The Bible's parable of the good Samaritan tells the story of how Jesus explains to a man how to have eternal life.

The verses from the book of Luke say, "Love your neighbor as yourself." Then, Jesus tells a story of a man who was in need and was helped by a Samaritan man.

"Of course, you know the parable of the good Samaritan is where a man was in need and the religious crowd basically passed him by because they were too busy," said the Rev. Richard Thomas, an evangelist and a chaplain with the Hall County Sheriff's Office. "Then somebody that was sort of looked down on, the Samaritans were looked down on, and that is the very person that helped the man in need. We all need to be that good Samaritan.

"If there is somebody in front of us that is needy, you know it's not a coincidence. He puts those people in front of us to help and a lot of times we try and pass that off on other people."

But after horrific stories emerge like the recent death of the Rev. Frank Harris Jr. - who police say was trying to help a pair of strangers - how can people keep their faith in God and still help those they don't know?

"I do feel like that we as ministers should not give up on helping others. Our job still is, as the great commission says, we are to go into the highways and hedges and preach and teach the gospel of Christ," said the Rev. Scott Waters, a chaplain with the Hall County Sheriff's Office and pastor at Victory Baptist Church.

"I do understand that terrible things happen sometimes, and we don't understand that. ... Our ministry is to tell and to share the love of Jesus to a lost and dying world," he said. "Do I have the answers to why this happened? No. I wish it never had. But I do believe that good will come from this in some way."

Harris was killed Sunday night after picking up Joey Dyer and Jennifer Dawn Lineberger in Gainesville and giving them a ride to Cleveland, police said.

Dyer and Lineberger have since been charged with felony murder and robbery.

Waters went on to say that hopefully the Harris tragedy will teach others.

"Whether it be family members waking up and realizing that life is short," he said. "I believe we are living in the last days. And I believe we should be busy, but I believe that we should also take precaution."

Harris also was a part-time youth pastor at Pendergrass Baptist Church and a chaplain with Compassionate Hospice in Gainesville.

Waters said he had a chance to meet Harris previously and had always heard that Harris "was a very genuine man, always bubbly personality and always willing to do something for anyone at any given time."

Harris was a member at First Baptist Church in Gainesville and a married father of three.

"We as ministers or as chaplains, we are always to show compassion and kindness," Waters said. "To show love to one another, and that is our job. I believe the day and age we live in right now, God gives us common sense to analyze certain situations."

"Through this I'm sure eyes will turn to Jesus."

Thomas added that this one tragedy shouldn't deter anyone from helping those in need.

"Don't stop helping people; we still need to be helping folks," he said. "This is one tragedy. You might help 1,000 people and have one incident like this. So we can't have this one thing shut down the work of the Lord. The devil would use this for people to have a bad attitude about helping other people, and we don't want to see that happen."

And for Thomas, Harris' murder is close to his heart because they both were chaplains in the area.

"It could have very well been me that stopped and picked those folks up because I have done that many times myself," he said. "It could have been any of us. I'm going to use this as a learning experience ... but it doesn't mean I'm going to quit helping folks."

The Rev. Ben Haupt, senior pastor at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, agreed we shouldn't stop trusting and helping those in need because of the tragedy.

"It's exactly because we live in such a messed up, broken world that Pastor Harris was doing what he did in the first place," Haupt said. "And if there's any lesson, it's that we've got to keep on helping people. It's even more messed up now and so we have to live on his legacy and bring back together a broken world."