FOUNDING ETHOS OF THE FAR EASTERN
BIBLE COLLEGE
Theological training is vital for church
growth. In his book Forty Years on the Road to Church Growth,
FEBC's founding principal Dr Timothy Tow wrote: 'Without proper
Bible training, the church that relies on self-taught evangelists
or missionaries will be stifled in growth, inasmuch as the tether
of their theological knowledge is short and the ability of their
preaching skills is limited'.
Many a self-made pastor has lost his way due to
a lack of intensive, systematic training in the Word. Even the
theologically trained can succumb to error. So, in obedience to the
Pauline mandate, 'And the things that thou has heard of me among
many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be
able to teach others also' (2 Timothy 2:2), FEBC was instituted in
Singapore.
On 28 April 1962 the late Dr Paul Contento laid
the foundation stone of FEBC and prayed to the Lord that he would
raise up great Christian leaders and preachers from the college's
ranks.
In those days, theology in the seminaries was
taught exclusively by modernist professors. There was a crying need
for a Bible-believing institute in the Far East for the propagation
of the true gospel and the defence of the biblical faith. The
stranglehold of modernism and ecumenism needed to be broken.
These needs remain today, made more acute by
the emergence of new and virulent 'isms', like postmodernism,
neo-evangelicalism, charismaticism, hyper-Calvinism and neo-Pharisaism.
Moreover, counseling methods, which syncretise
Christian truth with heresy, and unscriptural church-growth
methods, have added to the deluge of unbelief and apostasy that is
drowning many a seminary today. The need for theologically sound
Bible colleges has never been so great.
FEBC was constituted to propagate the Reformed
faith and is affiliated to the International Council of Christian
Churches (ICCC). It has a pre-millennial view of the end-times. It
endeavours to carry the Reformation torch into this new century by
setting high biblical standards and training both men and women to
become effective servant-leaders for the church militant.
As published by the Evangelical Times,
March 2001.
A 21st
Century Reformation Paper: Truth or Lies?
In
Defence Of The Far Eastern Bible College, The Reformed Faith, And The
Reformation Bible
FEBC Faculty
United on Verbal Plenary Preservation
The Westminster Confession of Faith (WCF) states very clearly
that the inspired Scriptures in the original languages are by God’s
“singular care and providence, kept pure in all ages” (WCF I:8). The
Westminster divines used Matthew 5:18 as a proof text for this
affirmation of the verbal plenary preservation (VPP) of the
Scriptures. This proves that the doctrine of the VPP of Scripture is
not just creedal, but more importantly Biblical.
The
VPP of Scripture is a position of faith that is based solely on the Word of
God. “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of
things not seen” (Heb 11:1). “So then faith cometh by
hearing, and hearing by the word of God” (Rom 10:17). “But
without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God
must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently
seek him”
(Heb 11:6). It is a position that we must take if we are to weather and
survive the onslaughts of postmodernism, pop-modernism, open-theism and
neo-deism that seek to destroy the church today.
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