![]() ![]() Notwithstanding the statements on separation in its Theological Position, BGST is a non-separatist school. Although the founders are BP ministers, BGST is a trans-denominational college. Shortly after the dissolution of the BPC Synod on 31 October 1988, Quek Swee Hwa ("SH Quek") and David Wong invited the general public to a "Presentation Evening" on 19 November 1988 at the Sanctuary of the Clementi Bible Centre that led to them starting in 1989 the Biblical School of Theology, which later changed its name to Biblical Graduate School of Theology ("BGST"). Many ministers or aspiring ministers in the evangelical group prefer an evangelical seminary (such as Fuller Theological Seminary, Temple Baptist Seminary, Singapore Bible College, Trinity Theological College or University of Nottingham) over the B-P's own seminary, Far Eastern Bible College ("FEBC"), which is fundamentalist. The evangelical group of B-P churches embraces the fellowship of any church that professes evangelical Protestant Christianity and cooperates with para-church organizations like Campus Crusade, Youth for Christ, Navigators and the Bible Study Fellowship. This latter group of churches is denounced by the former to be " neo-evangelical" or " liberal", and are often called "the new B-Ps" because of a different interpretation on the doctrine of " Biblical Separation". One group subscribes to the fundamentalist stance of the founders while the other considers itself to be evangelical. While individual BP churches operate separately and independently post BP Synod dissolution, they fall essentially or broadly into two factions or groups. Divisions Fundamentalist and Evangelical It was "mainly due to strong differences in interpreting the Doctrine of Biblical Separation, Fundamentalism, and Neo-Evangelicalism" -as in the statement issued by the BPC on 30 October 1988 describing the dissolution. In 1988, after experiencing a period of significant dissension, the Synod of the BPC voted to dissolve itself. A conflict ensued and the English Service pastored by Tow in Life Church (生命堂) or Say Mia Tng (Teochew dialect) at Prinsep Street (not to be confused with Prinsep Street Presbyterian Church) severed connections with the Synod in 1955 to form Life Bible-Presbyterian Church ("Life B–P Church," "Life BP Church" or "Life BPC"). He was strongly opposed to liberal theology and ecumenism, and the de facto link of the English service he founded in 1950 in a Chinese Presbyterian church in the Chinese Presbyterian Synod that was connected to the World Council of Churches ("WCC") in promoting modernist ecumenism in opposition to the International Council of Christian Churches ("ICCC"). Tow had been influenced first by John Sung, and later by Carl McIntire. ![]() The BPC was founded in 1955 by Timothy Tow. īPC was noted for a belief in literal six-day creation and a preference for the King James Version ("KJV"). The number of B-P churches in Singapore has grown to forty-three as of 2020/21. As of 2009, there were 20,000 members in 32 B–P churches in Singapore. The B-P movement grew out of the Bible Presbyterian Church in the United States. Since that time, Bible-Presbyterian ("B-P" or "BP") churches in Singapore have continued to exist separately. It existed from 1955 to 1988, following the history of the country, as the Bible-Presbyterian Church of Malaya, then the Bible-Presbyterian Church of Singapore and Malaysia, and finally the Bible Presbyterian Church of Singapore ("BPCOS") (with the then eight Malaysian BP churches in 1985 to register themselves in Malaysia thereafter) before the BPCOS dissolved in 1988. The Bible-Presbyterian Church ("BPC") was a conservative reformed denomination in Singapore. Presbyterian, Fundamentalist, EvangelicalĢ0,000 (as of 2009 with 32 congregations) ![]() ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) ( January 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Statements consisting only of original research should be removed. Please improve it by verifying the claims made and adding inline citations. This article possibly contains original research. ![]()
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