God's Hostage | Andrew Brunson

Inspired... with Simon Guillebaud

Great Lakes Outreach

Christianity, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 663 Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Dubbed by The Economist as 'the most expensive prisoner in the world', Andrew's imprisonment in Türkiye became a subject of international attention and significance. But in this interview, he shares candidly about just how difficult it was, and how even enduring death threats, gunfire and over twenty years on the mission field hadn't prepared him for the intensity of this experience. This one is inspiring and challenging in equal measure as Andrew shares with wisdom, humility and a desire to share the lessons he learnt as God's hostage. It’s an important message, do share with others! Read Andrew’s story: https://standrewsbookshop.co.uk/product/gods-hostage/ (God's Hostage: A True Story Of Persecution, Imprisonment, and Perseverance) Do check out Andrew’s short 8-sesion Prepare to Stand series on: https://www.frc.org/preparetostand (frc.org/preparetostand) --- We've got a new Instagram page! Follow us https://www.instagram.com/inspiredwith.sg/ (@inspiredwith.sg) Choose Life in 2023: https://www.greatlakesoutreach.org/people/simon-guillebaud/choose-life-2023/?utm_source=inspired_description&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=inspired&utm_id=inspired (⁠⁠greatlakesoutreach.org/chooselife⁠) https://www.greatlakesoutreach.org/people/simon-guillebaud/choose-life-2023/?utm_source=inspired_description&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=inspired&utm_id=inspired (⁠⁠⁠)Support us: https://www.greatlakesoutreach.org/get-involved/inspired-give/?utm_source=inspired_description&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=inspired&utm_id=inspired (⁠⁠greatlakesoutreach.org/inspired⁠⁠) --- Weekly episode WhatsApp link: https://www.simonguillebaud.com/inspired-podcast/#whatsapp (⁠⁠greatlakesoutreach.org/whatsapp⁠⁠) | Weekly email notification: https://www.simonguillebaud.com/inspired-podcast/#email (⁠⁠greatlakesoutreach.org/inspiredemail⁠⁠) For more from Simon, visit: https://www.simonguillebaud.com/ (⁠⁠simonguillebaud.com⁠⁠) --- Produced by Great Lakes Outreach - Transforming Burundi and Beyond: https://www.greatlakesoutreach.org/?utm_source=inspired_description&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=inspired&utm_id=inspired (⁠⁠greatlakesoutreach.org⁠)

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0:00.0	The U.S. did impose sanctions. The Turkish economy collapsed. And the economist magazine said at the time, Andrew Brunson may be the most expensive person in the world.
0:11.1	I thought I was a relatively toughen missionary. We'd had death threats and bomb threats, and I'd been attacked by gunmen.
0:17.3	So I was surprised when I started to break pretty quickly.
0:23.0	Welcome, everybody. This is Simon Gilbo with Inspired. It's great to be back with you this week.
0:27.1	We've got another fantastic guest. If you're new to us, Inspired is all about sharing life stories from
0:33.0	friends and contacts from different spheres with their respective experiences of hanging on in there
0:39.1	through sucker punches of life or you know authentic digging deep seeing god at work and all sorts
0:44.5	of different cultures and contexts across the globe and i've got no doubt you're going to be
0:48.8	very challenged and stirred and aspire this week because we've got with us andrew brunson welcome
0:53.9	andrew well hi simon it's great to be with you fantastic to have you too brother so stirred and inspired this week because we've got with us Andrew Brunson. Welcome, Andrew.
0:54.7	Well, hi, Simon. It's great to be with you. Fantastic to have you too, brother. So Andrew has
0:59.6	well served for a few decades in Turkey. He became, could be one of the most famous prisoners
1:06.6	in the world when his world was rocked in October 2016 when he's falsely accused of terrorism.
1:14.0	He spent two years in a Turkish prison.
1:16.5	He was, yeah, I mean, just faced some really, really heavily stuff, was broken in the process,
1:22.0	but learned loads and eventually under masses of political pressure from Trump and his US government.
1:28.4	He's released in October 2018.
1:30.2	So we're going to come to that and all the Lord taught you in that process, Andrew.
1:34.3	But I'd love to go back just to see what shaped you in terms of childhood and any significant experiences.
1:41.9	So yeah, take it away.
1:43.3	Well, I grew up in a missionary
1:45.4	family. My parents were in Mexico at the time. So that certainly shaped me. And just my calling
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