50 Years Building His Kingdom - Far Eastern Bible College

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write in mixed assemblies. Dwight L.
Moody encouraged Frances Willard to
preach the Gospel. “Historically, one
half of the human race”, wrote Dr James
Hastings, “is the direct result of the
Christian principle that all are one in
Christ” (The Greatest Men and Women
of the Bible, Vol. 6, p.369).
In the light of the above teachings and
examples, we give to women students of
Far Eastern Bible College an equal opportunity
to train in the Homiletics Class that
they might speak better to women groups
and Sunday School children after they
graduate.
Women are trained not in vain to fill
the gap left by men in default. When I visited
Vietnam in 1995, I learned of the relinquishing
of nine pulpits by fleeing pastors.
Miss To Gan, a graduate from Alliance
Bible Seminary, Hong Kong, a worker
in one of the churches, had to assume leadership.
She had not only to manage the
pulpits of those nine churches but to face
up the authorities. Who says a woman is
not allowed to speak in church
Is It Wrong to Eat Out
on the Lord’s Day
THOSE WHO want to eat “inside”,
we do not criticise them. But let
them not criticise those who eat
“outside”.
Nevertheless those who eat “inside”
contend that when we eat outside we are
making the restaurateur to work on the
Sabbath Day and break God’s commandment.
And here is an interesting illustration.
An English minister of the Gospel visited
our Churches and stayed at a Singapore hotel.
When it was learnt he would attend the
Sunset Gospel Hour of my brother’s
Church, i.e., Calvary B-P Church, my
brother invited him to dinner the same
evening. He politely declined, and his reason
was he could not eat “outside”. But I
Let this be a lesson to those who make
a mountain out of a molehill in the matter
of subjecting women from taking any leadership
in Church. Watchman Nee, leader
of the Little Flock in China, insisted women
must cover their heads in Church. This ran
counter to Dr John Sung’s interpretation
of 1 Cor 11:15,16; he did not stress the need
of covering the woman’s head.
Watchman Nee’s requirement of
women to cover their heads split members
of the same family. In the extended Ong
family that I knew, aunt and niece became
enemies overnight. One joined Watchman
Nee’s Church while the other remained
with John Sung. Aunt and Niece would not
speak to each other. They separated. Beware
young leaders of the B-P Church.
Your zeal for some minor point of doctrine
can cause sad divisions between members
unlimited.
And when they stress on the minutiae
of law, like Pharisees on tithing mint
and rue, and pass over the love of God, are
they not taken to task by our Lord (Read
Luke 11:42)
Rev. Dr Timothy Tow
wondered, “Would he be eating in the hotel
At any rate he had to stay in the hotel
on the Sabbath Day. Won’t he be making
the hotelier to work for him”
We who eat “outside” see it this way.
When we eat at a restaurant, and usually it
is run by Gentiles, they have no knowledge
of Sabbath or no Sabbath. Working
to earn a living on the Lord’s Day for the
Gentile is the same as working on other
days. Not having a law, they break no law.
So when we eat in the restaurant we do not
cause the restaurateur to work on our behalf.
There is a situation in the Old Testament
where one man’s meat is another
man’s poison. While it is prohibited to the
Hebrew to eat an animal that dies of itself,