For background on the motivation of this videos series, scroll past the videos to read about the interesting origin of this project.
Episode 3 coming soon.
Background on this project:
These videos are made available nationwide to the incarcerated on the Edovo platform, which is like YouTube for the incarcerated, reaching up to 1 million incarcerated in the United States, including the inmates inside the Kalamazoo County Jail.
The primary goal of this project is to create revival in Christ throughout the incarcerated of the United States. The prisons (not Kalamazoo County Jail) of the United States are dominated by an idiosyncratic form of Islam, and there is a lot of atheism and satanism, as well. In a place of such dire need, the preaching of Jesus is typically the minority message, if even that. For example, I just received a letter from a prisoner in one of our large Michigan prisons stating that there is zero Christian ministry going on in their entire facility, because the pastor who was doing the one Sunday service stopped coming in. There was just a single service, and now not even that. This is a situation of spiritual emergency, and KJM, along with CenterPoint Church (who funded this Edovo platform for KJM), have formed a plan-of-attack.
The main reason that this (the lack of Christian preaching, including, and especially, via the prisoners ministering independently of clergy present) is going on is due to one major reason: the so-called “Bible contradictions” — a greatly neglected topic by Christian scholars, missionaries, and pastors. (Amazingly, even some “Christian” churches now believe that there is something called a “Bible contradiction.”) The so-called “Bible contradictions” are widely discussed amongst the incarcerated. We hear about them all the time, but fortunately, some of the KJM pastors know how to pinpoint the obvious errors of each so-called contradiction, to thereby shut each one down with a verse or Bible passage, as shown in the above video.
The way the process happens is sort of like this: an inmate who was in prison comes into the Kalamazoo County Jail (which is very common), they will spread ideas about the so-called Bible contradictions that they’ve heard about in prison (even if just one or two of these so-called contradictions), and it only takes a week or so for the ideas to spread throughout the jail. New believers in our jail will hear these, they will be convinced by them (even though they are bogus), they will take them as totally convincing, and their new faith will totally be questioned, and genuinely in jeopardy. This is a reality that I see every week. This is another reason why the weekly cell-to-cell ministry-fellowship that KJM has with each inmate — which is the #1 priority of KJM — is so vital. So, imagine if the majority of the incarcerated of the USA suddenly had, at their fingertips, the clear-and-solid refutations of all these fallacious Bible contradictions. That is what this project is all about, and I believe this will lead to nationwide revival amongst the incarcerated.
I was recently talking to a pastor from another jail ministry in another Michigan county. I was walking through the cells with him, and I was struck by the absolute hopelessness, anger, forlornness, and lack of of Christian ministry presence everywhere amongst the inmates in that jail. I am used to the positive, pervasive, and absolutely joyous crying out to Jesus that we see all-over-the-place inside the Kalamazoo County Jail. Then this pastor told me that the entirety of their jail ministry in that county consisted only of doing Sunday services for a minority portion of the inmates. I quickly retorted when he told me that:
“Brother that’s not going to get it done! You need weekly (or more) cell-to-cell ministry, directly talking to all inmates who are willing to talk, fellowshipping with them, handling all their questions, lovingly tackling all their confusion and skepticism, praying with them, and being the love of Christ for them in this lonely place. Nothing else will get it done. Imagine if Jesus did not walk from leper to leper, from one sinner to the next, directly interacting with them through His infinite love and by revealing His miracles.”
This pastor seemed irritated with my comment. I later learned that that pastor had been getting angry at inmates for asking difficult questions during the Sunday services, and he had been removing them and banning them from the church services, for supposedly being “disruptive,” even though they were merely asking productive and probing questions that they were genuinely interested in. I think it is self-evident that this is not serving and ministering to the lost. KJM is all about inviting, enjoying, and sinking as deeply into the toughest questions there are, because we know that the honest investigation into all of them will, of course, logically and Scripturally lead to the Truth of GOD/Christ and His Word.
The point of these videos is to address the toughest questions, and to show the light-of-Truth of Scripture and Jesus/GOD through them, by showing the fallacy of the idea of a Bible contradiction. I hope you enjoy the videos, and please pray that the spread of the so-called “Bible contradictions, that are being spread throughout incarcerated populations, leading to false ideas about GOD’s Word, ends, wherein our incarcerated brothers and sisters nationwide can have revival and celebration in Christ.
Jeff Grupp, Lead Chaplain
