So here's Dr. Barbara Williams Skinner with reflections on how Dr. Perkins influenced her.

Beyond the Word of God and Tom Skinner, no one else has had more influence on my understanding of the gospel mandate to love every neighbor as ourselves than John Perkins.

John Perkins would just say, "The only way God knows that you love God is the way you love everybody else." And he lived that.

He had all kinds of people around him in and out of his house, in and out.

He and Vera Mae were parents, were surrogate parents to people of all races and backgrounds.

I was not as impressed just by his teaching, but also his modeling the gospel.

Thank God for a life well-lived.