CAMBODIA:
One man’s journey to faith in Christ:
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Rev. Sopha Korn (pictured reading LHF’s Khmer translation of A Child translator and distributor of LHF’s books in Cambodia. This is his
TELL US ABOUT YOURSELF. HOW DID YOU BECOME A CHRISTIAN? I am 40 years old and a father of three children. I was born in a poor Buddhist family in 1980, a year after the collapse of Khmer Rouge regime. Growing up, I always tried to live as a very good Buddhist. I was often taught at school (as well as at home) that if I do good, I will receive good, and this merit will be with me always. If it does not happen in this life, it will happen in my next life or even protect my soul from severe punishment in hell after I die. In 1999, I moved to Phnom Penh to study biology. Because I could not afford to pay for any rental room across the city, I had no choice: I was forced to stay at a student center, whose owner was a Christian. At first, I felt uncomfortable living among Christians. But after I lived there for four months, I was surprised and touched by how Christians treated me well, very friendly and warm. As a result, I came to faith in Jesus Christ as my personal Savior and was baptized on March 25, 2000. The thing that had inspired me the most to put my faith in Jesus was the satisfying answers to my long time questions about existence of the triune God, how the creatures were orderly created and how Jesus, God the Son, came to be conceived by God, the Holy Spirit, to die on the cross to atone my sins.
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WHY DID YOU BECOME A LUTHERAN?
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I became a Lutheran because I believe that Lutheran teachings are Bible-based teachings and confess the truths of God’s Word as they are summarized and confessed in the Book of Concord. When I was in the Reformed faith, I had so many burdens. I was taught that I must bear
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