From Crip to Christ: Change from the Inside Out

By Eric West

Book Overview

Imagine you?re a sensitive child living with your godly grandmother in small-town Arkansas of the 1960s. One day your mother, almost a stranger to you, arrives to remove you from the only loving home you?ve ever known and take you to live in Watts?the volatile area in south central Los Angeles where the savage Watts Riots had occurred several years before and where the notorious street gangs?the Crips and the Bloods?had recently started up against a hostile world. Back in Arkansas, the severe stuttering condition you?ve always endured had been disregarded as insignificant; but in the hostile atmosphere of the projects in L.A., you find yourself bullied and beaten unmercifully. As a continual victim, you fear for your life, with no source of protection or familiar support. How can you survive? Would allegiance to a gang provide the kind of safety you need? Who could blame you for seeking the only available security? Eric?s decision to become not only a Crip but a hardened leader among them, took him into the valley of the dark side. God had other plans. Follow Eric?s treacherous journey through that valley, the crushing of his spirit and nearly his life, his call toward the peace of God?s mountain, and his climb upward to victory. The difference between Eric the Grape Street Watts Crip and Eric the Man of God is truly so startling that, once you?ve read his searingly honest story, you?ll never doubt God?s unlimited power to change lives again.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0980194040
• ISBN13: 9780980194043
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Thatch Tree Publications
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 15 years and up