THEY may wear leather jackets with matching patches and roar around on Harleys, but the RRJ motorcycle group is anything but a criminal motorcycle gang.

Road Riders for Jesus have formed in Warwick, and have a mission to bring the word of the gospel throughout the region via motorbikes.

"We've just sort of formed over the past five or six weeks," RRJ president David Brailey said.

"The Road Riders for Jesus is a ministry."

The first RRJ group started in America in 1999, and the idea came to Australia about two years ago.

"Road Riders for Jesus is interdenominational; we are all for one cause and one God," Mr Brailey said.

RRJ vice-president Michael Billsborough said the group would travel to places like Goondiwindi, Allora, Clifton, Inglewood and Texas.

"You have to be Christian for a start, but people who are not can still come along and ride with us," he said.

With Campbell Newman's crackdown on outlaw motorcycle gangs across the state, RRJ national co-ordinator Robert Hill said bikies was a timely issue.

"I think there needs to be some adjustment and some type of guidelines to what the police can do," he said.

"I believe everyone needs a fair go."

Mr Hill said it would be positive for Road Riders for Jesus if their group was pulled up by police.

"It will be a good representation for what we stand for," he said. "It shows we are genuine and willing to go out on the road and show what we are doing."

Mr Bailey said the group would not become involved in the bikie protests.

"We don't take part in the protests," he said.

"For us it is also about the Christian principal of civil obedience."

RRJ rider Pastor Trevor Springate said the Road Riders for Jesus could provide a positive spin on the controversy surrounding bikie groups.

"From a pastoral point of view, I've seen both sides of the criminal motorcycle gangs," he said.

"I have seen how the children have been affected and how it affects families.

"The police are against the Mafia, not the Italians, and the same thing applies here. If you're not doing anything wrong you have got nothing to worry about."

Pastor Springate said he was passionate about the cause.

"It's been in my heart for years to reach out to the pastors in small towns," he said.

"We are providing that support, whether it is praying for them or giving the preachers a bit of a break."

Mr Hill said even though the riders would visit small towns on the Southern Downs, it would only be to help out where they could.

"It's a lifestyle and just an extension of what we live each day," he said.

"We don't go out to bash them over the head with a Bible."

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