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I'm hoping the Government would step in and check on all churches and make them doubly accountable. The people must be protected from unscrupulous leaders of organisations. I have no doubt that many churches have at their helm noble clergymen. I pass no judgment on the leaders of City Harvest because the trial is still ongoing and who knows? They might very well be acquitted. But I'm speaking generally about the great fiduciary duty that the church owes to members of the public.
You may say the fiduciary duty is owed only to church members but I disagree. The fact is church membership is fluid and from statistics, it's clear that church memberships are increasing rapidly in Singapore. Churches are allowed to proselytize freely and they are allowed to approach members of the pubic to lead them to full membership in the church. Churches do this all the time. Spreading the Gospel, as it is called, is one of the most important activities in the church and every Christian is duty-bound to preach to others. Because of the constant approach the church makes to the general public in order to convert non-believers to the faith, ie sell its membership to them, the duty owed by the church should not be confined to church members alone but to the entire public just as a seller of contaminated food cannot claim that he does not pose a hazard to the public but only to his regular customers.
- http://vivitelaeti.blogspot.sg/2013/08/the-church-and-its-accountability.html
You may say the fiduciary duty is owed only to church members but I disagree. The fact is church membership is fluid and from statistics, it's clear that church memberships are increasing rapidly in Singapore. Churches are allowed to proselytize freely and they are allowed to approach members of the pubic to lead them to full membership in the church. Churches do this all the time. Spreading the Gospel, as it is called, is one of the most important activities in the church and every Christian is duty-bound to preach to others. Because of the constant approach the church makes to the general public in order to convert non-believers to the faith, ie sell its membership to them, the duty owed by the church should not be confined to church members alone but to the entire public just as a seller of contaminated food cannot claim that he does not pose a hazard to the public but only to his regular customers.
- http://vivitelaeti.blogspot.sg/2013/08/the-church-and-its-accountability.html
