I just came back from the Annual Congregational Meeting. I do not like what I saw and heard. Firstly, the meeting did not go according to the agenda. The message was purposely planned right at the end so that the congregation do not have a chance to voice their opinion.
Things started quite smoothly except for the chairman's
snide remarks occasionally.
However, I was totally disappointed with the treasurer. He
seemed to be unprepared and was unable to answer many questions raised. This is
his responsibility not the internal auditor! He was even visibly irritated by
the question from one of the members of mandarin congregation and hence
misinterpreted his question and gave a totally out of point answer.
Furthermore, he seems not have much patience with people.
I was quite surprised that the Mandarin Congregation managed
to come up with 271 signatures calling for a ECM. However, I am very sceptical
of its effect and as many fellow english congregation members continue to be
mislead and indoctrinated by the pastors. Kudos to the mandarin session. Do not
give up this fight against extremism.
The finance report and budget was quickly called for
adoption by members after the chairman said that any queries be directed at the
internal auditor and treasurer after the meeting. How can we adopt the report
if there are questions unanswered? This is absurd.
The sermon really took me by surprise. In my entire
christian life, this is the first time I heard a sermon that has no references
to the bible, full off personal attacks, unsupported accusations and deceit.
I did not expect this from the almighty and revered Dr Tow.
Let's see what he had to say. He mentioned that we must
remember history and started giving a personal account of how the BP movement
started and how Calvary Jurong and Calavary Pandan came about. I was very
disgusted. So many "I"; seemed like he has claimed all the glory of
God for himself. Furthermore, anyone familiar with the history of the BP
movement will know that what he said was not true. He was not the one that
founded the BP movement. It was Dr T. Tow and Dr Quek KC. The decision for a
Pandan outreach was made by the Jurong Session, not his personal decision. Rev
Tang came over from Jurong and not as what he said the BOE invited him after
Pandan Mandarin was established. He made us of Rev Philip Heng and Elder Cheng
but do not that both of them do not subscribe to this extremist theory of VPP.
Next he goes on to a gross generalisation of the churches in
singapore seems like every other church except the BP churches headed by him
are going "back to rome". This is his very subjective opinion and a
simple validation will prove him wrong. By the way, it is sola scriptura and
not sola KJV.
Reformation did not give us the KJV. It gave us the German
bible, which do not use the MTTR underlying KJV as texts.
Next he tried to define VPP and keep referring to his
useless book. I have read the book and do not feel blessed as he claimed. He
used faulty logic to say that since the autographs do not exits, our
constitution refers to the apographs. This is his own creative interpretation
of the constitution. He even took the Mandarin report's statement out of
context and added in his own opinion and intrepretation.
Oh, before I forget. Before he started out on his slides, he
displayed a lot of bible versions such as the NIV, RSV, Living Bible and was
condemning them one by one as corrupt, not fit to the called the bible and that
people of read them are doomed. This is pure blashpemy. These are the word of
God! Thousands of people have been saved by them! He also displayed an image of
a symbol representing the Holy Trinity as Satan's symbol. Nonsense.
www.greatdreams.com/three/trinity5.gif
looks similar to this.
Next, he mentioned that doctrine is not decided by member's
votes by the BOE. He uses Constitution 11.2 to say that this is the specific
responsibility of the BOE. However. I personally think that the BOE has failed
in this responsibility and the members must do something about it!
After that he continues with an elaborate personal attack on
Rev Tan Eng Boo and Rev Tang which I shall not elaborate. He takes their words
out of context and accuses them of saying things they did not meant.
Lastly, he mentioned that CUV is the best chinese
translation available. But fellow readers, it was predominantly based on the
Revised Version which he condemned as corrupt. This is double speak. Lastly he
said that someone in New York is translating a chinese bible from the KJV. Oh
great, one man's work. How is this different from many modern english
translations. Do you want to read the CUV which was translated by a panel of
bible scholars almost a century ago or you trust the work of a single man? A
translation from a translation? Infallible?
God Bless You.
From https://verbal-plenary-preservation.blogspot.com/
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