![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Personally I found this refreshing and certainly doesn’t take away from powerful impact he had on so many lives. In this work he doesn’t shy away from the mistakes he makes or the conflict Gwen and he have in their marriage. He was surrounded by miracles of provision, healing and changed lives yet he resolves this ambiguity of his personal life. This limited the work he wanted to do so much – youth crusades around the US and the world. Wilkerson talks about the fear flying that plague him all his life – more like paralysed him. His work with gangs and drug users in New York is legendary and told engagingly in the multi-million bestseller ‘The Cross and the Switchblade.’īeyond the Cross and the Switchblade is more open, honest and authentic than the heroic predecessor. He is a country boy brought up in a strict Pentecostal home and Bible College trained and an ordained minister by the time he is 21. Wilkerson was a product of his time and culture as is often revealed in his beliefs and reactions. They will either think David Wilkerson is a fool or they will be impressed by the simplicity, almost naivety, of his faith and his consuming passion to reach young people where they were at. People would have one of two reactions reading this. Quaint, touching and authentic as a mid 20th century Pente preacher could get.īeyond the Cross and the Switchblade by David Wilkerson (1974) is quaint. ![]()
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