yego.me
💡 Stop wasting time. Read Youtube instead of watch. Download Chrome Extension

The Mission | Official Trailer | National Geographic Documentary Films


2m read
·Nov 10, 2024

My friend John paid some pirates to go to an island to talk to people about Jesus, when he knew that he had no business doing that. John’s parents brought him up to be Christian. He was just, like, full of light. I had a little bit of a crush on him. You couldn't have asked for a better young man. He reminds me of who I wanted to serve with.

He told me his plan was to go live in the middle of the jungle. It didn't sound that bad. I thought that John would get accepted. People whose language no one speaks, whose culture no one knows. There's a fine line between faith and madness. Once he found out about that tribe, he knew he was going to go all in.

John was telling a story, “I'm a climber. I'm an adventurer.” Here we are, hiking out! If things don't go well, he wanted to look like a young, arrogant, western person who did a stupid thing and move on. John said to me, “This is what the plan looks like.” “Have it right here.”

There are so many ways the seductions of this story can go wrong. This idea of people who exist out of time, that erases their humanity. These cultures that are isolated, when we cross that boundary, we're saying, “Your prohibition means nothing to us.” That there's a group that we would decide, “Sorry, you don't get to hear about Jesus,” that's a violation of their human right.

John did exactly what Jesus told him to do. John was pursuing a fantasy. In discerning the call, we can mess it up. My friend did something stupid and courageous and bold, and I wish I was that bold.

More Articles

View All
You Are Not Alone
Sleep is good, death is better; yet surely never to have been born is best. These lines close a 17th century poem by German writer Hinrich Hine. The piece is titled “Death and his Brother’s Sleep.” It compares these two states, suggesting that we experien…
EXCLUSIVE: Fur Seals Are Back From the Brink on California Islands | National Geographic
The northern fur seal was a top predator in this area, and 150,000 of them were removed from the ecosystem. My name is Jim Teats, and I’m a biologist for Point Blue Conservation Science. I work on Southeast Farallon Island, which is 30 miles west of San F…
15 Experiences That Will Change Your Life & Make You Mentally Stronger
Hey there, Aluer. Now, there are experiences in your life that will pass you by unnoticed at the time, but they go on to define you. One day, you’ll look back and wonder how you ended up here, and you’ll think back to these moments. Sometimes they’re smal…
Distance or arc length from angular displacement | AP Physics 1 | Khan Academy
We’re going to do in this video is try to draw connections between angular displacement and notions of arc length or distance traveled. So, right over here, let’s imagine I have some type of a tennis ball or something, and it is tethered with a rope to s…
The Truth About Quitting My Job and Starting a Business...
Hey guys and welcome back to the channel! So, in this video, I wanted to go deep and discuss exactly how I was able to quit the rat race and start working for myself full time. I know a majority of people out there are aiming to achieve this; most people …
Voter turnout | Political participation | US government and civics | Khan Academy
What we’re going to talk about in this video is voter turnout, which is a way of thinking about how many of the people who could vote actually do vote. It’s often expressed as a number, as a percentage, where you have the number who vote over the number o…