Luis Palau has been preaching the gospel faithfully for a long, long time. His message doesn’t change: ‘the Lord Jesus Christ died on the cross for us.’
But his methods have been transformed in the last few years, changing both the name and style of his evangelistic events.
First to go was the word ‘crusade’...
LP: We stopped calling them crusades because that was offensive to Muslims but also because that was a WW2 thought. Eisenhower called the landing on the continent the ‘crusade in Europe’ when he wrote his autobiography. Billy Graham picked up on that. At one point we started calling them ‘operations’, but then people started asking if we were having surgery! Eventually the younger guys came up with the term ‘Festival’. So in 1999 we started the first Festival, in Portland, Oregen, where we live.
