Forging a New Identity

Due to a lack of entries, the tagline box in smoothcriminalneutron will be shut down. And I guess it is timely to start posting in The Pseudo Philosopher blog. Does it make a difference to blog with a new identity? I think it does for two reasons.

Firstly, it means lesser readership traffic in this obscure blog, which means that I can write about more real stuff. Not that I was a fake, but I tend to hide; behind nonsense wordings and irrelevant photos.

Secondly, I think for a large part, smoothcriminalneutron represents a 3 year period of exceedingly bad writing to express my thoughts and feelings about people, situations, God and life's ironies. So starting on a new blog is like giving oneself a new chance; a new shot to set some perspectives right; with the old (but nonetheless familiar) fade away in one corner of cyberland.

So to smoothcriminalneutron faithfuls (which I reckoned is less than 5), do update your link to this page.

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I've been giving some thoughts about the new cluster, and I suppose God has been impinging upon me to give a sense of identity to the cluster; an identity not just pertaining to their youth, but an identity to arrest their youthful nature.

For instance, there are some cells that are serious about biblical apologetics, while others are bonded with a common passion for music, or computer games. Some identities are Christ-centred, others are perhaps more self-directed; nonetheless, an identity gives a platform for the cell members to meet and fellowship. To some extent, I think my tiertiary cell suffers from a lack of identity, and this explains why we aren't relating to one another beyond the formal necessities.

But it is hard to impose an identity on a group of people who come from all walks of life. No doubt my cell group is supposed to have the identity of a "tiertary" group of people; but a lot of us come from different institutions and working environments.

How I would want to work out an identity for the new cluster would be challenging. Firstly, I'm not quite sure if He is really stressing in my heart on the need for an identity in the cluster. Secondly, there are going to be 4 to 6 cells in the new cluster. It might be difficult to put in place an overarching identity upon the whole cluster.

Nevertheless, during last Thursday's Leadership Summit, Pastor Ian address the importance of a vision for Heartbeat, and how it differs from a mission statement. So maybe, I'm not too far off from here; in that God's stress on my heart for an "identity" is really to come up with a "vision statement" for the cluster.

That leaves me with the last problem. I cannot decipher if any identity on the new cluster will be my identity or God's identity. Something that is close to my heart would be the importance of doing-teaching or service-learning; to help the youths discover Christ by engaging them in missionary or community works. In fact, I was thinking that maybe twice a year, one or two cell leaders can rally the youths across the cluster to go on short term mission trips ala Sri lanka style, which I sincerely thought was a good model to challenge one's perspective on Christ after Pastor Ian and myself modified the SIF model with a Christian dimension.

It would be good that I bring this issue to the new cell leaders soon.