How they found Christ: In their own words

by John Bunyan

Have you ever searched for a book that compiles under one cover the personal salvation testimonies of many of God's well-known servants? "How They Found Christ" is such a book. It presents "in their own words" how the saving grace of God came to Augustine, Luther, Calvin, Bunyan, Madame Guyon, Wesley, Andrew Murray, Hannah W. Smith, Hudson Taylor, Spurgeon, A.B. Simpson, and Watchman Nee. You will find this book to be not only an excellent tool for sharing the Gospel, but also a source full of inspiration and revelation for all Christians.

64 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1983

About the author

John Bunyan, a Christian writer and preacher, was born at Harrowden (one mile south-east of Bedford), in the Parish of Elstow, England. He wrote The Pilgrim's Progress, arguably the most famous published Christian allegory. In the Church of England he is remembered with a Lesser Festival on 30 August.

Reviews

[RevRonR · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book, How They Found Christ in Their Own Words, is really a simple treasure! It’s very readable, understandable, yet does an excellent job in focusing in on the conversion experiences of numerous famous Christians, real Christians, from yesteryear. And these were real Christians, with real life change and real impact on the world around them. If you read this book (and I HIGHLY encourage you to), take careful note of exactly how these evangelicals who wrote of their experiences in coming to faith in Christ in the times they lived described it. If you look at each one, you see from Augustine to Watchman Nee, that they often struggled for either a semi-short to much longer measure of time (one for years) to finally find the peace with God that salvation brings. I say this because their experiences hardly match the “conversion” experiences we see or hear about today. I believe evangelicals have lost their way. I’m thankful that highly, highly useful books like this are out there to help redirect our course.

[Ronb · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some of the testimonies were fascinating, some I already knew (Augustine, Luther, Wesley, etc.), while a few were new to me (Calvin and Whitefield). Many well-known historical figures and their beginnings as Christians will interest many.

[Jim · Rating 3 out of 5]

The hard part of reading this book is that some of it is written by people who lived long ago and the sentence structure and wording is hard to understand. Other than that it is good to see the struggles that many notable Christians had in coming to salvation.