Sunday, September 03, 2006
"yea i used to have class blogs and friends' blogs which started out with a great bang but they all died down after a while.. but i'm sure this one will not be the same!"
Haha... hmm... just to add in my 10-cents' worth. From a practical point of view, this blog will last only as long as this CG lasts. Well, we all will move on, the CG will probably restructure, and the NUSB1 "brand name" will disappear after some time.
(Hee... I should know... I set up a CG blog for my old CG abt 1 or 2 years ago, and now it's gathering dust.)
BUT! While this blog lasts, it has a POWERFUL PURPOSE - to encourage one another, as long as it's called Today! So, amen, sis, yes, with God, there is REALLY something everyday that we can thank Daddy for! Because He REALLY loves us, from head to toe!
And also, on a very practical note too, when we reflect and pen down our thots, it'll help us develop our critical thinking and analytical skills, which will help us Christians be more relevant to the people that we are reaching out to.
[Hmm... just want to share another testimony regarding this. This is something that my shepherd and leaders (e.g. Shirley) helped me develop over the past 4 years in NUS, and hee... just REALLY want to thank God for their pushing me to think, reflect and make sense of my life... as a result of that, God has blessed me with the ability to do very well in Arts essays and tutorial discussions... getting very positive comments from my tutors AND classmates... actually, it IS God's will that we are to respond in faith to His promise of victory in the classroom too, that we are called by Him to be the HEAD and not the tail in whatever we do for Him! aMeN!]
So just really want to encourage the younger ones to use this blog to practise thinking and writing down their own life reflections here... because Christianity is a very practical thing too, just as Philippians 1:9 says, "And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight..." And as Francis Bacon, the father of modern science, said, "Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man."
So one suggestion is that we can also discuss on-going global events and local events from a Christian viewpoint. This, by the way, is one of the 4 pillars of our vision for the Campus ministries in Hope - to have a global outlook and have a burden for missions. This blog shouldn't only be a "holy huddle", but as a dynamic discussion of fine minds (university-grade mah...)... so let's really PUSH one another to think well with sound Biblical reasoning too! :)
Ha... so in the final analysis, let's not blog for the sake of blogging - or God forbid, just to keep this blog alive - but while this blog lasts, let's really use it to encourage, exhort and edify one another in heart, mind, soul and spirit! Because, this blog will not last... but the people who have been impacted by the sharings and testimonies on this blog will last! aMeN!
