The love singapore champion Pastor Lawrence Khong of FCBC has caused a strong reaction from some of my Christian friends when Khong calls evolution a matter of faith and unscientific, even demonic. Khong is not popular being an anti gay actvist no doubt evolved from the religious pharisees of old. Some of my progressive friends also no doubt evolved from the Gnostics and the mystical Jewish faiths.

Why the angst? Because creation deconstruct their theology about God being only a God of love, and a love from mysterious  distance. The creation story involves a relationship broken, a large scale death as a result of flooding due to the inter marriage between mankind and demonic angels. We fear a God of judgement, a God of righteousness. We are afraid of the day of judgement where God judge evil because our conscience condemns us. Continue reading →

Mat 27.43 He trusts in God. Let God rescue Him now if he wants him, for he said”I am the Son of God”.

Mat 27.54 when the centurion and those with him who were guarding Jesus saw the earthquake and all that had happenned, they were terrified and exclaimed ‘Surely He was the Son of God’.

It has been a dark time this year, the Arab Spring of youthful protests and uprising have become engulfed by religion, giving rise to unbridled violence and religious cruelty, not a mere fringe movement but a massive radicalised conquest. This is the place of death, before the end time Christian revival in a Europe which has hitherto fallen to unbelieving christianity with her empty churches for a 100 years. We have returned to Golgotha, a dark time, but resurrection is at hand.

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Mat 23:37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often i wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gatherd her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing

I have many lents ago given up direct criticism and debate with hardened people and churches of liberal and far right faith both straight and gay. They have a right to their views even using the pulpit for their agenda platform preaching. At the end, there will be little growth and fruits in a self deserving manner. For many GLBT churches, their own unbelief in Jesus Christ as Lord, and Saviour, the way and the truth to God condemns them. I have no right to criticise for they are already condemned and under judgement.

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Singapore is in the midst of religious fundamentalism with the call by love singapore and the catholic church to ban Madonna and Adam lambert. We wouldn’t need Madonna if their geisha aka china wine had succeeded in Hollywood. Alas, its not just scantilly dressed women, pole dancing. The curse of religious fundamentalism is that we see only the small sin in others but not the log in our eyes, whilst at the same failing to do the common good in our society. It detracts us from the centrality of Christ and the grace of God.

Religious fundamentalism is part of the human nature and is driven in part by the yearning to return to God’s abode in the Garden of Eden. We are created in the image of God, each with a yearning to be in relationship with God. Outwardly, we may proclaim that we are all children of God, but consciously we know we are separated on our own account. Blibically, we are separated twice, at Eden, and by the flood. Continue reading →

In a city of 5 million, say 1 million christians and catholics, we have 50k gay christians who may not be readily attracted to churches who offers a welcoming door but still the same old law based religion, whether of doing work of love or doing moral self control. Our conscience convicts us of our sin, and that sin is not because we are gay. Our conscience condemns us.

We are moral creatures made in God’s image. We know it in our conscience that God is not only a God of love but also a God of judgement for He is a righteous and holy God. The mainline churches are so vehemently anti gay because their law based theology condemns them and they are putting their own sins on the gay gentle lambs. Continue reading →

When we were younger, we have an ideal view of life – family, work, church and love life. When all falls apart, Jesus is on the throne though the rubble, pain and sadness may be deep and dark.

Religion has forced gays to walk through the valleys of the shadows of death, but Jesus leads us to rest beside still waters, the burden and the yoke of the law of religion replaced by the light burden of expecting God’s grace to come in by faith. Continue reading →

Some were upset when the Episcopal church was suspended from the Anglican Communion  for supporting gay marriage. It is a red herring when the real reason is perhaps the church over 150 years with her elite seminaries of Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Oxford, and Cambridge have “progressed” to a denial of Jesus, as being born a virgin, resurrected from the dead, and is God and Saviour. The rest wanted to stay far away and have a reason to do so. They too are sinners but sin differently.

God has allowed the liberal churches the space to do His will in social justice. Its just that they thought they had made the road by their own walking. The space is getting smaller as what has been grey has been made white and black by the church strong effort to exclude a biblical Gospel faith in the name of diversity.

Their presiding Bishop Rev Curry calls for a Jesus movement but does not believe in individual salvation by faith in Jesus, nor that Jesus is The way and truth. For the Anglican communion, the gay reason is only an excuse because the fear that such regressive voice may spread beyond the Episcopal church. It is with irony that the old colonial states are now excluding their former masters from the table. Continue reading →

In many Gay churches, without oil of the Holy Spirit, like a car without fuel, the passengers would push the car along and still call it driving, and call it church. Its the heavy yoke on the oxen, the yoke of the law, the focus on the love commandments. The burden is so heavy on the gay community already burdened by condemnation of the mainline churches. No wonder, few attends.

We need the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is holy. He resides when Jesus becomes our righteousness. With the Holy Spirit, its like the boat with a big sail and the passenger sits on the boat doing little work, for the yoke of Jesus is light. We need the Holy Spirit to minister to gays who have lost everything. The Holy Spirit comes when there is righteousness by the cleansing water of the Cross, for He is Holy.

Sadly, the Holy Spirit is often grieved, tarry He may. The pulpit is abused for our own agenda or platform preaching. A word from the bible is quoted, and thereafter they close the bible. The Word of God is not expounded nor interpreted in context. Human ways are expounded based on the historical critical methods. We need to go down the riverside, where the water flows, the cleansing by the blood of the lamb, because gays are thirsty for the living water and fed up of religion. Continue reading →

Col 1:15 The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For in Him, all things were created: things in heaven and on earth…

Col 1:19 For God was pleased to have all His fullness dwell in Him, and through Him to reconcile to himself all things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood shed on the Cross”

Col 1:25 , 26 I have become its servant by the commission God gave me to present the word of God in its fullness, the mystery that has been kept hidden for ages and generations, but is now disclosed to the Lord’s people”.

The beginning of a theological mind is to acknowledge like Isaiah that God’s plans are higher than our mind. But the pharisees remembered Isaiah but rejected Jesus when He stood in front of them. They were from bible colleges which doesn’t help much without revelation. The truths in the bible were hidden from them, lest they believed and be saved. God’s plan for redemption to free mankind from Satan was slowly being fulfilled through the sands of time through Moses, the prophets, the judges, through Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, David and Samuel, and finally Jesus Christ the Messiah, the alpha and omega.

For a christian theological reflection, it is pertinent that God’s ways are known in the person of Jesus Christ lest we fill the void of our own ways in the perceived mirage of God’s ways. Therefore, in the first theological foundation, God’s high ways are known in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and that knowledge is revealed in the bible, the inspired Word of God producing faith which comes by consuming the word of God. Continue reading →

Matt 5:31 Immediately Jesus reached out his hand and caught him, “you of little faith” he said, “why did you doubt?”.

Matt 5:32 and when they climbed into the boat, the wind died down. Then those who were in the boat worshiped him, saying, “Truly you are the Son of God”

Jesus never demanded to be worshiped whilst He was on earth. The disciples asked where He stayed, and He asked them to follow Him home. In their walk as disciples of Jesus, the revelation came to them and they worshipped Jesus as the Son of God.

The humility of Jesus never amazes me. Jesus never demanded worship as God not because He is not God but because He came not to enforce the law but to fulfill it by dying at the Cross. It was a decision by the disciples to worship Jesus when they finally had the revelation by faith He was the Son of God. Jesus brings us to a point of decision.

Mat 26:63, 64 But Jesus remained silent. The high priest said to Him, “I charge you under oath by the living God: Tell us if you are the Messiah, the Son of God. “You have said so”, Jesus replied. “But i say to all of you…”

Jesus was deliberately silent. Everyone knew Jesus was claiming to be God hence to be worshiped. The high priest was so angry at the apparent blasphemy that he tore his clothes. Yet some modern pastors repeating everyday the love commandments still insist that Jesus never called Himself God nor asked to be worshiped. The law will never bring us closer to God.

Jesus leveraged on the fact that the hardened religious heart of the pharisees and the high priest would never have the revelation by themselves that Jesus is God despite all the miracles and prophecies fulfilled. He was the silent gentle lamb lest they see the light, bowed down to worship Jesus and not sent Him to the Cross. Jesus could have floated in the air surrounded by a thousand angels but He humbly emptied Himself so that He could die for us and rose again.

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