"Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord..." (Acts 3:19)

In the 1960's psychologist Dr. Stanton Samenow and psychiatrist Samuel Yochelson, sharing the conventional wisdom that crime is caused by environment, set out to prove their point. They began a seventeen-year study, published in 1977, entitled The Criminal Personality. To their own astonishment, they discovered that the cause of crime cannot be traced to environment, to poverty or oppression. Instead, crime is the result of individuals making, as they put it, "wrong moral choices." Samenow and Yochelson concluded that the answer to crime is a "conversion of the wrong-doer to a more responsible lifestyle." (From Dangeous Grace, by Charles Colson, p. 179)

Changing the hearts of criminals by the gospel is the only way to bring about lasting good. Modern man thinks that the answer to crime is "education, education, education." No, education alone only makes a thief a better thief. What man needs is to repent and be converted to the Lord.