Today I was visiting my home town in West Wales, Llanelli. It goes without saying Llanelli is one of the worse welsh towns for crime and drugs. It featured recently on BBC wales as they followed the lives of addicts trying to sort themselves out. I have to admit I have a love hate relationship with the town probably to do with the fact that it’s my home but also where I lived a destructive life with no moral compass!

I met today with a few addicts near ASDA and was sharing why Jesus can make a difference in their lives, then out of nowhere 3 cars pulled up and 8 guys all steroid heads jumped out looking to beat the living daylight out of these guys (addicts). I was stood in the middle but they knew I was not one of them as my dress code and facial display was very different! So I turned to these steroid heads and said “lads I’m CID you better move on before I call this one in” with that they jumped in the car and shot off!!

The addicts were amazed and to be honest so was I! Here I am in the middle of sharing Christ with these guys and within minutes we were looking at an all out blood fest!

Then it came to me, how much Jesus loved to be with sinners even if it meant tarnishing his image and reputation. There I was dressed smartly in my Ted Baker leather clean shaving and well groomed with 3 guys whose hands were filthy with unkept finger nails and smoke stained clothes and yet Im just as much a sinner as them only I have found forgiveness through Christ.

As I chatted with these guys I could feel pride and arrogance come over me as if I had arrived and they were at the bottom of the pile and needed to sort themselves out, then I was reminded that without Christ in my life I was probably worse!

I love these guys who just hold on to life and whose only joy is a bag of heroin or a rock! At least their real and they can’t hide their sin. My mission in life is to be Christ to them and help them experience the self same power that transformed me.

I love being with sinners!!!