Jim Bakker Show - What It Means To Be A Christian In China -  Bob Fu on The Jim Bakker Show
Aired: 2018-12-04
Duration: 05:23


=== Persecution in China (05:03) ===

[00:00:00]  Thank you, Laurie and Jim, for having me.
[00:00:03]  I was born and raised up in China.
[00:00:07]  And I was a Tiananmen student leader, then became a Christian through the wonderful work of American missionaries who were actually teaching English because Chinese Communist Party would not recognize any missionaries in China.
[00:00:25]  And that's how I came to Christ.
[00:00:27]  And then I started involving the underground church movement in China.
[00:00:32]  You were in the famous Tenement Square.
[00:00:34]  I was there.
[00:00:36]  There.
[00:00:36]  Wow.
[00:00:37]  I was a student leader for that moment.
[00:00:41]  I mean, in my university.
[00:00:42]  And then later on, during the political persecution, I became a Christian because of really the effort, the love of our American brothers and sisters there.
[00:00:56]  So of course, then I continued to really engage with the underground church and started a house church in Beijing and underground seminary.
[00:01:07]  And then my wife and I were put into prison prison theology.
[00:01:15]  So that's a reason.
[00:01:16]  That's what John says all about.
[00:01:19]  I have a prison tested theology.
[00:01:24]  And that's what you have.
[00:01:26]  I just had an intensive course.
[00:01:28]  Just two months, my wife and I stayed in Beijing prison for sharing the gospel.
[00:01:35]  But that was 20 some plus years ago.
[00:01:38]  But today, as we just mentioned, among those half a billion Christians who are facing persecution globally, over 100 million are living in China.
[00:01:50]  100 million Christians.
[00:01:53]  I mean, this actually combined what Kevin just said.
[00:01:56]  Yes, you know, the persecution is even becoming more and more kind of worse and worse.
[00:02:03]  And perhaps today, under this Emperor C, now President Xi Jinping, he's already got the nickname Emperor C because he removed the term limit of his presidency.
[00:02:16]  And basically, the persecution in China today is the worst since 40 some years ago after Chairman Mo launched the Cultural Revolution.
[00:02:30]  And you have church being burnt, you have thousands of church being shut down, and you have the cross, I mean, hundreds of thousands of crosses of the church building were being forcefully demolished and burned.
[00:02:44]  We have a Chinese American church pastor, my good friend, Pastor Johns Hall, who pastor church in North Carolina, received a seven years sentence in March this year.
[00:02:56]  Still in Chinese prison.
[00:02:57]  Wow.
[00:02:58]  Yeah, for simply setting up 16 schools for Burmese persecuted children.
[00:03:06]  With 2,000 children, he helped set up schools.
[00:03:11]  And we have many, many pastors are still being imprisoned.
[00:03:16]  And some even were killed.
[00:03:20]  To illustrate, kind of the under-reporting, you'd call the mainstream media.
[00:03:26]  I mean, not how much information we know through the mainstream media.
[00:03:31]  That's right.
[00:03:31]  What can the church, and this is what I want to do today?
[00:03:35]  I love information, but I want information that motivates us to do something.
[00:03:40]  What can we do, do you think, to help the church in China and anywhere in the world?
[00:03:47]  We are the family of God.
[00:03:51]  Listen, what's coming to America, we're going to have to stand up for each other soon.
[00:03:58]  And what we it we can practice right now on what's going on in other countries, I believe.
[00:04:05]  Thank you, Jim.
[00:04:06]  Yeah, I think as we all know, the scripture says, you know, remember those who are in prison as if we are their fellow prisoners.
[00:04:16]  I think, first of all, we pray for them.
[00:04:18]  You know, in our prayer, that's the best weapon we have.
[00:04:22]  It's a spiritual battle.
[00:04:24]  Because after all, why those good, peaceful, caring, you know, loving Christians are chosen to be the persecuted, you know, murdered and killed.
[00:04:34]  And secondly, of course, you know, you guys have been already doing this to speak up, you know, to be a voice for those voiceless brothers and sisters.
[00:04:43]  When I was in prison, the hardest time was really I didn't feel that anybody knows about what's happening, the loneliness, the isolation.

=== Let Them Know They're Not Forgotten (00:34) ===

[00:04:58]  That's why the Communist Party is cutting off all the information, you know, try to censor everything.
[00:05:05]  And so to pray for them, to speak up for them in any public forums, and I think to let them know they're not forgotten.
[00:05:14]  Their prison is not being kind of forgotten.
[00:05:19]  So that itself is a great way to support them.