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| St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna, July 2011 |
Recently, five members of the City Harvest Church (including the pastor) were arrested. City Harvest Church is one of the biggest churches in Singapore.
Now, if you came to this site for a legal analysis on what happened-- you will not find it in this blog. If you came over here for a theological discussion and expect me to criticise the theology of City Harvest Church, you will not find it here either. Personally, I have never heard any sermon from City Harvest, so I do not want to write about something I know nothing about.
Nevertheless, some of my friends have approached me to blog about the incident, and I shall obliged them. This my stand, short and simple. I will pray for them.
My temptation
I must confess that I am tempted to cut City Harvest from the community of Christians, by making sweeping statements like the following:
"It's not my church!"
"They weren't really Christians in the first place!"
But the Apostle Paul writes in 1 Corinthains 12:26:
If one part [of the church] suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.
So as a Christian, I must not take joy or self-righteousness from the trials that City Harvest is going through now.
God of justice
Often we Christians just portray God as slow to anger, and abounding in love (Jonah 4:1-2). However, we often forget that God is just.
In his struggles, King David wrote in the Psalms 11:7:
For the Lord is righteous,
he loves justice;
the upright will see his face.
As Christians, we should be concerned with social justice (helping the needy and the poor) and legal justice (doing things according to the laws of the state).
Conclusion
So my prayer is this-- if the involved parties are guilty, let them be charged. If they are innocent, let them be free. Above all, God's will be done. That's all I'm willing to blog about the matter.
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