When is david wilkersons funeral

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Are there irreconcilable differences between faith and science? Not in the opinion of prominent scientists who participated in a five-year study by Rice University. Researchers there found that only a minority of scientists questioned at major research universities say that religion and science required distinct boundaries. Nicky Cruz and David Wilkerson Instead, Wilkerson told Nicky Cruz that even if sliced into little pieces, each one of them would love the kid. She's getting stronger," reported Greg Wilkerson.

During the memorial service, broadcasted to two overflow locations and streamed live online, speakers characterized the late Wilkerson as a spiritual father and close mentor. Pastor Don Wilkerson said his brother, eight years his senior, was a "father figure" to him after their own father passed away. He recalled the life-changing experience of being called by the late Wilkerson to serve at Times Square Church. But when he died at 53 years of age, that dream died with it. So, in , when my brother asked me to come join him here, it was a resurrection of that dream.

The younger Wilkerson also served at Teen Challenge, a Christ-centered drug addiction recovery program founded by David Wilkerson, who chronicled the story in the best-selling book The Cross and the Switchblade.

Pastor Wilkerson also recounted an epic statement made by his older brother following a dispute that arose over the Times Square Church location. In asking why David Wilkerson chose this particular theater as the site for the church, the theater company suggested the reasoning probably laid behind the theater's large stage and reputation for having had many stars performed on its stage.

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Like I said I hope that the crash investigation reveals a medical condition or something else that caused him to lose control of the car if only for the sake of his admirers that placed him on a super-human pedestal for decades and so that jealous peers would not use it against him in death.

God bless you I appreciate your prayers and as I am so want to admit I am ever in the need of the mercy of God. He means no disrespect, and is simply trying to explain to people, who are not as thoroughly aware of Mr. Wilkerson, and to show how much pain he drew onto himself in the course of his ministries. Both the Padre and I have been through times of extreme trial in our lives, and I can speak personally to having had suicidal thoughts when the pain and travails seemed too much to handle.

Neither he nor I, nor I believe anyone else, has accused Mr. Wilkerson of any illegal or immoral act, but simply brought up the possibility to show that men of God are still men, still mortal, and can suffer the same agonies as you or I.

Padre Steve is a very good person, and he is not launching any attacks or smear campaigns. Please accept his words as teachings to those unfamiliar with David Wilkerson, to show the depth of his compassion and caring for his fellow man, and not as insult to the memory of this great spiritual leader.

Take care, and God bless. I can appreciate your imagination that someone as faithful to God would drive his vehicle into an on coming truck in order to end it all, however, I know the heart that beat within the man….

And I hope you never have to feel the burden that men like David Wilkerson have to bear. Many are called but few are chosen…. Yes, I believe God reached down and plucked his servant from off the earth before HE send more wrath to come. Linda While I can understand how you feel I do believe that you have created an idol out of David Wilkerson that he would not approve. David Wilkerson was a tremendous man of God but you obviously cannot be objective.

David Wilkerson lived under tremendous pressure he was a role model and a genuine man of God and as a minister I can tell you that it is lonely and there are few that you can share your deepest feeling or doubts with simply because of reactions like your own. You claim to know his heart but that is presumptive and arrogant.

He saw himself as a servant and while he certainly was a Jeremiah like figure in a prophetic sense he never equated his life in such a manner. You can see what you want and even condemn me for suggesting that suicide was a possibility but I never said anything bad about him and I pray that his death was not a suicide for reasons that I have mentioned to previous commentators, I just smashed your idolatrous view of him. Maybe that needed to be done regardless of his cause of death. I bear you no ill and ask that you keep me a sinner in your prayers because I know that I am always in need of the mercy and grace of God.

I know also that all great men of God, like Wilkerson are under severe pressure — and therefore need the prayers of the saints to under gird them. If it indeed turns out that David Wilkerson took his life — this one act would in no way detract from the great things that God did through him.

In my mind, David Wilkerson will always be a great man of God. My heart and prayers go out to the Wilkerson family and the driver of the truck who was also injured.

Thank you so much for your comments and insight. I can only say Amen. He very well could have been depressed. We know that when people are depressed, they are easily distracted and find it hard to focus or pay attention to things; and accidents can happen. I have insisted on driving people when I knew they were in an emotional crisis and their attention span and distractability was high and they could be a hazard to themselves and to others on the road.

Was he telling the truth? So where did this Vision come from? He powerfully motivated us all to be more serious and focused on bringing others to Christ and to prepare for the coming of Jesus! It was an exciting time. Wilkerson reminded us all of of the holiness tradition within evangelicalism. At the same time: Dave was wrong about so much. He lived in a world of the forces of God vs.

Perhaps with advancing age, the utopian beliefs he had clung to and preached for his entire life, were starting to fray around the edges? The things he predicted in The Vision never came to pass. The s came and the focus of the evangelical world shifted from the fervent apocalypticism of the s to trying to turn America back to its supposed Christian roots through political efforts, stopping abortion and making sure that gays are still discriminated against by our laws.

Perhaps Dave was going through some kind of de-conversion process where he was starting to doubt and be skeptical? So what do you do if you are starting to doubt?

Preach faith and holding on! One preaches to the people and also to oneself. Not to speak ill of Dave, but in hindsight, I see him, like all of the charismatic preaches and teachers of whatever camp I followed in the s Jesus People days, as essentially quacks. They live in a la-la land of make-believe and unreality.

A tragic end to a man whom I no doubt believe was sincere and compassionate, but who never outgrew the fundamentalist faith he learned as a child. Larry I remember the Jesus movement in California during the s. It was an interesting time. I think that you are correct about preaching to himself as well as his followers I got that feeling from reading the past several months worth of his blogs. It is a tragic end even if it is not a suicide. Dear Padre Steve, Thank you for writing about this, and thank you for your patient and gentle boldness with your replies.

It reminds me of David Wilkerson. He was my real-life role model of a true Christian and a true leader. The hearing of this death saddened me. I anticipated that this great man of God died peacefully in his sleep. But, when I found out how he died, I was floored. It sounded to me like a suicide note. And, though old school, I could not understand why a God fearing man would blatantly disobey the law by not wearing a seat belt. However, I can also imagine him pulling it out if he was experiencing severe chest pains from a heart attack while driving.

I have agonized over this for the past few days and grew more depressed with the absence of a public explanation as to the cause of his death.

My agony worsened as I sensed a reluctance of my brothers and sisters to consider that our beloved leader may have failed in his final hour. It is this unquestionable loyalty that makes us vulnerable like sheep to good leaders gone bad. Pastor Dave recognized this danger as he grew in fame, and he made deliberate efforts to expose his vulnerabilities to us. I remember him often saying that he wants us to know that he struggles just like we do.

After reading all the comments, and knowing his character, even if clinically depressed, I am sure that this was NOT a suicide. Amazingly, now the last devotional reads as instructions to me on how to deal with his death. So, he provided instructions for us to stick unwaveringly to the Word of God, no matter what happens around us.

Additionally, this man was ready to meet Jesus, but still felt fear in his last days. That too now makes sense to me because of the violence around his death. It reminds me of the fear Jesus had because He knew how violently he would die.

Thank you. Tom I appreciate your comments and I do hope this was not a suicide but suicide is within the realm of possibility and cannot be discounted.

Grief and despair which seem to permeate his writings of the past few months can cause people to act in ways other than they would normally act and are not a personal failure or even a sin.

Suicide is not a rational act and even very Godly people can succumb to the pressures of grief, loss, despair and perceived failure in life on in ministry. I hope that people will look on all the good and remember those things even if turns out to be a suicide which again I hope that it is not. Unfortunately if it is many people will remember that more than all the good. Peace be with you and thank you for writing.

First, I have a background in law enforcement, and the accident does raise questions. If there is anything suspicious here, I believe it will come out. Still, I prefer to believe that this accident was exactly that — an accident. None of the righteous things he has done will be remembered.

Because of the unfaithfulness he is guilty of and because of the sins he has committed, he will die. And if Pastor Wilkerson attempted the murder of his wife, and risked the life of an innocent man, then he sinned… and excusing it by chalking it up to depression does not change that. Are you wiser than Him? The man was in deep despair and I only suggested that suicide was a legitimate possibility.

You tend to decide that the atoning blood of Jesus on the Cross has little value. God loves David Wilkerson no matter what the circumstances of his death. But then it seems that the message of reconciliation is foreign to you. If you want to live in the Old Testament than do it and expect no mercy from God when you fall into sin or despair of life. Excuse me on that, expect no mercy if the grace and mercy of God purchased with the blood of Jesus means less to you than trying to justify your legalism and judgmental attitude.

Hi DL Kennedy, your statement appears accurate…….. I ask you…. Who are you, really? Where did you come from, really? Why are you here, really?

Answer these questions correctly and you will not question your precious brother ever again. Tell him, I said hello. I have never once heard David speak of the deliverance ministry while reading his daily messages; where believers can be free indeed from their personal demons and the inherited curses entering our bloodline because of the sins of our fore fathers.

If it was not for the deliverance ministry I would have been dead a long time ago. I must do personal self deliverance several times a week or I would find life to be unbearable.