‘Does anyone have a testimony?’ He called out. I was in the audience. This book is my response to Pastor Brown. This is what God has done in the life of Ken Reed. Expect to read surprising things. Because He was working in the life of Ken Reed, a cannonball-dive-into-the-cesspool sinner, He was working with fatally flawed material. Yet He loved this boy, so He intervened when I had been doing my best for ab ...Täielik kirjeldus
‘Does anyone have a testimony?’ He called out. I was in the audience. This book is my response to Pastor Brown. This is what God has done in the life of Ken Reed. Expect to read surprising things. Because He was working in the life of Ken Reed, a cannonball-dive-into-the-cesspool sinner, He was working with fatally flawed material. Yet He loved this boy, so He intervened when I had been doing my best for about ten years to disparage and curse His people, convinced that I wasn’t ‘the faith type’. But I had come at last to the point of exhaustion, a final knot on the rope to which I clung and dangled over the Abyss of Hell, which is where this book begins.It’s the story of a Blessed Community, a Mennonite community. I was dyed-in-the-wool. My story sets in the Mennonite landscape of the 1955 – 84 period and profiles the Mennonite institutions and celebrates well-known Mennonite figures of my life. Yet the scandal at the heart is that I walk away from it all. I dedicate the book to all who walked (or ran) away from the Blessed Community..