PRISON FELLOWSHIP: Discipleship

After her release from prison, Annie Goebel realized she needed a holy makeover. Her first resolution? To quit smoking. But she would need some help.

Everyone wants a fresh start, and that’s no less true for people in prison. But can we really change our nature on our own?

“He is the one we proclaim, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone fully mature in Christ.”  

Colossians 1:28 (NIV)  

Prison ministry, like all ministries, is not a single event but a process. The Church is called to make disciples, not simply converts.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.  – 2 Corinthians 5:17

Increasingly, the great concern of legislators and departments of correction has been finding better ways to reduce recidivism—that tendency of former prisoners to relapse into criminal behavior.