Pan by glory

A Matter for Urgent Prayer: On Thursday afternoon, 11th July 2008, FEBC’s lawyers, Allen & Gledhill, served the Board of Elders a letter informing us that FEBC has instructed the law firm to commence legal proceedings in the High Court of Singapore against us with regard to the use of 9, 9A and 10 Gilstead Road. We have also received FEBC’s letter dated 2 July 2008 that they had approached the Commissioner of Charities and will also be applying to the Attorney-General to intervene in their dispute with Life B-P Church over the use of our premises.



In view of the notice of legal proceedings against the Church, the Session has decided to appoint a legal counsel to act on behalf of Life B-P Church and to take appropriate steps to defend and protect the interests of the Church.


On the question of whether this decision by the Session violates 1 Corinthians 6 which teaches us not to take fellow Christians to court, our conscience is clear because we did not initiate the legal suit. Please pray for the Lord’s will to be done, and kindly refrain from discussing the matter with anyone outside the church.


Above announcement is taken from the church website, this is the down fall of bible college and BP movement, and this is the darkest day in the history of BP in Singapore, theologians sue the BP pastors, because of VPP and the church premises, this is all about power, authority, money, and personal glory. Nothing is done for the glory for God.

I feel very sad about this, sad for the sake of those church members and the Bible college students, because they had to go through this kind of torments and hassles, it is not fair for them, because VPP is a theological argument, it is like the storm in the small tea cup, since the church pastors cannot control and stop the theologians from teaching VPP in the church, so the BOE wanted the theologians to leave the church, but anyhow the theologians do not want to leave, they wanted to stay and fight in the church. This is street fight between theologians and pastors.

My friends, I wanted to draw your attentions, regarding the place of the theologians, the theologians are most likely a teacher, they cannot higher than the pastor of a church, they are helping the pastor in the church in doctrine and teaching.

Take note there is no "theologians" mentioned by Paul, Paul did mentioned teachers. See, teachers are last mentiones in the catagory, Ephesian 4:11, "And He himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers." Those theologians are only bible teachers, they are the last.
Paul put the place of the teacher after the place of pastor, so they are not higher than the pastor.

And it is clearer in 1 Cor 12:28, "And God has appointed these in the church, first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, after that miracles, then gift of healing, helps, administrations, varieties of tongues.

This struggle is between the pastors (prophet) and the theologians (teachers), nothing to do with the church members, but if they bring this to the court, the church members will get involves, the Singaporean churches will come to know about this, churches will be ashamed. How they are going to stand for the VPP and BP? Nothing good will come out of this lawsuit. Better stop it now.

Is this the way, the fundamentalists treat one another in the Christian circle? This is very much like hunting and hurting one another, this is like a hunting game, the hunters hunt the preys, they are hiding and seeking, chasing and running, until the preys tired and then the hunter killed the preys.


Look, what the Bible says about this hunting, “Be self-control and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like roaring lion looking for someone to devour.” 1 Peter 5:8the devils are hunting the believers. And in another place Ephesians 6:6”In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.” The hunter, the devil uses the flaming arrows to shoot the believers. Paul wanted the believers to pray in Ephesians 6:18, : “Pray in the spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and request…”


Where is the “Life of Christ”, the theologians taught us before, where is the Christ like life in us, Paul said his heart is opened wide for other, where is that heart now, the theologians taught the young men to follow him, where is the heart which is opened wide in him? I did not see any. The theologians said truth is everything, greater than love and charity, it this is the truth they are proclaiming? Sue the church pastors because they do not wanted to accept VPP?


How can the VPP theologians fight until to the law court, they had a lot of money to build and buy another Bible college, in fact they can start the Far Eastern Bible College in Calvary Pandan BPC (English session) from July 2008, why quarrel about the building and the premises in Gilstead Road, let the church members use the premises freely. The VPP theologian can go to another place and start their ministry, why tussle like this, the senior pastors all must be awake, how can they let those young theologians run the hunting race, the pastors must unite together to start a new synod to decide this matter, this a spiritual warfare, the lawsuit may takes years and months, let the synod decide the belonging of the premises and make a announcement to the church member. That is a straight forward and I see this is a better solution. Let the lawsuit find its solution, and let the synod declared the truth as soon as possible.

Fast and pray

Many church members will be very much affected in growth, the members should fast and pray for 3 days begin from any moment in this week, urgently. No eating from morning until night for 3 days, they may drink milk and water, and eat at night, please fast and pray. We have to go through this kind of fasting and praying because of the doctors and theologians. What happened to them? You see the fox has shown its tail. The VPP theologians are not simple minded. They had already see this s the opportunity to fight the church. They are prepared for this legal fight from the beginning.


Bravely, those who can overcome this tussle and struggle, you are now to be called, the one who are “pan by glory.” Do not worry at all. Rejoice in trials. The Lord has overcome the world for us.
Psalm 50:15, “And call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, And you will honor me.”
God’s is Immanuel, God is with us,
He is our help in time of troubles.
He is the help for the helpless,
So we can:
Relieve,
Resolve,
Rebuild,
Regain,
Trust in Him.
and you are called to be the light of this world….
The light of this world.
The light.
There must be light.
We must lived in light.
The Lord said, let there be light, and there was light.
The face of the Lord shine upon us. And keep us.
Let His contenance shine upon us, and protect us.
Oh Lord, hear our call to You.