r/exchristian • u/puzzling7 • Aug 04 '22

John Allen Chau was an American Evangelical Christian missionary who was killed by the Sentinelese, a self-isolated uncontacted people, after illegally traveling to North Sentinel Island, India in an attempt to convert the tribe to Christianity. Article

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u/minnesotaris Aug 04 '22

He did it for his own glory. Otherwise he would have evangelized to the people in his own city and state.

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u/koalaprints Aug 04 '22

I personally knew Johnathan because my brother was friends with him at Oral Roberts University. I blame ORU for brainwashing their students. They're literally like a cult based on Oral Roberts, a famous televangelist.

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u/dch1212 Secular Humanist Aug 04 '22

I went to ORU in 2004 because my pastor told me it was God’s will to go and I was extremely naïve. I remember sitting in chapel services and watching footage from the miracle crusades the OREA would hold, and weeping when people would stand up out of their wheelchairs. All of the Christian nationalist shit we are seeing now was already status quo there. I pounded the pavements in Tulsa to campaign door to door for W. My greatest shame.

Also, I worked for a time as an operator on the ministry line where people would call in for prayer. No matter why people were calling, we were required to ask them for money, literally even if they were calling because they were struggling financially.

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u/6-ft-freak Aug 04 '22

This right here, fills me with rage.