I absolutely love your words “Repent and be reconciled to God.” Too many preachers of the gospel now-a-days only preach “believe, believe, believe,” but then leave out the part that is so central: repentance. Good job.

I’m unsure about one thing in this post, however. I’m not sure that you can be the judge over whether or not Billy Graham, Adrian Rogers, and Bill Bright “finished well.” Only God can make that determination. All of those men are sinners. Some pastors blew it publicly, but for every public sin there are 1000 private sins. I suppose this isn’t a huge deal, but if you think they finished well you might want to say they “seem to have finished well,” to avoid presenting yourself as the Judge. No biggie… and that may be what you meant anyway.

Also, to be brutally honest, some of those men held very legalistic views on a variety of topics including teaching us that we should forbid certain foods (i.e. alcoholic beverages) in direct violation of 1 Tim. 4:3 (in light of Duet. 14:26) among other passages. Not to say they are the hypocritical liars of 1. Tim 4., but perhaps they fell into the deception of liars scripture warns us to watch out for. It certainly looks that way to me. Perhaps these men just stumbled in different ways then the others you mentioned. It still can have (and has had) an enormous impact on how the lost the God they represented. God will be the Judge.