Life Bible-Presbyterian Church
| Life Bible-Presbyterian Church 笃信圣经长老会生命堂 |
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| Country | Singapore |
| Denomination | Bible-Presbyterian churches (Singapore) |
| Membership | Approx. 1,000 |
| Weekly attendance | Approx. 1,000 |
| Website | www.lifebpc.com |
| History | |
| Founded | 15 October 1950 |
| Founder(s) | Rev Dr Timothy Tow |
| Architecture | |
| Architect(s) | Ang Kheng Leng & Associates |
| Style | New Classical |
| Groundbreaking | 1960 |
| Completed | 1962 |
| Construction cost | SGD 500,000 |
| Specifications | |
| Number of floors | 3 (9 & 9A) 5 (10) |
| Floor area | 4,851.7 m2 (9 & 9A) 2,696.6 m2 (10) |
| Clergy | |
| Pastor(s) | Rev Charles Seet Rev Colin Wong Rev Quek Keng Kwang Rev Lee Hock Chin Rev Calvin Loh (Mandarin) |
Life Bible-Presbyterian Church (Abbreviation: LBPC; Chinese: 笃信圣经长老会生命堂) is a reformed, fundamental, and separatist Bible-Presbyterian church located at Gilstead Road, under the Novena Planning Area, within the Central Region of Singapore. It is the first and oldest Bible-Presbyterian church in Singapore and Southeast Asia, and the mother church of Bible-Presbyterian churches in the region. Church members are referred to as "Lifers." The pastor is the Rev Charles Seet.
The church motto is "Holding Forth the Word of Life" (Philippians 2:16).
Life Bible-Presbyterian Church ("LBPC") was established by Timothy Tow, who in 1950 became pastor of the Life Church English Service at Say Mia Tng a Chinese Presbyterian Church at Prinsep Street (not to be confused with Prinsep Street Presbyterian Church). In 1955 Tow and others left the Chinese Presbyterian Synod to form the Bible-Presbyterian Church and LBPC was established. In 1963, LBPC moved into new premises in 9 & 9A Gilstead Road. The acquisition of 10 Gilstead Road was completed on 30 April 1990.
In 1988, the Synod of the Bible-Presbyterian Church was dissolved, but LBPC and other Bible-Presbyterian churches continue to exist under their respective names.).
The Far Eastern Bible College ("FEBC") shares premises with LBPC, but it had a falling out with LBPC over Verbal Plenary Preservation (VPP). FEBC teaches that God has supernaturally preserved each and every one of His inspired Hebrew/Aramaic OT words and Greek NT words to the last jot and tittle so that God’s people will always have in their possession His infallible and inerrant Word kept intact without the loss of any word, and that the infallible and inerrant words of Scripture are found in the faithfully preserved Traditional/Byzantine/Majority manuscripts and fully represented in the Printed and Received Text (or Textus Receptus) that underlie the Reformation Bibles best represented by the KJV, and NOT in the corrupted and rejected texts of Westcott and Hort that underlie the many modern versions of the English Bible like the NIV, NASV, ESV, RSV, TEV, CEV, TLB, etc., but the Board of Elders of LBPC disagrees.
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