China, Communism and Christianity with Bob Fu
Hank Unplugged: Essential Christian Conversations
The Christian Research Institute
4.9 • 809 Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2021
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
Topics discussed include: Bob Fu recalls the poverty his early life in Communist China (3:00); Bob Fu recalls his time as a leader during the Tiananmen Square demonstrations for freedom and democracy in 1989 and how the massacre has actually led many Chinese people to Christ (10:00); how Bob Fu became known as God’s Double Agent (17:00); the biggest political crime of the 20th century according to Bob Fu (19:00); the connection between the forced abortions in China and Chinese women having the highest rate of suicide in the world (22:45); Bob Fu’s experience in a Chinese prison and how it impacted his theology (27:15); how Bob Fu miraculously escaped China (38:30); how Bob Fu founded ChinaAid to help the persecuted church in China (40:10); the increased persecution of Christians in China in the name of Sinicization—the process by which non-Chinese societies come under the influence of Chinese culture by the government (46:30); facial recognition technology, the social credit system and the growing police state in China that Bob Fu calls digital authoritarianism (55:25); the difference between the house church movement in China and the Communist Chinese government controlled Three-Self Patriotic Movement (1:01:10); how China is trying to silence Bob Fu and why many Western countries and corporations, such as the NBA and Hollywood, are turning a blind eye to China and religious persecution due to the economic implications (1:07:30); as Christianity continues to grow in China despite intense persecution, should we be more concerned about growing apathy of many Christians in the West? (1:16:20); the growing support for communism and socialism among young people in the West (1:21:45).
Please be sure to see the documentary “The Power of Persecuted Church” featuring Bob Fu below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eb0OqliYwUQ
For more information on receiving Bob Fu’s book God’s Double Agent for your partnering gift please click here. https://www.equip.org/product/cri-resource-gods-double-agent/
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | And welcome to another edition of the Hank Unplugged podcast. |
| 0:26.3 | This is a podcast that is committed to bringing to you the most interesting, inspirational, |
| 0:35.1 | and informative people on the planet. |
| 0:39.5 | And today will be no exception. |
| 0:45.9 | In fact, I'm going to be talking to someone who was born a peasant, the son of a beggar, |
| 0:52.0 | but in time he came to be called a counter-revolutionary. |
| 0:58.2 | He experienced the indignities of imprisonment under Chinese communism. |
| 1:05.6 | He eventually escaped to the United States, and he founded a non-profit organization called China Aid. He has now met with some of the most powerful people on the planet, including the leader of the free world. |
| 1:15.8 | He's inspirational in that he has given his life to rescuing people from religious persecution. |
| 1:24.4 | And he's informative in that he not only knows a great deal about what is going on in the world of politics, |
| 1:32.5 | but he's intimately acquainted with the problem of Christian persecution. |
| 1:39.3 | And so today, I want to feature someone who is a pastor, a human rights, religious liberties activist, |
| 1:49.6 | someone who was born in mainland China, and was a student leader during the Tiananmen Square |
| 1:57.8 | demonstrations for freedom and democracy back in 1989. |
| 2:03.9 | I'm talking about Bob Fu and delighted Bob to have you on Hank Unplugged. |
| 2:10.4 | Oh, thank you, Hank. |
| 2:11.7 | It's an honor to be with you. |
| 2:14.2 | I just noticed that you were the winner of the 2020 Wilberforce Award from the Colson Center, |
| 2:20.8 | and that's an incredible honor. It is. It's very humbling to receive this, named after my great |
| 2:30.4 | hero, you know, William Wilberforce, right? And I was really deeply humbled. And of course, |
| 2:39.1 | in terms of China's freedom, religious freedom, there's a long way to go. So William Wilberforce's |
| 2:46.7 | spirit is carried by the Kausen Center that will continue to inspire us to continue our fight. |
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