A Word About the Supernatural<br > This is a book about the outright supernatural.<br > And， I， for one， am ready for it.<br > When my wife， Elizabeth， and I co-authored some of<br > the early books of the Renewal Movement (The Cross and<br > the Switchblade， God s Smuggler， The Hiding Place)， we in-<br > duded accounts of mystery and miracle， not because they<br > were sensational but because without them， the events<br > we were reporting could not have happened. For the past<br > decade the emphasis in American publishing has shifted<br > somewhat， toward the believer s need for personal com-<br > mitment and discipline.<br > But the pendulum is swingingback again， as it always<br > must， between the twin truths of God s initiative and our<br > responsibility. This book by Loren Cunningham is full of<br > startling evidences of God s sovereign activity in our<br > lives today. So inexplicable， in fact， in human terms， were<br > Loren s experiences， that he and his co-author， Janice<br > Rogers， and I made a decision. We went through the<br > manuscript， eliminating instances of miraculous guid-<br > ance that could not be verified by "two or three<br > witnesses" (the Bible s own standard for accuracy).<br > I include myself in this decision， because I acted as<br > editorial consultant on the project， living for weeks at a<br > time on one of the 113 worldwide Youth With A Mission<br > (YWAM) bases， overseeing the writing of the book. It was<br > a new experiment in teaching-by-doing， and out of it I<br > feel has come a fine new author， Loren s sister， Janice<br > Rogers. She has done a sensitive job in blending a good<br > narrative with solid teaching on a subiect of central im-<br > portance to every Christian， "How can I learn to recog-<br > nize the voice of God?"<br > One problem the three of us never did solve. There<br > ~， ere so many superb stories， many of them old YWAM<br >