This lack of interest in the historical Jesus has been characteristic of Christianity at a popular level as well. One of the most visible exponents of Protestant Christianity in the twentieth century has been the American evangelist Billy Graham. As a conservative Christian, Graham has always insisted that all of the stories about Jesus in the NT should be accepted as straightforward historical accounts. Jesus really did do and say all the things reported of him in the Bible. But in his preaching, Graham summons individuals to be born again, to enter into a personal relationship with Jesus, to ask him to come into their hearts as their personal Lord and Savior. The focus of his faith, in other words, appears to be the risen, spiritual Christ that Schweitzer and Bultmann also confessed. Despite Graham’s insistence that the biblical accounts are historically accurate, one has to wonder whether it would ultimately make much difference for his theology wether they were or not (Mark Powell, Jesus as a Figure in History, WJK: 1998, 19).