Church

Singapore has many Christians. In fact, of my 7 direct Singaporean colleagues, 5 are Christian. Most of them are of Chinese decent. Singapore has three mega-churches. I have always wanted to visit one, so we decided yesterday to go to New Creation Church (+/- 20.000 attandants every Sunday) of pastor Joseph Prince. He is pretty well known in Holland actually. He's criticized mostly by reformed media if I remember correctly. Well, I just came for the show ;)

After standing in line for 10min and being unsure whether or not we would actually fit in, we got inside. We had to sit on the floor but were upgraded to a real seat shortly. I was pleasantly surprised by the fact that Darlene Zschech was leading worship, she is famous singer/songwriter. It wasn't too impressive. I like the songs "the time has come (today, today is all or nothing...the praise goes out to You!) and Hillsong's This is Our God. Very powerful.

The sermon was long but quite a bit better than I expected. It was funny and he used several good theological methods to explain a text (use of Hebrew, first use, etc) and make it applicable. I did a good job on Eccl 9:11-12 which is very applicable to the crisis.