Welcome to the Paul Tripp podcast, where pastor and best-selling author Dr. Paul David Tripp

connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life. In this week's connecting clip of the

week, we'll continue to hear from a key ministry leader from China about his experience growing up

in a country

where Christians were persecuted.

In this clip, he discusses how even a simple thing like prayer

can be immensely difficult in those circumstances.

This short excerpt is from a larger conversation

on the Connecting podcast.

To hear the full episode, check out the Paul Tripp podcast,

episode 319.

Now, here's this week's Connect clip of the week. I think in my life, there are two things, major things in my life.

One is my father keep kind of training me intentionally or intentionally in his own terms because he's really, really

serious about how to rear my younger brother and me in the faith. He saw that his top priority.

And the second theme is my mom's side. My mom's side has been very excellent in academic achievement.

And her father was Harvard graduate.

Her mom was Columbia graduate in the 1930s.

So her family has these extremely good academic achievement.

So she pushed on my side on the academic achievement.

And also that helped me survive the hardship years in China because people really appreciate

top academic achievement. My father is more on the face side. So those two things really

interwave in my middle school, high school, and college. And I still remember my father.

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