![]() ![]() Wilkerson married Gwendolyn Rose "Gwen" Carosso in 1953. The school was affiliated with the Assemblies of God. ![]() After high school, he entered the Central Bible College in Springfield, Missouri. The young Wilkerson began to preach when he was about fourteen. According to Wilkerson's own testimony, he was baptized with the Holy Spirit at the age of eight. His paternal grandfather and his father, Kenneth, were ministers. ![]() He was the second son of a family of Pentecostal Christian preachers, and he was raised in Barnesboro, Pennsylvania, in a house "full of Bibles". Wilkerson tried to avoid categorizing Christians into distinct groups according to the denomination to which they belong.ĭavid Wilkerson was born in 1931 in Indiana. He emphasized such Christian beliefs as God's holiness and righteousness, God's love toward humans and especially Christian views of Jesus. Wilkerson's widely distributed sermons, such as "A Call to Anguish", are known for being direct and frank against apostasy and serious about making the commitment to obey Jesus' teachings. He was the founder of the addiction recovery program Teen Challenge, and founding pastor of the interdenominational Times Square Church in New York City. David Ray Wilkerson (– Ap) was an American Christian evangelist, best known for his book The Cross and the Switchblade. ![]()
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