| From the inside out |
 From the inside outOne man’s experience of the Alpha Course Three years ago I was finishing a prison sentence in Brixton for more commercial burglaries and stuff like that. Just before I got to Brixton, I was in a high security prison, in Belmarsh. One night, I read Mark’s Gospel and Jesus came to me. I fell to my knees and said, ‘I know you’re there now. Can you help me please’ and literally a day after that I was transferred to Brixton, which was pretty unheard of because I was in a high security prison and Brixton was a category B. The day after I got to Brixton, an Alpha Course started. It was amazing. I walked straight into the prison and got a job straight away within the chaplaincy. I was helping to set up the Alpha team and stuff and I did Alpha there. Jesus came to turned me upside down really. I went from not liking many people, well not liking anyone at all really, to loving people. Overnight, I turned from somebody with no heart to somebody with a heart. I came out of prison three years ago. I feel Jesus has given me a life. I’ve got a heart and it gets broken regularly by what’s happening in the world. I had a really bad problem with drugs, heroin and crack cocaine. I think the only drug I take now is the odd paracetamol if I’ve got a headache. And Jesus is there the whole time. I wake up and Jesus is there. I go to sleep and Jesus is there. What did Dave read in that Gospel of Mark? For your free copy send off the coupon on page 7. Alpha courses, an introduction to the Christian faith, are run all over the country – to find courses near you see www.uk.alpha.org. |
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