MATTHEW 25:36 WATCH:

…One of the things that confirms me in my decision to keep doing this work is the reaction I get when I tell people about it. It’s not that they react negatively; for the most part I find people are very supportive. Rather it’s how quickly they tell me that they could never imagine doing it themselves.

Prisoners may be one of the closest analogues in our society to the lepers of Jesus’ time. As Jesus’ contemporaries feared disease, we fear the social pathologies that afflict many of those behind bars. Increasingly we seem to have given up on the possibility of rehabilitation and are content simply to keep offenders away from our communities for as long as possible.

But if we are to be followers of Christ, we need to challenge that worldview.

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