What I admire about David Wilkerson is that, he's been in New York City since the 50's. Yes, he returned to Lyndale a few times, but for as long as I've been alive, "the city" as it's called in the northeast, has also been called "sin city" for as long as we can remember. I was born and raised in NJ - the rest of my family were born in the city, so visiting the city was a common thing for us and me, and when I became a teen back in the 60's and could travel alone by bus and later by car. It was as corrupt back then as one can imagine.
It's one thing to 'be holy' when you live with decent people, have friends mainly from church and only post on a well protected website that demands holiness - but to be in a city that's renowned for it's immorality that is sometimes beyond our ability to describe, is a wholely different subject.
Our 'holiness' is tested when we go where Christians for the most part, dare not go.
David hung in there. He passed the test. And that's why I can listen to him preach on holiness - true holiness.
GOD will one day test each one of us and show us what we're really made out of too. For this my heart prays, that rather than run from these 'sinners', whether on the internet in mixed forums or in our ministries off-line.
They need Jesus and we're the ones who purport to have Him.
My thought is, what safer way to share Jesus now, then on mixed forums, from the safety of our own homes - while we still can reach them and at the same time, get that reality check of how we stand up under the tests that David has been through for all of these decades. Getting in there in the darkest part of this country and making an extreme difference - and though he and others there, have had to hit the floor on their faces many times, they've remained faithful.
With iniquity abounding at an ever increasing rate, whether we like it or not - we eventually will and definitely will, be tested as this man and the fine folk at TSC are, on a daily basis.
Are we truly ready?
