Brother Yun

Brother Yun is a Chinese preacher and evangelist. His book includes some of Yun's most inspirational and challenging teachings that he has shared with others over the past ten years. Throughout the book, he reflects on the persecution he has suffered as result of being a Chinese Christian and his experience of the revival sweeping China. Brother Yun has a very direct style and challenges us to critically examine our own faith and even the western church. He encourages us to adopt a radical show more faith and share Jesus love with others - whatever the cost to ourselves! show less

Brother Yun's experience of the revival of Christianity in China results in him having a highly critical view of the western church: that it spends too much time looking inward on unimportant details and too little time focused on evangelising unbelievers. As a biblicaly literate ex-believer, I find his core message and many of his criticisms to be very persuasive.

The style of writing is pretty unappealing. Overall this is a caring gentle polemic, delivered with serious overuse of formulaic show more vague religious platitudes. I expect that believers will be able to assign some specific meaning to phrases like "rivers of living water flowing from you", but not having any personal experience of that or being able to assign to it any concrete scientific meaning, it is hard to digest other than in terms of the general qualitative feelings he is seeking to convey. show less

I felt uncomfortable when reading this book firstly due to the title. Should anyone really name themselves "The Heavenly Man?" I found the many miracles almost unbelievable and would like to have seen other sources that supported his version of events. I'm just not sure I can accept that these things really happened and as another reviewer has pointed out, several of the stories mirror things that happened in scripture down to the last detail (Yun's escape from prison)

I wouldn't recommend show more this as it may confuse a non-believer or a not so discerning believer... show less

A truly amazing testimony, encouraging and eye-opening! This must be around my fifth time reading this book, I’ve lost count. It never fails to have an impact on me!

Brother Yun tells of his experiences as one of the leaders of the Chinese house churches and the great persecution they suffer from the government: from his conversion as a teenager and the beginning of his passion for Scripture and evangelism, to his departure from China with his family to take his ministry to western nations. show more The entire book is littered with Scripture verses that encouraged, sustained, and directed Yun during his lowest moments. It reads a lot like the biblical book of Acts set in present day – miraculous healings, suffering in prison for the sake of Christ, the wildfire spread of the gospel – which just goes to show that God is the same today as He was 2000 years ago when the first-century church was established! He is still actively working miracles and transforming hearts for His kingdom. show less