Internal Notes Video & Evangelization
From SPARK
Unpublished
(By Al Shannon)
What was done
Not knowing for sure where they stood with the Lord, I led them through a Bible study on evangelization, salvation and redemption. You can’t evangelize others if you haven’t been evangelized yourself. I explained that there are many ways to give people the opportunity to respond to the Gospel message. (As Quechua speaking Catholics, I wasn’t sure how they would feel about the evangelical type of invitation at the end of the Jesus Video.) So I said, “This is just one way that has been very effective in many languages and cultures around the world.”
Then I showed them the last six minutes of the Jesus Video, in Spanish that ends with the prayer to receive Christ. As I stood behind them and watched, they were silent, spellbound and never said a word. Finally I went around in front of them and started to ask, “Well, what did you think?” But I was surprized when I saw tears streaming down their cheeks. All six answered me, shaking their heads up and down and saying, “We prayed the prayer! We prayed the prayer!” I almost blurted out the words, “But that’s not what I wanted to know!” Then I realized that they had answered my question. It was effective and produced the desired results, even though it was in their second language, Spanish.
Later they translated, recorded, and dubbed that portion of the Jesus Video into Quechua to show at the end of the Luke Video. After the training we sent them out with TV/VCR units, solar panels and batteries.
Results
Over the past three years, these men and others like them have been visiting hundreds of Quechua villages, week after week, all over the Andes Mountains of Conchucos, showing the video, evangelizing and teaching the Word of God. Thousands have prayed that prayer, and lives have been radically transformed. Following that example we have translated and dubbed that portion of the Jesus Video into all the dialects of Quechua, including many languages of the Peruvian jungle where they have the Luke Video, and it produces the same results. Lives are changed!
