{"id":8132,"date":"2018-06-14T10:43:23","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T14:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=8132"},"modified":"2019-08-10T15:28:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-10T19:28:00","slug":"alex-tseng-vs-michael-liu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=8132","title":{"rendered":"Alex Tseng vs. Michael Liu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So here it is, starting from one of the major dissents among those who were close to Pak Tong, when he introduced his new protege Michael Liu. Many troubled Tong, some tried to bring up certain other protege of their own (Rev. Lin with Alex) in hope that Dr. Tong would not consider Michael. All these, of course, were done inconspicuously.<\/p>\n<p>Now it is clear, that Alex's not into any ministries as they would think. He's moving back and forth between theology and philosophy, between teaching and writing books, between colleges that he praised that would accept him; While Michael Liu has started a church. I'm not looking at how successful Michael Liu will be, but at least he has attempted it, that's what counts.<\/p>\n<p>Enough said, time has proven the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Come to think of David Tong, I would say, to lead a ministry, one must take the initiative, if he doesn't, for survival, he could only rely on degrees and inherited reputation which he certainly has that one more than Alex. Unlike Alex, David has the right direction, but initiative awaits.<\/p>\n<p>Alex's failure at this became obvious when he saw reformed theology and running Gospel rally as a contradiction. He was invited to do a few before, but his attitude problem in apologetics with love thwarted him from that path. He may deny this, only because there are support (material) he cherishes still, from this early cause of his, from those who are not up to date with current news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So here it is, starting from one of the major dissents among those who were close to Pak Tong, when he introduced his new protege Michael Liu. Many troubled Tong, some tried to bring up certain other protege of their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=8132\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theologization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8132"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8747,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8132\/revisions\/8747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}