Kwame Kilpatrick A Christian With Swagger!
Who among us have never heard the phrase "Jailhouse Salvation?" Meaning saved while behind prison wall, but once free return to old habits and ways. I was reading a couple of comments about Former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick press release. In the release that was sent out right before his release from prison on Tuesday read something like a con someone wrote. The commenter use con and that old phrase "Jailhouse Salvation" while describing Detroit’s former mayor. The once mayor with "swagger" served 14 months of his five-year sentence.
"I want to humbly thank all of the people who prayed for me and my family throughout this tumultuous time, especially during the past 14 months. Your prayers inspired me to press on as the Creator guided, trained, protected, covered, and loved me in ways that I never thought possible. During my incarceration, I learned, sometimes through very painful processes, how important it is for me to put God, Faith, and Family first. The Michigan Department of Corrections has given me only 24 hours to leave the state of Michigan, so I will be returning home to my family in Dallas shortly after my release. After I have reconnected and spent some much needed quality time with my family, I will begin to take interviews and to speak openly and honestly about my time inside and the truths and transformation this experience has yielded. Detroit, I will return to speak frankly with you about this experience because it has affected all of us. I am beginning anew. I am looking forward. I have new dreams and aspirations. I have a new hope. My greatest desire is that my testimony will give anyone who will listen permission to dream of greatness and to push toward it even in the midst of failure. I am expecting a breakthrough for all of us. Again, thanks to all for your well wishes, cards, letters, pictures, and prayers. Your faith, hope, and most of all, love, have contributed mightily to the development of my surrendered spirit and to the revelations of my heart"

The commenter goes on to say you can't really have a true relationship with God in prison.... because you can't be truly tested in prison. I don't agree with that statement at all. Even those of us who have never been in prison can have our faith tested. If you don't believe me let trouble or a tragedy knock on our door. I believe God can reach anyone, anywhere and at any time.