How Jesus Met Dog the Bounty Hunter in Prison
By Movieguide® Contributor
Duane Chapman, also known as Dog the Bounty Hunter, joined the God Behind Bars organization to discuss his story of redemption and hope.
“You know, I grew up a killer,” he said. I grew up with murderers. I grew up like that. Hey, I changed my life in Jesus.”
“At a very young age, I joined the Devil’s Disciples and became Sergeant of Arms,” he continued. “I would shoot up whiskey in my veins so that I’d get crazy mad. So I would walk up to somebody and just throw them down. Three of my brothers pulled up to a house to buy d*pe one night, and my friend took a sawed off shotgun unknowing to any of us and went in and tried to rob the guy. My brother ended up shooting him in the shoulder.”
“We run off! I got up in the morning, and I heard the radio, ‘Duane Chapman is being sought for the shotgun slaying massacre,'” Chapman recalled. “A jury came out and convicted all four of us of homicide.”
Because of those charges against him, Chapman found himself in prison.
“I was looking at the death house. So, I was asking God when I went in, why am I in here? You know that I did not commit this,” Chapman explained. “And God said, ‘Well, every single brick that’s in the area that you see is a law you broke and you didn’t get caught.’ And then all of a sudden I hear this voice in my mind, ‘You shall reap what you sow.’ There was one Bible in there. I opened the Bible, and it said, ‘Lovest thou me, feed my sheep.’ Instead of doing five years in prison, I did only 18 months.”
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“I’m now going to prisons, and we are now bounty hunting souls for Jesus Christ,” he concluded.
And he does, in fact, hunt criminals down and share Christ’s love with them. He “claims to have captured 8,000 fugitives over his four-decade career. He is also ministering to those criminals to help them do the right thing,” Christian Learning reported.
“I would capture guys and tell them, ‘Listen, man, I’ve been there, done that…we need supernatural help,’” he said.
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Ultimately, he wants his life to point others to God.
“My journey has built faith,” he told the Christian Post previously. “I’ve been through some terrible stuff, but it builds faith when you can look back and tell other people ‘Look, I’ve been there done that. Here’s what you do.’ And then they do it. I love sharing my testimony…so others don’t have to go through it.”
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