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Billy Sunday was a major league baseball player turned evangelist. He was known for his sensational and acrobatic preaching, which made him the most prominent American evangelist during the first half of the twentieth century. He was fearless in challenging what he considered weak forms of Christianity in his day. His pugnacious style of evangelism was especially directed at pompous preachers.
Sunday compared many preachers of his time with the scribes of Jesus' day, "who liked to walk around in long robes and to be greeted with respect in the marketplaces." The evangelist put it this way: "You must remember that Jesus tells us to shine for God. The trouble with some people and preachers is that they try to shine rather than letting their light shine. Some preachers put such a big capital 'I' in front of the cross that the sinner can't see Jesus. They want the glory."
Sunday compared many preachers of his time with the scribes of Jesus' day, "who liked to walk around in long robes and to be greeted with respect in the marketplaces." The evangelist put it this way: "You must remember that Jesus tells us to shine for God. The trouble with some people and preachers is that they try to shine rather than letting their light shine. Some preachers put such a big capital 'I' in front of the cross that the sinner can't see Jesus. They want the glory."
