The Bible-Presbyterian Movement #3
Speaker: Reverend Joseph Poon
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Bible Passage (KJV): Revelation 1:9b - For the word of God and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.
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Today’s Session
- The breakup of the Singapore BP Movement
- Where are they today?
- Lessons learnt
“… divisions and separations are most objectionable in religion… but before we blame people for them, we must be careful that we lay the blame where it is deserved. False doctrine and heresy are even worse than division between churches. If people separate themselves from teaching which is positively false and unscriptural, they ought to be praised rather than reproved. In such cases separation is a virtue and not a sin… The person who is really guilty of schism is the one who caused the schism in the first place.” 1
TROUBLE IN THE SINGAPORE BP MOVEMENT
New Evangelical
New or Neo-Evangelicalism is a movement which began in 1948 with Harold Ockenga, who described it as “a repudiation of separatism and the summons to social involvement… a new emphasis upon the application of the gospel to the sociological, political, and economic areas of life. Neo-evangelicals emphasized … the recapture of denomination leadership, and the re-examination of theological problems such as the antiquity of man, the universality of the flood, God’s Method of Creation, and others.”2 Ockenga’s dislike of Fundamentalism is evident when he says that “fundamentalists are doing irreparable harm to our movement by identifying Christianity with ‘Thou shall not.’ They have lost all the joy out of Christianity and Christian living. They have made it negative.”3
The New Evangelical called upon God’s people to stay in the modernistic mainline denominations rather than leave them, to study at the feet of modernists in their theological institutions rather than reject them as heretics.4 It is a mindset of compromise. Their motto is “love” at any cost and the most important doctrine in the Bible is the saving of souls. All other doctrines are either not taught or minimised. The mindset of joining hands with all denominations regardless of doctrinal differences and maintaining peace at all costs is paramount in the neo-evangelical mind. Because it is a mindset it has infiltrated into the very heart of the most fundamental church, without exception.5
Dissolution of the Singapore BP Church Synod
As the B-P Movement grew, and younger men went overseas and imbibed liberal and New Evangelical theology, a deviant spirit began to creep into the BP Church. While wearing the BP name these were playing the New Evangelical game. “At every Synod meeting there was a tussle … it was a tussle between Fundamentalism and New Evangelicalism.”6
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Modern Church History Series on The Bible-Presbyterian Faith (Part 3)
Bible Presbyterian Church of WA
Friday 9th September 2016
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