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In July, the Straits Times reported the following,
City Harvest Church founder Kong Hee preached to crowds at the weekend as his embattled organisation moved back into its Suntec premises following a year-long revamp.
Worshippers packed the 7,305-seat auditorium as Kong – who is at the centre of a major corruption probe – gave a sermon titled A House On Fire.
“We’re not building buildings but building people,” he told the congregation during the 21/2-hour service last Saturday.
The church’s return to the Suntec Singapore convention centre – which it part-owns – means it finally has a permanent home after 25 unsuccessful attempts to secure a new set of premises.
Source: City Harvest Church returns to Suntec premises after revamp, Straits Times, http://www.straitstimes.com/breaking-news/singapore/story/city-harvest-church-returns-suntec-premises-after-revamp-20130708, Published on Jul 08, 2013, 10:05 AM. (Accessed 20/07/2013.)
So Kong Hee thinks he’s “not building buildings but building people”? Really Kong?
Here is Kong Hee a few years ago flogging his congregation to give to the CHC building fund. In this video, Kong revealed that the unemployed, retirees and students were giving money to the building fund. He also says, “An equal amount, an equal sacrifice. You give your best. You give until your heart is broken. You give until tears stream down your eyes”.
An equal amount, an equal sacrifice? You give your best? Why does this sound familiar? Does this not sound like Phil Pringle’s own money grubby ‘Vision Builders’ campaign?
“Remember, the philosophy of Vision Builders is equal sacrifice not equal giving.”
In C3’s own Vision Builders pamphlets they not only encourage a similar philosophy but also instruct those in out of control debt to do the following,
“If you are in ‘out of control debt’, after your tithe the debt should be your next priority. Reducing the debt to a manageable amount
(or even clearing it completely) should be attempted as you also make a manageable gift to Vision Builders. Remember no amount
is insignificant.” – Vision Builders 2012, http://www2.myc3church.net/sites/default/files/VISION-BUILDERS-BROCHURE.pdf, pg. 10.
Once again, Kong Hee is proving that, “Pastor Phil has been there for me; praying with me; encouraging me; discipling me; telling me how to do the work of the ministry; taught me how to collect an offering; how to give an altar call; how to build a church; build a team”. In the public eye, both unashamedly and ruthlessly exploit people for financial gain with their similar fleece-a-thon campaigns. The difference between Phil Pringle and Kong Hee is that Kong seems to be more ruthless than Pringle.
Kong Hee below says , “And Chwung, have to eat into their reserve. Literally- I mean just the medical bills alone could really sink an ordinary person. But yet this year, Chwung is pledging twenty thousand dollars to the building fund, when he’s having a challenging time in his finances…”
Kong Hee said in the below video, “Nick and Connie sold their five room flat and downgraded to a three room apartment just so they could give twenty thousand dollars to the building fund! I mean, where do you hear people like that? I mean, people who are willing to sell their house and downgrade to build God a great house”.
Good question Kong. Where do you hear of people like that? Clearly you and your are wife aren’t suckers to the false things you say.
While people were selling their expensive flats or forsaking their own medication at their own expense to give to Kong Hee’s building fund, Pastor Kong Hee’s wife Sun Ho was supposedly using those building fund expenses to flaunt her lavish Hollywood lifestyle. Not to only that, Sun Ho also renting out a Hollywood Mansion for $28,000 a month. Why wasn’t she forsaking this lifestyle to build God’s house?
For Kong Hee to say that he is not about building buildings but building people is dishonest. This is doublespeak. What the Straits Times did unknowingly was expose how again Kong Hee used the pulpit to preach his selfish propaganda. No pastor can carry integrity if he speaks with a forked tongue behind the pulpit.
When will integrity return to the CHC pulpit?
C3 Church Watch 
Shameless hustler with no conscience. It takes the fearless arm of the law in Singapore to expose Kong and his myrmidons for who they really are — scammers garbed in Christian cloak.
You are right about the forked tongue. No churches can survive and grow without buildings. In Europe, some of these “buildings” can rival palaces in terms of opulence.
Today, churchianity is still shackled by “buildings”(they can’t do without it) because they are living in “the shadow”, not understanding the earth shaking message(defused by idolatry) of the gospel.
They, with the help of Rome, turned Christianity(till this day) into idolatry.
Kong and Sun, with the support of blind followers, are the ripe fruits of idolatry.
All are foolishly guilty of contributing to the religious divisive destructiveness( history of bloodshed) in the world.
All are guilty of wasting precious resources(man’s blood) on “buildings”.
Today “religious palaces” are determined by the size of following. The more outrageous religious services and the “good news” are, the greater the following and of course, the richer the lives of religious leaders – “buildings” and “building people” are intrinsically interwoven and one of the same.
It is all about money, power and religious adultery/idolatry(sex) in the midst of charity!
Some fruits of religious ignominy are just more rancid than others, inviting public condemnation – about time.
Why censor? Let the THINKING public decide. Or you are just another religious DICTATOR?(another wolf in sheep clothing) 🙂
(It will be posted elsewhere – and you will be mentioned anyway 🙂 )
Sorry for the last post. My mistake, please ignore(do not publish comment on aug 17 8:50 am) if your site permit free and fair speech.(thought you had moderated and killed my previous long comment)
Who is he kidding?
Apparently an entire nation
“Religious sensitivity” again has been used to keep $deceit$ going. One wonders who is the real devil and exploiter here
Sun Ho is religious decadent at its best(at least in Sg’s standard). Yet, Christianity still packs the auditorium. What a joke. Something is very wrong with the educational system. Or maybe there is no cure for stupidity.
Considering the profile of most of the church goers; better education, successful and even influential people are not spared from stupidity.
What did you say? Meritocracy? God have mercy.
For those who truly believe in the Crossover Project by Sun, please watch the video and judge for yourselves. Mind blowing that ‘materialism’ can be disguised in the name of religion. And many are fooled ( still are ) by the plot!
I am blessed by CHC and if you guys haven’t been to the church how can you say is not about building people… CHC has changed the lives of many people(for the better) which you guys cannot deny that.
In the Lord’s Prayer, it said…our father who art in heaven hallow be thy name, thy kingdom come, on earth as it is in heaven…it didn’t
it didn’t say….so your life can be better( which is subjective). Improving lives cannot change the world. Same as serving the rich or elites. Their lives are better but at who’s expense? Is the world a better place with their “better lives”? Christianity misled the world!
Better lives are found in the Vatican. The place is full of love and “child likeness” too.
Blessed – did Jesus tell the apostles to “build people” or to preach the Gospel? (Gospel of) Matthew 28:19
Did the apostle Paul tell a church leader to “build people” or to “preach the word”? (2 Timothy 4:2)
Are Christians supposed to be “building people” or seeking to bring glory to God ?
Is God glorified where false teachings about Him abound?
Jesus saud you will know a tree by it’s fruit. You don’t need to eat from Kong Hee’s ministry to know what he spouts his poison. Simply observe those who walk away sick from his false teaching.
“If you are in ‘out of control debt’, after your tithe the debt should be your next priority. Reducing the debt to a manageable amount
(or even clearing it completely) should be attempted as you also make a manageable gift to Vision Builders. Remember no amount
is insignificant.”
If you are in out of control debt,the first thing you should do is repent for getting in debt in the first place.Not sure if PP teaches repentance though.
Proverbs 22:7
The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.
Romans 13:8
Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.
Proverbs 22:26-27
Be not one of those who give pledges, who put up security for debts. If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you?
You are not THE tree. You, puny humanity with all her glorious flaws(which is not Sinful but Christianity condemns your humanity), are not her obsession. The gospel is much larger then Sinful Christianity make it out to be. So dangerous is the gospel, you may not want to subscribe to it or you will be thrown into prison! The christianity, sanctioned by the state, is nothing but …. STATE RELIGION(“in spirit”).
Salvation as narrated by Christianity is a bloody idiotic joke. Why do you suppose she had brought so much bloodshed to humanity throughout her history? Think!
Practicing your DRUMS, like your masters?(Distortions, Rumours, Untruths, Misinformation and Smears).
(you passed the comments of “army regulated” and “dick li” and not mine? second posting)
You are not THE tree. You, puny humanity with all her glorious flaws(which is not Sinful but Christianity condemns your humanity), are not her obsession. The gospel is much larger then Sinful Christianity make it out to be. So dangerous is the gospel, you may not want to subscribe to it or you will be thrown into prison! The christianity, sanctioned by the state, is nothing but …. STATE RELIGION(“in spirit”).
Salvation as narrated by Christianity is a bloody idiotic joke. Why do you suppose she had brought so much bloodshed to humanity throughout her history? Think!
(there is nothing to be afraid of except the truth)
There is a place for buildings but that is not the point.
The whole debacle surrounding Kong Hee and his wife Sun Ho is the lifestyle they live against the teachings of the Bible for servants of God.
The idea you can lead someone to Christ after watching Sun Ho’s video China Wine is spurious and a sad reflection of the deception of which Kong Hee, Sun Ho and his blind defenders can’t see.
The question of integrity is now subject of a criminal case and if people cannot see truth from error and don’t even know how to check wrongs among themselves – how can they claim to have the Spirit of truth?
The money for building building has been spent on Sun Ho. So now what’s on Kong Hee’s is about building people in the sense of recruiting more members to donate to his coffer.
fxxx him………he has no conscience, hes a con man and his wife is a con artist wannabe…look even in singapore shes not famous…or shall i say they dont 2 hoots abt her and she thinks that she can make it in Hollywood??? even Jackie Chan took a long way before he landed up in hollywood.i dont whats in Kong hees mind ripping the church for his wifes music career, look she has no talent and thats it PERIOD. even barney the dinosaur is more loved then her. give until you bleed dry thats kong hees motto..
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