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It’s never fun to disagree with someone else, especially publicly. This writer doesn’t think so anyway. There are a number of options for why someone might feel this way, I suppose. The fear of losing… the fear of making someone feel lousy if you’ve won… or maybe it’s something more basic, like the fact that it requires a lot of effort to properly disagree.

For this writer, though, most of all it’s the fear of seeming to desire making an opponent look like a villian. And so by extention, making it seem as though he elevates himself to be a hero. Yuck, I hate both those ideas.

This site is a commentary on Pastor Joseph Prince’s Daily Grace Inspirations, which can be found on his website. And the reason that the discomfort of disagreeing is being overcome by this writer is this: Amidst the gold that is there in Pastor Joseph Prince’s devotional, there are significant elements that are unsafe if believed. This friendly commentary aims to discern and clarify what is wonderfully biblical and what is not.

Dear Pastor Prince is a project by Tom Ong.

Tom Ong is a Christian born and raised in Singapore. At the time of this writing (July 2018), he is 34 years old and is in his 3rd and final year at Moore Theological College in Sydney, Australia. Being at seminary doesn’t mean that he is necessarily closer to God and that you should therefore believe everything he writes. No, please do read his Friendly Commentary (and Pastor Prince’s writing) with your bibles open, asking God to teach you through His Holy Spirit about the work of His Son.

Tom first heard Pastor Prince at the 2007 Hillsong Conference as an undergraduate student in Sydney and was immediately drawn to his teaching. This led him to spend uni holidays back in Singapore as a keen attender of New Creation Church as well as an enthusiastic reader and listener of Pastor Prince’s books and recordings.

However, a few years later, in the later half of 2010, he became convinced that while some of Pastor Prince’s teaching was extremely sound and well-communicated, there were significant elements that weren’t in tune with what the Bible really says – in particular, his teaching related to health, wealth and success in this life before Jesus returns.