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Reflections on John Allen Chau C O V E N A N T Bible-Presbyterian Church Preaching Christ for His Glory and His Kingdom Order of Worship — 16 December 2018 Theme for the Year: “King Jesus Must Reign” (1 Corinthians 15:25) Prelude The Lord Is in His Holy Temple Call to Worship *Opening Hymn 90 - Hark! the Herald Angels Sing *Invocation & †Gloria Patri Scripture Reading 1 John 4:7-18 Hymn 101 - God’s Son Given Tithes & Offering *††Doxology & Offertory Prayer Scripture Reading Matthew 1:18-25 Hymn 87 - O Come, O Come Emmanuel Confession of Faith & Pastoral Prayer Sermon “To Fulfil What the Lord Said” *Closing Hymn 93 - Thou Didst Leave Thy Throne *Benediction & Threefold Amen Silent Prayer & Postlude Announcements *Congregation standing †Glory be to the Father, and to the Son: ††Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; And to the Holy Ghost; Praise him, all creatures here below; As it was in the beginning, Praise him above, ye heavenly host; Is now and ever shall be: Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. World without end. Amen. Amen. Covenant Bible-Presbyterian Church meets every Sunday at 10:00 am at 47 Davis Road, Attadale, Western Australia Website: www.covenantbpc.org.au Contact: [email protected] Must We Obey? At What Cost? Reflections on John Allen Chau The following was written by Steve Steve Saint reflects on the similarities Saint, the son of the missionary pilot between these reactions against John Nate Saint, who perished along with Allen Chau and the reactions against his co-laborers Jim Elliot, Ed McCully, his father and his co-workers. Pete Fleming, and Roger Youderian. ********* They were killed in 1956 after trying A total stranger suddenly blurted out, to reach out to the Auca Indians of “Your father didn’t need to die.” Ecuador. These were a fearsome tribe - they were well-known for the The comment caught me totally by hostility and their willingness to kill surprise. Why would a handsome people without any provocation. young man with a loving wife, three adoring children and most of his life To reach the tribe, they had lowered ahead of him, needlessly risk his life gifts to the Auca Indians from the for just a handful of savages? plane. When their gifts were initially well-received, the missionaries The thought flashed through my mind decided to meet them face to face. that dad and I could have been together at the huge international Their first contact was encouraging; aviation event I was attending if he but on their second meeting, they had not been killed. were killed. Nate Saint was the first to be speared to death. Just then I caught sight, out of the corner of my eye, of one of my After that, the widows of the slain dearest friends in the world. He was men and their children went to live attending the Oshkosh fly-in with me. with the Auca Indians - despite the threat to their lives - to preach the With that one glimpse, reason came gospel. They learned their language rushing back. If dad had not died, this and were finally able to communicate dear old friend who my children call the gospel to them. Eventually the ‘grandfather’ would almost surely not tribe was converted. have lived to be a Grandfather. Mincaye, the Auca Indian man, who The stranger who had accosted me had killed Nate Saint, became the was telling me that the violent tribal man who would baptize Nate’s son, people who had brutally speared my Steve. dad to death were a matriarchal society. Women should have been sent When John Allen Chau, the missionary in to contact them. who was killed trying to reach the North Sentinelese - also a violent I interrupted him to introduce him to unreached tribe - there was worldwide Mincaye who was now standing by us. outrage. But surprisingly, or “I would like to introduce you to my unsurprisingly, there was outrage dear friend ‘grandfather’ Mincaye. He from fellow Christians. and several of his fellow Waodani The outrage centered on the fact that warriors are the ones you were just he had not prepared sufficiently mentioning who killed my father!” enough for the first contact, and that I thought about mentioning that my he was reckless - as modern diseases dad’s sister Rachel Saint, documented could decimate the entire tribe. in her journal that Mincaye had threatened to spear her to death as What surprises me most about the well. killing of John Allen are the criticisms Aunt Rachel and Betty Elliot, whose coming from people identifying husband Jim was killed with my dad, themselves as Christians. went in to live with Mincaye’s tribe My mother made several comments just two and a half years after they while I was growing up about people speared dad, Jim, Roger, Pete and Ed being angry with my dad, Nate, to death. getting himself killed by the “Auca The man looked sufficiently shocked. I Indians.” decided to just ask him if he had Just before mom died I came under anything he would like to ask some fairly severe criticism for helping ‘Grandfather’ Mincaye. to make the movie, End of the Spear. He apparently did not. He disappeared It tells the now famous story that into the crowd of people gathered began with my dad and his four around the plane where Mincaye and friends who were killed in 1956 when I his fellow tribesman Tementa were was just a boy. demonstrating how they could use an I asked mom, “Why would anyone airplane as a flying dental or medical have been upset with you widows clinic to meet serious physical needs when your husbands had just been of their tribe. brutally killed? They willingly risked The Unfolding Story their lives and refused to use their Listening to NPR a few days ago I was guns when they were attacked!” surprised to hear that another young 1956 Motives Questioned man was killed by a very small band My mom explained to me that some of isolated people living on a small Christians were angry because the five island off the coast of Thailand. men hadn’t planned better. India claims sovereignty over the Some actually suggested that they island. They apparently, however, do should have just dropped Bibles to the not offer the islands small group of Waodani rather than risking their lives inhabitants even basic services. in a face to face contact. That is considered a violation of their They must have assumed that the human rights by the United Nations, I Waodani, who had an unwritten believe. But that isn’t the point. language would miraculously be able When the unfolding story identified to read English Bibles. John Allen Chau as a missionary, I was Some people, like many now, even more surprised that he wasn’t questioned why missionaries don’t just i m m e d i a t e l y d e n o u n c e d a n d leave happy, innocent people living in excoriated as a misguided adventure Eden-like societies alone. seeker willing to risk infecting this small, isolated indigenous people Dabo, a Waodani warrior told two group with diseases they had no anthropologists the answer to that natural immunological defenses question. against. If the ‘cowodi,’ outsiders, had not told Those criticisms caught up within us about the better way to live, “There hours. would have been none of us left.” Another anthropologist who studied To that end, John studied linguistics, the Waodani identified them as having anthropology and emergency a 60% homicide rate. medicine. Knowing that what he was They were a society of death. going to do could cost him his life, he s t a y e d a w a y f r o m r o m a n t i c My mother told me that the primary entanglements. recurring criticism she and the other 4 widows received went something like John explained what he felt God had this. “Now that you all have gone out called him to do to his parents. He and gotten yourselves killed, who will apparently wanted them to know that ever want to be a missionary.” it might cost him and them his life. Surprisingly, thousands of people have Legalities and Quarantine? told me personally that the story God But what about the government wrote with my dad and his four friends prohibition against contacting this lives has motivated them to dedicate isolated people group? their lives to service for others. The government themselves appear to Learning More About Chau have attempted to make contact. In Three days after the death of John that attempt, it is reported that the Chau on a North Sentinel island was people on the island shot arrows at r e p o r t e d , a f r i e n d a n d f e l l o w the menacing helicopter. missionary kid stopped by for a visit. There is also a report that National Paul had taken a course on Church Geographic attempted a contact. Planting with John. For Christ-followers, should safety and A m u t u a l f r i e n d w o r k s a t t h e governmental prohibitions be our headquarters of the missionary primary concerns? sending agency that John Chau What if men make laws that contradict worked with. I talked to her about Christ’s instructions? Peter, one of John. Christ’s disciples was arrested and told John had also corresponded and by the religious and political talked to an engineer working with authorities, not to tell people about ITEC (Indigenous People’s Technology Jesus and his teachings.
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