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GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS…...

I read THE STORY of the spearing of five young missionaries trying to evangelize the Auca of the Ecuadorean Amazon when I was a pre-teen. Life magazine told the story and showed us pictures.

Later, A DOCUMENTARY was made - and the story grew even more incredible, as we learned that the wives and children of the murdered men went into the forest to contact the killers, in a renewal of the effort to bring them to a knowledge of Jesus Christ. The sister of one of the dead men spent the rest of her life with the WAODANI, a name preferred to “Auca”, the Quechua word for “enemy”.

Now, the story is on the big screen, in a production titled END OF THE SPEAR. Gail and I just got back from seeing it, and despite a somewhat equivocal review in a local paper, we thought it wonderful! It’s really intense, it keeps you on the edge of your seat, it made me cry, and it makes the compulsion and the courage that come from knowing Jesus very plain.

The story is told in large part from the point of view of the Waodani, and makes it plain how difficult it was for them to take the road away from their age-old pattern of kill and be killed, in an endless cycle of revenge and murder.

As the credits roll, we see Nate Saint’s only son, Steve (who, with his family, has lived with the Waodani since 1995), eating and shopping and sharing some time in the U.S. with the man (now a Christian) who speared his father 50 years ago. It’s a wonderful end to the movie, to hear Mincaye talking about his experiences in counterpoint to the disbelief of his tribal family when they hear his stories. Half the profits from this film will reportedly go to evangelize this and other indigenous tribes, so go and have a wonderful time at the movies!

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