Billy Graham’s First Testimony

Posted by Kevin D. Hendricks on January 6, 2009

As a teenager and new Christian, Billy Graham went along with traveling evangelist Jimmie Johnson (not to be confused with the three-time NASCAR champ) to visit a jail in Monroe, N.C. Out of the blue Jimmie asked Billy to share his story: “Here’s a fellow who’ll tell you what it’s like to be converted.”

So with shaky knees Billy Graham shared his testimony for the first time with a crowd of about ten bored prisoners.

“It was the first public utterance I had given of my faith,” Billy wrote in his autobiography, “But it reinforced my conviction that I would never become a preacher.”