The 700 Club travelled to the jungles of Ecudor to document the remarkable story behind the motion picture 'End of the Spear'.
I think Steve Saint captured the essence of this debate best when he suggested it is not our place to alter what may be God’s plan to win a hardened gay activist and others like him to Christ.
Recently, CBN.com's Craig von Buseck interviewed Steve Saint and Mincaye, the man who killed his father. See how Mincaye learned to walk 'God's trail' from the 'foreigners' and how Steve was able to forgive those who took away his hero at such an early age.
In 1956, Steve was five years old when his father flew into the jungles of Equador and dared to make contact with the most dangerous tribe known to man...
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Steve translated for Mincaye, “He said his heart was dark like night, but Jesus with his strong blood, and the Holy Spirit came and washed it. So, now it's as clear as the sky when it has no clouds in it."
The man inspired to make the new film End of the Spear—about five missionaries slain in Ecuador in the Fifties—never set foot in a movie theater until a few years ago.
The tribe faces the same things we face as a society. Fortunately, the killers all became believers but not everyone in the village has become a Christian.
If you asked Mart Green why God put him on this earth, he would answer with four words, "This Book Is Alive".
In recent years, some Christians have begun influencing Hollywood by getting involved in the process, at various levels, often working their way up.
Through Gates of Splendor -- The Story
In 1956, five American missionaries to Ecuador were brutally speared to death by a savage Stone Age tribe of Indians known as the Aucas. Two years later, the wife and sister of two of the murdered missionaries walked into the jungle to live with the same people who had murdered the men they loved. Today, the Aucas (now known as the Waodani) are a changed people. This is their story.
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