Reviewed by Tony Cummings

By any journalistic assessment of an 'interesting life' Keith Green makes it. Keith, raised a Chrisitian Scientist, becomes at age 11 a would-be Donnny Osmond signed to Decca Records and is expected to shake dollars from a million piggy bank. He didn't, but by the time he's dropped acid, hung out in LA and started serious song writing Keith seems to be set up for a successful life in showbiz. Then in 1970 Keith steps into a "Jesus Freak" coffee bar. After his conversation a lot happens which is familiar to your CCM buff. He meets up with Barry Mcguire, Second Chapter of Acts, et al, of the emergent Christian music scene and is soon a gospel music sessioner, songwriter and artist whose popularity steadily increases with each passing year. Then, with the ravaging starkness of black tragedy, Keith and two of his children are killed, July 1982 in a seemingly senseless plane crash. With Keith's diaries and papers, Keith's wife Melody and skilled journo Hazard write a vivid account of the life, times and sudden death of Keith Green. They also use this absorbing biography as a passionate platform from which to unpack Keith's devastating call for personal holiness and his message to an often apathetic church to take the Good News of Jesus out into the world. It succeeds marvelously. Here is a book which will inform you. It will also touch you deep in your heart.    

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