Instead of the flames of Hell burning Jones' feet, it was the heat of the law. Wayne County Sheriff Ric Wilson had warned Jones' friends not to help him.

"I think the only place he could go was to the church," Wilson told us.

The sheriff says Jones was feeling the spirit, but it wasn't love for the Lord making him drunk. 

"He was extremely intoxicated," Wilson explained.

Pastor Kelley says Jones was at a lifetime low.

"He'd say, 'I'm a nobody'," Kelly said. "'I'm a low life'. And I said, 'You're not a low life.' I said, 'You're not a low life. You're important. Jesus loves you.'"

Jones even asked the congregation to pray for him.

"We had prayer with him and asked the Lord to touch him -- asked the Lord to help him."

While those prayers were connecting with Heaven, a worshipper connected with 911.

"They couldn't have handled it any better," the sheriff said. "They kept him calm. They talked with him. They prayed a little bit with him."

Pastor Gene Kelley has faith his church helped a lost soul find its way. "I feel like something good will come from it," he said. "I feel like something good has come from it."

The truth may have set him free, but John Paul Jones is locked up in the Wayne County jail.