Bell. Which is why I was surprised he wasn’t on your list but Driscoll was. Over here in the UK Driscoll is probably only slightly more known than Doug Pagit who is an unknown over here. The only time I’ve seen Driscoll mentioned by a Brit was a really small new church network conference on reaching men that was in Scotland (so not really mainland). Where as Bell has done a national youth worker conference which has to be one of the biggest stages in the country and also had a UK speaking tour, plus his video’s are popping up in every youth or young adult bible studies. Probably closely behind Bell as a young preacher is Giglio. The other big American names over here are those mentioned before Bill Hybels and Rick Warren are pretty big names, warrens books are big over here but I couldn’t see him taking the graham place however the willow creek satellite conference are getting to be a pretty big deal over here building on the status he’s gained through his books.

If I were to suggest some UK contenders because of our obsession with youth culture and young people Mike Pilavachi leader of Soul Survivor (both a church plant in Watford England and a youth organisation with summer festival/conference in England and now being reproduced over the world) He’s probably the single biggest name in the evangelical world over here. He could do it if he doesn’t go the way of Steve Chalk (youth speaker/Baptist minister/outcast of the evangelical world{but nothing to do with the emerging church}) another possible had it not been for that book(The lost message of Jesus). Nicky Gumbell maybe but possibly being an Anglican would put him off for new churchers. My Vote would go either for Archbishop of York John Sentamu is pretty cool and already a man of status.

Driscoll is definitely a man to reach today’s culture, maybe not a Graham, but i think with similar relevance and humble connection of transcendant (and reformed) truths.