Onward Christian Soldiers: The Charismatic Preacher And The Intoleristas

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  It's the early 1970s.

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  Doug Wilson is in his late teens and he lives with his parents in Moscow, Idaho, near downtown, right by the public high school.

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  There's a ditch that they used to call Doper's ditch because the kids would come off of the school property to smoke cigarettes and get into trouble and whatever.

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  And one morning my dad looked out and saw a cop dispersing.

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  All the kids just get a move along, move along.

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  So my dad ran out there and said to the officer, officer, can the kids smoke in my garage?

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  Cop said, well, it's your garage, okay?

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  So the cop chased them all into the garage.

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  And my dad is a very gifted evangelist, very interested in ministering to kids.

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  And so the kids who were chased into the Garage thought that Mr.

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  Wilson was the coolest thing ever.

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  Doug's dad, Jim Wilson, was an established Christian author and bookstore owner.

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  They were Southern Baptists, and Jim saw an opportunity in the kids minor vice.

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  And so they went into the garage to smoke.

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  And my dad wound up getting a pop machine.

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  And we painted the walls.

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  And it was a Jesus people type of era.

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  They called it God's Garage.

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