A Layman's Pilgrim's Progress

Two brothers. One poor neighborhood in Daegu, Korea. One question that changed both of their lives.

Part One: A Layman's Pilgrim's Progress (Sung C. Yi). Growing up in a Confucian home in 1970s Korea, a six-year-old boy saw a picture of a man wearing a crown of thorns and never forgot that sad face. Poverty, his father's early death, a mother fighting to keep four children alive, and a home filled with a chant he refused to follow shaped his childhood. Then he heard the words of Jesus: "Unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God." A Bible conference, a baptism that left him empty, and a teacher who struck him forty-six times for saying "born again" followed, until the day in a small rented room when the face he had seen as a child came back to him.

Part Two: 20 Years in Church, But Not Saved (Jay Hyon C. Yi). His youngest brother believed he was saved at a church retreat at twelve and served faithfully for twenty years, until one honest answer to his brother's question brought his faith crashing down. Told by an evangelist that he needed a psychiatrist, he left everything and went alone to New York to seek God until he found Him.

Two honest, first-person testimonies of searching, the pain of sin, and the mercy of God. Illustrated throughout with scenes from the animated films A Layman's Pilgrim's Progress and A Layman's Journey to Salvation.