I don’t remember the name or author of a book that changed my life. When I was 15 or 16, I read a book written by a former KGB agent who became a born again Christian and who managed to emigrate out of Russia. When he was in the KGB he used to harass Baptists and Pentecostals meeting at house churches, and a young Christian woman impressed him so much and the memory of her faith stuck with him such that he eventually became a Christian (he lost touch with the woman). There was more to his story, but reading about his faith journey planted a seed that influenced me in mine.
I wish I had gotten my own copy of his book because I read it at someone else’s house while babysitting.
This guy? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Kourdakov
The book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Persecutor
$11.84 at Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Forgive-Me-Natasha-Sergei-Kourdakov/dp/0551005742/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1461951942&sr=8-1&keywords=forgive+Me+Natasha
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I don’t remember the name or author of a book that changed my life. When I was 15 or 16, I read a book written by a former KGB agent who became a born again Christian and who managed to emigrate out of Russia.
The Persecutor. Sergei Kourdakov. Good story. Remember they burst into a room and the believers were on their hands and knees trying to collect their literature on the floor, while being beaten with clubs.
See also Tortured for Christ by Wurmbrand and Tortured for His Faith by Popov.