A life well-lived...

Respected evangelist J. John pays tribute to the life, works and faithfulness of Luis Palau, who has recently died.
 

The passing of the evangelist Luis Palau, aged 86, has recently been announced – and with his ‘promotion to glory’, another of a generation of pioneering preachers has left us.

I had the privilege of knowing Luis and have always had the profoundest respect and affection for him both as an individual and as a powerful proclaimer of the good news of Jesus.

The outline of Luis’ life can be simply told.

He was born in Argentina in 1934 and came to faith through the work of a missionary at the age of 12 – and, from that moment , he felt compelled to share Jesus with others.

Encouraged and supported by Billy Graham, he developed a ministry as an evangelist and, by the 1970s, began to have a distinctive global impact. In the decades that followed, he crisscrossed the world holding evangelistic events in 70 countries and preaching to literally countless num...