I can’t remember exactly the first time I heard Pastor Joseph Prince preach; it was probably 2010. My spirit connected with him immediately and I fell in love with him there and then. Since then, my love for him has been growing more and more. Pastor Prince’s humourous and engaging style of preaching is one of the things that have endeared him to me.
Pastor Joseph Prince is an apostle of RADICAL GRACE or you may call it ABUNDANT GRACE. He is a Singaporean and Pastor of New Creation Church in Singapore. He is married to Wendy and they have a daughter, Jessica Shayna Prince and a son, Justin David Prince.
Pastor Prince’s message is simple: Trust in the finished work of Christ on the Cross. But he has been largely misunderstood by many. I have listened to his sermons over and over and over and there is no doubt that he is a sound teacher of God’s word, the Bible. He has been called many unprintable names by people. Some people have even taken it upon themselves to prove that Pastor Prince is a false Bible teacher.
But why is Pastor Prince a pastor some love to hate? It is because he is preaching that man can only be justified or made right with God through faith in Christ and not through works/human efforts. It is because Pastor Prince preaches that we should not Christians should not mix law with grace. It is because he preaches that the dispensation of law has been done away with. It is because he teaches that all the sins of mankind: past, present and future have been forgiven because of Christ’s death on the Cross and that man only needs to receive God’s provision of forgiveness.
Pastor Prince is being vilified for daring to declare that God is no longer angry with his children because he has punished our sins in the body of Christ. He is being maligned because he is proclaiming the gospel of grace. He is being slandered because he is declaring that our works do not add to or remove from our righteous nature.
Am I surprised that Pastor Prince is receiving a lot of denunciation from some Christians? NO! Not since I read Romans 3:8 and I discovered that some people also falsely accused Apostle Paul for preaching the gospel of grace. I would like to ask Pastor Prince’s critics one question: What could have made some people to falsely accuse Paul as stated in Romans 3:8? Can they honestly answer the question?
Why should I even think Pastor Prince should not have attracted scorn from people if Kenneth Hagin, Kenneth Copeland and other word faith preachers – as they are called – could be condemned? The criticisms aimed at Pastor Prince can be so ridiculous that you can’t help but feel pity for the critics.
I think if these people criticising Pastor Prince and other grace preachers carefully read the first seven chapters of the Book of Romans and take some time to dwell on Romans 5:20, they won’t be so quick to write off what grace preachers are preaching and they will understand what Rom 6:1 is saying. I hope these traducers eventually come to recognise the objective of grace preachers, which is that every Christian should come to the realisation of the message in Rom 6:14-15.
I also believe that if they can truthfully provide an answer to my question on why Paul was falsely accused (I believe it was because he was preaching something similar to what grace preachers are preaching now), they will stop pouring vituperations on Pastor Prince and other grace preachers.
If you have never listened to Joseph Prince preach, you really need to. He is an Apostle of Grace to our generation. I LOVE YOU, PASTOR PRINCE!
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