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Wed, Dec 01, 2010
Randy Alcorn
Randy's Books
books, deception, grace and truth paradox, q&a, safely home, videos

Of the books you have written, which is your favorite? (video)

In this video, Randy shares some thoughts about the books he's written.

Mon, Oct 18, 2010
Eternal Perspective Ministries
Persecuted Church
believers, china, christians, map, persecution, safely home

Map showing the distribution of Christians in China

Map from Global Mapping International, showing the distribution of Christians in China.

Randy Alcorn talking about his book Safely Home (video)

Interview conducted by Tyndale Publishers.

Wed, Mar 24, 2010
Anonymous
Persecuted Church
china, missions, persecuted church, reader responses to randy's books, safely home

Safely Home Impacts Christian Kids

It’s the beginning that sets the tone. It needs to touch the heart. It can’t be just another introduction to another class book that students are required to read for a grade.

Safely Home Demonstrates Both Persecution and Inspirational Hope in Today’s China

Randy Alcorn compares Christianity in America with Christianity in China and inspires readers to see heaven, not earth, as their home.

How did you come up with the idea that Quan (in Safely Home) would teach and write his book in heaven?

Much of the confusion about what will take place in heaven is because most people don't think of heaven as the "New Earth."

It's on the new earth that we will do earthly things. Unless teaching and writing are evil (part of the curse) or scripture says there will be no teaching or writing on the new earth, then there will be. Human beings who have bodies do things to the glory of God such as eat, drink, talk, think, communicate, rest, work, etc. so there would be writing books, reading books and teaching.

Endorsements and Book Reviews of Safely Home

This story opens with “Is this the day, the day I die?” and continues to tell a story that will remain in your mind long after you finish the book. What would you do if your home was taken from you, your spouse swept off to an unknown place—a prison, and you are left to rely on the support of others to live? What if they were sent to jail simply because they were a Christian? And what if situations like this actually existed in the world?

Such a situation is portrayed in Randy Alcorn’s book, Safely Home.

Persecution is the focus as we see Li Quan, a Chinese would be college professor, smuggling in Bibles, meeting secretly in the middle of the night for worship services, and risking his very life to worship Yesu.

From Jon Pratt —

Usually when I read fiction, I do so for fun. I place this type of entertainment in the same category as attending a Twins’ baseball game. But a book I’ve recently finished, while clearly a fictional work, did not have the same effect as baseball. Randy Alcorn’s Safely Home (Tyndale 2001) kept my attention like any well-written book, but Alcorn’s story provided insight into the suffering of our persecuted brothers and sisters around the world in a way that profoundly affected my thinking.

Using an American businessman and a Chinese house-church pastor as his main characters, Alcorn describes the realities and challenges faced by the persecuted church in China as a window into the life of the suffering church throughout the world. Along the way Alcorn provides a sound theology of the wisdom and providence of God in bringing people through suffering, even when that suffering ends in martyrdom.

From Jon Pratt —

Usually when I read fiction, I do so for fun. I place this type of entertainment in the same category as attending a Twins’ baseball game. But a book I’ve recently finished, while clearly a fictional work, did not have the same effect as baseball. Randy Alcorn’s Safely Home (Tyndale 2001) kept my attention like any well-written book, but Alcorn’s story provided insight into the suffering of our persecuted brothers and sisters around the world in a way that profoundly affected my thinking.

Using an American businessman and a Chinese house-church pastor as his main characters, Alcorn describes the realities and challenges faced by the persecuted church in China as a window into the life of the suffering church throughout the world. Along the way Alcorn provides a sound theology of the wisdom and providence of God in bringing people through suffering, even when that suffering ends in martyrdom.