Let brotherly love continue.
Hebrews 13:1
At the start of my approximately five to six-minute talk for the closing ceremony of Shawangunk's 20th annual Kairos gathering, I read Hebrews 13: 1...
Hebrews 13:1
At the start of my approximately five to six-minute talk for the closing ceremony of Shawangunk's 20th annual Kairos gathering, I read Hebrews 13: 1...
"Let brotherly love continue." This was the theme of my message. That as Christ's disciples who are serving Him behind prison walls, we must show kindness, love, and compassion to whomever we could.
So in addition to greeting and thanking everyone in the audience for their participation in the four day Kairos event, I told them how encouraging it was for me to hear the testimonies of many of the men of the Kairos team. These guys opened up to us (the inmates) and shared their individual struggles with things like pornography, food, drug and alcohol addictions, plus their battles with depression and periods of mental illness.
I said that hearing these tales of struggle let me know that men like myself, who are confined in prison, are really no different than my Christian brothers who are living as civilians on the outside. That we've all sinned, and therefore we all need a Savior. Whether a man is locked up in a correctional setting or is physically part of the "free world," I said, we can still find ourselves caught in the same bondages, vices and sins. Thus, we're all in need of Christ's forgiveness, grace and mercy.
I ended my talk by stating that our common relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ has made us all family. We are the family of God, I said. And He is our heavenly Father. This was the gist of it.
D.B.
So in addition to greeting and thanking everyone in the audience for their participation in the four day Kairos event, I told them how encouraging it was for me to hear the testimonies of many of the men of the Kairos team. These guys opened up to us (the inmates) and shared their individual struggles with things like pornography, food, drug and alcohol addictions, plus their battles with depression and periods of mental illness.
I said that hearing these tales of struggle let me know that men like myself, who are confined in prison, are really no different than my Christian brothers who are living as civilians on the outside. That we've all sinned, and therefore we all need a Savior. Whether a man is locked up in a correctional setting or is physically part of the "free world," I said, we can still find ourselves caught in the same bondages, vices and sins. Thus, we're all in need of Christ's forgiveness, grace and mercy.
I ended my talk by stating that our common relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ has made us all family. We are the family of God, I said. And He is our heavenly Father. This was the gist of it.
D.B.
