Daniel Goh (2018): "The fastest growth sector within Singapore Christianity is independent, non-denominational Pentecostalism. The four megachurches that belong to this sector have attendance numbers estimated to be above 10,000...

... They are City Harvest Church (20,000), Faith Community Baptist Church (10,000), Lighthouse Evangelism (15,000), and New Creation Church (30,000)."

"All four churches were founded in the 1980s, at a time when Christianity in Singapore was experiencing a crisis of relevance; socially engaged liberal Christianity withdrew [...] due to political crackdowns and the inability of conservative Christianity to fill the gap."

"Megachurches have been successful in drawing young converts largely because of the preaching of contextual theologies relevant to the aspirations of the middle classes, as well as the adaptation of church practices to the urban consumerism and political conservatism..."

"Whereas FCBC engages the nation-state and seeks sovereignty inspired by Lawrence Khong’s teaching on “extreme grace”, New Creation Church engages the capitalist market and seeks liquidity, drawing on Joseph Prince’s teaching on “pure and unadulterated” grace."

"The difference between the two churches also includes theological doctrines and pastoral teachings. Over decades, FCBC deepened its focus on spiritual discipline, while New Creation continued to preach the prosperity gospel."

"For Khong, "spiritual warfare" was a literal reality, in which Christians must "stand and fight as armed warriors against the spiritual rulers of darkness". Christian warriors would literally “die for Jesus in this wartime”, whether “through martyrdom or aggressive assaults..."

"Through the LoveSingapore movement, Khong mobilized conservative and Pentecostal Protestants to go on prayer walks around the city, prayer forays to city gateways, and "high ground" praying over key government buildings to claim "Singapore for Christ"."

"In contrast to Khong, Prince is decidedly more individualistic in his interpretation of spiritual warfare... In Prince’s teachings, prosperity is not just a sign of God’s grace, but is grace itself. Material success is a divine blessing that bears witness to God’s rewards..."

"Both Khong and Prince are Christian princes in the Machiavellian and Gramscian senses of the term... they deploy the church as [...] expressing the will of the people; mobilizing them for spiritual warfare, be it the territorial war Khong is waging on demonic forces...

... in the Antioch of Asia, or the mobile war Prince is waging among the people, through the culture and finances flowing in and out of his networked church."

"By way of the rare social scientific prediction, mark my words, a deep confrontation looms between Khong and Prince, and also between them and the developmental market-state jealous of its prerogatives in matters of sovereignty and liquidity."

As far as we know, @sharanvkaur is one of the few on S'porean Twitter to highlight the powerful political lobbying of local Evangelical Christians. https://twitter.com/sharanvkaur/status/1189438901724700674

This as well: https://twitter.com/sharanvkaur/status/1106181471516090370