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Michael Emmett was born into a life a crime and grew up enjoying an often lavish lifestyle funded by crime. He idolised his career criminal father and from an early age, did all he could to follow in his footsteps and make his father “proud”. He had a troubled childhood and was often witness to scenes of violence at the hands of his father.

In 1993, Michael and his father were arrested and sentenced to twelve years in prison. It was during this time that Michael experienced the mighty power of the Holy Spirit through Alpha in Prisons which, as he describes it, is a “non-pressure course for the broken” and he began to understand how God loves the least, the last, and the lost.

What interested me the most about this writing is that it wasn’t like any “criminal to Christian” biography I’ve read before – and I’ve read quite a few. Previous writings tend to follow the format of living a dishonest lifestyle, finding God, and changing almost overnight into a Jesus lifestyle. Whilst I’m certain this does happen, what I found interesting with Michael's story is that he continued to live a dishonest lifestyle, even though he knew it was wrong. It took him some time to fully understand that he was good enough to receive God's love and forgiveness. He’d spent so much of his life believing that he wasn’t good enough to be anything other than a criminal – he suffered from ancestral sin, believing he had inherited the sins of his father, grandfather, etc.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading Michael’s story, and highly recommend this title to anyone who enjoys biographies of this theme.