Dear Dr Bernard,
I, a servant of God in the name of the
Lord Jesus Christ, am writing an open letter to you to inform you that
you have failed in your spiritual duties as the Advisory Chairman over
the Board of City Harvest Church and as an Apostle over the church.
You will recall that on 1 Aug 2013, I
along with a CHC elder and a board member, had a conference call with
you to arrange a meeting with you. On 16 Sept, we met at a hotel in
Singapore, joined by that elder and board member.
I asked if I could tape our conversation
for future reference but you declined, and so I didn’t. I am now
describing from my handwritten notes what happened.
You first asked what was my objective in
meeting you, and I said my hope was that through you, Kong and Sun and
some of his leaders would come to repentance, and that you would help
awaken the church to the truth as to what was really happening in the
church leadership.
I subsequently described to you some of
Kong’s wrongdoings, from a moral and spiritual perspective. I related
how I had a four and a half hour meeting with Kong and Sun which
produced no fruits. You listened patiently and at the end of the meeting
assured me that you believed I came to you without malice and in truth.
You said that I had placed a heavy
responsibility upon you and you would ensure that you would discharge
that responsibility by having a “good talk” with them, including the
board, and that they would have to be “honest at the table.” You also
said if they did not heed discipline, you may have to reconsider your
relationship with them. I left the meeting assured that you would carry
out your duties.
On the 21 Sept Saturday service at the
church, you spoke from the pulpit against me instead. You alleged that I
had used you for my personal agenda and had committed gossip and
slander against and dishonored Kong and Sun.
You then got Kong on stage and made a
show of ‘repentance’ by asking if he had committed silly mistakes
before, and had he repented to God, to which he said “all the time.” To
that, you got the congregation to endorse him with a roaring applause.
There is a huge difference between “silly mistakes” and “conscious
deception” and you allowed the people to believe it was the former. It
would have been far better for that staged show never to have taken
place.
Dr Bernard I am taking you to task in
the name of our Lord Jesus Christ for acting in a manner that’s
unbecoming of an apostle, and for doing the very opposite of what His
Word requires of a man of God that’s placed in a position of spiritual
authority.
You abused the pulpit and instead of
helping to wake up the people, you turned Kong into a brave and humble
hero in their eyes, and with your open endorsement on stage, the people
believed even more in Kong and Sun thereafter.
You also accused me of not complying
with Matthew 18 because I did not confront the sinner but committed
gossip and slander instead. You obviously had forgotten that I had told
you about the four and a half hour meeting and how it failed to bear
fruits of repentance. And how I had to try multiple times before that to
speak to them and how protracted were the circumstances leading to that
meeting with them.
It seems to me that subsequent to my
meeting with you on 16 Sept, Kong and Sun had probably told you certain
things about me which shifted your mind about my true intentions. The
right thing you should have done then, according to Matthew 18, was for
you to meet me again to clarify. Instead you misused the pulpit to tear
me down for not complying with the very verses that you have failed to
obey. The result of your actions on stage was that evil became good and
good became evil.
In our meeting you said you believed in
unity based on truth, humility and repentance, and emphasis on the flock
and not on the man. You claimed also that you believed in a structure
that forces the man of God into accountability to avert compromise and
sin. None of your words translated into the right actions and today the
church is in confusion as the truth unfolds and the man whom you are
responsible for correcting continues in his ways uncorrected and
unrestrained.
I warned you of the consequences if the
matters of Kong and Sun are not properly dealt with in the House of God
first. There was no biblical discipline and instead the wrongdoer got
off with a resounding applause of endorsement.
One of my specific concerns which I
brought to you was the falsified attendance figures, which was claimed
to be 33,000 instead of the actual twelve to thirteen thousand. After
what I revealed to you, you yourself went on to TBN (Trinity
Broadcasting Network) and told a story of how the “church in Singapore”
which you had been ministering to with your Cultural Mandate message had
grown from 3,000 in 1998 to 38,000 today. You further exaggerated that
that particular church has influence over 1,000 churches worldwide.
Not only have you failed to correct Kong
but you yourself have perpetuated the lie about CHC’s size and
influence. You owe an explanation to the body of Christ. I am publishing
this open letter on Mrs Light n Friends blog and Facebook so that we
can have an open discussion before the whole body of Christ
internationally. Whatever reply you send to me will be published on the
same platform so we both have an EQUAL opportunity to be scrutinised for
our words and action. This is right because Matthew 18 says :
“Moreover if your brother sins against
you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone. If he hears
you, you have gained your brother. But if he will not hear, take with
you one or two more, that ‘by the mouth of two or three witnesses every
word may be established.’ And if he refuses to hear them, TELL IT TO THE
CHURCH. But if he refuses even to hear the church, let him be to you
like a heathen and a tax collector.”
The church is in a state of drastic and
violent shakeup and confusion. As a man of God who had been given what
in your own words you termed “heavy responsibilities”, I am asking you
now to account for your past words and actions which are totally unfit
and unbecoming of a person who claims apostleship over the church.
In the Lord’s name
Chew Eng Han
Well done , Chew
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