{"id":200,"date":"2012-08-22T13:37:52","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T18:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jack-crabtree\/?p=200"},"modified":"2012-09-11T15:12:24","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T20:12:24","slug":"semester-kick-off-reality-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jack-crabtree\/2012\/08\/22\/semester-kick-off-reality-check\/","title":{"rendered":"Semester Kick-Off = Reality Check"},"content":{"rendered":"

By: Lael Crabtree<\/span><\/p>\n

Infanticide.<\/strong> While it\u2019s easy to romanticize living overseas and working with a tribal group, the reality (while incredible) is also very harsh.<\/span>\u00a0Monday for our semester kick-off,<\/span>\u00a0Phil and Val Paulson shared their story of living among a violent tribal group in Western Brazil. I was blown away by their faithfulness to live among such a volatile and depraved people, while raising 5 girls.<\/span><\/p>\n

Val shared a story with us. Shortly after Val\u2019s third daughter was born, a woman in the tribe was admiring the baby, and asked, \u201cIs it a boy or girl?\u201d Val said it was a girl and the lady slapped her newborn across the face and said, \u201cYou should have killed her.\u201d Infanticide is common among the Yanomami. If babies are born too close together, or they already have too many of one gender they will kill their babies. They don\u2019t believe a baby receives a soul until they are held, so often the baby is left rolling in the dirt while they decide whether or not to let it live. They also believe that to conceive a boy, a woman must sleep with several men\u2013\u2013hence adultery is also common. Yet when a husband catches his wife with another man, protocol is to severely beat her. In fact, she feels as though her husband does not care if he does not beat her.<\/span><\/p>\n

Not so romantic.<\/strong> Loving people who routinely dispose of their children is difficult to grasp. But that\u2019s how God loves. And God\u2019s love should be what drives us when we are sharing our lives with people who beat their wives and sexually abuse their children like it\u2019s commonplace. The “goodness of my heart\u201d is going to run out pretty fast, if I’m relying on my own motivations. I’m going to burn out. Reaching people is not about me and Jack; it\u2019s about loving with God\u2019s heart and bringing Him the glory for any good that comes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Putting on a “band-aid\u201d isn\u2019t the solution. What good is it to tell someone to change their behavior, if you never address their heart? You’re treating a symptom, while ignoring the disease itself. They might stop killing their babies in front of you, or you might save a few lives, but things will not change. When people hear the gospel and they experience Christ in their lives, they transform sincerely. They stop killing because they know it\u2019s wrong, not because some missionaries told them to stop. That\u2019s why as missionaries, we don\u2019t go to change culture, but to share Christ. It\u2019s not about giving out some to do list, but to see lives impacted for eternity and changed by God\u2019s love.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s amazing to think we are almost at the end of the road here at the New Tribes training center here in Roach, MO and soon enough we\u2019ll be in a tribe of our own. What a journey!<\/span><\/p>\n

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