” He walked in the streets, in the slums, and he was filled with an overwhelming sense of compassion. “
Pathological altruism. He needs to take care of his own people first and then he can get the warm fuzzies by helping the non-producers. Oooh, is that cynical or what?
"Pathological altruism?!" "His own [white] people" were churched and doing quite well in PA, while the help he gave gang members in NYC was not some welfare check, but the transformative gospel and deliverance whereby they would become producing members of society rather than the burden on it, which would typically be the case had he not stood in the gap. And which is clearly Scriptural. Or do you have a problem with the Lord Jesus acting like as Wilkerson did? And you needed or need salvation just as they did.
Jordan, please watch Nicky Cruz in person and tell us again what you think of David Wilkerson:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTJP3vy6Jv0
Yes, it’s cynical.
And wrong.
If God put a burden on his heart for the gangs in NYC, then he better well have listened to it and gone.
Look at the outcome. That was a work of God. Wilkerson was the man for the job.
“And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.”
—Mark 16:15
The Lord’s sheep are found among every nation, tribe, people, and language. We are to go forth and spread the good news.