Tuesday, September 3, 2013

The Cross and the Switchblade


Nicky Cruz: "You come near me and I'll kill you!"
David Wilkerson: "Yeah, you could do that. You could cut me up into a thousand pieces and lay them in the street, and every piece will still love you."
 
Christian Audio is offering The Cross and the Switchblade as their free audiobook download for the month of September. If you've never read it, you don't know what your missing. This is what the cross is all about. 

You can watch the full length film here:




This is obviously an old movie (1970). It is a classic among Christian films. Some may consider the acting and directing to be a bit cheesy, but it has changed lives and influenced many to get involved in ministering to drug addicts and gangsters. It inspired me as well, going into neighborhoods where most people are very afraid to even go near, including but not limited to The Robert Taylor Projects and Cabrini Green in Chicago. Very few Christian movies go into the nitty gritty business of exploring "street evangelism", fewer still, offer even a glimpse of the serious prayers and tears involved in such anguish of soul. I don't think David Wilkerson would've had it any other way.