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is it a sexual thing for them or are there other reasons? I’m just curious.

The following is an exerpt from "The Cross and the Swithblade" by David Wilkerson, a TRUE STORY about a pastor who went to New York to help teenage gang members.

This part of the book happened when Rev. Wilkerson was trying to decide whether to stay in Pennsylvania or move to New York full-time.

From "The Cross and the Switchblade"
"It was a hot August night, a year and a half after my first timorous trip to New York. I was standing in the pulpit at the Wednesday evening prayer service…Before I knew it the congregation was filing out to go home. At ten thirty I closed up the church and left by the rear door. What happened next was quite simple, yet it was one of those moments of truth I shall never forget as long as I live.
I went out into the backyard of the church.The moon was shining with an unusual brilliance…I turned and looked at the church and the parsonage where Gwen and the three children were safe, happy and secure in their life in a country parish. But as I stood and looked at them, I quiet inner voice spoke to me as clearly as if a friend had been standing nearby. "The church is no longer yours," I was told, "you are to leave."
I looked at the parsonage and the sam einner voice said "This home is no longer yours. You are to leave."
And, in the same still, slow inner voice I answered "Yes Lord, I shall go."
I walked over to the parsonage after that, and there was Gwen, waiting up. She was dressed for bed, but I could tell something had been happening to her, too.
"What is it Gwen?"
"How do you mean?"
"There’s something different about you."
"David," Gwen said, "you don”t have to tell me.I know already. You’re going to leave the church, aren’t you. You’ve got to leave."
I looked at Gwen a long time before I answered her. In the moonlight that glowed into the parsonage bedroom, I could see a tear in her eye.
"I heard it too, David," said Gwen. "We’re going aren’t we?"
In the darkness I put my arms around her. "Yes, my dear. We’re going."

So how do you explain that? How could he and his wife have had such an amazing parallel experience? She heard the same thing as he did.

If you want proof that this story is all true, here’s the Wikipedia article for the the book.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cross_and_the_Switchblade

So what do you think? How do you explain that?

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