The Story of Vietnamese Christian Boun Chan

What does it gain one to get the whole world yet lose one's soul? This is the vibrant testimony of Boun Chuan who was once a Communist director general became a Christian and lost everything he once had. You can think of how many people have converted from becoming persecutors to persecuted. You can talk about the testimony of Saul of Tarsus leaving his affluent position with the Pharisees for Christ, Matthew and later Zaccheus  left the job of a dirty publican for Christ, some Romans under the service of cruel Roman emperors got converted - the story of Boun Chan is no different!

The idea of risking one's life for a Bible sounds absurd to human ears. But you can't get wrong because the Bible is indeed the Word of God. Boun Chan could stand all the torture and starvation for the name of Christ - but he could never stand a day without a Bible. He took every risk to keep reading it and he would get tortured standing for God's truth. But no amount of pressure from an atheist government would make this man bend - it's all by the grace of God!

Boun Chan's story should show how the world is but fleeting and the glory of Christ is infinite. There's a high cost yet there's also an infinite value in following Jesus. Atheism proves no real purpose as Richard Dawkins would state it that there's but pitiless indifference. This man took the risk to get out of the delusion of atheism for the truth of Christianity! Praise the LORD for this man's faith! I wonder what radical or dogmatic atheists will have to say that their persecution of Christianity only made it stronger?

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