No one in our family was ever sentenced to a day in jail. We were taught that the remedy for poverty wasn't crime but work. If poverty was the cause of crime, the poorest countries in the world would have the highest rate of crime, and the richest nations would have the least crime. But exactly the opposite is true. There is more crime per capita in the United States than in most nations in Asia and Africa.
Crime stems from the human heart.
The Bible teaches that murder and villainy come from inside a man. Until the hearts of men can be changed through Christ they will continue to kill, rape, steal and embezzle. Thus my ministry puts its major emphasis on curing the human heart of the virus of crime. When the heart is changed, the crime disappears. Time and again I have seen that the human heart can be changed, that great sinners can become great Christians once they have met the Lord and received the transforming experience of salvation.