What are they doing re instating the creep anyway? . I guess he called the elders into his prison and told them he was repentant, so they said "That's ok then"
reminds me of when I became secretary of my last congo. we had a prison in the territory and one of the inmates had accepted the faith , got beptised and now regularly reported time in F.ministry. Those that knew him well thought highly of him. I was amazed to read a copy letter on file of how they wrote and asked the Society's opinion on making him a Ministerial Servant. Albeit while serving a long stretch for a violent crime..(The Society replied and discouraged it)
The naievity of some elders never fails to amaze me