God’s Double Agent Bob Fu
10 Favorite Lines:
“You believed in Jesus last night, and already you’re an evangelist?”
In reality, the only thing we can control is our character, so that should be my primary concern.
Though time was of the essence, I rolled out fo bed every morning, got on my knees, and prayed for a couple hours.
“If you want to be a faithful minister and follower of Jesus in China,” he said, “you should learn prison theology.” …“In prison,” he explained, “you find out more about God and His faithfulness than anywhere else. Jail is where God prepared His church in China.”
…we were filled with boldness and courage. We worshiped the same God as the ancient Israelites, the apostle Paul, Wang Mingdau, and Billy Graham. And this same, unchanging, eternal God equipped us to spread the gospel throughout China.
Heidi and I knew how best to resist coercive techniques: we needed to come to terms with our imprisonment, to appear submissive, and to remain silent.
“…God hasn’t taken us this far only to abandon us here.”
Jesus once asked, “What do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your soul?” …I learned the opposite is also true: if you’ve rescued one soul, it means more than the whole world.
Religious freedom, it can be argued, is our first freedom, and it lays the foundation for all other basic human rights.
Start small. Do something. Be faithful, loving, and courageous.
