Analysis Of David Wilkerson's The Cross And The Switchblade

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David Wilkerson author of “The Cross and The Switchblade” grew up in Pennsylvania where his father and grandfather were both Pentecostal ministers. David later married his wife Gwen, they had three children two girls and one boy. David and his family were pastors in Scottsdale and Phillipsburg, Pennsylvania. His life was pointed in a new direction when he saw the pictures of young teenagers in a magazine who had been on trial for a murder they committed in New York. This caught his attention and he suddenly had a heart for the kids who struggled with gang violence, and drug abuse. David and the youth pastor of his church at the time in Phillipsburg went to New York to see what kind of difference they could make. It was a long process for David. …show more content…

They eventually found a building that was full of garbage and trash that someone had been putting in there for their own keeping, and they got the building for $42,000, but they had to come up with a way to make a down payment of $4,200. David and the others on his committee prayed day in and day out for this amount of money to come in, and they finally got that amount plus an extra $200 dollars. They ended up getting the building and fixing it up and calling it Teen Challenge Center. They eventually got people to come and work with them to help bring in the kids from all these broken situations, so they could help them. David continues to tell of how much prayer and faith that it took to run this kind of operation. David said “before September tenth, the money will be in our hands, I’m sure. By that Date, I’ll have a check for $15,000 to show you. I just thought we ought to than God ahead of time” (Wilkerson 212). Through out the book one can see that David is just like any other human being. He has his doubts, but he has one constant thing that keeps him going with this project and that is the complete and total trust in God and his provision over what he felt lead to do in by looking a page in a magazine of seven teens with a troubled

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