Dear friends
Even as we celebrate with our siblings in India for the landmark Supreme Court decision striking off section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, the debate in Singapore intensifies.
Some of you will have received messages to sign the petition to retain section 377A in Singapore in your chatgroups at work, and even at home. Some of you would have been part of conversations with friends, colleagues and even family members about it. Some of you would have received messages from other Christian friends and even church leaders about it.
i know it hurts.
Some of you are angry. Some of you are frustrated. Some of you feel helpless.
There is a gospel song that became the anthem of the civil rights movement. It was also one that Rev Yap requested for his funeral – “We shall overcome.”
We shall overcome
We shall overcome
We shall overcome, some day
Oh, deep in my heart
I do believe
We shall overcome, some day
As we approach our 15th anniversary, remember that God was with us every step of the way. From our time in Zion Road, to Utterly Art, to the Attic, to Yangtze, to Aljunied and to Commonwealth, God was with us – like the pillar of cloud by day, and pillar of fire by night, God was with us.
Know that we are beloved, embraced and held by God.
i pray in this time we draw closer to God, and closer to each other – and understand the love that bind of of us, the love that is God. And knowing this love, may be learn to respond to hate, not with hate, but with love.
May we be the beacon of hope and love, so we testify to how radical the Gospel of Christ is. May the good news reveal the truth, and may the truth set all of us free.
Shalom,
miak