Prison Ministry

After work yesterday I shot some baskets and went to Brownsville for church. Ron and Rhonda Yoder from Gospel Express were there - they did some singing and Ron presented information about the ministry. It's really neat how God can change lives, how he can take a criminal with a hopeless life behind bars and give him something worth living for.
If I was in a ministry like that, I wonder if it would be hard to care for the soul of each individual prisoner - I'd see so many of them and wouldn't really get to know many of them well...
Yes, I think it would be impossible to really care for them all... if I was only tapping my strength. But I wouldn't have any business joining such a ministry if I didn't intend to include God in the picture. (Rather, I don't have any business calling myself a Christian, period, if my "love" and "righteousness" are self-made.) With God in the equation, my concern for the souls of men is only limited by my failure to receive God's love for others and have faith in the truth of God's word.