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Christians challenged to realise 'transformed' Singapore vision

What would a transformed Singapore look like?

If Christians do not have a vision for their city the blessings of God cannot come, said Revd George Annadorai last week at the Kum Yan Methodist Church.

And yet there have been abundant prophecies that Singapore will receive the Lord’s blessings. In December of 1978 the World’s Preacher himself declared, along with many other international ministers, that the small and then-developing nation was marked by God to be the Antioch of Asia.

Antioch was a large and international commercial hub in the Roman world recorded in the New Testament records of the early church which was preeminent and instrumental in bringing the Gospel to all parts of the world.

In line with this vision, the faithful keepers of the Church in the republic have since last year envisaged a Singapore fully transformed, not just in the churches, but in all spheres of society ranging from: Arts & Entertainment, Business & Finance, Churches & Missions, Distribution & Media, Education & Schools, Family & Homes to Government & Law.

If there is a hope, and an idea of the extent to which society will be impacted, there is also a timeline. At a recent conference organised by LoveSingapore in connection with the 43rd National Day Parade, Faith Community Baptist Church founder Apostle Lawrence Khong released a prophecy that God was going to touch ground in Singapore like never before in her 50th anniversary, an occasion known in the Old Testament as the Jubilee signifying the culmination of God’s deliverance of and blessings on Israel as His chosen nation.

In answer to that, Shalom Singapore, led by Revd Annadorai, has organised Towards Jubilee 2015: A Framework, A Strategy and An Agenda to Transform Singapore, inviting a team of experts from the Jubilee Centre, a Christian social reform organisation based in the U.K, to help prepare God’s people in the nation to fulfill His purposes for Singapore.

To envision the blessed vision of God for the nation, as it were, without which the Church would have no practical direction in which to go.

Go to the Word of God, says Michael Schluter, founder of Jubilee Centre, and get out the specific bases for every sphere of society.

Located in the midst of the secularising West, the team at Jubilee Centre believes the Bible describes a coherent vision for society that has enduring relevance for the world in the 21st Century, at the heart of which is a concern for right relationships not just within the four walls of the church building or worship centre, but even when it comes to the legislative, financial and environmental systems.

There is and ought to be a constructive relationship between social reform and the advance of the Gospel, the group’s website states.

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