Hello, I’m Joe Pursch, and this is a Transforming Moment. Although there is a lot of emerging religious freedom in the former Soviet Union today, the believers of previous generations suffered deeply for the sake of the Bible. I have met some of them, including more than one that was jailed for just having a copy of the Scriptures. In those days, the Bible was worth that much. Here’s one of their stories: A house church in a city in Russia had miraculously received a single copy of the Gospel according to Luke. It was a precious gift as the Bible was forbidden in their province. It was the only written copy of the Scripture that many of these Christians had ever even seen, but the first thing they did with it was to tear it up. They tore it into small sections of pages and distributed them among their body of believers. The plan was to memorize the portion that each had been given and then on the next Sunday they would meet secretly and redistribute the Scripture pages so that others could memorize more. And that’s what they did Sunday after Sunday, trading pages of inspiration and writing a modern story of great faith. What have you sacrificed in your daily life for the sake of learning the Bible? I’m Joe Pursch, and this has been a Transforming Moment.