Summary of Alice Greczyn's Wayward

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#1 I took my faith very seriously, and I was taught how to wage spiritual warfare at a young age. I understood being a Christian was a grave matter.

#2 I was seven years old when I first questioned God’s goodness. I was sitting in a Baptist church when the pastor told the story of how his two-year-old daughter had suffocated to death in a dry-cleaning bag. God allowed this to happen, but didn’t explain why.

#3 My family was part of a nondenominational church called Vine City Fellowship, which practiced certain traditions of Judaism while believing Jesus to be the Messiah. We allowed the Holy Spirit to guide our services, and we celebrated Christian holidays and Jewish holy days.

#4 I had been taking figure skating lessons since I was four, and I enjoyed it. I had two best friends, Danika Muller and Bethany Andersen, who also went to Vine City. I enjoyed going to their houses because their moms made the best sunny-side-up eggs.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 16, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822516823

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I took my faith very seriously, and I was taught how to wage spiritual warfare at a young age. I understood being a Christian was a grave matter.

#2

I was seven years old when I first questioned God’s goodness. I was sitting in a Baptist church when the pastor told the story of how his two-year-old daughter had suffocated to death in a dry-cleaning bag. God allowed this to happen, but didn’t explain why.

#3

My family was part of a nondenominational church called Vine City Fellowship, which practiced certain traditions of Judaism while believing Jesus to be the Messiah. We allowed the Holy Spirit to guide our services, and we celebrated Christian holidays and Jewish holy days.

#4

I had been taking figure skating lessons since I was four, and I enjoyed it. I had two best friends, Danika Muller and Bethany Andersen, who also went to Vine City. I enjoyed going to their houses because their moms made the best sunny-side-up eggs.

#5

The Toronto Blessing was a spiritual revival that began in Canada in 1994. It changed Vine City in a matter of weeks. Adults called it being slain by the Spirit, and the manifestations of the Spirit did indeed resemble symptoms of alcohol intoxication.

#6

My parents had not always been Christians. My dad, Ted, grew up in a woodsy part of central New Jersey. He would not consider himself a Christian until he developed his own relationship with God at the age of 27, when Jesus healed his shattered leg.

#7

My mother, Jane, rarely spoke about her past with me or how and why she came to Christianity. She maintained a very private life. She found love in what she once described as God.

#8

My family was involved in the Toronto Blessing, a Christian revival that took place in Toronto, Canada, in the late 1990s. The call-to-prayer was when the pastor invited the congregation to receive the Holy Spirit. I had to pretend to have fallen asleep to avoid having to participate.

#9

I was always the oldest one in my prayer group, and I figured that meant I was supposed to be the one getting prayed for. I was ready and waiting to receive a vision from God.

#10

I was called to pray, and when I felt the touch of the Holy Spirit, I convulsed mightily and let out a cry.