They Think It's All Brand New

http://www.christianpost.com/news/

The Christian Post makes it sound like Luis Palau is something rather special - preached to 30 million people in 75 countries with up to 60,000 people at a single sermon - but he'll go the same way as all of his predecessors. He will die; his family will share out all the money in his bank accounts, and thereafter he will be completely forgotten by everyone except a few historians.

Now check out the story of Bill Sunday 

(Billy who?)
 

He was the most famous evangelist operating in America during the early 20th century and now he is completely forgotten by everyone except a few historians.

Over the course of his career, Sunday probably preached to more than one hundred million people face-to-face—and, to the great majority, without electronic amplification ... Sunday estimated that he had preached nearly 20,000 sermons, an average of 42 per month from 1896 to 1935. During his heyday, when he was preaching more than twenty times each week, his crowds were often huge. Even in 1923, well into the period of his decline, 479,300 people attended the 79 meetings of the six-week 1923 Columbia, South Carolina, campaign—23 times the white population of Columbia.

Wages of success

Large crowds and an efficient organization meant that Sunday, the former resident of an orphan home, was soon netting hefty offerings. The first questions about Sunday's income were apparently raised during the Columbus, Ohio, campaign at the turn of 1912–13. During the Pittsburgh campaign a year later, Sunday spoke four times per day and effectively made $217 per sermon or $870 a day at a time when the average gainfully employed worker made $836 per year. The major cities of Chicago, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Boston, and New York City gave Sunday even larger offerings. Sunday donated Chicago's offering of $58,000 to Pacific Garden Mission and the $120,500 New York offering to war charities. Nevertheless, between 1908 and 1920, the Sundays earned over a million dollars; an average worker during the same period earned less than $14,000.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Sunday

And why is he forgotten today? Because he never did anything worth remembering! He was just an average Christian preacher with a better than average PR team - and that's the position of Luis Palau today. He is an average preacher with a better than average PR team but he will be forgotten just as quickly as Billy Sunday because he doesn't actually do anything. He's just another preacher, telling lies to a gullible (and fickle) audience of uneducated idiots.