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We Dance Because We Cannot Fly - Stories of Redemption from Heroin to Hope
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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9781852403201
ISBN: 1852403209
Label: Sovereign World
Manufacturer: Sovereign World
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: 2003-06
Publisher: Sovereign World
Sales Rank: 200592
Studio: Sovereign World
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Light has shone into the black holes of humanity. Decades of drug addiction; horrific abuse; multiple suicide attempts; gangster violence; prison; prostitution; homelessness....yet, through the power of God's love, an association of churches known as Betel, has helped thousands of desperate heroin addicts to be set free from their downwardly spiralling existence and experience freedom in Christ. There is hope for all of us. Humberto Fernandez, in his book, Heroin said, "Our perception of addiction as an incurable disease has not changed much. In 1930 Sirovich stated: 'Medical science is almost powerless to redeem these unfortunates.' Today we say treatment can work, but the fact is it works for relatively few...". One wonders what Fernandez might have written if he had been to Betel.
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It changed mine for the better. My hope was renewed. It reminded me just how big and loving that God is. Even when we think we have totally missed the mark, when our plans seem to have failed, He has a bigger and better plan. What the world may view as useless, God has a purpose for. After reading this book in 2001, God blessed me with an opportunity to visit the Betel in Birmingham, England, as a missionary. The people there captured my heart, just as the book had. I have returned to Birmingham ... Read More
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Gotta get it. I've already read it twice. It is so humbling and challenging to read about these awesome men and women doing great exploits who only years or months before would have been considered the less-than-nothing of society. Great for non-Christians too.
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