CHC & the C3 Concept.

[KinKeeChiu]

Dear Parents, please be concerned.

I do not have anything against CHC, but being a Christian myself and having read much about this, has made me very concerned about the teachings of CHC which honestly seem somewhat unusual and foreign to what I know of the Christian faith.

In fact, if anyone has been following this City Harvest saga, then you may know that a person, Phil Pringle, is closely related to City Harvest. According to CHC’s own website: “He sits on the Advisory Committee of City Harvest Church, Singapore, as the advisory pastor.”, and is also undergoing a process to obtain a permit to preach at CHC. He has made many many speeches in front of the audience (including the recent ones this weekend), and CHC’s official comment worries me:

“The CHC Advisory Committee, comprising Dr Phil Pringle, founder and Senior Minister of Christian City Church in Sydney and Dr A R Bernard, founder and CEO of Christian Cultural Centre in New York, will continue to provide spiritual leadership. Both pastors were appointed advisory senior pastors over CHC.”

So why should you be concerned?

Apparently, Rev. Dr. Phil Pringle is the founder and senior minister of Christian City Church, Oxford Falls, but his infamy is far greater. In fact, it seems that the church he had founded, “Christian City Church” or C3, is equally problematic so much so that the people have even created a watch group! Their webpage is here:

http://c3churchwatch.wordpress.com/about/

A quick search of Phil Pringle (which somehow seems to trigger a lot of stories about him associated with False Prophecy), returns a video which suggests that many people are also wary of his motives, and his speeches bear a very striking resemblance to someone.. : http://unsettledchristianity.com/2011/11/the-prophet-phil-pringle/

The C3 church watch has hopped on the matter quickly, even though this has happened in Singapore and not in their country. If they are concerned, we might need to also:

http://c3churchwatch.wordpress.com/tag/kong-hee/

Best Wishes.

JASSEL

http://temasektimes.wordpress.com/2012/07/04/a-christian-expresses-concerns-about-city-harvest-church/

http://c3churchwatch.wordpress.com/c3-tirade-parade/

 

[Agoraphobic]

Personally, I do not care what another person chooses to believe, it his/her own choice. But I wonder if CHC follows actual Christian practices. I have two Christian colleagues, one's Catholic, the other is CHC. Once, this Catholic guy had a palm frond in his car, we went out to lunch together, and the CHC guy asked what's the palm frond is for? It was the week following palm Sunday! The Catholic guy then said he got it from Church, and asked the CHC guy why he didn't get one, which he replied that there was no such thing at his church! Now, I remember watching some Jesus movie where the crodwds lined the streets greeting Jesus when he arrived at Jerusalem, exalting him, waving palms. So, if CHC is a Christian Church, why then do they not know of this? It then came upon me that CHC is stylised to capture people who wish to belong to a crowd that is modern, fashionable, upward-moving types without any concern about Christianity, its roots and origins.

Cheers!