“John and I had a standing joke when we would hear of a book being written about him. I would threaten to write an expos after he died and live off the proceeds in the Bahamas. However, one morning on our way home from church he spoke seriously about it for the first time ever. "When I die, you write the book, Carol, and tell them The Way It Was.”
So begins Carol Wimbers engaging and, at times, deeply moving account of the life of her husband, John, who died in November 1997.
John Wimber is best known as a Great Evangelist, a huge influence on the evangelical Church worldwide and a pioneer of the system of church planting. He was the founder of the Association of Vineyard Churches and in the `8Os a lecturer at Fuller Theological Seminary, where his course on miracles and church growth was the most popular ever. He was a writer whose books Power Evangelism and Power Healing were bestsellers.
This book reveals much about the man behind the public persona: generous to a fault, a man who wished only to serve Jesus, a former rock musician who played with The Righteous Brothers and wrote songs that anyone could play. In the book, Carol does not gloss over the darker points of their time together: the near breakup of their marriage in 1961 before they became Christians and his courageous battle with cancer in the 1990s. Her book is essential reading for all who loved John and for anyone who wishes to know more about this man who spiritually impacted the world in the twentieth century.
