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The Cross and the Switchblade
The Cross and the Switchblade
Author: The Reverend David Wilkerson
Five Years ago, David Wilkerson, a young country minister, started a lonely-and seemingly doomed-crusade. He went into the streets and slums of New York to preach the gospel of redemption to the big city's gang kids-teenagers hardened to every kind of crime and viciousness.
ISBN: 234000
Publication Date: 11/1977
Pages: 173
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Publisher: Spire Books
Book Type: Paperback
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Excellent read. Good insight into the beginnings of a ministry and the power of God at work in the lives of those who follow Him.

I was a little disappointed in the ending as the last few chapters seemed to drag out and begin to take on the feeling of a fundraiser.
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The true story of a country preacher's fight against teen-age crime in big city-city slums.


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