God's Double Agent: The True Story of a Chinese Christian's Fight for Freedom
Written by Bob Fu and Nancy French
Narrated by Hayden Lee
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About this audiobook
God’s people are hiding in plain sight
Tens of millions of Christians live in China today, leading double lives to hide from a government that relentlessly persecutes them.
By day, Bob Fu was a teacher in a communist school; by night, he was a preacher in an underground house church network. This edge-of-your-seat book tells the true story of Fu’s conversion to Christianity, his arrest and imprisonment for starting an illegal house church, his harrowing escape, and his subsequent rise to prominence in the United States as an advocate for his oppressed brethren.
God’s Double Agent will inspire you to boldly proclaim and live out your faith in a world that is at times indifferent, and at other times murderously hostile, to those who spread the gospel.
Bob Fu
Bob Fu is a former dissident and pastor of an illegal underground church in China. As a former prisoner, Fu has unique insight into the plight of Chinese Christians and an unparalleled network on the ground. He and his wife, Heidi, fled to the United States as religious refugees in 1997. He currently runs ChinaAid, a nonprofit organization that tirelessly advocates for the underground church in China and for political dissidents, as well as the lawyers and activists who place their lives on the line to defend them. Bob is a distinguished professor on religion and public policy at Midwest University and a research PhD candidate at Durham University, UK. In addition to being the China analyst for Voice of the Martyrs, Bob is editor-in-chief of Chinese Law and Religion Monitor, a journal on religious freedom and the rule of law in China, and guest editor for Chinese Law and Government, a journal of UCLA. He received the 2007 John Leland Religious Liberty Award from the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC). In 2012 Midwest University awarded Bob the Honorary Doctorate Degree on Global Leadership. He currently lives with his wife and their three children in Midland, Texas.
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Readers find this title to be an inspiring and challenging first-hand account of persecution and God's goodness. It is eye-opening, conviction-inducing, and awe-inspiring. The book examines the courage and faithfulness of Christians in China and sheds light on the persecution they face. While some readers found the middle part of the book to be more focused on politics and religion, overall, it is a powerful and moving journey that educates, inspires, and challenges. It is highly recommended for anyone seeking a better understanding of life in communist China and advocating for freedoms.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Super special, amazing story of how God is working in Bob Fu's life and in China through faithful Christians acting in the Holy Spirit by God's grace!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great book that gives a better understanding of life in communist China for anyone advocating for freedoms.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5An inspiring story of Christian faith and courage in a communist country wishing to squash religious practices.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is an excellent book about how God is working in China. It also points out how China horribly persecutes Christians in China. Bob Fu and his ministry with China Aid has the hand of God upon it and has used Bob in miraculous ways to help the Christian church in China.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Amazing account of the courage and faithfulness of this man of God as well as many others who stood for truth and justice.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A powerful book that educated, inspired and challenged me. I want everyone I know to read this book.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is a true story. It was suspenseful, inspiring and motivating!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5So inspiring it is impossible to put down would definitely recommend this
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5An inspiring and challenging first hand account of persecution and God's goodness!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Very well written. Engaging. Interesting inside perspective in what went on in China after the cultural revolution. Even before it got to the amazing work of God through it.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great to see the beginning to present experience of Bob Fu, China to USA, agnostic to Christian.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5What courageous zealous Christians. Thanks for news of China's Christians
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5What an Eye opener!!! We westerners live in a comfortable ignorance.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Eye opening, gripping, sad, exciting, God glorifying, convicting, prayer inducing.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5It's a good book, and I believe that the begging until the middle was very engaging. However, after that the book becomes a mix of politics and religion about Chinese Christian persecution. Maybe I was with a different expectation.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5My family lived in China for 3 years and I can relate with some of Bob Fu story! Thank you for standing for truth and liberty!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Bravo Bob Fu for his sacrificial living for the expansion of Christ kingdom!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5What an incredible, powerful, and moving journey of a man that God used to be His instrument.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I literally couldn’t stop listening!!! Oh my gosh SO GOOD!!!!
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Eye-opening, conviction inducing, awe-inspiring! Made me examine more closely my walk with God.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is a compelling true narrative of life in the underground and persecuted church in China. Riveting!
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Riveting story about Christian persecution in China, I highly recommend it!
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Wonderfully heart-felt. Greatly challenging. Very informative. Well- written and gripping.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The courage and strength our great God and saviour Jesus gives to his children here on earth is such a blessing. We can fully depend on him. Such a wonderful testimony. Thanks for sharing this with us
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Very, very recommendable book. One of those books that deeply enrich you and which you will never forget.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Awesome story of God’s grace, mercy and protection!!! Thank you! Praying for the protection of the persecuted church!
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Captivating and powerful. Everyone should read this book of courage, faith, resistance and the hope of Christ.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bob Fu came of age in China during the time that the Communist regime came to power. His family was greatly impacted by these events and he grew up in poverty. Despite his upbringing, he reached out to the "Heavenly Grandfather" during a moment of crisis. Much later, when he was at university, he became involved in the student uprising against communism. From then on he was a marked man by the government and treated horribly. He was shut up in a room day after day where he was forced to write confessions that were never good enough. No one except his girlfriend would associate with him. He began to think of taking his own life and of causing harm to those that betrayed him. One day a student who was tired of his depressed attitude gave him a biography that a western teacher had passed on to him. It turned out to be the story of how a Chinese man found hope in Jesus. Bob was greatly encouraged by the story and sought out the western teacher and told him that he wanted to follow Jesus. Bob became involved in sharing his new found Christian faith with other students, but learned to be stealthy as he the government was always watching. Bob's girlfriend/fiance also became a Christian and as they went to school and then Bob started working as a teacher they also became more involved with the underground Chinese church. Eventually Bob was imprisoned, then released, then he and his wife eventually had to flee China. They came to the US and now Bob works to help the religously persecuted from China through his China Aide organization.This was an incredible story. I especially liked the first hand perspective of how the political system in China affected the oridinary people. It was very insightful. I it hard to follow in a few places, but that is probably due to Bob translating his thoughts into his second language and working with a co-writer.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5God's Double Agent by Bob Fu is the exciting memoir of a man who grew up under the Communist regimen, became a Christian and evangelist and finally escaped from China and dedicated his life the organization he established called ChinaAid to help other Christians and political dissidents being persecuted by the Chinese government.This is a very entertaining story and also one that reminds us of the freedoms we take for granted in this country. It surprised me how willing many of these people are to risk their very lives for their religious beliefs and to help others with similar beliefs. I wonder if I could be so brave under such grueling circumstances.I received this book free through Goodreads First Reads program.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Very powerful and well done.