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A Good Samaritan (by Danie)

  In all of our Blog posts we share a little piece of our journey. I’d like to continue sharing some of the experiences we had during our religious days and especially when we had our own ministry. People are very quick to judge us and criticize the methods we used to “save souls”. If we didn’t believe with all sincerity that what we were doing was the right thing TO do, we wouldn’t have done it. There are so many wounded individuals strewn over life’s battlefield and so few hands reaching out to them, not to mention funds with which to do something. The bible says in James 2 vs 14 – 26 that faith without works is dead. For us, doing the right thing was not just words, it meant putting our words into action. As mentioned before, we were not bench warmers. We lived what we preached. It was during the prison ministry days that I realized that most of the convicts with which I worked, were addicts. We knew nothing about treating addicts and if we were going to help these guys, we ...