Jesus Amongst Gangsters! | Pete Portal

Inspired... with Simon Guillebaud

Great Lakes Outreach

Christianity, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 663 Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Pete Portal shares stunning stories of addicts and gangsters meeting Jesus and being transformed, and how he went from living with a heroin addict to establishing a church community - and all the heartbreak and failure along the way. The reality and result of his life choices and the messy lives he engages with are a tapestry of mighty works of God, as well as relapse, hopelessness and despair, the miraculous and the mundane, all balanced on a knife-edge. Do check out: https://treeoflife.org.za/ (treeoflife.org.za) | More from Pete at: https://peteportal.com/ (peteportal.com) You can order his book ‘No Neutral Ground: Finding Jesus in a Cape Town Ghetto’ from https://standrewsbookshop.co.uk/no-neutral-ground/ (standrewsbookshop.co.uk/no-neutral-ground) --- If you'd like to receive a weekly podcast episode link that you can share with your friends on WhatsApp, click this link to join the group with ease: https://www.simonguillebaud.com/inspired-podcast/#whatsapp (simonguillebaud.com/inspired-podcast/#whatsapp) Support the podcast at https://www.greatlakesoutreach.org/get-involved/inspired-give/?utm_source=inspired_descriptionandutm_medium=podcastandutm_campaign=inspiredandutm_id=inspired (greatlakesoutreach.org/inspired) For more from Simon visit: https://www.simonguillebaud.com/ (simonguillebaud.com) --- Produced by Great Lakes Outreach - Transforming Burundi and Beyond: https://www.greatlakesoutreach.org/?utm_source=inspired_descriptionandutm_medium=podcastandutm_campaign=inspiredandutm_id=inspired (greatlakesoutreach.org)

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0:00.0	Success in a metric quantifiable term is impossible to define in this game.
0:07.0	But we are just concerned with being faithful to what God's call us to do,
0:11.0	which is opening our home and being hospitable to those that society tells us belong in jail,
0:18.0	because we believe they belong in the family of God. Welcome everybody. This is
0:24.1	Simon Gilbo with Inspired. It's great to you back. Inspired basically if you're new to us. We're all
0:29.2	about telling great stories because there's so much bad news out there. And we want to counteract that
0:34.0	with with recent update people in the field working in all sorts of different
0:38.4	spheres of life who are just following Jesus with all their hearts and seeing him at work.
0:44.4	And this week I'm really excited to have with us Pete Portall. Hi Pete. Hi Simon, good to be
0:49.3	with you. Great to have you. Pete's lying in his bed because he's recently had ACL surgery,
0:55.1	so sorry about that.
1:00.5	But although you're slightly damaged in body, I know you're fine in spirit. And Pete is the author of No Neutral Ground. He's part of the leadership team of Tree of Life. He's in Manberg,
1:06.0	which is in the Cape Flat area of Cape Town. I'm really looking forward to hearing these stories. No neutral
1:12.1	ground that your book, Pete, is finding Jesus in a Cape Town ghetto. We'll get into that. I think we've
1:18.9	just only met briefly in Edinburgh years ago. So we're not top buddies. Normally so far,
1:24.9	most of the podcasts I've done with friends that we go back a long way.
1:27.5	So we don't. So I don't know that much about you, but I'm very excited to hear about you
1:31.3	because over the years I've heard plenty secondhand. So it's a nice chance to get it firsthand.
1:35.3	So listen, kick us off. What's your background? What was your faith journey from childhood
1:40.1	onus? Yeah, well, I was, you know, I grew up in London, a middle-class family. We went to
1:48.2	a middle of the road, Anglican church. I had no real faith. Church was boring, but, you know,
1:56.6	sort of the right sort of thing to do. Aged eight, I ended up kind of against my, not against my wishes, but kind of, I ended up
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