Lost Boy My Story

by Laurie, Greg; Vaughn, Ellen Santilli

• ISBN13: 9780830745784
• ISBN10: 0830745785
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-06-02
• Publisher: Regal

Summary

As a hippie and drug user who had grown-up in a dysfunctional family, Greg Laurie knew what it was to be lost. A seventeen-year-old, long-haired Greg soon discovered his passion for seeing people rescued from hopelessness and transformed into renewed beings with a saving faith in Christ. Laurie quickly became a wonder and an example as to how God could use someone with a sordid past to impact the world with the gospel. Throughout Gregrs"s autobiography, be encouraged by the trials he overcame and the far-reaching impact these lessons have had. The Lordrs"s influence in Gregrs"s life has been thoroughly evidenced by the fruit seen from the ministries Greg has planted, watered and grown; namely, Harvest Christian Fellowship (one of the 8 largest churches in America) and the Harvest Crusades. Greg Lauriers"s legacy has been seasoned with trials and questions, but if God can take a hippie from a severely dysfunctional family and raise him to be one of the nationrs"s leading evangelists and pastors, what can God do with you?

Author Biography

GREG LAURIE is senior pastor of Harvest Christian Fellowship in Riverside, California. He began his pastoral ministry at the age of 19 by leading a Bible study of 30 people, which God has since transformed into a congregation that is among the eight largest churches in America. In 1990, Laurie began holding public evangelistic events called Harvest Crusades. Since then, more than three million people have attended Harvest Crusades across the U.S., Canada, New Zealand and Australia. He is the author of over 35 books, including the Gold Medallion Award-winner, The Upside-Down Church and his most recent Regal release Lies We Tell Ourselves.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 11
Foreword	p. 12
Preface: A Word of Explanation	p. 16
Thumbnail Sketches	p. 18
Turtle on a Post	p. 24
One-Night Stand	p. 28
Lost Girl	p. 30
Pogo	p. 34
Mr. Nobody	p. 37
Keep Your Head Up	p. 40
New Name	p. 43
Trouble in Paradise	p. 46
Under the Sea	p. 49
Blowin' in the Wind	p. 53
Mayhem at the Love-in	p. 61
Blank Slate	p. 64
Altered States	p. 69
Jesus People	p. 76
An Unlikely Duo	p. 79
The Real Thing	p. 87
Choices/Changes	p. 93
Pirate Preacher	p. 98
Starving Artist	p. 105
New Territory	p. 114
A "Large Place" Starts Small	p. 119
Some Assembly Required	p. 125
Working for the Harvest	p. 130
Collars and Calling	p. 137
From Billy Graham to Disneyland	p. 145
Just the Gospel	p. 151
When Boomers Get Old	p. 156
Oscar Comes Home	p. 161
Prodigal Surprises	p. 167
Dna and Other Loose Ends	p. 176
Disappointment with God?	p. 182
Repullulat: It Buds Afresh	p. 187
Postscript: Lost and Found	p. 189
Living Water Tract	p. 197
Lost Boys and Lost Girls: Their Stories	p. 199
About Ellen Vaughn	p. 218
With Gratitude	p. 219
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