Modesto Manifesto
As Modesto Manifesto refers to the voluntary code of conduct , to be American evangelicals in the environment of Billy Graham imposed.
Emergence
In November 1948, during an evangelism event in Modesto , American revival preacher Billy Graham and some of his closest associates analyzed the slippages and difficulties other evangelists had suffered in their ministry. Staff included George Beverly Shea , Cliff Barrows, and Grady Wilson . The aim was to develop a strategy to avoid similar difficulties. Those present agreed on a number of principles that evangelicals have since referred to as the Modesto Manifesto.
Principles
The participants agreed in an oral agreement that, as employees of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, they would earn their living exclusively from the agreed salaries and not accept any personal donations or allowances. In addition, they should endeavor to counter any appearance of sexual impropriety by refraining from accepting dinner invitations, confidential conversations, or driving with women alone, except with their own wife. In addition, the participants undertook to publish reliable visitor numbers for their events and not to criticize local churches and clergy.
Individual evidence
- ^ Randall Herbert Balmer: Modesto Manifesto . In: Encyclopedia of Evangelicalism . Baylor University Press, Waco 2004, ISBN 1-932792-04-X , pp. 462 (English).