Walking with the Risen Christ

Since 1985, Soo-Inn has been journeying with people through his ministry of preaching/teaching, writing, and mentoring. He is a director of Graceworks, a training and publishing consultancy committed to promoting spiritual friendship in church and society. He runs this ministry in partnership with his wife, Bernice. They have four sons.
Originally trained as a dentist at the University of Singapore, he answered God's call to go into full-time church-related ministry in 1981 and obtained his Master of Theology from Regent College, Vancouver, Canada, in 1984. In 2006, he obtained his Doctor of Ministry from Fuller Theological Seminary, California.

He has worked as a dentist, pastored two churches, and served in a number of parachurch organisations. He also serves as an adjunct lecturer in various seminaries in Singapore and Malaysia and has authored several books.

His primary passions include connecting the Word of God to the struggles of daily life, and the promotion of the discipline of spiritual friendship. He has supported Arsenal Football Club since 1971 and his favourite movie is Star Wars 4.

Often, the approach to church small groups is functional. They are seen as part of a structure that serves a key function - building community. Popular author and preacher Soo-Inn Tan posits that this often results in the small groups missing out on the most critical relationship, the one they should have with the risen Christ. While it is important to structure small-group meetings, it is more important to understand how all these practices relate to the fact that the risen Christ is in the midst of the meeting.