Zhang Tiyuan
Zaozhuang City, Shandong Province
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In December, 1989, I believed in
Jesus because of my wife’s illness. After I was called, I began to read the
Bible every day and couldn’t tear myself away from it, and the Bible became my spiritual anchor. I regarded the Bible as
God, and without it, I would feel as if I had lost my life. Because of my belief in God, I was once arrested by the government and educated in the study classes held by it, and I was also once sentenced to three years of hard labor. Having gone through these hardships, I felt that my foundation had been laid on the rock and that I was a man faithful to the Lord. All the sisters and brothers for miles around looked up to me very much and considered me as a first-rate preacher and even more a man gained by God. At that time I was already carried away by fame and position and got a swelled head.