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I plan on
arriving on the shores of
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an island in which an unknown
number of people live,
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who have unknown
religious beliefs
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and speak an unknown tongue.
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Some have called this the most
difficult and impossible place
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to reach on Earth.
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Lord, is this island
Satan's last stronghold?
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Soli Deo gloria, John Chau.
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My friend
John paid some pirates
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to go to an island to talk
to people about Jesus,
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when he knew that he had
no business doing that.
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My friend did something stupid
and courageous and bold,
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and I wish I was that bold.
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I wish...
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I wish my faith...
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was that solid,
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to where I believed,
like, the Gospel is real.
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Whoa.
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There are still many islands
of which little is known,
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many islands yet
to be explored.
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We came at last
to what is known
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as the North Sentinel Island.
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We wondered whether we
would be able even to have
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a glimpse of the inhabitants.
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No one in recorded history
had ever encountered anything
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but arrows from the tribe.
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There are
so many ways that the seductions
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of this story can go wrong.
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People whose language
no one speaks,
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whose culture no one knows.
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And he's somehow going to
get them to accept Christ.
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It just seemed like madness.
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To those of us not among
the few hundred Sentinelese,
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how can we really
try to understand
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their lived experience?
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Talking about them reveals
so much and conceals so much.
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I fear the same
will be said about our film
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when we're finished too.
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It's ultimately
kind of an imaginative act.
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A remote Indian island,
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an isolated tribe,
and a suspected murder-
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the saga of John Allen Chau's
disappearance
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has captivated people,
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as authorities try to pinpoint
what exactly happened.
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How this, as a predestined
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suicidal mission commitment
came about...
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How it was
seeded and germinated.
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As a psychiatrist, I pick up
my professional tool
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to review and draw
some conclusion
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from our 26 years
and 11 months
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father-and-son relationship.
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40 feet below
the summit of Bear Mountain.
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Past this point,
I don't have any protection.
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We're not gonna risk it, so
we're gonna head back down.
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How come such an intelligent,
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seemingly well-prepared explorer
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committed
such a reckless mistake?
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This is for the benefit
of all parents
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while raising their children
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to learn some lessons from
this ill-fated mission calling
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that sacrificed God's given
of life for nothing in return.
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Whoo!
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I'm sorry!
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I'm an explorer at heart.
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Growing up,
I remember dusting off
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a massive tome in my
dad's downstairs study
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titled Robinson Crusoe.
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After struggling
my way through it,
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I started reading easier,
kid-friendly books
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like Hatchet,
My Side of the Mountain,
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and Sign of the Beaver.
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Robinson Crusoe made out
fine in the wilderness,
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didn't he, Pa?
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Of course, he did have
to fight the savages.
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Pa!
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The latter
of which inspired
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my brother and I to
paint our faces with
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wild blackberry juice
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and tramp through our backyard
with bows and spears
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we created from sticks.
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Since then, the outdoors
have been my home.
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I felt
this boy has been enchanted
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by the romantic spirit
of the colonial era
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of explorations
and adventures.
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He once sent me
an online copy of
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The Adventures of Tintin.
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One of the comics called
The Broken Ear
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illustrated an English
explorer who disappeared
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into the primitive
tribe for ten years.
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John told me a weird wish
for his future when grown up.
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"I want to be a wild man,
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living on the trees
on the beach,
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and jump into the water
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to catch jellyfish
with spear to eat."
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Yes!
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I was laughing at him.
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However,
to be a wild man fantasy
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seemed rooting in his heart.
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I used to gaze constantly
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at this large painting
my dad did in '91.
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After reading The Voyage
of the Dawn Treader,
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the first thing I did was put
my hand on the painting
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to see if I could enter
into the world of Narnia.
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We have sailed more
than 400 leagues from Narnia.
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Soon we'll be approaching
the Lone Islands.
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- And after the Lone Islands?
- Nobody knows, ma'am.
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It's years since anyone from
Narnia went into those waters.
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John?
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John?
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John absolutely
said, God has adventure
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out there for me,
and I'm going to take it.
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Why shy away from that?
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If God is for you,
who can be against you?
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♪ What so proudly we hailed ♪
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♪ At the twilight's
last gleaming ♪
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♪ Whose broad stripes
and bright stars ♪
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♪ Through the perilous fight ♪
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♪ O'er the ramparts... ♪
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John and I,
we used to stand together in choir.
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He always talked through a
smile, like, just like...
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'Cause he was
so excited or something.
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And he related to the fact that
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I'm half Puerto Rican
and half white, so I'm a biracial kid.
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Like, I'm a blended baby.
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John was a blended baby.
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He was half Chinese,
half American,
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and, like, that was huge.
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He was proud of his Chinese
side and his heritage there.
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I think that meant
a lot to him.
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His parents brought
him up to be Christian.
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{\an8}Anybody, the five aspects
of the First Amendment.
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{\an8}I was a teacher at Vancouver
Christian High School.
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Stand back while I part
the Jordan Fourth Plain.
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Can I just push
this little button?
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What's wrong with you,
oh, ye of little faith?
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Where's your courage?
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Where's your sense
of adventure?
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Vancouver
Christian had 120 kids.
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They were probably
75% to 80%
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from an Evangelical
Christian background,
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and John was one of those.
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He wanted
approval from his parents,
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specifically his dad.
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He had so much
respect for his dad.
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Happy Father's
Day to my amazing Baba!
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He came to the U.S.
as a refugee
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during the Cultural Revolution
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and has overcome
so many challenges.
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He's an incredible artist,
doctor, landscaper,
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koi-pond builder,
electrician, carpenter,
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and, best of all,
a father to me.
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God assigned
me to play many roles.
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The most difficult was a good
role model for my children.
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My two older children followed
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my academic
and career role modeling.
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They are the gang of two,
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but baby brother John
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was left to search
and form his own peer group
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and role modeling.
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Our tiny little group of guys
was, like, four or five of us.
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We started the
Accountability Group,
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and the purpose of the
Accountability Group
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was just to be like, look,
like, you have asked us
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as your brothers in Christ
to hold you to a standard,
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and so we're gonna do that.
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Proverbs 13:20 says,
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"He who walks
with the wise grows wise,
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but a companion of
fools suffers harm."
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So none of us were wise.
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We were all fools, honestly,
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but the purpose
of the Accountability Group
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was just to make sure
we weren't looking at porn.
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Like, bottom line,
don't look at porn,
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so that was kind of the big thing,
especially at a Christian school.
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Were you?
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Well, yeah.
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My God. I was doing all the
things that we said
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we shouldn't do, shamefully.
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But John was not.
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John was consistent.
John was so consistent.
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I went on
a mission trip with my school to Mexico.
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Other than simply doing
some manual labor,
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I came back to the States
with a desire to carry out
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the Great Commission.
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The examination
of the Great Commission
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can lead to but one
conclusion–
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"Go ye into all the world
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and preach the Gospel
to every creature."
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Go, therefore, and make
disciples of all nations,
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baptizing them in the name
of the Father...
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And of the Son
and of the Holy Spirit.
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teaching them to obey everything
I have commanded you.
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And lo, I am
with you always,
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even until the end
of the world.
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Let's pray.
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I prayed,
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God, if you want me
to become a missionary,
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I'll become one.
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I find John's
diary extremely moving.
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This is the kind of guy that,
when I was a young Christian,
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he was who I wanted
to serve with.
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He was really one of the best.
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For people who believe,
for Christians,
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you couldn't have asked
for a better young man.
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Reminds me of earlier
journals of my own.
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Growing up, I thought
U.S. Christians
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were superficial.
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They were doing what everybody
who's not a Christian does
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but then going to
church on Sundays.
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And to me, the Christian
life was a radical life.
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It was a life where you
gave up all your possessions,
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and you obeyed what God said,
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and you were a missionary.
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If necessary, we will
live and die in obscurity
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there among them.
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John, he's reading
books that I read,
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and he's drawing from
them the same lessons
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that most Christian
believers draw from.
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There's huge inspiration
from these people
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who aren't afraid of death and
engaged in all this hardship.
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One of the most important
culture-changing stories
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of the modern Christian
missionary movement,
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it's a story of five
missionaries in Ecuador,
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especially Nate Saint
and Jim Elliott.
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Jim Elliott was really
good at aphorisms.
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He wrote things like,
"He is no fool.
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He gives what he cannot keep
to gain what he cannot lose."
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I still get
emotional about that.
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At the time, it was one
of the main motivating forces
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for my life.
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On Friday, January 6, 1956,
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after three days
of waiting on the beach,
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three Aucas appeared.
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The fellas called
the young man George.
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Of course, neither party
understood the other
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except for a few words
that Jim had learned
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from an Auca girl
who had left her tribe.
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Nate gave her a model,
which puzzled her somewhat,
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but she was quite delighted
with it.
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The fellas tried
to explain visually
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how to build an airstrip.
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I'm afraid the message
didn't get across.
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There was a comic
book even back in the day
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that talked
about these missionaries.
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And that was a story that
John found inspiring,
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that there would be young men
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that would devote themselves to
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trying to share the love
of Jesus with a tribe
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that was in the Amazon,
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and they gave
their lives in doing that.
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Missionaries?
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The End of the Spear movie
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was a big deal.
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Like, you or I would go see
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Star Wars or
Lord of the Rings
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or Avengers
and come out, like,
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blasting and swinging
swords and everything,
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that was End of the Spear
for John.
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And, like, he wanted
to share it with me
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and wanted to make sure
I watched it again and again
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and wanted to make sure I knew
that it was a real story,
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because he was trying
to inspire me with it.
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After
the missionaries were killed,
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Nate Saint's sister,
Rachel Saint,
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decided she was gonna go in.
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And so the widow
of Jim Elliot,
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Elisabeth Elliot,
decided she would go with her.
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And they hiked in,
and they were accepted.
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And they converted
the Huaorani.
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Rachel Saint would travel
with some of the ones
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that actually killed
her brother and the others
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and speak
throughout the States,
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and this showed
a huge victory for God.
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I know that
your life tonight will be an
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inspiration to the 30 million
people watching,
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Miss Rachel Saint.
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And her traveling
companion, Dayuma.
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We all live by stories.
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I heard powerful stories
that led me to the Amazon.
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John heard powerful stories
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that led him
to the Andaman Islands.
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I remember
spending time in prayer,
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asking God where
He wanted me to go.
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I turned on the computer,
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did a search for unreached
people groups...
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And somehow stumbled
upon a brief paragraph
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from the Joshua Project
about the Sentinelese.
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I couldn't sleep that night...
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as all that was on my mind
was this specific people group
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that no one ever had been to.
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This is
where I start getting chills,
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because I can see him
and hear him talking about it
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and hear him looking me
in the eye talking about this.
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And he said...
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"How are they
to believe in Him
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of whom
they have never heard?
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And how are they to hear
without someone preaching?
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And how are they to preach
unless they are sent?
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As it is written,
how beautiful are the feet
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of those
who preach the good news?"
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Racial equality is exactly
what is being preached here.
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I just remember him
saying, "Levi, that's us.
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There's no escaping from it.
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The same God is
God of everyone.
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We have to go talk
to those people in loincloths
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and on islands that
we can't get to."
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And once
he found out about that tribe,
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that was something
he couldn't turn away from.
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It was almost like there
was a mountain right here,
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and the plane is coming.
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There's a certain point
where that plane
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is not going to go
over the mountain.
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You know, pull up, pull up,
but at this point right here,
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he knew that...
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he was gonna go all-in.
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He found the last frontier
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of the unexplored land,
an untouched people.
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He was excited,
as if the place and people
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were specifically left for him.
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My heart sunk,
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for his 'calling'
was based on his fantasy.
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However, I hoped that he would
be matured enough
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to rectify the fantasy
before too late.
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"Awake,
mostly thinking about tomorrow,
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wondering why I am doing it.
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What do I do if I see
any Sentinelese?
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Wave, shout, take pictures,
look through a telescope?
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The dilemma finally of all
those who have gone there."
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I think John Chau was
influenced by what I wrote.
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I'm not sure
how I feel about that.
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Mostly I don't like it,
of course.
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But, you know, before
his story went viral,
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anybody Googling
North Sentinel Island
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would find my account.
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It was one of the few
detailed pieces of information
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that was out there
on the Internet.
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It was just this sort of hubris
of my 20-something self
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that thought, "Well, of course
I'm going to go there."
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I guess I recognized
that there was danger,
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but danger seemed
abstract and improbable,
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in the way that it does
to young people.
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There you see North Sentinel.
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I learned that North Sentinel
Island was a part of
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this chain of islands
called the Andamans.
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You can feel the heaviness
of the tropical air
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just almost wafting off
of that romantic name.
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I didn't even know where
the Andaman Islands were,
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um, and then I looked
them up in an atlas.
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One of the earliest surviving
maps, it's written in Latin,
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and it gives the name of the
islands as Isle Bone Fortune,
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"the Islands of Good Fortune."
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But then there's an
annotation next to that,
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and it says, "In these
islands are the cannibals."
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Did you
ever hear of Kong?
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The Andaman
Islands were portrayed in
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King Kong.
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They represented
to the Western imagination
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the heart of darkness.
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There are various
tribal groups of Andamanese
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on the islands.
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The Sentinelese, they're the
last ones who resist contact.
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Well, every legend
has a basis of truth.
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I tell you, there's something
on that island
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that no white man
has ever seen.
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This idea
of Western civilization
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sailing across the seas and
hacking through the jungles
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and having these
moments of encounter,
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and they would make war,
or they would make love,
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or they would do both,
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that played itself out
over and over and over again
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for thousands of years.
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And here was the place
where maybe it was happening
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for the last time.
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The boat was barely more
than a dugout canoe.
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I'm in this boat,
trying to focus
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00:24:45,358 --> 00:24:48,028
this ridiculous
Edwardian telescope
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that I found in a junk
shop in Calcutta.
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You know,
I was trying to reenact
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those adventure stories
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that had entranced me
when I was a kid.
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I was sure all along I wasn't
going to attempt to land.
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I mean, it just seemed
obviously foolhardy,
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if not suicidal.
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And then suddenly, at 6:10,
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Bala says, "Look, tribal."
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Then see three shifting shapes
moving in silhouette.
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Once you're there,
and especially once I saw
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these figures
coming down onto the beach,
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00:25:22,729 --> 00:25:25,315
it's like Odysseus
and the sirens.
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I was pushing to get
closer and closer.
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For me, the moment
that broke the spell
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was when a monsoon storm
came blowing in.
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It was as if the island itself
had said, "Enough, back off."
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In my weird
nerdy-historian way,
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I just became
a little bit obsessive
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about North Sentinel Island
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and the multilayered
story of this place.
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I didn't know what it
was going to turn into.
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♪ Yes, Lord, yes, Lord ♪
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♪ Yes, yes, Lord ♪
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♪ Yes, Lord, yes, Lord,
yes, yes, Lord, amen ♪
404
00:26:20,787 --> 00:26:22,998
John Allen Chau.
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I graduated
high school with a desire
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to immediately go off
to the mission field.
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00:26:34,551 --> 00:26:37,470
The only friction I've had
has come from my father,
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who, unfortunately, doesn't
have the same view
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of the Great Commission
as I do,
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00:26:41,349 --> 00:26:43,768
and my mother, who wants
me to go to medical school.
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I decided to honor them
by finishing my education
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at Oral Roberts University.
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And now,
friends, the Lord has
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recently spoke to me
on a world outreach
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to win one million souls
to Christ each year.
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I know I cannot do it alone.
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00:27:02,746 --> 00:27:06,583
I beseech you for your earnest
partnership and cooperation,
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that for the first time
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in mankind's long,
sordid history,
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one group will reach
out their hands
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and bring a million in
to Jesus Christ.
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Will you say "amen"?
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Amen.
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The first
time I met John, uh,
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he was a student
in one of my classes,
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00:27:24,559 --> 00:27:25,935
I think my
History of Missions class.
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How does the Gospel
spread from,
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00:27:30,940 --> 00:27:34,277
at the time of Jesus,
no one hearing the Gospel,
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00:27:34,277 --> 00:27:36,696
to a point that 100 years,
200 years later,
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1 in every 300 people
is a Christian,
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00:27:39,115 --> 00:27:41,284
to the point that today,
1 in every 7 people
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around the globe
is a Christian?
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The story of the Gospel spread
is mostly anonymous people
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00:27:46,706 --> 00:27:49,417
doing day-to-day things
and sharing the Gospel
435
00:27:49,417 --> 00:27:51,670
with people that they're
close to in their life,
436
00:27:51,670 --> 00:27:57,133
but some of those jumps to
new places are semi-dramatic.
437
00:27:57,926 --> 00:28:00,136
And I think there's
a group of people
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that want to be doing
a more tame version
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00:28:03,598 --> 00:28:05,016
of missionary work.
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00:28:05,016 --> 00:28:06,893
They want it to be,
"Let's go to Mexico
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00:28:06,893 --> 00:28:08,228
and paint a house
and call it mission work,"
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00:28:08,228 --> 00:28:09,938
which we do paint
houses in Mexico.
443
00:28:09,938 --> 00:28:11,731
And it is an important
mission work.
444
00:28:12,565 --> 00:28:14,192
But there's a part of
this, too, that this–
445
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I don't think they want to
come to terms with the fact
446
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that, like, the Gospel
call might push you
447
00:28:19,072 --> 00:28:20,490
to a place
you don't want to go.
448
00:28:22,158 --> 00:28:24,285
When I was in
Bible school, one of the things
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00:28:24,285 --> 00:28:26,955
we had to read is
Foxe's Book of Martyrs,
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00:28:26,955 --> 00:28:28,623
to see those people as heroes,
451
00:28:28,623 --> 00:28:32,001
somebody who could just
be sewn up in a bag of
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scorpions and snakes
and thrown into the ocean,
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00:28:35,255 --> 00:28:36,840
knowing that was gonna happen
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and still refusing
to deny his faith.
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00:28:38,967 --> 00:28:40,176
And I don't know
if that ever happened,
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but we believed it
happened at the time.
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And I love that.
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What motivates most
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Fundamentalist Christian
missionaries, all of them,
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00:28:49,102 --> 00:28:50,353
is that these people
are going to hell.
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00:28:50,353 --> 00:28:52,731
What could be a greater gift
that I could give to them
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00:28:52,731 --> 00:28:54,566
but than to do this?
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00:28:56,860 --> 00:28:59,696
There's also
the prevalent belief among
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Evangelical Christians
that for Jesus to return,
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you know, the rapture
466
00:29:05,994 --> 00:29:08,413
or the second coming of
Christ or whatever,
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00:29:08,413 --> 00:29:11,082
that every tribe,
every nation needed to have
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00:29:11,082 --> 00:29:12,500
exposure to the Gospel.
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00:29:14,502 --> 00:29:16,421
I am a Christian,
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00:29:16,421 --> 00:29:20,258
but I am not part
of the radical Evangelicals
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00:29:20,258 --> 00:29:24,304
and don't agree on their views
of the Great Commission,
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00:29:24,304 --> 00:29:26,347
the biblical-based slogan
473
00:29:26,347 --> 00:29:30,727
distorted for the hidden
colonial or imperialist agenda.
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00:29:33,563 --> 00:29:35,982
But my opposing
rational influence
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00:29:35,982 --> 00:29:38,568
failed to counter
the irrational religious
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00:29:38,568 --> 00:29:41,321
and glamorized adventures
of exploration.
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00:29:44,073 --> 00:29:46,367
{\an8} See, what we're
a part of is something bigger,
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00:29:46,367 --> 00:29:47,494
{\an8}and that's Jesus's plan
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00:29:47,494 --> 00:29:50,330
{\an8}and the hope that we have
to bring to the nations.
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{\an8}Yes, we're gonna
bring education.
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00:29:52,499 --> 00:29:54,793
{\an8}Yes, we're gonna bring
creative solutions and
482
00:29:54,793 --> 00:29:56,252
{\an8}ideas to end poverty,
483
00:29:56,252 --> 00:29:59,547
{\an8}but what we have to bring
to the nations is Jesus.
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00:30:01,508 --> 00:30:02,634
Bobby was the
Director of Missions for
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a long time.
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00:30:03,718 --> 00:30:05,637
And he and John
became good friends,
487
00:30:05,637 --> 00:30:08,348
and they worked side by side
on lots of projects.
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00:30:11,476 --> 00:30:13,394
I think he looked at
Bobby as a mentor,
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00:30:14,145 --> 00:30:15,897
like a little brother,
I think, in some ways,
490
00:30:15,897 --> 00:30:17,440
and he's a great mentor.
491
00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:18,858
Bobby's an awesome guy.
492
00:30:20,819 --> 00:30:23,696
During my time
at ORU, I yearned to just go,
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00:30:24,614 --> 00:30:26,533
to go spread the
Gospel everywhere.
494
00:30:27,617 --> 00:30:29,661
I kept wondering
when I was going to get
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00:30:29,661 --> 00:30:31,287
to the Sentinelese.
496
00:30:37,043 --> 00:30:38,086
As a father,
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00:30:38,086 --> 00:30:41,297
we have a gentlemen agreement
498
00:30:41,297 --> 00:30:44,717
that was "agree to disagree"
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00:30:45,468 --> 00:30:48,263
in order to maintain
peace between us.
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00:30:49,889 --> 00:30:51,057
Regretfully,
501
00:30:51,641 --> 00:30:54,978
one of the important change
in the family environment
502
00:30:54,978 --> 00:30:57,897
was that my positive
career role modeling
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00:30:57,897 --> 00:31:00,733
started a cliff-drop
deterioration.
504
00:31:06,072 --> 00:31:09,242
John is the one left
to fully witness my struggle
505
00:31:09,242 --> 00:31:11,286
to keep my profession license
506
00:31:12,245 --> 00:31:15,456
and trying to pay
for all the family expenses.
507
00:31:18,042 --> 00:31:21,129
It took me 11 years
to get out of the probation.
508
00:31:22,547 --> 00:31:25,800
I believe this prolonged
setback of my career
509
00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:28,428
certainly caused
John's doubt in life.
510
00:31:31,139 --> 00:31:33,766
I was like a drowning man,
511
00:31:33,766 --> 00:31:35,810
busy of self-rescue.
512
00:31:36,644 --> 00:31:37,979
And, unwittingly,
513
00:31:37,979 --> 00:31:40,982
I let John be sucked
toward a whirlpool...
514
00:31:42,317 --> 00:31:47,822
The radical to fanatic extreme
Christian Evangelical faction.
515
00:31:48,573 --> 00:31:50,825
"Go to the cross
and die to yourself and
516
00:31:50,825 --> 00:31:53,620
die to your flesh and die
to your own desires."
517
00:31:54,162 --> 00:31:57,040
As I read the Bible,
that's what Jesus says.
518
00:31:57,040 --> 00:31:59,500
Those who lose their
life will find it.
519
00:31:59,500 --> 00:32:02,295
If you want to be great in the
kingdom, what does Jesus say?
520
00:32:02,295 --> 00:32:05,465
That you have to be a servant,
a slave of all that.
521
00:32:05,465 --> 00:32:08,384
Just like Jesus says He was
willing to give his own life,
522
00:32:08,384 --> 00:32:10,637
so do we even here
in this room.
523
00:32:10,637 --> 00:32:13,973
And I want to challenge us,
if we be willing so much
524
00:32:13,973 --> 00:32:17,268
to lay down our life, maybe
lay down some of our dreams
525
00:32:17,268 --> 00:32:19,938
and say, "God, not my will,
but Your will be done."
526
00:32:30,531 --> 00:32:31,699
The Plan...
527
00:32:33,534 --> 00:32:36,996
editor's note, this is not
an official research paper
528
00:32:36,996 --> 00:32:38,122
and is only distributed
529
00:32:38,122 --> 00:32:40,959
to a limited number of people
for security reasons.
530
00:32:41,876 --> 00:32:43,544
John said to me, this is it.
531
00:32:43,544 --> 00:32:45,046
This is what
the plan looks like.
532
00:32:45,046 --> 00:32:47,340
I have it right here,
where I'm sitting.
533
00:32:48,007 --> 00:32:51,594
{\an8}He felt like there's this
vacancy of what it will take
534
00:32:51,594 --> 00:32:52,971
to get this done.
535
00:32:52,971 --> 00:32:55,556
These are the things I now need
to do to get ready for this.
536
00:32:57,642 --> 00:32:59,477
To be clear from the onset,
537
00:33:00,061 --> 00:33:01,854
this mission will be illegal.
538
00:33:03,064 --> 00:33:04,899
If God enables it to succeed,
539
00:33:05,692 --> 00:33:08,194
it will be among the most
unique and amazing endeavors
540
00:33:08,194 --> 00:33:09,696
in the history of missions.
541
00:33:26,004 --> 00:33:28,047
Most Christian
missionaries think of it
542
00:33:28,047 --> 00:33:29,507
in terms of the vessel
543
00:33:30,758 --> 00:33:32,719
and the thing
to fill the vessel.
544
00:33:32,719 --> 00:33:36,556
I think that I have the
Truth with a capital T,
545
00:33:36,556 --> 00:33:39,350
and the Indigenous
person is there waiting
546
00:33:39,350 --> 00:33:41,519
for you to give them
this information
547
00:33:41,519 --> 00:33:43,104
to change their life
for the good.
548
00:33:47,734 --> 00:33:51,612
We arrived in Brazil
on October 25, 1977.
549
00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:55,199
By December, I was in the
Pirahã for the first time.
550
00:33:59,037 --> 00:34:01,330
I simply wanted to go there,
551
00:34:01,330 --> 00:34:03,082
learn their language,
and convert them.
552
00:34:04,208 --> 00:34:05,626
You know,
I had this challenge.
553
00:34:05,626 --> 00:34:08,421
No one has ever been able to
understand their language,
554
00:34:08,421 --> 00:34:09,881
the Pirahã people.
555
00:34:09,881 --> 00:34:12,133
But I would look at the kids
and say, "They can speak it,
556
00:34:12,133 --> 00:34:13,551
so I should be able
to speak it."
557
00:34:16,471 --> 00:34:19,557
I had a goal of learning
ten new words a day.
558
00:34:19,557 --> 00:34:21,642
And I would write those words
out with a translation.
559
00:34:21,642 --> 00:34:24,562
And I would go try them
out in different huts,
560
00:34:24,562 --> 00:34:26,189
you know, walk around the
village trying to talk to them.
561
00:34:39,744 --> 00:34:44,499
Dan came here.
He wanted to learn Pirahã.
562
00:34:44,499 --> 00:34:48,294
I speak to Dan,
'Pirahã is very difficult.'
563
00:34:48,795 --> 00:34:51,422
I spent my time
in ways that made no sense
564
00:34:51,422 --> 00:34:53,925
to them, just making
marks on paper.
565
00:34:53,925 --> 00:34:55,384
That's what they would
explain to everybody.
566
00:34:55,384 --> 00:34:56,469
What does he do?
567
00:34:56,469 --> 00:34:58,221
He just makes marks on paper
all day, and then he just–
568
00:34:58,221 --> 00:34:59,764
And they call it
"leaves," actually.
569
00:34:59,764 --> 00:35:02,016
He just makes marks on leaves
all day–that's all he does.
570
00:35:02,016 --> 00:35:04,102
You just do that for a couple
of hours every day
571
00:35:04,102 --> 00:35:06,896
for about five years,
and you learn the language.
572
00:35:06,896 --> 00:35:08,272
I said,
"There's no magic to it.
573
00:35:08,272 --> 00:35:10,566
You know,
it's just hard slog."
574
00:35:14,028 --> 00:35:15,863
And every missionary,
no matter what they say,
575
00:35:15,863 --> 00:35:17,198
after they've been
there for a while,
576
00:35:17,198 --> 00:35:18,950
that frustration
starts to come.
577
00:35:19,617 --> 00:35:22,954
And they consider it part
of the sacrifice for God,
578
00:35:23,746 --> 00:35:26,124
because they never reach
579
00:35:26,124 --> 00:35:28,000
this kind of friendship...
580
00:35:29,252 --> 00:35:30,962
where you're both
of the same culture.
581
00:35:30,962 --> 00:35:32,839
It's a very different kind
of relationship.
582
00:35:35,758 --> 00:35:37,301
You know, so I asked
the Pirahã one time,
583
00:35:37,301 --> 00:35:38,845
I said, "Why do you
think I've come?
584
00:35:38,845 --> 00:35:40,096
Why have I come here?"
585
00:35:40,972 --> 00:35:42,348
"It's the most
beautiful place.
586
00:35:42,348 --> 00:35:44,725
It's a beautiful place.
We love it."
587
00:35:46,561 --> 00:35:47,770
They couldn't
comprehend that...
588
00:35:49,313 --> 00:35:50,857
the jungle doesn't
do it for me.
589
00:35:51,983 --> 00:35:54,485
I couldn't appreciate
them as hunter-gatherers.
590
00:35:54,485 --> 00:35:57,113
Oh, my God, I'm getting
to go to one of the last
591
00:35:57,113 --> 00:35:58,489
hunter-gatherer groups on Earth
592
00:35:58,489 --> 00:36:00,408
and all this stuff
I can learn from them.
593
00:36:00,408 --> 00:36:02,618
Those weren't the
thoughts in my mind.
594
00:36:03,870 --> 00:36:06,414
I'm trying to get
gratitude and acceptance,
595
00:36:06,414 --> 00:36:08,457
and they're just trying to
figure out what I'm there for.
596
00:36:12,211 --> 00:36:15,840
The American spoke.
'I will bring medicine.
597
00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:16,924
The kids won't be sick.'
598
00:36:18,009 --> 00:36:22,180
The American spoke,
'I will talk to my God.
599
00:36:23,306 --> 00:36:26,684
Your kids won't be sick.'
600
00:36:26,684 --> 00:36:33,691
So we spoke.
'Okay. Talk to your God.'
601
00:36:47,038 --> 00:36:48,497
The Plan...
602
00:36:48,497 --> 00:36:51,792
The Plan entails,
one, intel gathering.
603
00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:55,671
No complete survey
of the island has been made.
604
00:36:56,547 --> 00:36:59,342
The islands are ancient and
have been known to travelers
605
00:36:59,342 --> 00:37:02,053
and explorers
as early as 200 AD.
606
00:37:03,721 --> 00:37:05,932
Anybody who starts to research
607
00:37:05,932 --> 00:37:07,183
the Andaman islands
608
00:37:07,183 --> 00:37:10,102
almost immediately comes
upon this bizarre
609
00:37:10,102 --> 00:37:13,231
and complicated man,
Maurice Vidal Portman.
610
00:37:14,774 --> 00:37:17,610
In the 1880s,
he was the only person
611
00:37:17,610 --> 00:37:20,655
who documented the Andamanese.
612
00:37:22,198 --> 00:37:25,201
This is a young man from
one of the wealthiest
613
00:37:25,201 --> 00:37:26,702
families in Britain.
614
00:37:27,578 --> 00:37:32,208
He was going to live a life
of balls and garden parties.
615
00:37:32,917 --> 00:37:36,003
But, somehow, he'd ended
up in the Andamans
616
00:37:36,003 --> 00:37:38,214
while he was still a teenager,
617
00:37:38,214 --> 00:37:42,635
in basically the worst job
in the entire British Empire–
618
00:37:43,594 --> 00:37:46,264
Officer in Charge
of the Andamanese.
619
00:37:47,515 --> 00:37:49,475
His great work is
620
00:37:49,475 --> 00:37:52,186
History of Our Relations
with the Andamanese.
621
00:37:52,812 --> 00:37:54,689
Very early in his time,
622
00:37:54,689 --> 00:37:56,983
Portman went to
North Sentinel Island,
623
00:37:57,858 --> 00:38:00,319
and he says,
"While crossing the island,
624
00:38:00,319 --> 00:38:02,822
Lieutenant Hooper
and I met an old man
625
00:38:02,822 --> 00:38:04,365
with his wife and child.
626
00:38:04,907 --> 00:38:07,368
We caught the three unhurt
and brought them on board.
627
00:38:07,868 --> 00:38:10,663
The next day,
we took the six to Port Blair,
628
00:38:10,663 --> 00:38:12,957
where I kept them in
my house for some days.
629
00:38:12,957 --> 00:38:14,542
They sickened rapidly,
630
00:38:14,542 --> 00:38:16,836
and the old man
and his wife died.
631
00:38:16,836 --> 00:38:19,505
So the four children
were sent back to their home
632
00:38:19,505 --> 00:38:21,132
with quantities of presents."
633
00:38:23,050 --> 00:38:27,888
And, and wow...
there is a lot there.
634
00:38:36,314 --> 00:38:39,025
Photography
from the earliest years
635
00:38:39,025 --> 00:38:40,901
used that word "capture"–
636
00:38:40,901 --> 00:38:44,363
to capture an image,
capture a subject.
637
00:38:46,741 --> 00:38:49,785
With Portman, it
was also about, of course,
638
00:38:49,785 --> 00:38:51,120
this literal capture
639
00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:54,165
represented by seizing
this Sentinelese family.
640
00:38:55,666 --> 00:38:57,501
He took thousands of pictures.
641
00:38:58,252 --> 00:38:59,378
His photographs, you know,
642
00:38:59,378 --> 00:39:01,380
they're aesthetically
incredibly beautiful.
643
00:39:01,380 --> 00:39:05,509
Some of them feel
just so deeply empathetic.
644
00:39:05,509 --> 00:39:07,845
But then you turn
to the next photo,
645
00:39:07,845 --> 00:39:09,930
and it's a naked person
646
00:39:09,930 --> 00:39:13,392
kind of against
this checkerboard background
647
00:39:13,392 --> 00:39:15,519
because they're being measured
648
00:39:15,519 --> 00:39:18,105
as an anthropometric specimen.
649
00:39:22,485 --> 00:39:24,904
But, really, the most chilling
thing for me about Portman
650
00:39:24,904 --> 00:39:27,114
is the last paragraph
651
00:39:27,114 --> 00:39:30,493
of this thousand-page
history that he wrote.
652
00:39:31,285 --> 00:39:34,080
And he says,
"The Andamanese race,
653
00:39:34,663 --> 00:39:36,707
so long as they were
left to themselves
654
00:39:36,707 --> 00:39:40,211
and not in any way interfered
with by outside influences,
655
00:39:40,211 --> 00:39:42,254
would continue to live.
656
00:39:42,254 --> 00:39:43,881
But when we came
amongst them,
657
00:39:43,881 --> 00:39:45,383
they lost their vitality,
658
00:39:45,383 --> 00:39:48,177
which was wholly dependent
on being untouched,
659
00:39:48,177 --> 00:39:50,388
and the end of the race came."
660
00:39:56,560 --> 00:40:00,398
This history is just so,
so grim when I speak it
661
00:40:00,398 --> 00:40:04,151
in a way that it doesn't even
always feel when I write it.
662
00:40:04,151 --> 00:40:05,694
You know, it's just...
663
00:40:06,654 --> 00:40:09,490
it's harder and harder
to sort of frame this
664
00:40:09,490 --> 00:40:11,867
as a tale of adventure
665
00:40:11,867 --> 00:40:14,328
when I sort of am
listening to the words
666
00:40:15,079 --> 00:40:16,872
that I'm speaking out loud.
667
00:40:32,763 --> 00:40:36,684
Eagle Creek, September 2014.
668
00:40:39,228 --> 00:40:41,105
The gang wanted
to get their lift in.
669
00:40:41,689 --> 00:40:42,773
♪ You work out? ♪
670
00:40:42,773 --> 00:40:44,358
So they did
a quick wilderness workout
671
00:40:44,358 --> 00:40:45,443
to get their blood flowing
672
00:40:45,443 --> 00:40:47,736
before jogging
down to Tunnel Falls.
673
00:40:53,701 --> 00:40:55,953
We named it
the Fountain of Youth
674
00:40:55,953 --> 00:40:58,873
and marked its location on
our map for future generations
675
00:40:58,873 --> 00:41:01,167
to also come and be renewed.
676
00:41:15,473 --> 00:41:19,602
This was the beginning
of the road to post-grad life.
677
00:41:20,311 --> 00:41:22,104
One thing I learned
for certain–
678
00:41:22,563 --> 00:41:27,026
"Man was not made
to be alone," Genesis 2:18.
679
00:41:29,528 --> 00:41:31,322
After graduating,
680
00:41:31,322 --> 00:41:33,949
he was an avid marathon runner,
681
00:41:33,949 --> 00:41:36,076
mountain and rock climber,
682
00:41:36,076 --> 00:41:39,747
long-distance hiker
of the Pacific Crest Trail,
683
00:41:39,747 --> 00:41:41,832
certified
wilderness technician,
684
00:41:41,832 --> 00:41:45,252
outdoor school medic
and instructor.
685
00:41:45,252 --> 00:41:47,463
All these were for
686
00:41:47,463 --> 00:41:51,008
his Sentinel Island
missionary preparation.
687
00:41:57,264 --> 00:42:00,643
I was hiring for, like, an EMT
688
00:42:00,643 --> 00:42:03,812
wilderness first responder,
and John applied.
689
00:42:03,812 --> 00:42:06,232
Of course, I looked him
up on social media
690
00:42:06,232 --> 00:42:09,693
and saw all of his wonderful
pictures and postings.
691
00:42:09,693 --> 00:42:12,780
He was definitely the
person I was looking for.
692
00:42:14,573 --> 00:42:16,367
When he wasn't working,
693
00:42:16,367 --> 00:42:19,119
he basically had
this national park
694
00:42:19,119 --> 00:42:22,414
where he could go and hike
on trails in every direction.
695
00:42:23,916 --> 00:42:25,417
We had nature names.
696
00:42:25,417 --> 00:42:27,378
Most people would
just do an alliteration.
697
00:42:27,378 --> 00:42:29,171
Like, I'm Caddis Fly Cassie.
698
00:42:29,171 --> 00:42:30,756
He was Jackalope John.
699
00:42:32,841 --> 00:42:36,262
We made buttons,
um, for, like, our names–
700
00:42:36,845 --> 00:42:38,097
Cassie's...
701
00:42:39,640 --> 00:42:40,975
Mine was the oak tree.
702
00:42:45,396 --> 00:42:46,522
That's John.
703
00:42:49,483 --> 00:42:50,484
Yep.
704
00:42:52,653 --> 00:42:55,656
When I first met John, I
was in, like, a very dark
705
00:42:55,656 --> 00:42:57,283
part of my life.
706
00:42:58,242 --> 00:42:59,702
And he messaged me,
and he's like,
707
00:42:59,702 --> 00:43:04,081
"Hey, you seem to be...
uh, not doing so well
708
00:43:04,081 --> 00:43:05,165
or, like, kind of down.
709
00:43:05,165 --> 00:43:06,792
Like, I'm gonna go
on a backpacking trip
710
00:43:06,792 --> 00:43:08,627
with a couple of my friends.
Do you want to join?"
711
00:43:09,295 --> 00:43:10,713
And that was...
712
00:43:11,880 --> 00:43:13,465
Like, yes.
713
00:43:16,969 --> 00:43:18,554
We went out
on the Lost Coast Trail
714
00:43:18,554 --> 00:43:19,930
on the coast of California
715
00:43:22,266 --> 00:43:24,310
with two of his other
friends that were girls.
716
00:43:24,310 --> 00:43:25,769
It was, like,
three girls and him.
717
00:43:26,520 --> 00:43:27,688
Ah.
718
00:43:27,688 --> 00:43:28,981
We get to camp,
and I, like, ask him
719
00:43:28,981 --> 00:43:30,899
what he's gonna eat for food,
and he's like,
720
00:43:30,899 --> 00:43:32,860
"Oh, I'm just,
I'm gonna go fishing."
721
00:43:32,860 --> 00:43:34,069
I was like, "What?"
722
00:43:34,069 --> 00:43:36,030
And then just, like,
runs off into the ocean
723
00:43:36,030 --> 00:43:37,781
and then comes back
with this fish.
724
00:43:37,781 --> 00:43:38,907
All right.
725
00:43:39,825 --> 00:43:41,869
One, two, three.
726
00:43:41,869 --> 00:43:43,954
We love you.
727
00:43:43,954 --> 00:43:45,748
He was
just, like, full of light
728
00:43:45,748 --> 00:43:46,874
and knew so much.
729
00:43:49,418 --> 00:43:50,836
To be completely honest,
730
00:43:50,836 --> 00:43:54,131
I had a little bit of a crush
on him, so I wrote him a note.
731
00:43:54,131 --> 00:43:57,176
And I left it at his cabin.
732
00:43:57,176 --> 00:43:59,637
And the next time I saw him,
he was just like...
733
00:44:00,971 --> 00:44:02,139
And I was like, "Hey."
734
00:44:02,139 --> 00:44:05,184
Like, "I, like, was gonna talk
to you and you weren't there,
735
00:44:05,184 --> 00:44:06,518
so I left you a note."
736
00:44:06,518 --> 00:44:08,395
He was very embarrassed.
737
00:44:09,772 --> 00:44:12,816
I don't know, but I never
really saw him with anybody.
738
00:44:12,816 --> 00:44:13,901
So I wasn't sure
739
00:44:14,526 --> 00:44:17,571
where his, like, relationship
status stuff was.
740
00:44:18,614 --> 00:44:19,823
He was just like, "Oh, well,
741
00:44:19,823 --> 00:44:21,283
I'm focusing on
myself right now,
742
00:44:21,283 --> 00:44:23,077
so, like, I'm just not
looking for anything."
743
00:44:25,788 --> 00:44:28,916
He was so into, like,
what he was doing.
744
00:44:30,668 --> 00:44:32,878
What I call, like,
horse-blinder focus.
745
00:44:32,878 --> 00:44:34,463
You don't see what's
going on around you
746
00:44:34,463 --> 00:44:37,633
'cause whatever you're doing
is so straight ahead.
747
00:44:39,385 --> 00:44:41,220
Dear brothers
and sisters in Christ,
748
00:44:42,054 --> 00:44:44,598
spring is here, and the
weather is finally warming up
749
00:44:44,598 --> 00:44:45,724
in NorCal.
750
00:44:46,350 --> 00:44:49,061
This email is simply to start
laying down the foundation
751
00:44:49,061 --> 00:44:51,772
for a future support team,
as I have yet to join
752
00:44:51,772 --> 00:44:54,066
a mission-sending
organization officially.
753
00:44:54,817 --> 00:44:57,403
Pray about it, and then
if you feel led to join,
754
00:44:57,403 --> 00:45:00,114
please email me
back or call me.
755
00:45:00,114 --> 00:45:02,282
Hello. My name is John.
756
00:45:05,119 --> 00:45:07,454
I love you,
and Jesus loves you.
757
00:45:08,831 --> 00:45:10,249
He seemed to be getting
758
00:45:10,249 --> 00:45:12,251
more support from his mom
759
00:45:12,251 --> 00:45:14,920
for his religious aspiration,
760
00:45:14,920 --> 00:45:18,966
but he has never needed
a single penny from parents
761
00:45:18,966 --> 00:45:21,385
for his adventuring project.
762
00:45:22,678 --> 00:45:25,764
He is totally
independent from us.
763
00:45:38,318 --> 00:45:39,445
John came up to me.
764
00:45:39,445 --> 00:45:41,822
He's like, "Caddis Fly,
I got a roommate."
765
00:45:45,284 --> 00:45:48,871
It was this ringtail cat.
766
00:45:48,871 --> 00:45:51,457
It was old,
and it only had one eye,
767
00:45:51,457 --> 00:45:53,876
and he was calling it One-eyed Willy.
768
00:46:01,133 --> 00:46:02,718
One-eyed Willy.
769
00:46:02,718 --> 00:46:05,596
Yeah, he was the most
famous pirate in his time.
770
00:46:05,596 --> 00:46:07,431
My dad told me all
about him once.
771
00:46:07,431 --> 00:46:09,933
Dad'll do anything
to get you to go to sleep.
772
00:46:10,601 --> 00:46:13,729
No, see, One-eyed
Willy stole a treasure once.
773
00:46:13,729 --> 00:46:15,731
It was full of rubies and...
774
00:46:15,731 --> 00:46:17,316
He told a lot of tales.
775
00:46:17,316 --> 00:46:19,818
He was fun to listen to.
776
00:46:21,653 --> 00:46:23,071
He told me his plan
777
00:46:23,071 --> 00:46:25,324
was to go live
in the middle of the jungle,
778
00:46:26,325 --> 00:46:28,702
kind of, like, I'm stealing a cookie
from the cookie jar.
779
00:46:28,702 --> 00:46:29,787
You know what I mean?
780
00:46:30,871 --> 00:46:31,955
It didn't sound that bad.
781
00:46:33,081 --> 00:46:34,666
All right,
here we are, hiking out.
782
00:46:36,585 --> 00:46:40,297
In John's posts or
his stories on social media,
783
00:46:40,297 --> 00:46:42,174
he felt like an
influencer a little bit.
784
00:46:43,634 --> 00:46:47,554
He got really into some brands
that he was, like, promoting.
785
00:46:48,305 --> 00:46:50,808
Smells like Perky Jerky.
786
00:46:51,809 --> 00:46:53,268
I mean, like, Perky Jerky
787
00:46:53,268 --> 00:46:55,312
and Bedrock Sandals.
788
00:46:56,688 --> 00:46:57,940
John was
telling his story–
789
00:46:58,524 --> 00:47:00,567
you know, I'm a climber,
I'm an adventurer.
790
00:47:00,567 --> 00:47:04,154
And he was that...
but more than that.
791
00:47:04,154 --> 00:47:06,740
If things don't go well,
he wanted to look
792
00:47:06,740 --> 00:47:09,493
like a young, arrogant
Western person
793
00:47:09,493 --> 00:47:12,621
did a stupid thing
and he was acting by himself
794
00:47:12,621 --> 00:47:14,373
and move on,
795
00:47:14,373 --> 00:47:16,166
because the last thing
he wants is, like,
796
00:47:16,166 --> 00:47:17,668
this to blow back
on all these other people
797
00:47:17,668 --> 00:47:18,961
who were invested and involved
798
00:47:18,961 --> 00:47:20,254
and involved
in other projects.
799
00:47:20,921 --> 00:47:23,674
So he did that stuff
on purpose, you know?
800
00:47:23,674 --> 00:47:26,969
I mean, and that's not, like,
we think he did it on–
801
00:47:26,969 --> 00:47:28,053
He did it on purpose.
802
00:47:28,053 --> 00:47:29,805
I'm telling you,
he did it on purpose.
803
00:47:31,515 --> 00:47:33,267
People that he deemed
were trustworthy,
804
00:47:33,267 --> 00:47:35,185
we would get
password-protected emails.
805
00:47:36,478 --> 00:47:37,688
"Hey, folks.
806
00:47:37,688 --> 00:47:39,439
I'd like to ask each
of you to consider
807
00:47:39,439 --> 00:47:40,858
joining in on this project
808
00:47:40,858 --> 00:47:43,318
of getting the Gospel
to the Sentinelese.
809
00:47:44,987 --> 00:47:47,447
Like a spear,
you've got the spear tip
810
00:47:47,447 --> 00:47:49,157
and then the shaft
backing it up.
811
00:47:50,117 --> 00:47:51,451
I can't do this alone.
812
00:47:52,160 --> 00:47:54,997
I'd like to ask you all if you
want to be a part of the spear.
813
00:47:56,540 --> 00:47:57,583
Pray about it.
814
00:47:58,625 --> 00:48:00,419
In Christ, John Chau.
815
00:48:12,180 --> 00:48:15,017
Part of the
mystique of journeys and
816
00:48:15,017 --> 00:48:19,688
adventures of first contact
is a sense that maybe
817
00:48:19,688 --> 00:48:23,275
it's an unscripted narrative,
maybe it's a blank page.
818
00:48:23,859 --> 00:48:25,986
But it's, it's so clearly not.
819
00:48:31,033 --> 00:48:33,493
Any encounter that we
have with other people
820
00:48:33,493 --> 00:48:36,204
is kind of scripted by what
we've seen by narratives
821
00:48:36,204 --> 00:48:37,831
that we understand.
822
00:48:40,125 --> 00:48:43,545
We all have a sort of a mental
image of the lost tribe.
823
00:48:44,254 --> 00:48:46,214
We headed out
into the Pacific Ocean
824
00:48:46,214 --> 00:48:47,883
in search of new adventure.
825
00:48:47,883 --> 00:48:50,344
We passed the Nicobar Islands
on the left,
826
00:48:50,928 --> 00:48:53,388
and we approached the Andaman
Islands in the Bay of Bengal,
827
00:48:53,388 --> 00:48:56,683
where we found
Jarawayan pygmies,
828
00:48:56,683 --> 00:48:58,894
perhaps the most primitive
people on Earth.
829
00:49:01,897 --> 00:49:04,191
They have a custom of wearing
830
00:49:04,608 --> 00:49:08,278
some part of the mate's
head when he dies.
831
00:49:09,321 --> 00:49:10,948
It's a custom
that has its merits
832
00:49:10,948 --> 00:49:12,783
because you can
easily tell a widow,
833
00:49:13,367 --> 00:49:15,577
but imagine making love to a
woman that wears the skull
834
00:49:15,577 --> 00:49:17,788
of her departed husband
hanging on her breasts.
835
00:49:19,456 --> 00:49:21,166
These pygmies
on the Andaman Islands
836
00:49:21,166 --> 00:49:22,584
are man killers.
837
00:49:23,502 --> 00:49:25,295
There's no evidence at all
838
00:49:25,295 --> 00:49:28,840
that the Andamanese
ever engaged in cannibalism.
839
00:49:29,508 --> 00:49:31,927
And so, so much in that film
840
00:49:32,511 --> 00:49:36,181
encapsulates the story
of white encounters
841
00:49:36,974 --> 00:49:39,017
with these sort of
"primitive people."
842
00:49:43,271 --> 00:49:46,984
This idea of people
who exist out of time...
843
00:49:48,068 --> 00:49:50,821
that also erases
their humanity.
844
00:49:50,821 --> 00:49:52,906
They're just as
modern as we are.
845
00:49:53,615 --> 00:49:57,369
There's no reason that hunting
for turtles with spears
846
00:49:57,369 --> 00:50:01,373
is any less modern than
writing a book on my laptop.
847
00:50:02,416 --> 00:50:04,459
So why do we deny
them their modernity?
848
00:50:05,877 --> 00:50:06,878
Why do we?
849
00:50:08,797 --> 00:50:10,924
It's part
of a narrative that we find
850
00:50:10,924 --> 00:50:12,300
very seductive.
851
00:50:26,940 --> 00:50:28,859
And that happens
over and over again,
852
00:50:28,859 --> 00:50:32,112
where the explorers come
to the native people
853
00:50:32,112 --> 00:50:33,739
and are greeted as gods,
854
00:50:33,739 --> 00:50:35,115
that they're so majestic,
855
00:50:35,115 --> 00:50:39,286
their technology
is so superior and magical.
856
00:50:39,911 --> 00:50:43,540
You know, that flatters
us in so many ways.
857
00:50:48,253 --> 00:50:51,089
On June 7, 1971,
858
00:50:51,089 --> 00:50:53,133
in a clearing at
the edge of a great,
859
00:50:53,133 --> 00:50:54,760
unexplored rainforest,
860
00:50:54,760 --> 00:50:57,345
Manda Elizalde
reached out his hand
861
00:50:57,971 --> 00:50:59,848
and began
this historic contact
862
00:50:59,848 --> 00:51:03,018
between the 20th century
and Stone Age man.
863
00:51:04,728 --> 00:51:07,189
The Tasaday
actually use stone tools
864
00:51:07,189 --> 00:51:09,024
for cutting and scraping.
865
00:51:09,024 --> 00:51:11,610
They live a prehistoric
Stone Age life at a time
866
00:51:11,610 --> 00:51:15,530
when man has already walked
on the surface of the moon.
867
00:51:15,530 --> 00:51:17,449
It's
a thread that's run deeply
868
00:51:17,449 --> 00:51:18,825
through National Geographic
869
00:51:18,825 --> 00:51:21,411
but also through anthropology
and travel writing,
870
00:51:21,411 --> 00:51:25,373
which is an intertwining of um,
871
00:51:26,041 --> 00:51:27,501
a sense of common humanity
872
00:51:27,501 --> 00:51:29,628
with a sense that
873
00:51:30,378 --> 00:51:33,131
this person is strange
and exotic and other.
874
00:51:34,841 --> 00:51:38,220
In just about every
single representation,
875
00:51:38,220 --> 00:51:42,390
they're stylized people
rather than individual people.
876
00:51:43,058 --> 00:51:46,144
We've gone from cannibalism
to treating these people
877
00:51:46,144 --> 00:51:48,772
as romantic figures.
878
00:51:52,067 --> 00:51:55,529
A lost tribe,
untouched by time,
879
00:51:55,529 --> 00:52:00,033
still lives in the last tiny
corner of Eden left on Earth.
880
00:52:00,909 --> 00:52:03,411
It's
the oldest story in the world,
881
00:52:03,411 --> 00:52:08,291
that there was this paradise
of lushness and nakedness
882
00:52:08,291 --> 00:52:09,793
and innocence,
883
00:52:11,419 --> 00:52:13,964
a place that hasn't
been corrupted.
884
00:52:15,173 --> 00:52:18,093
As long as a place like
North Sentinel Island exists,
885
00:52:18,093 --> 00:52:20,470
Eden still exists.
886
00:52:25,767 --> 00:52:28,353
There is the sky,
and there is man.
887
00:52:29,521 --> 00:52:32,149
We have begun to understand
the nature of the moon
888
00:52:32,149 --> 00:52:34,276
and of Mars and other planets,
889
00:52:35,443 --> 00:52:38,697
but have we begun to
understand our own impulses?
890
00:52:45,370 --> 00:52:48,540
The Sentinelese don't want to
have anything to do with us.
891
00:52:48,540 --> 00:52:49,666
Are they right?
892
00:52:50,250 --> 00:52:53,295
Is the Stone Age preferable
to the Nuclear Age?
893
00:53:19,279 --> 00:53:21,615
These
are my field notes.
894
00:53:21,615 --> 00:53:22,782
Old ones.
895
00:53:30,916 --> 00:53:33,043
I am the only one
who has been inside
896
00:53:33,043 --> 00:53:34,836
the Sentinelese settlement.
897
00:53:36,963 --> 00:53:40,258
No other anthropologist
has landed there since.
898
00:53:42,052 --> 00:53:44,221
This happened only once.
899
00:53:47,933 --> 00:53:49,726
Years of friendly visits
900
00:53:49,726 --> 00:53:52,145
had softened their attitude.
901
00:53:57,901 --> 00:53:59,069
I like this picture.
902
00:53:59,069 --> 00:54:02,280
You see, I'm smiling
and he is also smiling.
903
00:54:07,827 --> 00:54:10,747
It was a matter of surprise
that they had come forward.
904
00:54:12,457 --> 00:54:15,710
Every one of us was
handing over coconuts,
905
00:54:16,336 --> 00:54:18,588
like it was a
prize distribution.
906
00:54:19,881 --> 00:54:21,383
Then at one point
907
00:54:21,383 --> 00:54:23,677
one of the boys
took out a knife
908
00:54:25,220 --> 00:54:27,681
and made a carving motion.
909
00:54:28,848 --> 00:54:29,975
Like this.
910
00:54:32,477 --> 00:54:34,020
Perhaps
trying to say,
911
00:54:34,729 --> 00:54:38,275
that if you stay on, I
will carve out your heart.
912
00:54:40,902 --> 00:54:41,987
I got the hint.
913
00:54:43,196 --> 00:54:44,739
See, they are human beings.
914
00:54:44,739 --> 00:54:46,783
They are not stupid guys.
915
00:54:46,783 --> 00:54:49,369
And that's why
they're keeping us away.
916
00:54:51,246 --> 00:54:54,332
Historically, they have seen
what happened to other tribes.
917
00:54:56,835 --> 00:54:59,004
Great Andamanese,
they have disappeared.
918
00:55:05,552 --> 00:55:08,555
It has not done any
great good to the Onge.
919
00:55:25,739 --> 00:55:28,241
'Tomayu' — the evil spirit.
920
00:55:28,241 --> 00:55:30,577
Do you believe in 'Tomayu'?
921
00:55:30,577 --> 00:55:33,246
Of course
we believe in him.
922
00:55:33,246 --> 00:55:34,331
He constantly troubles us.
923
00:55:34,331 --> 00:55:36,666
It troubles you?
But, how?
924
00:55:36,666 --> 00:55:40,295
- He captures men.
- Captures?
925
00:55:40,295 --> 00:55:44,007
That's
why we are scared to go far.
926
00:55:44,007 --> 00:55:47,552
- What do you call it?
-"Tomayu."
927
00:55:47,552 --> 00:55:50,096
- Evil spirit, Tomayu.
- Tomayu.
928
00:55:50,930 --> 00:55:52,766
Does it
rise from the sea?
929
00:55:52,766 --> 00:55:57,228
He may rise
from the sea or from anywhere.
930
00:55:58,188 --> 00:56:01,608
He comes hunting for men.
931
00:56:07,447 --> 00:56:10,742
- And then?
- He takes them away.
932
00:56:10,742 --> 00:56:16,081
- Where?
- To his place.
933
00:56:24,798 --> 00:56:26,549
Today you
are given a coconut,
934
00:56:26,549 --> 00:56:28,635
tomorrow you are
given something else.
935
00:56:38,395 --> 00:56:41,272
This is a popular
picture of the Sentinelese.
936
00:56:42,065 --> 00:56:44,359
But the photographer told me,
937
00:56:44,359 --> 00:56:46,528
he had taken
several hundred pictures.
938
00:56:47,987 --> 00:56:50,323
They were not only
aiming arrows at us,
939
00:56:50,323 --> 00:56:51,991
they were doing other things.
940
00:56:52,784 --> 00:56:55,745
Some pictures where they
were standing doing nothing
941
00:56:55,745 --> 00:56:56,871
and watching us...
942
00:56:57,455 --> 00:56:59,249
would have been interesting.
943
00:57:00,625 --> 00:57:03,002
But what is
published is sensational,
944
00:57:03,753 --> 00:57:05,588
showing them as violent...
945
00:57:05,588 --> 00:57:06,756
ready to shoot.
946
00:57:11,511 --> 00:57:13,721
Violence is not
only killing someone,
947
00:57:13,721 --> 00:57:16,099
violence is — you
are made to do things
948
00:57:16,099 --> 00:57:18,059
against your will.
949
00:57:18,643 --> 00:57:20,019
Violence is using...
950
00:57:21,104 --> 00:57:23,690
harsh words while
describing them.
951
00:57:26,943 --> 00:57:28,987
I am shouting myself hoarse,
952
00:57:30,196 --> 00:57:31,197
protect them.
953
00:57:33,116 --> 00:57:35,160
Outsiders coming there,
954
00:57:35,160 --> 00:57:37,370
with friendship
in their hearts,
955
00:57:37,370 --> 00:57:39,289
can do a lot of damage.
956
00:57:44,586 --> 00:57:45,962
How does one make contact
957
00:57:45,962 --> 00:57:48,131
with a potentially
hostile tribe,
958
00:57:48,131 --> 00:57:50,049
who might not even give
the missionary a chance
959
00:57:50,049 --> 00:57:52,635
to speak before
firing arrows at him?
960
00:57:56,306 --> 00:57:59,601
Do missionaries wear
arrow-proof armor, shields?
961
00:58:00,310 --> 00:58:01,478
Do they bring gifts?
962
00:58:02,312 --> 00:58:04,063
If so, what type?
963
00:58:04,731 --> 00:58:07,859
Does the team set up remote
camera observations–
964
00:58:07,859 --> 00:58:12,447
for example, trail cams,
coconut camera, rock camera–
965
00:58:12,447 --> 00:58:14,491
to try to study them
from afar on the boat
966
00:58:14,491 --> 00:58:15,742
before making contact?
967
00:58:16,409 --> 00:58:18,536
It would be
more costly and risky
968
00:58:18,536 --> 00:58:20,288
but with the potential
to help the team
969
00:58:20,288 --> 00:58:22,290
learn a word or phrase
before contact,
970
00:58:23,082 --> 00:58:25,126
while also possibly
angering the tribe
971
00:58:25,126 --> 00:58:26,920
if they suspect
they're being watched.
972
00:58:28,838 --> 00:58:30,673
If they could attach
a spiritual meaning
973
00:58:30,673 --> 00:58:32,926
to an odd-shaped
piece of driftwood,
974
00:58:32,926 --> 00:58:35,553
then they might start
worshipping the camera,
975
00:58:35,553 --> 00:58:37,305
since it has an eye.
976
00:58:42,101 --> 00:58:43,436
I first encountered John
977
00:58:43,436 --> 00:58:45,605
just before
he was going to leave.
978
00:58:46,356 --> 00:58:48,566
I thought, like, you know,
here's a young man
979
00:58:48,566 --> 00:58:52,570
trying to figure out
what God wants him to do.
980
00:58:53,363 --> 00:58:55,156
John reached out to
me and just said,
981
00:58:55,990 --> 00:58:57,617
"Can we meet up?
I want to talk."
982
00:58:59,661 --> 00:59:01,996
I'm one of the pastors
at Van City Church
983
00:59:01,996 --> 00:59:03,498
in Vancouver, Washington.
984
00:59:04,541 --> 00:59:07,460
Early on in, in
our conversations,
985
00:59:07,460 --> 00:59:11,422
I wanted him to know
that missions
986
00:59:11,422 --> 00:59:13,424
is not my area of expertise.
987
00:59:14,008 --> 00:59:16,928
How to do them, especially
something like this,
988
00:59:16,928 --> 00:59:22,559
I had no wisdom to share
with him about that.
989
00:59:25,979 --> 00:59:27,647
We're
here to build a home.
990
00:59:30,191 --> 00:59:32,610
We're going to learn your
language and your customs.
991
00:59:33,236 --> 00:59:35,321
We're going to bring
you good news.
992
00:59:36,864 --> 00:59:38,658
One of the
things that we would talk about
993
00:59:38,658 --> 00:59:41,035
is, like, Jesus
being good news
994
00:59:41,035 --> 00:59:44,205
to people who aren't
white and Western.
995
00:59:45,331 --> 00:59:47,041
How do you just
communicate that?
996
00:59:47,041 --> 00:59:49,335
How do you know
you're not communicating
997
00:59:49,335 --> 00:59:53,006
this white, Western, idealized
version of Christianity?
998
00:59:56,092 --> 00:59:59,137
John said,
"I want the Sentinelese,
999
00:59:59,137 --> 01:00:02,015
if they want to
accept this story,
1000
01:00:02,015 --> 01:00:05,685
to do it in such a way that's
honest to their own culture."
1001
01:00:12,942 --> 01:00:15,361
But from my vantage point,
1002
01:00:15,361 --> 01:00:19,657
John was pursuing a fantasy.
1003
01:00:20,325 --> 01:00:22,785
You know, you're talking about
a one-in-a-million thing, man.
1004
01:00:22,785 --> 01:00:25,872
Like, you know, odds are
this isn't actually
1005
01:00:25,872 --> 01:00:29,959
what you're supposed to do,
or even if you think it is,
1006
01:00:29,959 --> 01:00:32,337
it's not going to
work out this way.
1007
01:00:32,337 --> 01:00:35,840
So there's some sort of,
like, idealism
1008
01:00:37,175 --> 01:00:39,719
that's masquerading
as God's calling.
1009
01:00:44,265 --> 01:00:47,393
But this is behavior
that's gone on,
1010
01:00:47,393 --> 01:00:48,811
for better and for worse,
1011
01:00:48,811 --> 01:00:51,147
for 2,000 years
in church history.
1012
01:00:54,859 --> 01:00:57,612
So I didn't ever feel
like it was up to me
1013
01:00:57,612 --> 01:00:59,697
to say, "John, you're wrong."
1014
01:01:03,451 --> 01:01:07,038
In discerning the call,
we can mess it up.
1015
01:01:09,916 --> 01:01:13,378
I got the sense that
he was very, very aware
1016
01:01:13,378 --> 01:01:15,213
that this just could be him,
1017
01:01:16,255 --> 01:01:17,507
and that was a wrestle.
1018
01:01:28,476 --> 01:01:29,644
I was praying
1019
01:01:30,103 --> 01:01:31,521
and feeling a little unsettled
1020
01:01:31,521 --> 01:01:34,107
about whether or not I truly
was called to go there.
1021
01:01:37,360 --> 01:01:39,612
I traveled over to
the island chain in South Asia
1022
01:01:39,612 --> 01:01:40,738
on a vision trip.
1023
01:01:44,409 --> 01:01:45,743
I looked out the window,
1024
01:01:46,494 --> 01:01:48,621
and I could see the place
where the tribe lived.
1025
01:01:52,709 --> 01:01:55,795
An incredible sense of peace
and clarity and deep knowing
1026
01:01:55,795 --> 01:01:57,922
came upon me, such that I knew
1027
01:01:57,922 --> 01:01:59,549
that I was supposed
to go there.
1028
01:02:27,452 --> 01:02:29,871
I spent two weeks
exploring the island
1029
01:02:30,580 --> 01:02:32,623
and began building
a network of contacts
1030
01:02:32,623 --> 01:02:35,042
for future long-term
missions work in the area.
1031
01:02:36,461 --> 01:02:38,963
A high amount of paranoia
prevails on the islands.
1032
01:02:39,630 --> 01:02:42,216
The entire island chain
is heavily militarized,
1033
01:02:42,216 --> 01:02:44,761
and all foreigners are
viewed with suspicion.
1034
01:02:57,356 --> 01:02:59,609
There is something
to be said for blazing a trail.
1035
01:03:00,443 --> 01:03:03,404
I mean, we live in a world with
satellite imagery of the world,
1036
01:03:03,404 --> 01:03:04,989
where 450 people a year
1037
01:03:04,989 --> 01:03:07,116
are going to attempt
to climb Mount Everest.
1038
01:03:07,116 --> 01:03:08,951
And so there is a part
of this that is saying, like,
1039
01:03:08,951 --> 01:03:10,661
"What is left to be seen,
1040
01:03:10,661 --> 01:03:13,664
like, that no one's seen,
that no one's done?"
1041
01:03:15,833 --> 01:03:19,420
{\an8}It's because it's among the
most crazy things you can do–
1042
01:03:19,420 --> 01:03:20,546
{\an8}that's a drive.
1043
01:03:22,840 --> 01:03:25,051
Some have
called this the most difficult
1044
01:03:25,051 --> 01:03:27,678
and impossible place
to reach on Earth.
1045
01:03:29,305 --> 01:03:31,474
Mission agencies
aren't interested in it
1046
01:03:31,474 --> 01:03:34,268
because the people are few
and it's too challenging.
1047
01:03:36,354 --> 01:03:38,481
The government doesn't
let anyone go there,
1048
01:03:38,481 --> 01:03:41,317
and, historically,
the Sentinelese themselves
1049
01:03:41,317 --> 01:03:42,944
have violently
opposed attempts
1050
01:03:42,944 --> 01:03:44,487
to make friendly contact.
1051
01:03:51,410 --> 01:03:52,495
The Plan...
1052
01:03:54,539 --> 01:03:57,291
The Plan entails:
fly in to Port Blair.
1053
01:03:58,209 --> 01:04:00,545
Talk to hotel folks
about going sea kayaking.
1054
01:04:01,546 --> 01:04:04,215
Instead, rendezvous
with a boat.
1055
01:04:04,215 --> 01:04:06,259
Possibly discard
a surfboard in ocean
1056
01:04:06,259 --> 01:04:08,344
to make disappearance
more believable.
1057
01:04:10,388 --> 01:04:12,223
Decide on swimming
to a landing point
1058
01:04:12,223 --> 01:04:15,268
or on moving closer in a boat
under the cover of darkness
1059
01:04:15,268 --> 01:04:16,561
on a moonless night.
1060
01:04:18,688 --> 01:04:20,982
Or purchase
a U.S. flag-sailing vessel
1061
01:04:20,982 --> 01:04:23,276
and sail from the
U.S. or Australia
1062
01:04:23,276 --> 01:04:25,069
on an around-the-world voyage.
1063
01:04:25,695 --> 01:04:27,738
Depart from the ship near
North Sentinel Island
1064
01:04:27,738 --> 01:04:30,992
via kayak on a cloudy night
1065
01:04:30,992 --> 01:04:33,119
outside of the three-mile
exclusion zone
1066
01:04:33,119 --> 01:04:34,996
and paddle to the island.
1067
01:04:35,955 --> 01:04:37,915
Land on the shore
wearing sandals,
1068
01:04:37,915 --> 01:04:40,126
for example, Bedrock Sandals,
1069
01:04:40,126 --> 01:04:41,752
to protect
against stepping on coral.
1070
01:04:42,378 --> 01:04:43,546
Shed wet clothing,
1071
01:04:43,546 --> 01:04:47,383
wear briefs to avoid sunburn,
and sit cross-legged
1072
01:04:47,383 --> 01:04:49,677
to await the arrival
of the Sentinelese,
1073
01:04:50,386 --> 01:04:51,804
according
to Pandit's observations
1074
01:04:51,804 --> 01:04:53,055
on how they welcome each other
1075
01:04:53,055 --> 01:04:54,724
by sitting
on each other's laps.
1076
01:04:58,436 --> 01:05:01,022
Show them that we are
friendly and nonthreatening.
1077
01:05:01,022 --> 01:05:02,189
Give gifts.
1078
01:05:03,065 --> 01:05:04,525
Express desire
to stay with them.
1079
01:05:06,694 --> 01:05:08,529
Focus on learning
everything from them
1080
01:05:08,529 --> 01:05:11,532
in order to give them a clear,
contextualized explanation
1081
01:05:11,532 --> 01:05:12,783
of the Gospel.
1082
01:05:28,758 --> 01:05:30,509
Focus on learning
their myths and legends
1083
01:05:30,509 --> 01:05:32,762
to find redemptive analogies,
1084
01:05:32,762 --> 01:05:35,348
but will not disregard
the facts of the Gospel.
1085
01:05:36,349 --> 01:05:38,726
Establish
Christ-centered churches.
1086
01:05:38,726 --> 01:05:40,353
This will be up to them,
1087
01:05:40,353 --> 01:05:42,813
and the team will not bring
any colonizing mentalities
1088
01:05:42,813 --> 01:05:44,148
into this mission.
1089
01:05:47,735 --> 01:05:49,403
Missionary
could potentially reside
1090
01:05:49,403 --> 01:05:51,364
for the rest of his
life on the island
1091
01:05:51,364 --> 01:05:54,158
and must be accepting
of that possibility.
1092
01:06:00,456 --> 01:06:02,500
Every missionary I know
1093
01:06:02,500 --> 01:06:04,919
has had their perspective
altered as they've stayed
1094
01:06:04,919 --> 01:06:06,462
for a long period of time.
1095
01:06:09,340 --> 01:06:10,424
All right.
1096
01:06:10,424 --> 01:06:12,468
I worked with the
Pirahã for 30 years.
1097
01:06:13,636 --> 01:06:15,054
At some point, I got to leave.
1098
01:06:17,390 --> 01:06:19,225
I was struggling with my faith
1099
01:06:19,225 --> 01:06:21,394
and not finding results
that I wanted.
1100
01:06:22,687 --> 01:06:24,397
There are some ways
in which getting killed
1101
01:06:24,397 --> 01:06:26,607
within the first second
is a lot easier
1102
01:06:26,607 --> 01:06:29,193
than slogging through
30 years and still having
1103
01:06:29,193 --> 01:06:30,861
nothing to show
for it at the end,
1104
01:06:31,529 --> 01:06:33,280
when all that faith you had
1105
01:06:33,280 --> 01:06:35,324
didn't produce the
results you thought.
1106
01:06:39,662 --> 01:06:41,622
So we've
tried showing the Pirahã
1107
01:06:41,622 --> 01:06:43,541
film strips of Jesus,
1108
01:06:43,541 --> 01:06:46,669
you know, Him preaching and
healing and dying on the cross
1109
01:06:46,669 --> 01:06:49,380
and rising up on Easter,
with me translating.
1110
01:07:00,933 --> 01:07:02,393
And they said,
"We're willing to believe this,
1111
01:07:02,393 --> 01:07:04,145
and we're willing to believe
that He has all these
1112
01:07:04,145 --> 01:07:06,022
special powers and
He can heal people.
1113
01:07:06,022 --> 01:07:08,107
We've never seen anyone like
this, but you say you have.
1114
01:07:08,107 --> 01:07:12,570
So that's reasonable, so let's
probe a little bit," you know?
1115
01:07:12,570 --> 01:07:14,739
So they start asking
these basic questions.
1116
01:07:14,739 --> 01:07:15,906
"What color is He?"
1117
01:07:16,490 --> 01:07:18,784
And I said, "Well, you know,
some people say He was brown,
1118
01:07:18,784 --> 01:07:20,369
some people say He was white."
1119
01:07:20,369 --> 01:07:21,912
"But you saw Him.
What did He look like?"
1120
01:07:21,912 --> 01:07:23,622
I said,
"Well, I never saw Him."
1121
01:07:23,622 --> 01:07:24,707
"Your father saw Him?"
1122
01:07:24,707 --> 01:07:26,417
"No, my father"–
"Who do you know who saw Him?"
1123
01:07:26,417 --> 01:07:27,835
"I don't know
anybody who saw Him."
1124
01:07:27,835 --> 01:07:29,795
And it turns out, I don't
know anything about Him
1125
01:07:29,795 --> 01:07:31,422
whatsoever as a person.
1126
01:07:31,422 --> 01:07:33,841
I know what the
Bible tells me,
1127
01:07:33,841 --> 01:07:36,135
but they're not the kind
of personal details
1128
01:07:36,135 --> 01:07:38,512
that would help to
identify an individual.
1129
01:07:38,512 --> 01:07:41,223
In other words,
I give my life for Jesus,
1130
01:07:41,223 --> 01:07:43,059
but if He walked past
this room right now,
1131
01:07:43,059 --> 01:07:44,143
I wouldn't know it.
1132
01:07:44,143 --> 01:07:46,645
So, to them,
that's just utterly absurd,
1133
01:07:46,645 --> 01:07:48,773
that I would come all
this way to tell them
1134
01:07:48,773 --> 01:07:50,816
about somebody that
I don't really know at all.
1135
01:07:52,568 --> 01:07:54,278
The evidence I say
I have for Jesus,
1136
01:07:54,278 --> 01:07:55,863
to them, that's not evidence.
1137
01:07:59,825 --> 01:08:01,327
But it was so funny
because that night
1138
01:08:01,327 --> 01:08:02,787
after we showed the film strips,
1139
01:08:02,787 --> 01:08:04,288
the people were up
all night long,
1140
01:08:04,288 --> 01:08:06,040
running around screaming
and everything.
1141
01:08:06,040 --> 01:08:07,541
The next day, I asked
the guy who came over,
1142
01:08:07,541 --> 01:08:10,002
I said,
"What happened last night?"
1143
01:08:10,002 --> 01:08:13,130
He said, "Well, Jesus
came to the village."
1144
01:08:13,130 --> 01:08:14,840
I said, "What do you mean
Jesus came to the village?"
1145
01:08:14,840 --> 01:08:16,550
He said, "Oh, yeah, Jesus
came to the village,
1146
01:08:16,550 --> 01:08:18,594
and He had a penis
three feet long,
1147
01:08:18,594 --> 01:08:20,137
and He was trying to
put it in everybody."
1148
01:08:22,431 --> 01:08:25,059
You know, where do you get
this from what we showed you
1149
01:08:25,059 --> 01:08:27,061
from these film strips?
1150
01:08:27,061 --> 01:08:30,356
And I'm realizing that this
is their way of rejecting it.
1151
01:08:31,065 --> 01:08:32,775
It was their way
of telling me,
1152
01:08:33,442 --> 01:08:34,610
and they did tell me then,
1153
01:08:34,610 --> 01:08:36,904
the women don't ever want
to hear about Jesus again.
1154
01:08:41,617 --> 01:08:45,121
We don't
want anything up high.
1155
01:08:45,121 --> 01:08:47,289
We want things that
are on the ground.
1156
01:08:47,915 --> 01:08:50,543
God is a foreigner.
1157
01:08:50,543 --> 01:08:54,797
We don't know Him.
We don't want Him.
1158
01:08:56,549 --> 01:08:58,217
I felt
guilty and unethical
1159
01:08:58,801 --> 01:09:00,302
and wondered
why I'm doing this.
1160
01:09:00,302 --> 01:09:02,555
"Why am I bothering them
with all this stuff?"
1161
01:09:11,438 --> 01:09:14,024
So, you know,
it led to a divorce,
1162
01:09:14,024 --> 01:09:16,569
my kids not talking to me
for a couple of years.
1163
01:09:20,197 --> 01:09:21,866
When you come
to the conclusion
1164
01:09:21,866 --> 01:09:24,660
that there's no there there,
there's no God...
1165
01:09:29,665 --> 01:09:31,917
And you see the effects
missionaries have...
1166
01:09:33,169 --> 01:09:34,962
The effects
are not all positive, right?
1167
01:09:35,546 --> 01:09:36,881
I mean, even though
they do medical work,
1168
01:09:36,881 --> 01:09:38,674
there's a huge
power differential there.
1169
01:09:41,927 --> 01:09:45,181
They have taken people
who were not as superstitious
1170
01:09:45,181 --> 01:09:47,474
and made them
far more superstitious,
1171
01:09:48,058 --> 01:09:51,103
far more desirous
to please the missionary.
1172
01:09:52,062 --> 01:09:54,440
And I realized, "I'm not helping them,
I'm hurting them."
1173
01:09:58,277 --> 01:10:00,529
So I not only
abandoned the faith,
1174
01:10:00,529 --> 01:10:04,158
but I am very much
against missionary activity.
1175
01:10:04,158 --> 01:10:05,743
I don't think it
should be allowed.
1176
01:10:07,578 --> 01:10:09,163
John Chau's a good example.
1177
01:10:09,830 --> 01:10:12,458
At the same time that I want
to be tolerant of him,
1178
01:10:12,458 --> 01:10:16,170
I cannot deny that to me,
1179
01:10:17,129 --> 01:10:19,423
you know,
he's just giving his life
1180
01:10:19,423 --> 01:10:22,885
for Zeus or Thor
or Santa Claus.
1181
01:10:22,885 --> 01:10:24,803
There's no more reality
in any of them
1182
01:10:24,803 --> 01:10:27,264
than there is
in his Jesus and God.
1183
01:10:30,601 --> 01:10:34,146
If there is no God,
the only ethical evaluation
1184
01:10:34,146 --> 01:10:35,940
is the effect
that he's having,
1185
01:10:36,899 --> 01:10:39,401
and the effect
is to possibly contaminate
1186
01:10:39,401 --> 01:10:42,404
this whole group with disease,
to violate their will,
1187
01:10:42,404 --> 01:10:44,031
to lose his own life.
1188
01:10:47,534 --> 01:10:49,370
Therefore, it's
an unethical act.
1189
01:10:53,374 --> 01:10:55,292
That there's a
people group that we would
1190
01:10:55,292 --> 01:10:57,753
decide, "Sorry, you don't
get to hear about Jesus.
1191
01:10:58,837 --> 01:11:00,297
I'm gonna decide for you
1192
01:11:00,297 --> 01:11:02,007
that you're gonna
say no to Jesus"...
1193
01:11:03,550 --> 01:11:06,553
to me, that's a basic
violation of their human right
1194
01:11:06,553 --> 01:11:07,888
to say yes or no.
1195
01:11:07,888 --> 01:11:10,766
And so it's important to
me that we provide them
1196
01:11:10,766 --> 01:11:13,102
the opportunity
to say yes or no to Jesus.
1197
01:11:16,772 --> 01:11:18,899
All Nations is an organization
1198
01:11:18,899 --> 01:11:21,026
that trains, sends, and
cares for missionaries
1199
01:11:21,026 --> 01:11:22,361
all over the world.
1200
01:11:24,238 --> 01:11:26,490
I'm in charge of security
and risk management
1201
01:11:26,490 --> 01:11:27,825
for our organization.
1202
01:11:30,244 --> 01:11:32,204
When John Chau
first called me,
1203
01:11:32,204 --> 01:11:34,123
he mentioned
that he wanted to work
1204
01:11:34,123 --> 01:11:35,624
with the North Sentinelese.
1205
01:11:35,624 --> 01:11:39,253
And I said, "You realize
how difficult and dangerous
1206
01:11:39,253 --> 01:11:40,462
that might be?"
1207
01:11:40,462 --> 01:11:41,922
And he said,
"Yes, I do realize
1208
01:11:41,922 --> 01:11:44,383
how difficult and dangerous
that might be."
1209
01:11:44,383 --> 01:11:46,218
And I said, "Well, I think
we're gonna need to have
1210
01:11:46,218 --> 01:11:48,012
some more conversations
about this."
1211
01:11:49,847 --> 01:11:53,100
I asked my colleague, "What
do you think about this guy?
1212
01:11:53,100 --> 01:11:55,102
Do you think he has
a messiah complex?"
1213
01:11:55,102 --> 01:11:57,813
Because we're not interested
in sending those people out.
1214
01:11:58,397 --> 01:11:59,857
Screening
for the messiah complex
1215
01:11:59,857 --> 01:12:02,776
is really important because
we already have a messiah.
1216
01:12:02,776 --> 01:12:04,069
It's Jesus.
1217
01:12:04,069 --> 01:12:06,613
He's the one
who saves people, not us.
1218
01:12:06,613 --> 01:12:09,325
And sometimes people
get confused, and they think,
1219
01:12:09,325 --> 01:12:11,785
"Oh, you know, I just want
to give everything for Jesus.
1220
01:12:11,785 --> 01:12:14,413
"Therefore, I deliberately
want to seek out
1221
01:12:14,413 --> 01:12:16,999
the most dangerous thing
to prove my love for God."
1222
01:12:16,999 --> 01:12:18,751
And that's not right.
1223
01:12:20,252 --> 01:12:23,130
At All Nations, we're
pretty focused on training
1224
01:12:23,130 --> 01:12:26,133
and sending people to
places to make disciples
1225
01:12:26,133 --> 01:12:28,052
and to plan churches.
1226
01:12:28,052 --> 01:12:33,140
John is one of the most prepared
young men I've ever met.
1227
01:12:33,140 --> 01:12:35,893
We've had many
conversations over the phone
1228
01:12:35,893 --> 01:12:39,021
before I personally met him,
1229
01:12:39,897 --> 01:12:40,898
and he would say,
1230
01:12:40,898 --> 01:12:43,984
"Hey, I really want to know
about other cultures.
1231
01:12:43,984 --> 01:12:45,361
How should I go about it?"
1232
01:12:46,403 --> 01:12:49,448
We actually would
give him assignments.
1233
01:12:53,118 --> 01:12:55,662
Even though
we're sitting in Kansas City,
1234
01:12:55,662 --> 01:12:57,706
the Midwestern part
of the United States,
1235
01:12:57,706 --> 01:13:00,042
we get people to be
actors and actresses
1236
01:13:00,042 --> 01:13:03,712
to re-create an experience
from somewhere in the world.
1237
01:13:03,712 --> 01:13:06,173
Because if they've
never done a role play,
1238
01:13:06,173 --> 01:13:08,759
then when they enter reality,
1239
01:13:08,759 --> 01:13:10,594
they actually
don't know what to do.
1240
01:13:11,970 --> 01:13:13,389
Some
of the actors and actresses
1241
01:13:13,389 --> 01:13:15,432
are people
that are on our staff.
1242
01:13:16,308 --> 01:13:17,893
I played a villager
many times.
1243
01:13:17,893 --> 01:13:21,021
I played the village chief
on several occasions.
1244
01:13:21,605 --> 01:13:23,732
I speak a language
that only 35,000 people
1245
01:13:23,732 --> 01:13:25,317
on Planet Earth speak.
1246
01:13:25,317 --> 01:13:26,568
You say things like...
1247
01:13:28,570 --> 01:13:31,115
Watching their faces get
a little bit shocked.
1248
01:13:32,574 --> 01:13:34,868
When the students
would begin to approach,
1249
01:13:35,452 --> 01:13:37,121
there would be people
who would rush out
1250
01:13:37,121 --> 01:13:39,373
with mock weapons
and make them stop.
1251
01:13:41,500 --> 01:13:43,752
The worst that could
happen to the students
1252
01:13:43,752 --> 01:13:46,213
is that they are told
that they have to leave.
1253
01:13:48,006 --> 01:13:49,758
The coach will basically
go back and be like,
1254
01:13:49,758 --> 01:13:51,385
"Okay, give them
another chance.
1255
01:13:51,385 --> 01:13:53,595
Let's see if they can
do better this time."
1256
01:13:54,972 --> 01:13:56,473
I've asked myself many times
1257
01:13:56,473 --> 01:14:00,602
what I thought would happen
to John, and I thought...
1258
01:14:01,520 --> 01:14:03,147
that John would get accepted.
1259
01:14:04,857 --> 01:14:07,067
Eventually,
when it's time to leave,
1260
01:14:07,067 --> 01:14:10,571
we actually assign a mentor
to every one of our workers
1261
01:14:11,238 --> 01:14:13,115
so that we can
journey with them.
1262
01:14:14,158 --> 01:14:15,284
Who was that for John?
1263
01:14:16,660 --> 01:14:22,166
Oh, yeah, we cannot
disclose personnel issues, yeah.
1264
01:14:31,467 --> 01:14:33,844
Like one
who takes off a garment
1265
01:14:33,844 --> 01:14:35,179
on a cold day
1266
01:14:35,179 --> 01:14:37,431
or like vinegar on soda,
1267
01:14:38,140 --> 01:14:41,894
is he who sings songs
to a troubled heart.
1268
01:14:42,978 --> 01:14:46,356
The All Nations radicalism
1269
01:14:46,356 --> 01:14:49,943
has pushed my John
into the suicidal mission
1270
01:14:49,943 --> 01:14:52,029
that is destined to fail.
1271
01:14:53,071 --> 01:14:58,076
This is the unchecked inflation
of the messiah complex.
1272
01:15:06,960 --> 01:15:08,545
I remember him saying,
1273
01:15:08,545 --> 01:15:10,756
"Caddis Fly, I don't know
if I'm gonna come back.
1274
01:15:11,507 --> 01:15:13,300
I was like,
"John, you'll be back.
1275
01:15:13,300 --> 01:15:15,260
We'll see you sometime.
1276
01:15:16,136 --> 01:15:18,764
It might not be a while,
but I'll see you out there."
1277
01:15:25,854 --> 01:15:29,775
But then a fire burned
90% of the park.
1278
01:15:32,277 --> 01:15:35,155
It looked like a
bomb went off.
1279
01:15:35,155 --> 01:15:37,783
John was very sad,
1280
01:15:37,783 --> 01:15:40,994
and I don't think
that we spoke after that.
1281
01:15:43,872 --> 01:15:45,290
Dear friends,
1282
01:15:45,874 --> 01:15:48,627
I've written up some thoughts
on a question I'm often asked
1283
01:15:48,627 --> 01:15:50,963
so that each of you
can see my perspective
1284
01:15:50,963 --> 01:15:52,256
on the purpose for going.
1285
01:15:54,007 --> 01:15:56,510
This question is, why?
1286
01:15:58,387 --> 01:16:01,682
I want to be a part of seeing
Revelation become a reality.
1287
01:16:02,683 --> 01:16:04,893
In every generation
after Jesus,
1288
01:16:04,893 --> 01:16:07,145
His followers
have expected Him to return,
1289
01:16:07,813 --> 01:16:08,981
and yet He has not.
1290
01:16:09,856 --> 01:16:12,568
I believe that a reason
is that Christ's followers,
1291
01:16:12,568 --> 01:16:14,736
for the most part,
have not obeyed
1292
01:16:14,736 --> 01:16:16,863
His simple
prerequisite command
1293
01:16:16,863 --> 01:16:19,408
that His gospel
must first be preached
1294
01:16:19,408 --> 01:16:21,368
to all the people
groups of the Earth.
1295
01:16:24,538 --> 01:16:27,749
We were unable to
agree on the assumption
1296
01:16:27,749 --> 01:16:32,671
that God would send any
people to eternal fire
1297
01:16:32,671 --> 01:16:35,090
simply due
to they never have the chance
1298
01:16:35,090 --> 01:16:37,426
to hear the name of Jesus.
1299
01:16:38,594 --> 01:16:41,888
We stopped the discussion
right at this point.
1300
01:16:42,806 --> 01:16:44,266
What can we do?
1301
01:16:44,266 --> 01:16:46,226
But his determination
1302
01:16:46,226 --> 01:16:50,772
was like the arrow mounted
on the fully pulled bowstring.
1303
01:17:24,139 --> 01:17:25,182
Journal...
1304
01:17:25,766 --> 01:17:28,727
November 14, 2018,
Port Blair...
1305
01:17:30,228 --> 01:17:32,439
I've been in a safe house
for the past 11 days.
1306
01:17:34,608 --> 01:17:38,278
The originally planned date
was delayed due to a cyclone
1307
01:17:38,278 --> 01:17:39,446
in the Bay of Bengal.
1308
01:17:44,701 --> 01:17:46,995
Much time was spent
in prayer and reading.
1309
01:18:19,736 --> 01:18:21,029
In any endeavor,
1310
01:18:21,029 --> 01:18:23,323
a lot more people are involved
than anybody knows.
1311
01:18:23,323 --> 01:18:25,534
And I think there was an inner
circle of some other guys
1312
01:18:25,534 --> 01:18:27,369
that were
more directly involved.
1313
01:18:28,370 --> 01:18:30,872
If you can talk to Bobby,
Bobby's the person to talk to.
1314
01:18:30,872 --> 01:18:34,084
Bobby was there, you know?
1315
01:18:35,627 --> 01:18:36,795
Bobby and I are good friends.
1316
01:18:36,795 --> 01:18:38,588
My guess is that
he will not talk about it.
1317
01:18:39,881 --> 01:18:42,217
There are court cases
and people at risk
1318
01:18:42,217 --> 01:18:44,469
and families of people
that were invested.
1319
01:18:44,469 --> 01:18:46,972
Anything that puts him
in front of people,
1320
01:18:46,972 --> 01:18:48,056
he feels like...
1321
01:18:49,015 --> 01:18:51,059
endangers some of
those other people.
1322
01:18:53,353 --> 01:18:54,980
Bobby left five days ago.
1323
01:18:55,647 --> 01:18:57,649
It was such an
encouragement to see him.
1324
01:18:58,984 --> 01:19:02,738
The plan is to link up with
the crew and depart tonight.
1325
01:19:28,054 --> 01:19:29,473
I met with the fishermen,
1326
01:19:29,473 --> 01:19:32,309
who are all believers
and agreed to drop me off.
1327
01:19:35,979 --> 01:19:37,105
The meeting went well.
1328
01:19:37,731 --> 01:19:38,732
I trust them.
1329
01:19:39,900 --> 01:19:41,276
Soli Deo gloria.
1330
01:19:57,375 --> 01:19:59,044
The hardest part
of this stuff was actually
1331
01:19:59,044 --> 01:20:00,128
just doing it.
1332
01:20:00,128 --> 01:20:02,088
It's a little bit like
learning to do a backflip.
1333
01:20:02,088 --> 01:20:03,799
There's no intermediate step.
1334
01:20:03,799 --> 01:20:05,675
You either are going to land
on your feet or you're not.
1335
01:20:07,803 --> 01:20:10,388
He was aware of the risks
and chose to do them anyway,
1336
01:20:10,388 --> 01:20:12,891
and some of us would
prefer that he was naive
1337
01:20:12,891 --> 01:20:14,559
so we don't have to live
with the consequences
1338
01:20:14,559 --> 01:20:16,311
of our own faith issues
1339
01:20:16,311 --> 01:20:19,564
that we're afraid to do
something like this.
1340
01:20:31,868 --> 01:20:33,411
Currently on the boat,
1341
01:20:33,411 --> 01:20:35,205
waiting to make contact.
1342
01:20:41,545 --> 01:20:43,880
But as we went north
along the eastern shore,
1343
01:20:43,880 --> 01:20:46,007
we saw boat lights
in the distance.
1344
01:20:59,771 --> 01:21:02,148
God Himself was shielding us
1345
01:21:02,148 --> 01:21:04,609
from the Coast Guard
and Navy patrols.
1346
01:21:21,585 --> 01:21:23,253
"Boat rocked by waves,
1347
01:21:23,253 --> 01:21:25,755
men steering
perhaps by stars,
1348
01:21:26,548 --> 01:21:29,009
wondering why they
think we are going,
1349
01:21:29,009 --> 01:21:30,760
why I'm going.
1350
01:21:32,220 --> 01:21:35,473
See upright brown
vertical line on yellow beach.
1351
01:21:36,641 --> 01:21:38,602
Think at first
it's a tree stump,
1352
01:21:38,602 --> 01:21:39,978
and then it moves."
1353
01:21:41,730 --> 01:21:43,899
John Chau's diary
looks similar to the notes
1354
01:21:43,899 --> 01:21:46,401
that I was scribbling when
I was off North Sentinel.
1355
01:21:48,320 --> 01:21:51,489
There is a way that these
trips reenact one another.
1356
01:21:53,575 --> 01:21:57,329
There are only so many ways
for us to approach an island
1357
01:21:57,329 --> 01:22:00,665
full of unknown people
who may want to kill us.
1358
01:22:02,125 --> 01:22:03,877
But I knew enough
not to push it,
1359
01:22:03,877 --> 01:22:06,671
and I knew that nobody
was gonna come save me,
1360
01:22:06,671 --> 01:22:09,925
whereas, I suppose
John Chau felt that he was
1361
01:22:11,009 --> 01:22:12,969
in the palm
of the Lord's hand somehow.
1362
01:22:15,388 --> 01:22:17,933
There's a fine line
between faith and madness.
1363
01:22:27,692 --> 01:22:29,986
Some of the
guys in my boat went fishing.
1364
01:22:29,986 --> 01:22:32,572
We put the two big fish
on top of my kayak
1365
01:22:33,281 --> 01:22:34,574
and my small Pelican case
1366
01:22:34,574 --> 01:22:36,910
that held my initial-contact
response kit.
1367
01:22:39,579 --> 01:22:40,705
Inside my kayak,
1368
01:22:41,206 --> 01:22:44,000
I had my waterproof Bible
and some gifts.
1369
01:22:46,836 --> 01:22:48,755
I began rowing to the
house we had seen
1370
01:22:48,755 --> 01:22:50,382
about a half mile or so away.
1371
01:23:25,291 --> 01:23:26,710
My name is John.
1372
01:23:26,710 --> 01:23:29,504
I love you.
Jesus loves you.
1373
01:23:29,504 --> 01:23:31,923
Jesus Christ gave me
authority to come to you.
1374
01:23:31,923 --> 01:23:33,925
Here's some fish.
1375
01:24:03,288 --> 01:24:05,206
I figured
that this was it.
1376
01:24:05,206 --> 01:24:06,666
So I disembarked my kayak
1377
01:24:06,666 --> 01:24:08,918
to show them that
I, too, have two legs,
1378
01:24:08,918 --> 01:24:11,004
and I preached a bit to them.
1379
01:24:13,923 --> 01:24:15,884
Jesus said,
"My father has given me
1380
01:24:15,884 --> 01:24:18,219
all authority over
everything and everyone
1381
01:24:18,219 --> 01:24:19,679
in Heaven and on Earth."
1382
01:24:25,185 --> 01:24:27,937
Oh, our God,
You who sit on the throne,
1383
01:24:27,937 --> 01:24:29,773
and Jesus, who
are like a lamb,
1384
01:24:30,398 --> 01:24:33,109
You, too, have delivered us
from Satan's power.
1385
01:25:46,057 --> 01:25:47,600
Why did
some little kid have to
1386
01:25:47,600 --> 01:25:49,185
shoot me today?
1387
01:25:51,271 --> 01:25:53,731
His high-pitched voice
still lingers in my head.
1388
01:25:56,401 --> 01:25:58,653
Father, forgive him.
1389
01:26:14,210 --> 01:26:18,464
Lord, is this island
Satan's last stronghold?
1390
01:26:24,387 --> 01:26:27,974
I felt some fear, but, mainly,
I was disappointed
1391
01:26:27,974 --> 01:26:29,517
they didn't accept
me right away.
1392
01:26:31,686 --> 01:26:33,521
Well, I can try
to tell the story
1393
01:26:33,521 --> 01:26:35,398
from the Sentinelese perspective
1394
01:26:35,398 --> 01:26:37,859
by telling it from the
Pirahã perspective,
1395
01:26:37,859 --> 01:26:39,903
sort of, which is
one I understand.
1396
01:26:41,613 --> 01:26:44,407
They live a hard life.
1397
01:26:44,407 --> 01:26:46,367
They enjoy their life,
1398
01:26:46,367 --> 01:26:49,537
but there are resources
enough for them.
1399
01:26:49,537 --> 01:26:51,372
There are not resources
to feed the world.
1400
01:26:51,372 --> 01:26:53,791
They know that outsiders
have diseases
1401
01:26:53,791 --> 01:26:55,210
that will kill a lot of them,
1402
01:26:55,210 --> 01:26:56,920
and they don't want those.
1403
01:26:56,920 --> 01:26:59,297
They know that outsiders
have intentions
1404
01:26:59,297 --> 01:27:01,382
that they don't like.
1405
01:27:01,382 --> 01:27:05,011
Maybe they want to steal their
women or steal their children,
1406
01:27:05,011 --> 01:27:07,931
because that's happened to
them before in their history.
1407
01:27:08,723 --> 01:27:11,893
So, from the Sentinelese
people, you have this guy.
1408
01:27:11,893 --> 01:27:13,519
You've done everything
you can to make it clear
1409
01:27:13,519 --> 01:27:15,688
that you don't want him there.
1410
01:27:15,688 --> 01:27:17,607
He's yelling nonsense.
1411
01:27:17,607 --> 01:27:19,484
He's giving you stuff
1412
01:27:19,484 --> 01:27:22,278
that you could already have
gotten for yourself, food,
1413
01:27:22,278 --> 01:27:24,322
and a child shoots his Bible.
1414
01:27:24,322 --> 01:27:26,324
If he wanted to shoot him,
he would've shot him.
1415
01:27:26,324 --> 01:27:27,408
He didn't miss.
1416
01:27:27,408 --> 01:27:29,452
People who live by
the bow and arrow don't miss.
1417
01:27:30,703 --> 01:27:32,580
You've done everything
you can to warn him,
1418
01:27:32,580 --> 01:27:33,873
and he still comes.
1419
01:27:43,967 --> 01:27:45,176
It's weird.
1420
01:27:45,927 --> 01:27:48,513
Actually, no, it's natural.
1421
01:27:49,055 --> 01:27:50,306
I'm scared.
1422
01:27:51,474 --> 01:27:52,934
There, I said it.
1423
01:27:54,269 --> 01:27:56,688
Would it be wiser to leave
and let someone else continue?
1424
01:27:58,773 --> 01:28:01,234
I still could make
it back to the U.S. somehow,
1425
01:28:01,234 --> 01:28:03,444
as it almost seems like
certain death to stay here.
1426
01:28:09,200 --> 01:28:10,952
If I leave,
1427
01:28:10,952 --> 01:28:12,662
I believe I'll have
failed the mission.
1428
01:28:17,292 --> 01:28:21,087
I've never felt this much
grief or sorrow before.
1429
01:28:27,176 --> 01:28:29,637
Wondering if it'll all be
the last sunset I see
1430
01:28:29,637 --> 01:28:32,557
before being in the place
where the sun never sets.
1431
01:28:37,312 --> 01:28:38,563
I don't want to die.
1432
01:28:45,903 --> 01:28:49,949
I hope that
he was able to hear clearly
1433
01:28:50,575 --> 01:28:52,660
from Jesus in that moment.
1434
01:28:54,162 --> 01:28:57,790
Maybe this was just a no,
and it's time to go home.
1435
01:28:57,790 --> 01:29:01,169
You don't actually have
to go back to that island.
1436
01:29:02,128 --> 01:29:03,921
Or maybe...
1437
01:29:03,921 --> 01:29:05,256
Jesus was saying,
1438
01:29:06,215 --> 01:29:09,427
you follow
a crucified messiah...
1439
01:29:10,470 --> 01:29:14,682
and you follow Him
for your life.
1440
01:29:15,475 --> 01:29:17,977
And I don't think I'm gonna
have the answer to that
1441
01:29:17,977 --> 01:29:19,312
anytime soon,
1442
01:29:20,021 --> 01:29:21,564
at least not in this lifetime.
1443
01:30:42,019 --> 01:30:43,312
Mom and Dad,
1444
01:30:43,312 --> 01:30:45,606
you guys might
think I'm crazy in all this,
1445
01:30:46,190 --> 01:30:49,152
but I think it's worth it to
declare Jesus to these people.
1446
01:30:50,403 --> 01:30:52,780
Last night,
I had what I'd call a vision
1447
01:30:52,780 --> 01:30:54,240
as I've never
had one before...
1448
01:30:55,950 --> 01:30:57,160
and I felt distressed.
1449
01:30:58,786 --> 01:31:02,373
Then a different light,
a whitish light filled it,
1450
01:31:02,373 --> 01:31:04,876
and all the frightening
bits melted away.
1451
01:31:08,379 --> 01:31:10,923
I can't wait to see them
around the throne of God,
1452
01:31:10,923 --> 01:31:13,301
worshiping
in their own language.
1453
01:31:14,677 --> 01:31:17,054
Please do not be angry
at them if I get killed.
1454
01:31:18,973 --> 01:31:20,558
I love you all,
1455
01:31:20,558 --> 01:31:23,144
and I pray none of you
love anything in this world
1456
01:31:23,144 --> 01:31:24,687
more than Jesus Christ.
1457
01:32:00,890 --> 01:32:03,142
An American man
has been killed by members of
1458
01:32:03,142 --> 01:32:05,561
a protected tribe
in the Andaman Islands.
1459
01:32:05,561 --> 01:32:07,605
John Allen Chau
was a Christian missionary.
1460
01:32:07,605 --> 01:32:09,232
He was killed
with bows and arrows,
1461
01:32:09,232 --> 01:32:10,816
and his body left
on the beach.
1462
01:32:10,816 --> 01:32:12,068
Indian police-
1463
01:32:15,446 --> 01:32:16,739
My youngest son
1464
01:32:17,740 --> 01:32:20,284
was reportedly killed
by the tribesmen.
1465
01:32:23,704 --> 01:32:25,915
His lifetime-longing goal,
1466
01:32:26,499 --> 01:32:29,126
to break the communication
barrier between
1467
01:32:29,126 --> 01:32:32,046
the civilized and the
isolated, primitive world,
1468
01:32:32,046 --> 01:32:33,339
evaporated,
1469
01:32:34,173 --> 01:32:36,676
and he reportedly
sacrificed his life
1470
01:32:36,676 --> 01:32:39,470
without any known
result in return.
1471
01:32:46,519 --> 01:32:49,105
I failed to keep him
from being drawn
1472
01:32:49,105 --> 01:32:51,607
to the radical
evangelical extreme.
1473
01:33:00,908 --> 01:33:02,326
This riddle of life...
1474
01:33:04,495 --> 01:33:06,247
I cannot see through it now.
1475
01:33:10,167 --> 01:33:14,088
In the crushing pain of my
John's reported sudden death,
1476
01:33:14,088 --> 01:33:18,301
I recalled a requiem
I learned 42 years ago,
1477
01:33:18,301 --> 01:33:21,721
when first I came to
the U.S. as a refugee.
1478
01:33:23,806 --> 01:33:26,100
"Under the wide
and starry sky,
1479
01:33:26,809 --> 01:33:29,604
dig the grave and let me lie.
1480
01:33:31,439 --> 01:33:33,899
Glad did I live
and gently die...
1481
01:33:36,027 --> 01:33:37,945
and I laid me down
with a will.
1482
01:33:39,155 --> 01:33:41,699
This be the verse
you grave for me,
1483
01:33:43,659 --> 01:33:46,120
here he lies
where he longed to be.
1484
01:33:47,872 --> 01:33:49,332
Home is the sailor,
1485
01:33:50,374 --> 01:33:52,043
home from sea."
1486
01:33:55,338 --> 01:33:59,550
I dedicate this to be my
youngest son's requiem.
1487
01:34:00,885 --> 01:34:04,764
I think that would match
his life longing.
1488
01:34:16,942 --> 01:34:18,819
I think
that the best conclusion
1489
01:34:18,819 --> 01:34:21,322
that the world can come
to about John's life is,
1490
01:34:21,322 --> 01:34:24,283
ah, well, he did
what he most wanted to do,
1491
01:34:24,283 --> 01:34:26,661
or he lived out his dreams.
1492
01:34:26,661 --> 01:34:29,830
Now you go do it, too,
and you follow your dreams.
1493
01:34:29,830 --> 01:34:31,207
But it's like, that's not–
1494
01:34:32,750 --> 01:34:34,835
If John wanted to
follow his dreams,
1495
01:34:34,835 --> 01:34:36,128
he would've been
with that girl.
1496
01:34:36,128 --> 01:34:38,506
He would've probably either
been in the military
1497
01:34:38,506 --> 01:34:40,925
or a police officer
in a small town,
1498
01:34:40,925 --> 01:34:44,762
and he would probably
still be alive.
1499
01:34:44,762 --> 01:34:46,639
The conclusion
of John's life is...
1500
01:34:49,016 --> 01:34:51,143
he lived his life for Jesus.
1501
01:34:51,977 --> 01:34:55,147
Like, he did exactly what
Jesus told him to do.
1502
01:34:57,692 --> 01:34:59,694
One of the toughest
things in the aftermath
1503
01:34:59,694 --> 01:35:02,363
for a lot of people
was, like, no body, no–
1504
01:35:02,363 --> 01:35:04,782
you know,
nobody there, you know?
1505
01:35:04,782 --> 01:35:06,742
And you got to trust
people you don't know
1506
01:35:06,742 --> 01:35:08,244
to tell somebody
you don't know
1507
01:35:08,244 --> 01:35:09,870
to tell somebody else
that you do know,
1508
01:35:09,870 --> 01:35:10,996
this is what happened.
1509
01:35:10,996 --> 01:35:13,499
And, of course, my family,
they don't know any different.
1510
01:35:13,499 --> 01:35:14,709
They don't know
my involvement.
1511
01:35:14,709 --> 01:35:15,918
I didn't tell them,
1512
01:35:15,918 --> 01:35:18,170
and they're just kind of
cracking jokes, you know?
1513
01:35:19,505 --> 01:35:20,589
{\an8}And some of them
are believers.
1514
01:35:20,589 --> 01:35:22,007
{\an8}Some of them are not.
1515
01:35:22,007 --> 01:35:24,677
And they're like,
"People are so dumb."
1516
01:35:27,263 --> 01:35:29,056
There was a lot of talk
in the immediate aftermath.
1517
01:35:29,056 --> 01:35:30,850
John's story
became global news.
1518
01:35:32,810 --> 01:35:35,312
Bobby took it rough,
like, super rough.
1519
01:35:35,312 --> 01:35:38,315
Still super hard, you know,
and a difficult thing
1520
01:35:38,315 --> 01:35:39,483
to talk about, so...
1521
01:35:39,942 --> 01:35:41,485
I mean, they were
as close as you can be.
1522
01:35:43,279 --> 01:35:45,531
Those of us
that knew him personally
1523
01:35:45,531 --> 01:35:47,658
are still heartbroken.
1524
01:35:47,658 --> 01:35:48,951
We're hurting.
1525
01:35:49,702 --> 01:35:52,037
He was committed to the Gospel
and the Great Commission
1526
01:35:52,663 --> 01:35:53,998
with such a pure heart.
1527
01:35:58,836 --> 01:36:00,504
People who supported him
1528
01:36:00,504 --> 01:36:03,758
were both saddened and
elated simultaneously
1529
01:36:03,758 --> 01:36:05,468
because he is a
martyr for Jesus.
1530
01:36:06,218 --> 01:36:09,930
His death may be fertilizer
for the field to come.
1531
01:36:11,265 --> 01:36:13,309
He will become famous
in the Church.
1532
01:36:13,309 --> 01:36:15,686
His story will be told
for generations.
1533
01:36:16,729 --> 01:36:18,981
I believe that
God is sounding a trumpet,
1534
01:36:20,649 --> 01:36:22,777
and I believe what He's saying
right here in this day
1535
01:36:22,777 --> 01:36:26,155
is that He is looking
to raise up firebrands
1536
01:36:26,155 --> 01:36:29,450
who are pure in heart, who
would carry this pure Gospel
1537
01:36:29,450 --> 01:36:31,494
like an Olympic torch
1538
01:36:31,494 --> 01:36:34,622
and carrying it to
the dark places of the Earth.
1539
01:36:34,622 --> 01:36:36,999
I believe God's raising up
firebrands in this hour.
1540
01:36:38,250 --> 01:36:41,545
See, we're all called to find
our North Sentinel Island,
1541
01:36:42,922 --> 01:36:44,882
but we have to be willing
to say we'll go.
1542
01:36:45,633 --> 01:36:47,593
I think it's very unfortunate
1543
01:36:47,593 --> 01:36:49,678
that we live
in the 21st century
1544
01:36:49,678 --> 01:36:53,390
and we still have people
believing first-century myths,
1545
01:36:53,390 --> 01:36:55,059
enough to die for them.
1546
01:36:56,393 --> 01:36:58,979
We have to realize
that people are like this,
1547
01:36:58,979 --> 01:37:01,398
and religion doesn't seem
to be on its way out.
1548
01:37:02,483 --> 01:37:04,109
There's billions
of Christians,
1549
01:37:04,109 --> 01:37:05,736
and of those billions,
1550
01:37:05,736 --> 01:37:07,488
there's at least a billion
that would agree with him.
1551
01:37:07,488 --> 01:37:09,532
There's not
a billion anthropologists
1552
01:37:09,532 --> 01:37:11,575
and people who want
to preserve the Sentinelese.
1553
01:37:12,618 --> 01:37:15,246
These cultures that
are isolated and traditional,
1554
01:37:15,913 --> 01:37:17,414
when we cross that boundary,
1555
01:37:17,414 --> 01:37:19,834
we're saying your prohibition
means nothing to us.
1556
01:37:22,002 --> 01:37:24,547
If they wanted to change,
they would ask for us to come.
1557
01:37:25,840 --> 01:37:27,466
God might be
calling you out of your
1558
01:37:27,466 --> 01:37:29,802
comfort zone to invade
some dark places.
1559
01:37:30,511 --> 01:37:33,055
This world is dark.
This world is broken.
1560
01:37:33,055 --> 01:37:34,139
They're in need of a savior.
1561
01:37:34,139 --> 01:37:36,308
They're in need
of the light of Jesus.
1562
01:37:36,308 --> 01:37:37,810
There's no greater
love than this.
1563
01:37:37,810 --> 01:37:39,270
There's no greater love story.
1564
01:37:39,270 --> 01:37:42,064
There's no greater romance,
no greater epic.
1565
01:37:42,064 --> 01:37:45,276
There's no greater force
in all the universe
1566
01:37:45,276 --> 01:37:47,152
than the love of God
1567
01:37:47,152 --> 01:37:50,239
and His love story
that He sent out to creation,
1568
01:37:50,239 --> 01:37:52,074
and He's looking
for firebrands
1569
01:37:52,074 --> 01:37:55,452
to carry this pure Gospel
that our God loves us so much
1570
01:37:55,452 --> 01:37:58,247
that He would even pay
the ultimate price for us.
1571
01:38:00,749 --> 01:38:03,419
John was carrying
a torch of the pure love
1572
01:38:03,419 --> 01:38:05,045
of the Gospel of Jesus,
1573
01:38:05,045 --> 01:38:08,007
and it has now reached
the ends of the Earth.
1574
01:38:12,970 --> 01:38:14,138
I think every person
1575
01:38:14,138 --> 01:38:15,890
who's been drawn
to this story,
1576
01:38:15,890 --> 01:38:19,018
whether a missionary,
an anthropologist,
1577
01:38:19,018 --> 01:38:21,604
a historian, an author,
a filmmaker,
1578
01:38:21,604 --> 01:38:24,440
is coming in with
their own narrative arc
1579
01:38:24,440 --> 01:38:28,027
that they want to see
and experience and depict.
1580
01:38:30,029 --> 01:38:32,114
This island
is a sort of a stage
1581
01:38:32,114 --> 01:38:34,491
that you're stepping onto
for a performance,
1582
01:38:34,491 --> 01:38:37,202
and it can make it really hard
1583
01:38:37,202 --> 01:38:39,038
to see the reality
of this place
1584
01:38:39,038 --> 01:38:40,956
and the reality
of these humans.
1585
01:38:43,083 --> 01:38:46,045
We have to recognize that
there's something problematic
1586
01:38:46,045 --> 01:38:48,130
and suspicious
and, in some ways, corrupt
1587
01:38:48,130 --> 01:38:51,175
about our presuming
to tell this story at all.
1588
01:38:53,385 --> 01:38:57,973
But, ultimately, accepting
that we're telling a story
1589
01:38:57,973 --> 01:38:59,725
about us, not about them.
1590
01:39:03,562 --> 01:39:04,813
It's the stories we tell
1591
01:39:04,813 --> 01:39:06,190
that make us who we are.
1592
01:39:08,901 --> 01:39:11,445
John comes
from an ancient story.
1593
01:39:11,445 --> 01:39:14,365
It is one of the most
powerful stories ever told.
1594
01:39:15,115 --> 01:39:17,618
Of course, the Sentinelese
also have a story,
1595
01:39:17,618 --> 01:39:19,703
and we don't know what it is.
1596
01:39:19,703 --> 01:39:22,498
They don't feel any compulsion
to share it with us.
1597
01:39:22,498 --> 01:39:25,542
Maybe in the future,
somebody will remember
1598
01:39:25,542 --> 01:39:27,044
what happened
to John there,
1599
01:39:27,044 --> 01:39:28,671
and there will be a contact,
1600
01:39:28,671 --> 01:39:30,214
and they'll tell us
that story.
1601
01:39:30,839 --> 01:39:33,008
But that may not be
the happy ending we get.
1602
01:39:33,008 --> 01:39:35,344
What we may get
is the happy ending for them,
1603
01:39:35,344 --> 01:39:37,638
which is nobody
ever hears that story.
1604
01:40:24,893 --> 01:40:28,147
♪ If I am alive ♪
1605
01:40:28,147 --> 01:40:31,066
♪ This time next year ♪
1606
01:40:38,198 --> 01:40:41,243
♪ Will I have arrived ♪
1607
01:40:41,243 --> 01:40:44,455
♪ In time to share? ♪
1608
01:40:50,961 --> 01:40:54,506
♪ And mine is about ♪
1609
01:40:54,506 --> 01:40:57,676
♪ As good this far ♪
1610
01:41:04,308 --> 01:41:07,811
♪ And I'm still applied ♪
1611
01:41:07,811 --> 01:41:11,023
♪ To what you are ♪
1612
01:41:16,487 --> 01:41:19,823
♪ And I am joining ♪
1613
01:41:19,823 --> 01:41:24,078
♪ All my thoughts to you ♪
1614
01:41:29,333 --> 01:41:33,003
♪ And I'm preparing ♪
1615
01:41:33,003 --> 01:41:38,133
♪ Every part for you ♪
1616
01:41:57,486 --> 01:42:00,948
♪ And I heard from the trees ♪
1617
01:42:00,948 --> 01:42:04,243
♪ A great parade ♪
1618
01:42:10,791 --> 01:42:14,294
♪ And I heard from the hills ♪
1619
01:42:14,294 --> 01:42:17,631
♪ A band was made ♪
1620
01:42:23,762 --> 01:42:28,100
♪ And will I be invited ♪
1621
01:42:28,100 --> 01:42:30,853
♪ To the sound? ♪
1622
01:42:37,526 --> 01:42:40,904
♪ And will I be a part ♪
1623
01:42:40,904 --> 01:42:44,199
♪ Of what you've made? ♪
1624
01:42:49,204 --> 01:42:53,041
♪ And I'm preparing ♪
1625
01:42:53,041 --> 01:42:57,588
♪ Every part for you ♪
1626
01:43:02,593 --> 01:43:05,804
♪ For you ♪
1627
01:43:20,569 --> 01:43:21,945
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