China (MNN) — In today’s increasingly digital age, there’s still nothing like having a Bible you can hold in your hands. It’s not as easy to miss or dismiss as digital resources are.
Bibles for China serves to bring God’s Word into the hands of Chinese believers through every legal means possible. They have witnessed that when God’s Word is read, understood and accepted, it brings people to the brink of a life-transforming relationship with Jesus.
Kurt Rovenstine with Bibles for China shares one story of life transformation from a recent gathering with Chinese church leaders. “One of the pastors pulled me aside and said, ‘Let me tell you how the Word of God was integral to my faith.'”
(Photo courtesy of Bibles for China)
This man we’ll call Philip lost his mother at a young age. His father worked far from home, leaving him with more freedom as a teenager than was good.
“Over the course of time and continued troubles, this young man found himself in a pretty bad way legally,” Rovenstine says.
“Through a set of miraculous circumstances, he found himself with the New Testament that he felt led by the Holy Spirit to read.”
When Philip read the Bible, he put his faith in Jesus. His story is one of many that encourage Bibles for China in their work.
“Here was a pastor who said, ‘The presence of a Bible, at the right place, at the right time, brought me to faith and called me to ministry. What you do at Bibles for China is an important work and we need to continue to do that,'” Rovenstine says.
Pray for the leaders and pastors in China to boldly endure challenges as they spread God’s Word.
“To continue to pray for endurance, courage and the presence and peace of God in the midst of all the things the enemy throws our way is an important prayer for all of us for one another,” Rovenstine says.
Learn more about Bibles for China’s mission here.
Header photo courtesy of Bibles for China.
