Bridges: Burn Baby Burn (Part 1)

Monday, 23rd March 2026

The past month has been filled with many God-appointed kairos moments and circumstances that have caused me to do some serious reflection, and to start a series on the topic of bridges.

Let us start off with the "burning" of bridges, and the various categories of such a drastic action.

(1) Other (Denominational) Churches --> New Creation Church

I know of individuals who have crossed from other / denominational churches over to NewCre and burnt the bridge behind them.  They speak badly of their former church and put the sole blame for their past failures on the lack of New Covenant-based preaching.

(2) Denominational Church --> stop going to church

I also know of individuals who grew up in a Christian environment who totally stopped attending church when they came of age, because the concept of God painted to them was one that was judgemental, vengeful and impossible to please, and they would thus rather not have anything to do with Him.

I reproduce below the sentiments shared by one such person, whose identity I am not at liberty to reveal because she is someone very, very dear to me.  She wrote this on 23 May 2020, and shortly thereafter, her dad suffered a stroke upon reading it :-(

(3) New Creation Church --> Other (Denominational) Churches

This category intrigues me the most. I know of some who spent decades in NewCre, yet decided to made the trip in the opposite direction, effectively burning the bridge behind them.  They accuse Ps Prince of portraying God as a genie, or of raising their hopes too high regarding health/financial breakthroughs, or of easy-believism (ie. no need for "discipleship" or "spiritual formation").

[By the way, I have addressed the topic of Discipleship in this post entitled "Lazy Christians?"
Lazy Christians?]

There is one particular individual called Nick Tan (whom I know personally), whose "testimony" was showcased on 29 Nov 2023 by Gospel Light, his current church, which I reproduce in full below:

These individuals unfortunately also become cannon fodder for the likes of George Ong, who has his fair share of rabid followers who just cannot wait to see NewCre fall :-(

Ps Prince made a very interesting observation before: Jealousy and envy usually happens between people sharing the same profession.  A pastor is usually jealous of another pastor, an accountant of another accountant, a real estate agent of another real estate agent, and so on. Rarely is a pastor jealous of an accountant, or an accountant of a real estate agent, or a real estate agent of a pastor.

This explains the animosity that Kong Hee, Lawrence Khong, Ho Chee Sin, George Ong and even KSM (the current PIC of my ex-church PLMC) have towards Ps Prince.

I would add that it happens also between people sharing the same life circumstances too.  A sibling is envious of another sibling who is favoured by their parents,  a mother of another whose kids are doing well in school, a husband of another man whose wife is submissive and demure, etc etc.

Sorry for digressing. Let's get back to the topic of bridge-burning.  

(4) New Creation Church --> stop going to church

This category is the most heartbreaking of all.  I can understand why people may leave churches that depict God as angry and demanding.  But if God is portrayed as loving and forgiving, then it not so much the message that turn people away, but the message-bearers.

There is one such individual that not only stopped attending NewCre, but even went so far as to declare war against it on 12 March 2023.  Thankfully, he took down his Instagram post about an hour later after being counselled. Unfortunately, he currently lives quite the secular lifestyle, which includes smoking, drinking and swearing :-(

Another stopped because she was previously in a very exclusive care group for several years, and then when it had grown too big and had to multiply, the CG leader allowed the exclusive member to choose who could stay and who had to leave.  The person in question was one of those who had to leave the CG, and her bitterness caused her to leave church altogether. 

Anyway, what does the Bible have to say about the act of burning bridges?  Were there cases of God asking His people to cut ties?  We will look at some examples in the next post, so stay tuned!