Must Read Book: These Are the Generations

This
powerful book describes God’s work in North Korea through three
generations of the Bae family, beginning with a family member during
World War II and continuing through to his grandson, who was forced to
flee after spending a year in a North Korean prison.

Their faith is unique among North Korea believers–it has been
carefully passed on to each generation without outside contribution. The
Bae family’s story provides a rare, first-person account of life for
underground Christians in this isolated nations and offers insight into
the many hardships belivers have faced since the founding of communist
North Korea.

Christians like the Bae family are extremely rare in North Korea.
Most North Korean Christians learn about Christ in China or South Korea
and take him–and a fair amount of systematic teaching and
resources–back with them to North Korea. But the Baes from an
altogether different part of the sheep fold. Born of the martyrs, they
are among the remnant 7,000 who have not bowed to Baal (1 Kings 19:18).
The Baes are heirs to the bold faith of the ancestors, guardians of the
gospel in arguably the most idolatrous country in modern history.

“This may sound like a very unusual ending to a story about
Christian faithfulness across generations, but North Korea is a very
unusual place to be faithful. In North Korea, faithfulness is not
something Christians are while they are busy doing other Christians
things. It’s what they do with their minds and souls and bodies and
strength, and it almost always comes at the cost of their lives. So it
is a very precious thing, and it means that our stories oftne have
unusual beginnings and unusual endings. Like this one.” –Mr. Bae