Sunday, 5th April 2026
Today I shall conclude with part 2 on buttressing bridges.
Yesterday, I gave 3 specific incidences which were God's way of placing in my heart to take steps to strengthen the bridge between my ex-church and my current one.
(1) James Tham pointed out that my daughter and future grandchildren would likely continue the Methodist tradition.
(2) Rev Reuben Ng was promoted to TRAC President because he chose to be a unifier rather than a divider between the Methodist churches and New Creation Church.
(3) God brought a key leader from Faith Methodist church to cross my path. This key leader knows every single one of the Methodist pastors who were overtly against the gospel of Jesus Christ (Peter Koh, Barnabas Chong, etc), and how their star has faded as a result of kicking against the goads.
Today I shall conclude with Incidents 4, 5, 6 and 7.
Incident Four
James Tham invited TRAC President Rev Reuben Ng to guest-speak at a Men's Ministry organised event called "Blueprints for Success" on 28 February 2026. It was held at, yup, PLMC.At the breakfast session before the talk, I exchanged pleasantries with the senior leadership who were there, namely Rxxxxx Cxxx, Rxxxxx Txx and Cxxx Cxxxx Sxxx. But what caught me totally off-guard and (momentarily speechless) was when the current PPRSC Chairman Sxx Fxxx Jxx arrived, warmly shook my hand, and said, "Welcome back."
Was it meant to be prophetic when he used the word "back"? Why did he not just say, "Welcome"?
At least he didn't say, "What are you doing here? You are not welcomed back." :P
I quickly composed myself and replied, "Oh, I am here to support President."
Incident Five
My dad kept lots of PLMC memorabilia which I uncovered as a result of clearing out his bedroom and the study room. I passed an entire box of these stuff to James Tham at the tail end of February 2026 to pass to the PLMC Archivist, but for some strange reason, James sat on it for weeks and did not do so. Getting slightly impatient, I went to his place to take back the box to deliver the items myself.
I went to PLMC on 12 March 2026 and was pleasantly surprised by the very warm reception I got from 2 of the senior staff -- the Head of HR/Finance/Admin ("HFA") and the Head of Operations. I did not need to introduce myself; they recognised me straightaway because they said that my daughter looks exactly like me haha.The HFA Head showed me the room that my wife and I had donated towards (it was previously called Nebo, where weekly tithes and offerings were counted in, but has since been merged with Zion, the room next to it). I took a photo of the plaque that remains there. The enlarged space now houses the HR, Finance and Admin departments.
PLMC will be undergoing very major renovations in a couple of years' time and the Operations Head assured me that they will return the said plaque back to me before the building is torn down.
Incident Six
I was a member of the PLMC Choir and the then-choir director, Mr Danny Koh, knew both my parents. He played the keyboard to provide songs and entertainment at my dad's 75th and 80th birthday celebrations.On 11 March 2026, Mr Koh called me when I was golfing, sounding very desperate. He told me that his wife had an ear infection, and they had gone to what was my late dad's clinic, only to discover that it was no longer in operation. I told him that I would provide him with the name of a doctor who used to work for my dad.
To cut a long story short, his wife was attended to and she recovered.
Mr Koh was so pleased and thanked me profusely, and also had wonderful things to say about mom and dad, which I reproduce for your reading pleasure.
That night as I reflected upon what had happened, I realised God had used me to reach out to yup, yet another Methodist.
Incident Seven
Now this is the most crucial and critical of them all.I have recently gotten very much closer to Rev Alvin Chan.In conclusion, I sense stronger and stronger the Lord telling me not to grow too deep roots in New Creation Church, because He wants my wife and I to ultimately return to the church of my forefathers. I had turned down my previous CG leader's request to submit my name to her overseer as a potential CG leader. I have also been very contented to be just a server driver in the Logistics & Transport ministry. This is so that when the time eventually comes for us to cross back, it will be a relatively commitment-free transition.
But I told the Lord that the PIC of PLMC must also be grace-based, like how Rev Reuben Ng is. That is the pre-condition to me returning, (just like how Gideon gave God the pre-condition that the fleece be wet while the ground remained dry, and vice versa).
New Creation Church does not have a monopoly on the gospel of the grace of Jesus Christ and His complete and finished work on the cross; it is a Pauline revelation that God wants every single church in the world to have.
I also realise I have been too forthright and forceful in my approach and dealings with Methodists. It is not God's way to force-march people across the bridge. It sure did not work on my own children, so how much lesser should I expect this approach to work on others.
God is telling me that I should instead be focusing more on fortifying that bridge, to find common ground between the two, such as the centrality of Jesus, in the magnifying, exalting and glorifying of Him. This is something that both the 45,000+ Methodists and 50,000+ NewCreationers can definitely agree upon. Amen?
Now just imagine how much we 95,000+ believers can do for the Body of Christ if we combine forces against our common enemy, the devil, instead of allowing him to sow discord within ourselves.
The gates of hell cannot prevail when we align with Peter's confession that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the Living God, that same confession that Jesus establishes His Church upon.


































