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Wolf Mistaken for a Sheep
Written by Warren |Posted on June 18, 2009 | Comments
One of our brethren, who was an ex-con himself, has a 3year ministry in our local city jail. In my previous blog posts I mentioned that I was joining him and at times ministering to the in-mates as well. Last night he mentioned to the church that he was having trouble discerning whether the person he is ministering to is a true Christian or not. He mentioned that he was convinced that his faith was genuine until later after the in-mate got out of jail he found out that he was thrown back in for stealing to which he was accused of in his first trip to the jail.
On another occasion, there were other in-mates who were coming out of the jail and are looking for a Church. Our brother then doesn’t know what to do thinking that they could be a serious threat to society. Here they are out of jail looking for a Church to go into. And our brother doesn’t know which Church to recommend so it should be practical for him to recommend our Church. But there’s this big chance that the ex-cons would be a threat to our brethren since some have rape case, some murder, some thievery. The security of our brethren would be compromised realizing that these folks live among us.
I later approached our brother and mentioned to him that I wish I was there to help him discern and make decisions. He was doing this ministry single-handedly and I believe this is not healthy. When Christ was sending out the twelve they go by twos. The Apostle Paul too has his companions during his missionary journeys. This is to manifest the teaching of Christ that brothers ought to look for each other. Since I started work again a few months ago, I stopped going to the city jail with him. Since then he was doing the ministry by himself. I wanted to go with him but the city jail visitation is for weekdays only and I have my day job then. I don’t even want to compromise my Saturdays since I’ve committed this day for Hazel and visitation on other Church members. I just think going to the ministry alone is not healthy. I wish there’s something I could do. I can only pray for this concern.
