Criminal Justice Reflection Essay

Growing up my parents always made us go to church every Sunday. We were forced to go to Sunday school, the service, and be a part of camps and youth groups within the community. I did not really like this as a kid because there was never any sleeping in on the weekends, but my parents learned quickly that I would do just about anything for Sunday morning donuts. As I got older I started to gain more and more knowledge about God but was never really involved much with the bible, let alone the Old Testament. I knew who God was and I knew the purpose of the bible but I did not understand that deeper relationship with Christ. The only bible thing I really remember was racing to see who could find a certain verse in Sunday school the fastest. Most of the time I lost because I had no familiarity with books of the Old Testament, which by the way has a lot of odd names. As I got older I started to gain more and more knowledge of the bible and how vital …show more content…
This can be a really hard job and can carry a lot of baggage and I want to use this class to have something to lean on it times of struggle. I want to use this class in my career to not only help myself but help others around me. Going into Criminal Justice I will mainly be dealing with Non-Christians and if I can use this class and all the other classes I am taking here at IWU to better that person and help lead that individual to Christ to better our community and our world, I will do so with full force. I know it is very unlikely that I will change the world but if this class can help me implement Christ into my career and I can better myself and others I know it will be a chain reaction that will make our society better. The Old Testament hasn 't played much of a role in my life and I am still a little weary about it but I know it can have a huge impact on my life and I can use it in my life to better myself and