About Us

About

Cross Style Life Recovery Program is a one-year life recovery program, helping men and women seek their recovery alongside JESUS CHRIST! We want to spread our message of hope and compassion; leading to belief that a single action can make a difference in the community, and that collective action can greatly impact the world. Through advocacy and outreach activities, our team works tirelessly each day to contribute their part to the greater good.

History of Cross Style

Dr. Stephen Manley began full-time itinerate evangelism in 1968 under the name Crusade Evangelism, later becoming Stephen Manley Evangelistic Association. In 1987, Stephen began taking interns each summer to train them in the study the Word and provide a Biblical and practical theology of ministry. Cross Style Global Ministries developed out of the summer internships as several interns wanted to link together in the ministry of the Word. Beginning in the 1990s with a desire to connect, train, and facilitate the reproduction of the Cross Style message around the world, Cross Style has grown to include several evangelists, ministry partners, over 180 international training centers, the Cross Style Church, and Cross Style Life Recovery at the Cross Style Center.

What is the “Cross Style”?

We have discovered through the study of God’s Word and our personal relationship with Christ an attitude which is the basis of the Kingdom of God. It is the attitude of the cross. Christ did not live His own life but surrendered His life to the Father. This surrender was so complete it could be called “death.” Thus the death of Christ on the cross was a physical display of the style of His life. Jesus did not operate on His own or out of His own resource but lived in the continual flow of what the Father would do through Him.

In other words, the cross was more than an event one day in the life of Jesus; it was and is His continual lifestyle.

This style was manifested in His constant response to the will and leading of the indwelling presence of the Father, through the Spirit. Jesus did not operate out of His own resource but lived in the continual flow of what the Father would do and say through Him (see John 5:19, 30).

This lifestyle of the Cross—the “cross style”—is still the lifestyle of Jesus, which He now desires to reproduce as He comes to indwell us through His Spirit. As Jesus lived in this world, so we live in constant response to His will and leading in us—not operating out of our own resources—but in the continual flow of what He would do through us for a time such as this.

If we produce a Christianity which is a product of our own discipline and action, we have not produced Christianity but a religion. Through the indwelling of the Spirit of Christ, He will live His life through us.

The wonder of Christianity is the outside God who has come to be inside our personal lives. He is sourcing us which enables us to live far beyond our own ability. This intimate relationship with the indwelling Christ is the heart of Cross Style.