Trying to get in
shape for my trip to India.
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Christ said to go into all
the world and preach the gospel
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to every creature
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The problem is we
have no idea who they are.
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How are we supposed to
effectively communicate the
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gospel to a people we know
nothing about; how they think,
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what kind of pressures
they have in their daily lives.
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Come with me and let's
meet India Face to Face.
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It's 4:30 in the morning
and I'm here at one of the slums
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in Madras, India.
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I've gotten permission through
Pastor Samuel to follow a trash
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collector named
Oscar on his morning route.
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Although we live in the age of
information, we know very little
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about poverty and
what it looks like.
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And yet there are over
300 million people in India
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alone that face
poverty every day.
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300 million people!
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That's the population of
the entire United States!
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Total!
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It's much easier for me
if I just ignore these people
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and the way they live.
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It seems like
everyone else does.
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Seeing them makes me
feel overwhelmed, helpless,
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sad, and discouraged, but
God promises blessings if we do
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something about it.
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But how can we help
unless we understand?
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And how can we understand
unless we take a good look?
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And how can we
look unless we care?
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And how can we care unless we
recognize these people for who
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they really are: our own flesh.
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Does this happen every year?
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So, do they have
their cooking supplies?
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They don't have
anything to cook with.
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Well, they all
look so dressed up.
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Yeah.
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It's a disease.
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Do many people get it?
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Yeah, very many people.
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So how long will they think
that they have to stay here?
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Are there
schools they can go to?
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For fifteen years
he's been doing this.
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The one thing the video camera
is not capturing is the smell.
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Then why did he leave that?
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Has he ever run into big rats?
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Ha ha, Yes, he has.
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Rats and bandicoots.
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They eat their food from here.
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What's a bandicoot?
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It's a bigger type of rat.
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Oh.
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See, there's another man coming
like him on the other side.
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He has no tricycles, but
he picks up in a gunny bag.
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Oh, he carries it.
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He carries them.
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So he says that maybe today
I'm lucky, I got a little more
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extra papers here.
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Does that mean that he'll
get a little bit more money
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today to eat with?
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Yes, I think so.
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More than 3,000 years ago the
indigenous peoples of India were
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invaded by light skinned
Arian tribes who brought their
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religion from Babylon, modifying
it to suit their needs.
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The caste system, though
now outlawed, is an integral
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component of the Hindu
view of the cycle of life.
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It ties in very closely
with reincarnation which says if
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you are good and suffer quietly
in this life, you may ascend to
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a higher caste in the next
life, which also implies that if
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you are a low caste person then
you must have been really bad
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in your last life, which
means that you're merely paying
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the penalty for all the bad
things you did in the last life.
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In this system, the lower castes
are not recognized as being
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really human, and are often
treated worse than many of the
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animals which they worship.
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They're not allowed to go into
any temple, and aren't allowed
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many jobs except these menial
degrading jobs like picking
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through the trash,
or cleaning the sewer.
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The upper caste benefit greatly
by controlling this large cheap
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labor force.
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In fact I have been told that
there are more millionaires in
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India than in the United States.
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Go figure!
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Yeah, the water came up to
this level; his house's level.
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Really?
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Yes.
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About twenty-five huts, which
were near to the bank of this
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river washed away by
the waters of the flood.
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Up to this level; the water
came up to that level, you see,
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where he was standing there.
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It looked like the
water was up to there.
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How many people
live in this place?
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There are ten people
living in this place.
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And is he the
only one that works?
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Yeah, he's the only one that
works for the entire family.
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So what he did this morning
will feed the entire family.
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Yes, what he did this morning.
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It's about a
hundred rupees; about $2.00.
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Really?
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Yeah, he will sell it for $2.00.
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With that he will run the day.
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Yes, one day at a time.
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If he doesn't go in the morning
then there's no food at home.
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Without Jesus, and Christians
like Pastor Samuel, Oscar's
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children will have no hope but
to follow their father in this
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endless struggle against hunger.
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But if we can teach the children
the gospel, and how to read and
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write, then they will
have the tools for freedom.
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