Despite breaking ranks with Tow, the leaders of Life B-P Church claimed to be preserving the original B-P Church’s godly path when they issued on 1 December 2002 a paper entitled “Preserving Our Godly Path.”[37][38] Not approved by Tow, as mentioned in “Genesis of Debate” above, the paper also did not have the approval of the then Board of Elders (“BoE”) which needed to act by consensus,[39] as six VPP elders did not assent to the paper. The two then Assistant Pastors, Charles Seet and Colin Wong, had the support of four elders only in the BoE for the paper.[40]
Seet, Wong and the four elders went on to issue a VPP-like statement entitled “Our Statement of Faith on the Preservation of God’s Word” (the “Statement”)[41] at the Annual Congregational Meeting (“ACM”) of Life B-P Church held on 25 April 2004 to help them in their bid to oust the six VPP elders as the congregation was asked to unconstitutionally vote en bloc (without the constitution providing for such voting) which group of elders should rule the church before their 3-year term of office expired at the next ACM in April 2005.[42] The current version of the Statement on Life B-P Church’s website is dated as of 8 November 2005 when the names of three deacons elected to eldership at the ACM in April 2005 were added as signatories.[43][44][45]
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