The Heavenly Man.

Book Review.

Hattaway, Paul.  The Heavenly Man.  The remarkable story of Chinese Brother Yun.  Monarch Books. 2002.

Comment.  Henry.

Brother Yun’s name is Liu Zhenying.  He was born in 1958 in Henean Province in southern China.  It is a province of 100 million people.  Brother Yun’s family lived in a village of 600 farmers.  At age 16 the Lord called him as a follower.

Brother Yun’s story is filled with horrendous persecution, miraculous deliverances and amazing conversions.  As a leader of house churches he was targeted and prosecuted as a criminal.  His family suffered greatly because of Yun.  There is hardly a page where references are not made about miracles, signs, and wonders.  Eventually Brother Yun ended up in the West. He now lives in Germany and is giving leadership to the “Back to Jerusalem” movement coming out of China.

Brother Yun is not impressed with Western Christianity and its churches.  He considers them asleep (at best).  I (we) find it quite difficult to really wrap my head around the Christian, church, environment in China with all the opposition and risk for those who would declare to be Christian.  It seems to me that this is a two way challenge.  People like Brother Yun find it difficult to wrap their heads around our Christian environment.  The concerns and/or criticism are valid.  That should not in any way call into question the truth of our kinship in Christ.