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Billy Graham on the Lord's Supper

1918 – 2018 · SOUTHERN BAPTIST / EVANGELICAL
NOT LOCATED IN A SOURCENO POSITION FOUND
NO STANCE — AND WHY

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Searched in the sources read for this figure and not found. A limit of the reading rather than a claim about the figure — a source not yet read could settle it.

THE POSITION

Nothing found in his own voice. The one My Answer column on the question has no first person and will not choose between traditions: "churches differ in their understanding of the Lord's Supper," and the Supper "should always remind us of Jesus' death for us." The column may be staff writing, and no sermon or book passage on the mode of Christ's presence was found. Not found in what was read.

WHAT OTHERS HOLD HERE

The elements become Christ's body and bloodAQUINAS · WILLIAM OF OCKHAM · JOHN DUNS SCOTUS
True bodily presence in, with, and under the elementsLUTHER · PHILIP MELANCHTHON
Real but spiritual presence, received by faithAUGUSTINE · CALVIN · JONATHAN EDWARDS · TIM KELLER · SECOND LONDON BAPTIST CONFESSION · JOHN OWEN · R.C. SPROUL · WESLEY · WESTMINSTER CONFESSION
A memorial and sign; no presence in the elementsCHARLES GRANDISON FINNEY · M. HEISER · JOHN MACARTHUR · ZWINGLI
Truly the body and blood, with no account of the modeBASIL THE GREAT · CHRYSOSTOM · IRENAEUS
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ABOUT THIS FIGURE

Evangelist of the citywide crusades from 1947 to 2005, ordained a Southern Baptist minister, founder, with L. Nelson Bell, of Christianity Today (1956) and convener of the 1974 Lausanne Congress. He is generally reckoned to have preached in person to more people than anyone before him and was the public face of postwar evangelicalism. This entry rests on sermon texts dated 1951 to 2005 that the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association republishes on the Decision magazine website, his recorded Billy Graham Minutes, his daily devotions, interviews he gave to Time, Christianity Today, Newsweek and Robert Schuller, and the My Answer column that ran under his name. By the standard account the column was written with staff, so cells that rest on it say so.

15 OF 19 POSITIONS QUOTED
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"Billy Graham on the Lord's Supper", Examined Doctrine, July 2026 edition, https://examineddoctrine.com/position/graham/lords-supper (archived at https://examineddoctrine.com/editions/2026-07/position/graham/lords-supper).

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