Street Stories - A Ringside Seat To Over 4 Decades Of Taking Jesus To The Streets Of The World

Then, says Bobby, they begin to see God the Father. “They can see it inside of us, not so much the glimmer in our eyes, but in the fact that we’ll feed them, or take them to a house, or give them clothes. Show an interest in them. And they say, ‘Why are you doing this?’ Well, because this is what a Father is really like. This is what He does for me, and this is what I want to do for you.” The Holy Ghost Repair Service also ran a house, The House of Magdalene. This is not as easy as it sounds. Bobby says, “When we first opened up the house, I thought, man, I could just go up to anybody and they would jump at the chance to get off the street. But you have to understand what will happen to them. If they get out of this, they don’t know what else to do. They might even ask, ‘What happens if I leave the streets, I don’t like it, and I come back to Lucky? What’s he going to do to me? Or what happens if I go to your place and you’re some kind of freako and I end up worse off than I am now? ’” It’s not such a hot idea from their point of view, and, as Bobby told me about some of the girls who found a home in the House of Magdalene, I was surprised to hear that, although some of the girls ended up in full time ministry, many of their stories ended with the girl back on the street or never heard from again. I blurted out something about how hard this must be. Bobby nodded knowingly, “My compassion,” he explained, holding his finger and thumb together, “is only about that deep. You’d think, boy, everything’s really cool. I’m really helping people and, wow, look at Nancy. And then they cuss you out and kick you and rip you off or something. And I want to say, ‘Hey, who needs this?’ So our humanitarian idea of helping people, you know:

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