Seth’s World View

There once a tribe called the Waodani. By many accounts, they were a very violent people in the jungles of Ecuador. Killing and violence was a significant part of their culture. It wouldn’t be hard to label a people such as this as evil, would it?

5 men decided to venture in and make contact, to reach this tribe with the Gospel. These men had wives, and many people close to them wouldn’t have approved of them going into this dangerous land. They brought guns, and when the Waodoni decided to kill them, the men could have defended themselves, instead, their leader said: “We have heaven waiting for us, they don’t.” They died.

Savages murder American men. There was already conflict with the tribe from local oil companies as well. Plus, even in that country, the Waodani were at the bottom of the social scale. What chance is there they could possibly change, seriously? Isn’t that sufficient reason to wipe them out, based on modern thinking?

And then what happens. These men’s wives go in and live among the Waodani. These are young adults we’re talking about, girls, going to live among naked people, in primitive circumstances. Slowly, the Waodani changed, and saw truth in Jesus, and stopped killing each other. The women and their children befriended the men who killed their husbands, their fathers, and forgave them, loved them, treated them as brothers.

I want THAT Christianity, the kind where we love those unlike us, where we don’t justify killing, where we choose to die for the sake of the Gospel, where we forgive those who kill our loved ones. There’s something supernatural about that…rather than the pragmatic Christianity of following formulas and doing whatever makes the most sense.