The Cross and the Switchblade

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The modern Christian classic about life and death in New York's street gangs and the God who reaches out to the unreachable with his transforming love.
The tortured face of a young killer, one of seven boys on trial for a brutal murder, started country preacher David Wilkerson on his lonely crusade to the most dangerous streets in the world. Violent gangs were ruled by warlords, and drug pushers and pimps held New York's ghettoes in an iron grip. It was into this world that Wilkerson stepped, armed only with the simple message of God's love and the promise of the Holy Spirit's power.
More than forty years since it first was published, The Cross and the Switchblade has lost none of its edge, its immediacy or its power. David Wilkerson's ministry today extends worldwide, but here is where it all began, with one of the most inspiring and challenging true stories of all time.
The Cross and the Switchblade was the first book ever handed to me by a Christian. It showed me that God... Tovább

Fülszöveg

The modern Christian classic about life and death in New York's street gangs and the God who reaches out to the unreachable with his transforming love.
The tortured face of a young killer, one of seven boys on trial for a brutal murder, started country preacher David Wilkerson on his lonely crusade to the most dangerous streets in the world. Violent gangs were ruled by warlords, and drug pushers and pimps held New York's ghettoes in an iron grip. It was into this world that Wilkerson stepped, armed only with the simple message of God's love and the promise of the Holy Spirit's power.
More than forty years since it first was published, The Cross and the Switchblade has lost none of its edge, its immediacy or its power. David Wilkerson's ministry today extends worldwide, but here is where it all began, with one of the most inspiring and challenging true stories of all time.
The Cross and the Switchblade was the first book ever handed to me by a Christian. It showed me that God will go to Incredible lengths to reach incredible nutters like me____I knew what Nicky Cruz was going through; I understood
him and his lifestyle. But in the midst of a story centred on fighting to survive, one man stood out. David Wilkerson was the mad vicar who turned the whole story around— This true story gave me the inspiration to carry on.'
—Cameron Dante, author of Ascension: Clubs, Drugs and the Eternal High
Cover design: Curt Diepenhorst Cover photos: Genesis Photographic Vissza