John Sung The Courageous
Christianity in China, a communist country that often push of theists, owe a great deal of courage and it works great on a priest who had entered a mental hospital, John Sung. Without John Sung've definitely face of Christianity in the Bamboo Curtain country would be very different now ama. In a way, John Sung is one of the Christian missionaries in the twentieth century terdahsyat ever born in the land of China and managed to move the nation, as well as other Asian nations, through their work. (Cs)
John Sung
The Courageous the Gila
Since born in Fukien, China, in 1901, John Sung was raised with Christian teachings embraced his father, a member of the Wesleyan Methodist Church of America. He often helped ecclesiastical duties in environments where he lived, because his father also served as a pastor in the local church. He is known as the "Small Pastor," because when her father falls ill or is absent, John Sung boldly ascended the pulpit and speak in front of the congregation.
Since childhood, intelligence is very visible so his father sent John to the U.S. for college. While working to finance his own life there, John managed ngedapatin directly to doctoral degree (Chemistry S3) in just five taon. Certainly whatever he wrote he could want dapetin. Prestigious position in the job can be achieved easily. Big salary was waiting for him. Popularity certainly ngikutin him anywhere with that chemistry doctorates.
But she was shocked when reading a verse, Mark 8:36, "What good is a gain the whole world, but he lost his life." He was very upset thinking about that verse. At the time, happened to be a Methodist minister approached him and invited him to study theology at Union Theological Seminary in New York. But this time it destroys the spirit. In this Union, John Sung actually taught a lot of things about modern theology (the idea that God is dead), not the clear teachings from the Bible. John began to doubt everything that has been absorbed since his childhood.
Lord John finds if weve already dead, and Christ did not rise, then there's no point in him learning about Christianity. There's no point for anyone to follow Christ. He started to turn to other teachings that anguish. He kept looking for what was truth.
Search of the crisis that lasted for forty days. On the 40th day, on February 10, 1927, John Sung experienced a miracle. On that day, her desire for life already completely gone away. In his mind a great uproar occurred between listening in which the Spirit of God and that which the Spirit of Satan. But amidst kegalauannya, he fervently prayed and acknowledged his sins.
Approaching midnight, he suddenly saw the crucified Christ is present in front of his eyes. Christ said directly to her, "Your sins are forgiven, and now your name is John." His soul was transformed by this experience. He was anointed on his head ama Holy Spirit, constantly, in wave after wave. In the middle of the night, from a dorm room on the fourth floor, he ran out and shouted, "Hallelujah! Hallelujah! "Like a madman.
Over the next week, he spoke in public about his Savior it. He also did not shy away from pointing people of high position in the Union Theological Seminary, and accused them of great sin because God already misleading teachings. Because of his bravery, he was arrested and put into a mental hospital.
Spend 193 days in a psychiatric hospital school of theology is precisely true for John. He spent his time for reading one book, the Bible, as many as 40 times over and over again, from beginning to end.
John came out of the asylum for repatriated to China, without a pass from the Union. In the middle of his journey, in the large vessels of the host, John is really ngerasain if he was called to serve God as a pastor made, not as the others. Then he threw all during school diploma earned in China, and doctoral diplomas cuman store for dikasihin to his father. For him, all that's not nothing.
Arriving in China, he immediately began his work. He lectured from city to city on Christianity, especially about how humans have sinned and need forgiveness from God. The teaching is hard; him, just confess and repent just not enough. People have to pay damages due to sins already done.
The church served by Sung always feel moved and many were crying in place whenever he talked about his love of God. However, John is also known to have no fear. He dared to appoint people big and say if they are wrong and need of God, even though priests. All over China, people talk about how great the power of God revealed to them through the lean figure of the pastor's small but tough. In less than 10 taon, about 100 thousands of Chinese converts as hear his sermons. He died at the age that is still very productive, 43 taon, of tuberculosis, as China's most influential evangelists of his day.