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Few books have captured the sheer adventure of obedient faith quite like God's Smuggler. Voted #3 in Premier Christianity's books that changed the Church, it is the true account of a young Dutchman who felt called to take the Bible to Christians living under Communist regimes in Eastern Europe — and who simply drove across the border and prayed that God would do the rest.
Brother Andrew's story is remarkable not because he was an extraordinary person, but because he was an ordinary one who took God at his word. The prayer he prayed before each border crossing — asking God to make seeing eyes blind — became famous. The accounts of Bibles sitting in plain sight while guards searched around them became legend. But what gives the book its staying power is not the miraculous moments: it's the portrait of a man learning, slowly and sometimes painfully, what it means to trust.
Written with real warmth and a dry sense of humour, God's Smuggler reads as much like an adventure novel as a Christian testimony — which is precisely why it has kept finding new readers for more than fifty years.
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About the Author: Brother Andrew (Andrew van der Bijl, 1928–2022) founded Open Doors, which today supports persecuted Christians in over 70 countries. His later books, including Light Force — an account of his work in the Middle East — extended his ministry into even more complex and dangerous terrain. And the inspiring and challenging Secret Believers.
