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'Amazing story and highly recommended for church libraries.' Church Libraries

The remarkable true story of renowned Chinese Christian Brother Yun.

This is the gripping story of how God took a young, half-starved boy from a poor village in Henan province and placed him on the front line for Jesus, in the face of impossible odds. Instead of focusing on the many miracles or experiences of suffering, however, Yun turns his gaze to and centers his story on the character and beauty of Jesus. Interspersed with his personal account are contributions from his wife, Deling, made mostly during her husband's frequent periods of imprisonment.

This dramatic autobiography of one of China's dedicated, courageous, and intensely persecuted house church leaders is a watershed book that will turn the reader to prayer and praise. It deserves comparison with past classics such as Tortured for Christ by Richard Wurmbrand, or the Life of Watchman Nee.

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heavenly man, remarkable, true story Chinese christian bother yun missionary conversion experience

An astonishing story of one of China’s most dedicated, courageous, and intensely persecuted house church leaders!

Brother Yun

Brother Yun became a believer at the age of 16. Soon after he became a Christian, God called him to be His witness in the west and south. As he was obedient to the calling, he eventually became a witness of Christ not just in the western and southern parts of China, but throughout China and in the nations beyond China as well.

He is an expert on the Chinese church and author of the bestselling titles The Heavenly Man, which has sold more than 500,000 in English alone, and Back to Jerusalem.

The Heavenly Man

The Remarkable True Story of Chinese Christian Bother Yun

This astonishing account of perseverance and miraculous intervention in the face of horrific opposition has become a worldwide best seller and has been translated into nearly fifty languages.

''This book is like reading a modern day version of Acts. Prepare to be deeply encouraged as well as rudely awakened. An absolute must for the sleeping churches of the West.” —Rev. Dr. Mark Stibbe Author of Thinking Clearly About Revival

“The story of Brother Yun’s persecution and imprisonment is heart-rending. It’s a profound challenge to each of us to take up the cross and follow Jesus. I found it deeply moving.” —Rev. Dr. Rob Frost
"You may begin reading The Heavenly Man on your couch, but you will finish it on your knees."—Reinhard Bonnke

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Amazing story and highly recommended for church libraries. (Church Libraries 2004-06-03) --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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The world can do nothing to a Christian who has no fear of man, Brother Yun says as he tells the world about his trials as a leader in the Chinese house church movement. Brother Yun's testimony is read in a modest yet firm voice by Cristofer Jean. While soft-spoken, Jean conveys all the passion and pain in Yun's life as he hid from Chinese authorities or languished in prison, at times facing torture. Jeany Park reads his wife's accounts with similar grace, and Grover Gardner delivers the introduction with authority. Yun's determination to find God's message through his suffering brings a rare force to his message. J.A.S. © AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B004SBF7OQ
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Monarch Books (February 7, 2011)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 7, 2011
Language ‏ : ‎ English
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 360 pages

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Ruth

Everyone who claims to be a Christian should read this book!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 28, 2022

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This testimony is amazing and glorifies God. In the West, this God is barely known. B
ut soon that will change. The last days are upon us and worldwide persecution is coming to true believers. False believers will be weeded out or will finally believe in the true Jesus. The true Chinese believers are far more ready than we are in the West. Praise the Lord!!

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J. Rios

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Christian biography is one of my go-to genres for encouragement and refreshment; my delight, with the Psalmist's, lies with the Saints who are in the land (Ps 16:3). Consequently, I was excited when The Heavenly Man, the story of Brother Yun, was glowingly recommended to me. Perhaps here was another book to add to my list of greats--to place alongside Brother Andrew and Corrie Ten Boom on my shelf of Saints. However, as I worked my way through Yun's story a strange cadre of emotions followed me; this was a book that left me... uncertain. Let me see if I can explain why.

Brother Yun is a Chinese house church leader, and The Heavenly Man is his story, told with the help of Paul Hattaway. It begins in Yun's youth when he begins to earnestly pray for a bible. He prays fervently and faithfully--so fervently that his family begins to think him crazy. Then, one day, God miraculously provided a bible for Yun. He began to consume, then memorize the scriptures, and then was almost immediately called to preach. What follows (the remainder of his story) is an amazing account of miracles (among these were healings, miraculous transportation, provision, supernatural wisdom, and multiple divinely planned escapes from the authorities). In short, Yun travels, preaches, brings people to faith, spends time in prison, ministers to prisoners, is tortured, is released, is imprisoned more, is tortured more, and through it all is provided for by God on numerous occasions.

What I say next I want to say carefully: there is nothing wrong with Yun's book; but there is also something not quite right about it. The cadre of strange emotions that traipsed through his story with me nagged again and again, raising small flags here and there, that something didn't add up.

Let's begin with what was right with Yun's book. First, his life story, as one of commitment to Christ through suffering, is admirable. Yun's faithfulness is a wonderful testimony to Christ's goodness. Second, Yun is clear in that he gives glory to Christ for what has happened and not to himself. (Incidentally, Yun's nickname, "Heavenly Man" isn't about Yun's holiness, but about a time when the authorities asked him where he was from. He responded, in order to protect his village, by saying he belonged to Heaven, and the nickname stuck.) Third, and this is terribly important, whenever Yun quoted scripture--whether to teach, to explain a situation, or in defense of his actions--he quoted them accurately. There was no proof texting, but healthy interpretation of the bible. Often, I find that if a teacher is faulty, those faults show up first in the teacher's interpretation of scripture. So this factor--the accurate use of scripture--is one that gave, to my mind, the greatest credibility to Yun's story.

But alongside theses goods came, every few pages or so, the red flags which left me uncertain. And the first red flag was Yun's accounts of miracles. Now before I go on let me be clear--abundantly clear--that I believe in the power of the Spirit to do whatever He wants to do. That is, I have no problem believing in miracles--in transportation, in fasting, in healings, in knowledge, in miraculous escapes. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever; he is the same one who acted in the past, he is the same who acts today. So my concerns about Yun's book have precisely nothing to do with a prejudiced dismissal of the miraculous. My concerns are different, so let me try to explain them. When I read about Brother Andrew's miraculously surviving Volvo, or his miraculous encounters at hostile borders, there are no questions in my mind. When I read about Corrie Ten Boom's miraculous bottle of vitamins while in the concentration camp, I am undeterred. When I read about Jack Hayford getting words from the Lord and having visions I am unfazed. And when I read about John Wimber's miraculous accounts I am encouraged. In each case one factor is consistent: the Spirit within me ratifies His own work. And this may seem unfairly subjective, but I have experienced the Spirit, know what He is like, and recognize the scent of His actions when I encounter them. That flavor was missing from Yun's book--and that lack of confirmation troubled me deeply. Do I believe that he was miraculously transported from one location to another? I'm not sure. Do I believe that he fasted from food and water for more than 70 days? I'm not sure. Do I believe that he miraculously walked out of a maximum security prison in China? Again, I'm not sure.

Still, my uncertainty shouldn't negate a book's testimony--especially without evidence!--otherwise it would just be my word against his. But other elements combined to create a deeper suspicion. One of these other red flags was the frequent use of what I'll call "everybody" language. Yun preaches, and "everybody" repents. Yun holds a meeting and "everybody" weeps. Yun shares the gospel in prison and "everybody" is enrapt. Now, this is, most likely, a blatant exaggeration. There's always some Eutychus who nods off, even when the preaching is first-rate. And this idea of exaggeration began to lodge itself in my mind. It is easy, as a preacher, to exaggerate--to make the story bigger, the salvation more poignant, the miracle more miraculous. I began to wonder if Yun had fallen into that trap.

Reflecting on both the miracles and the `everybody' language, a new thought occurred to me: Yun's book closely resembles the book of Acts. And not just `closely resembles', but appears to be written as a copy of the book of Acts. Yun is saved, set apart for a mission like Paul, is miraculously transported like Philip, is part of healings and radical community like the early church, escapes from the authorities like Paul, escapes from prison like Peter--Yun is even met at the door by a girl who forgets to open it for him after his escape! Through this all my inner eye began to narrow more and more as I scrutinized Yun's book. Why does this book so closely parallel the story of Acts? Again, I must ask, is it possible for God to do these things? Certainly! But does this all add up?

In the end, I left Yun's book feeling like I had been fed a story I wanted to believe, as if this was just what I wanted to hear about the underground Chinese church, its size, its miracles, its freshness, its closeness to the apostolic Church of Acts. And because of all this, I'm not sure Yun's book was entirely truthful. Do I doubt that Yun has a ministry in China, possibly a highly effective one with the Spirit's power? No. But I'm not sure that this book is an accurate picture of that ministry. And for that reason I don't feel comfortable recommending it. Sadly, it won't go on my shelf of saints. Does that mean I won't be proved wrong? Far from it--nothing would please me more than to learn that I've made a misjudment about Yun and his story. But I don't think that's the case. And until that time, if you read his book, I suggest you read it with caution.

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Rand Sutor

Unbelievably wonderful.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 29, 2022

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It's no wonder he was called The Heavenly Man in his own country-China. To read what this man went through for his love of Christ and for his people will shock you! And prisons outside of the U.S. are unimaginable! This book will shock you, and shame you because of your disobedience to the Holy Spirit thinking His requests are to much for you. You'll hang your head in shame and seek to know your Savior in a much closer walk with Him, and learn to cry out to Him with heart ❤ for the perishing!

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Powerful Personal Testimony of the Persecuted Church in China and the Ministry of Brother Yun

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 7, 2016

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Brother Yun's The Heavenly Man is a remarkable testimony of his life as a Christian evangelist in the People's Republic of China from the time of his personal commitment to Christ at the age of 16 (1974) through to his remarkable escape and reunion with his family in Germany in 2001. Along the way we witness the wonderful "religious freedom" of Communist China and tender mercies of atheistic Communism towards uncompromising believers in Jesus Christ. Truly the persecuted Church of China has been watered by the seeds of its martyrs (yet revival continues in China while foolish Western Christians rush headlong into secular socialism like lambs to the slaughter). Brother Yun's book is a remarkable series of adventures in the Holy Spirit. Sometimes mind-boggling, often suspenseful, and frequently heart-wrenching, The Heavenly Man is just the kind of book smug, self-reliant Western Christians need to read to consider their own ways. What I like about this book is that despite the truly remarkable miracle testimonies recorded here, Yun also includes a great amount of introspection and soul-searching over his own ministry failures, missteps and stubborn self-will. The Chinese Church is not perfect nor are its leaders. Brother Yun is not afraid to acknowledge the mistakes in his own life. Paul Hattaway, the co-author and an expert on the Chinese Church, has done a remarkable job meticulously verifying the sometimes unbelievable aspects of Brother Yun's story. And while many of the testimonies seem too fantastic to believe, I found his life to be no more fantastic than the lives of the Bible saints all Christians are supposed to accept at face value. Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever. And Jesus said we would do "greater works than these" (His own) so why are the miracles in this book so hard for some to accept? As a Pentecostal/Full-Gospel believer with much experience in overseas evangelism, I found the wonderful miracles of Brother Yun's life to be what you would expect from a body of believers who have had to rely entirely on God's provision in the face of relentless poverty and persecution (something Western Christians can barely imagine). And Yun's most radical miracle testimony, the 74-day fast that strengthened his Christian resolve in China's most notorious prison, which many argue is medically impossible, is actually no more radical than what I have read in various survival and prisoner of war books. Except that Yun fasted in the power of the Holy Spirit! A Chinese writer living in Germany and a Chinese House leader from another group outside Yun's own network have been among his most vocal critics -- despite the overwhelming testimonies of hundreds of others who have known Yun for decades. That kind of slanderous criticism only helps me realize that even among the "saintly martyrs" of the persecuted church there will always be those who say "I am of Paul" or "I am of Apollos." Fine. But don't let the rantings of a few self-appointed online critics keep you from reading this stirring, well-written book. Brother Yun's current venture in support of the Back to Jerusalem campaign is particularly exciting as my research suggests this idea arose simultaneously in the hearts of many Christians throughout the global church, a miracle that could only be attributed to the work of the Holy Spirit. This book is one of the best I have read all year and is highly recommended.

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ShanePB

Give Your Maximum To God

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 5, 2019

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There is a lot of controversy over how genuine this account is, and I have no way of knowing whether it is true or not, but one thing I know for sure is that the "God Before Anything" attitude of Brother Yun as presented in this book is something to aspire to. Whether or not these extraordinary miracles happened exactly as described is unimportant to me, because I know that my God is more than capable of performing each and every one of them, as we can see in the Word of God itself time and time again.

I can't imagine a more extreme experience of torture and persecution, but I know I haven't come anywhere near the same level of discomfort in life, and therefore have not been forced to lean on God for my survival, as Brother Yun had to. I know that I am not giving my maximum to God, and have never been satisfied with that, but this has reminded me that God expects our maximum.

In this book, I highlighted "Not to obey God implies that we are wiser than him," and "It always pays to obey the Lord!" and "If you truly want to see God move, the two main things you must do is learn the Word of God and have the obedience to do what God tells you to do." - and of course "You may not be beaten or imprisoned for your faith, but I am convinced each Christian will still have a cross to bear in his or her life. In the West it may be ridicule, slander, or rejection. When you’re faced with such trials, the key is not to run from them or fight them, but to embrace them as friends. When you do this you’ll not fail to experience God’s presence and help."

A massive challenge - one that demands a response...

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Colin Walker

Review of the heavenly man

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 24, 2021

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This book totally surprised me as to the evil that exists in the world, especially in China and Burma, and probably in other countries like Saudi and Iran.
Without reading something like this you don’t really realise how easy our lives are — as others really suffer for Jesus.
This book really brings home our failings and chapter 25 challenges us . Very inspiring!

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Brian Reeves

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This, and his next book, shows how far the Christian church in the West has drastically strayed from the true spirit and teaching of Jesus Christ. I believe the situation can only be redeemed with a huge amount of prayer, in all it's forms, and I cannot see that the churches are willing to make that sort of momentous sacrifice.

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Shirley Buckley

A book all worshiing people ought to read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 3, 2013

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I bought this book on the recommendation of a friend. At first I found it heavy going ,but soon realised that (a) it was written by someone who 's first language was English, (b) something might have been lost in the translation. I am truly amazed at what this man was put through all for being a Christian, and at times found myself thinking I was reading a work of fiction as it was so far from anything I had ever heard of . Truly an amazing reading . I am now so grateful that I am Christian living in a Christian country, and will no longer take so lightly that I can worship openly.

Spotfree

An outstanding book!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 5, 2014

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I read this book about 10 years ago and it changed my life! I cried and couldn't imagine anyone suffering so much because of his faith. It moved me into action. I still remember this book today and try and imagine how different my life would have been if I never read it! Can't recommend it enough. Whether you are a Christian or not, the book really is about faith, courage and determination.

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