Re: Your opinion of David Wilkerson?
 

I read "The Cross and the Switchblade" many years ago.
I've also read a couple more of his older books but nothing new for the past few years.
I've seen the movie "Cross and the Switchblade" with Pat Boone playing Wilkerson, not too good.

David Wilkerson has my deepest respect as a man of God. Several years ago I went to a local Assembly of God church to hear him speak. I was disappointed and dismayed. I expected him to be an orator or a preaching machine. I thought surely someone that is used of God the way he has been would be a polished, smooth preacher. He wasn't. It wasn't until later that I realized that his power and anointing is not in a smooth speaking approach but in results with many, many lives transformed by God's power.

I remember reading about him and others preaching on the streets. Some times the altar call would take 45 minutes as folks would slowly come down fire escapes from roof tops. They would kneel on the street, submit to Jesus, and be completely changed. (I know this doesn't fit OP theology but what else could you call them but new creatures and born again?)

I receive his sermon letters and he does indeed seem to be a prophet to me.

Re: Your opinion of David Wilkerson?
 

I just read the wikipedia entry for David Wilkerson. Here it is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wilkerson

Re: Your opinion of David Wilkerson?
 

The Cross And Switchblade had a great influence on my teenage years. Reading of his street ministry among the gangs in New York was really exciting to a young 13 year old who was attending a dead Church of Christ. Nothing happened there except religous works it seemed.

So his story helped me hope there might be more to "Church" than what I knew. Even tho I never commited to Christ for 7 years after reading it I never forgot it. Then the first few years as a believer I read whatever he put out and went to see him twice.

I still respect his faith and holiness message but am sad he has never moved much from the Assembly of God doctrine.

Re: Your opinion of David Wilkerson?
 

Dave Wilkerson is a very humble minister who seems to be a man of great integrity. I highly respect him and what he's done for the Kingdom.