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Peter Xu: The Billy Graham of China

This is an adapted excerpt from “China’s War on Faith” by Sam Brownback with Michael Arkush, released May 12 from Republic Book Publishers.

Peter Xu never lost faith in his Lord and Savior. Not even when death was near.

In 1997, Peter hung from the metal bars of a sliding prison door for nearly four hours. At one point, the guards—cogs in the system, I keep reminding myself—opened the door as wide as they could, stretching his chest so far that he could barely breathe. The pain was excruciating, and it would only get worse.

Peter was not a young man. He was in his late 50s, one of the fathers of the house church movement in China.

Why was God allowing him to be tortured? None of the servants in His kingdom were more obedient than Peter Xu, more loving. Often at great risk to himself and his family.

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“I saw it as my portion of the sufferings of Christ,” Peter, now 85 years old and living in Colorado, told me. “I was experiencing my small portion of that Cross. I could feel the imprint of the Cross on me like I was being seared with the Cross. It made me love Jesus even more.”

When Peter was 24, he worked in a coal-mining facility with about 700 others.

It wasn’t his choice. The government had sent him there, hundreds of miles from his home, after he lost his previous job. The government did that routinely.

One day, the leadership at the facility was instructed by the authorities to select 10% of the workforce for ideological cleansing as part of the Four Cleanups Movement, a campaign by the Chinese to rid the party of corruption at the rural level. The cleansing would pave the way........

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