Minister Admits to Preaching Sermons while High on Heroine - KOBALT BOOKS

Bala Cynwyd, PA - After being held down by a mob, while they injected heroin-filled needles into the veins of this young minister, at age 21; Rev. Burton Barr Jr., author of the autobiography, “The Hoodlum Preacher”, was not aware of the 20 year struggle that awaited him. Needles and syringes thrown into allies, only to be retrieved less than an hour later, on hands and knees with a Bic cigarette lighter.

Rev. Barr secretly struggled with a drug addiction that followed him into the pulpit. “The truth is, I struggled with issues far greater than anyone in the congregation that I was preaching to. There was no where that I went without my gun, even carrying a pistol on my waist into church. Many people would rather me dead, at that point in my life”, says Rev. Barr.

Feeling unworthy of salvation, Rev. Barr even contemplated suicide at one point. “Everyone that I loved…All of my friends were taken away from me to the streets. God had to isolate me, to communicate His intention for my life as I desperately kneeled on the floor with a Bible in one hand, and a gun in the other. All of my mistakes would one day be used to save someone else’s life”, says Rev. Barr.

Rev. Barr was arrested over 30 times, many of which were drug-related charges. He survived being addicted to trees, reds, heroin, acid, cocaine, and alcohol. He was a drug dealer, and has been shot and even stabbed. Rev. Barr has survived it all, and that’s why the “Hoodlums” relate to him.

Rev. Burton Barr Jr. got sober, stopped his life of crime, and invested his heart into serving God once again. Since 1994, he has been speaking at prisons, churches, and schools helping to save lives, by first saving his own.


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