Chasing the Dragon

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Basic gist: woman goes to Hong Kong slum with no plans and no money, and through her, people are saved, lives are changed, and Jesus is glorified. With no money, no job, and no prospects, she embarked on an adventure which would mean the transformation of hundreds of lives inside Hong Kong's infamous Walled City. Jackie Pullinger's missionary autobiography tells of how her strong faith encouraged brutal Triad gangsters to convert, prostitutes to quit, and drug addicts to clean up. As part of the Assassin’s Guild, she’s sworn to her master, Arobynn Hamel, yet Celaena listens to no one and trusts only her fellow killer for hire, Sam.

Having read the first edition about 18 years ago and been enthralled, I can say only that the second edition with two new chapters to bring us up to date is even better. Over the years we had hundreds of short-termers who want to get the picture immediately - if possible, on video - so they can show it to their home church and have an inspired evening.This new compilation of her published work features pieces on why you should pursue purpose over passion, embrace negative thinking, see the wisdom in daily routine, and become aware of the cognitive biases that are creating the way you see your life. When you're doing something that's out of the ordinary, your mental programing, your paradigm, will try and stop you.

Then I thought it might be in the last chapter, but that too was full of more highlights and then it just ends abruptly with another person getting miraculously healed. She pioneered love among addicts and prostitutes and eventually discovered that if they were sincerely willing to accept Jesus, His substitutionary death and resurrection, and pray in tongues, they would not have withdrawal symptoms.One adventurous woman's life (because she hated the words missions and ministry) in the slums and drug dens of Hong Kong. What is important is whether we have loved in a real way -- not preached in an impassioned way from a pulpit. When he arrived, his father, who had come off opium himself and become a believer, said simply, "Now that Jesus has made my sons good, I'm ready to go to heaven. Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills 3,000 years of the history of power into 48 well-explicated laws.

Afterward, the father rose to his feet and announced, "Once I was young and now I am old, but never before have I seen a bad man become good. Jackie Pullinger has helped to turn a city around and has saved lives, all because of the compassion that she's received from Jesus.A story of a missionary, and a woman missionary going to Hong Kong in the era of walled city, when the triads triumph.