dr. billy graham for nearly 70 years. i was thinking earlier that cliff will be greeting those tens of thousands of people who came forward singing just as i am. as we look at the word of god, we find truth. as we read in john, chapter one, it says, in the beginning it was the word and the word was with good -- god. the word was god. the same was in the beginning with god. i didn't know that word until november 2, 1969, at 10:30 p.m. on a sunday night. when i gave my life to christ. wasn't too theological, i just said, lord, i give up, you lead my life. -- that happened, i didn't i would stay up. i was a senior in college. i would read the word of god, midnight, later on, into the early morning. because it fed my spirit. it fed my soul. and it gave me direction of my life. didn't know much about the bible. i went to church. i guess they drug me to church like, you know, you can still see the heel marks in the ground. i knew a lot about church but i didn't know a lot about his ord. there was a minnie seminary, six weeks, a