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Well, I wasn't there for the meeting that night, but one thing I know is that many healings took place, and those healings are divine and genuine.

Jeremiah 33:6 says, "Nevertheless, I will bring health and healing to it; I will heal my people and will let them enjoy abundant peace and security."

1) However, it was brought to attention that Benny Hinn that night gave prophecies so precise and exact that shook many people.

The Bible tells us clearly- in 1 Cor 14:1 to "Follow the way of love and eagerly desire spiritual gifts, especially the gift of prophecy."

Prophecy is something we should and must desire, not just for big ministers only, but for us as Christians we should seek to move in the gift of prophecy as well.

Also, the prophecy must come true in order to prove that the prophecy is true, and that you are not a false prophet. In the old testament times, false prophets suffer from a terrible fate; they will be stoned to death. This is how serious God is with false prophets.

Hence, city harvest's stance as a church is to put the prophecies given by Benny Hinn that Saturday night on the shelf for now. If it comes true, then the prophecy is true. But if it does not, then we see a false prophet in our midst. In anyway, the point is: Wait and see. Time will tell. And don't take matters into your own hands. Ultimately, God is the only judge. By boycotting him even without giving him a chance by personally experiencing his ministry, we are already judging him by our actions.

2. Benny Hinn declared during his preaching that his family is less important than his ministry, and that his ministry is more important than his wife and family.

I heard from WL who attended the meeting that he was telling the congregation he actually engraved his ministry logo on his ring to remind himself that his ministry always comes first, and not his family.

Pastor addressed this wrong doctrine very strictly this Sunday morning during service, including the issue on prophecies as mentioned above.

1 Tim 3:5 says, "If anyone does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of God's church?"

So what can we learn from this incident? I can almost hear cynics and critics go "there you go City Harvest, I told you Benny Hinn is a fake. Still engage him for what? U are simply making yourself in a difficult position where people dislike you because they are against Benny Hinn."

Hey firstly, EVEN if you treat Benny Hinn like an enemy, God never ask you to hate your enemies right? Instead, the Bible teaches us to love our enemies as ourselves! Now that's hard to do huh? Cynics.

Sorry, but i really detest people like that. But even as I detest people like that, I make sure I practise what I preach and love these cynics the best I know how. I pray for them.

As I've posted in part ONE entry, AR Bernard shared that there's a thin line between practising SEPARATION and ISOLATION.

Do you condemn Benny Hinn just because people are saying bad things about him, or do you say 'let's wait and see' meanwhile not passing judgment on him?

You may say that you also think, sense and judge by your own thoughts and feelings towards this person or event. But the truth is that what you think/ sense/ judge is based on external perceptions and influences that you are exposed to. How then can you judge and think clearly if you deliberately expose yourself to negative stuff?

The foolproof method is to judge a man of God by the BIBLE. The bible is our standard for lifestyle. Not youtube, not blogs, not the media newspapers. In anything we find deviate from the teachings of the Bible, we call it the wrong doctrine and the person teaching it a false preacher.

Now the point is, how are you going to know that Benny Hinn is a false preacher of the wrong doctrine if we didn't give him a chance to stand on our church's pulpit and preach?

You say that it's a tremendous risk to expose the church to wrong doctrines. I say that it is simply a stepping stone to affirm the right faith doctrines. In everything, there are always 2 sides to the coin. The issue is how you handle the situation and put it to good use.

I admire and respect pastor Kong and I'm proud that he is my spiritual father. He managed this Benny Hinn hoo-ha really well. He does not owe anyone apologies because the Bible is the standard for the things he do for the church. By inviting Benny Hinn to come and speak and minister without putting on any glasses of discrimination against him. It is only when Benny Hinn taught the wrong doctrine to the Asia Conference congregation that Pastor Kong stood out to protect our faith and set things right. In everything there are consequences. We reap what we sow.

I believe we will not be seeing Benny Hinn in action in our church any longer. But it's only after we have given him a chance when other people criticized him like crazy.

Ultimately, it is about personal experience, not really about determining who's right or wrong. When you have personally experienced, you naturally will find out the right from the wrong. You should never condemn a person, church or event if you have never personally gone down to experience it.

God works through anointed man. I have personally experienced the move of the Holy Spirit during a few Benny Hinn healing meetings. The presence of God was very strong. What is saddening is to see an anointed man with so much entrusted upon him fall into wrong doctrines.

Likewise, a church that start in the Holy Spirit ends up stagnant in past visions and dreams. Pst Kong calls this a dying church. And that's the whole purpose of Asia Conference...to revive passion of church leaders with dying visions for a dying church.

I think this incident has also given Pst Kong an unexpected opportunity to demonstrate to the foreign delegates the wisdom required in handling situations like that even in the face of a major event like the Asia conference.