Pastor Lucas Dillon Brandenberg was, up until recently, a youth pastor at St. Gabriel Episcopal Church in Florida. For Brandenberg this vocation was the result of getting ever closer with Jesus:

In a speech to the 44th Annual Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Central Florida last year, he explained why he had become a youth pastor. “My life is forever changed by the youth ministries that I attended,” Brandenburg said. “I went for the camps, I went for games, I went to hang out with my friends, to meet girls obviously.” “Despite my wrong motives, I had an encounter with Jesus Christ, I heard his call. And like all who respond to that call, I left my pile of worthless things, and I followed him,” he continued. “There are more pitfalls set before young people today than I have time to describe. The fact is we live in a dark world, and a depraved culture.”

There are pitfalls set before youth today. That is very, very true. Because there are dark people out there, depraved people who will share pictures of those youths engaged in sexual activity in defiance of both the law and human decency.

You can guess where this is going.

A Florida youth pastor was arrested on Thursday after investigators said that they found a computer at his home “sharing” images of child pornography. According to a statement from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, St. Gabriel Episcopal Church youth pastor Lucas Dillon Brandenburg, 30, was arrested on 10 charges of possession of child pornography.

Funny how Jesus told him to become a youth pastor rather than to not exploit children.

Sorry, Lucas, I interrupted. You were talking about how people out there are depraved and how Jesus is a conduit to a moral nature. Hey! Maybe you can tell that to the judge and jury? “Guys, you have to let me go free, otherwise who will use the role of pastor to protect children from the darkness and depravity in our culture?”