Holy Roller: Finding Redemption and the Holy Ghost in a Forgotten Texas Church (1st ed.)

Julie Lyons was working as a crime reporter when she followed a hunch into the South Dallas ghetto.

She wasnt hunting drug dealers, but drug addicts who had been supernaturally healed of their addictions.

Was there a church in the most violent part of the city that prayed for addicts and got results?At The Body of Christ Assembly, a rundown church on an out-of-the-way street, Lyons found the story she was looking for.

The minister welcomed criminals, prostitutes, and street peopleanyone who needed God.

He prayed for the sick, the addicted, and the demon-possessed, and people were supernaturally healed.

Lyonss story landed on the front page of the Dallas Times Herald.

But she got much more than just a great story, she found an unlikely spiritual home.

Though the parishioners at The Body of Christ Assembly are black and Pentecostal, and Lyons is white and from a traditional church background, she embraced their spiritualitythat of the Holy Ghost and fire.

Its all here in Holy Rollerthe stories of people desperate for Gods help. And the actions of a God who doesnt forget the people who need His power.

From the Hardcover edition.