Three
months ago, I was not the same girl I once was.
After
the 13 weeks of attending CLP or Christian Life Program, in the course of these
weeks will serve as a participant’s preparation to be a part of SFC (Singles
for Christ).
What
is SFC by the way? The initial answer will be like this “It’s a group of single
men and women serving God” yes, from the words itself, we are singles.
But
what is CLP’s goal and what grounding someone needs in order for him to be a
successful Single for Christ after the modules?
Specifically,
the CLP is intended to achieve the following:
1.
Bring the participant to repentance and a renewed faith in Jesus.
2.
Empower the participant in the Christian life through baptism in the Holy
Spirit.
3.
Integrate the participant into a strong environment of support and ongoing
formation.
Many
of us have our schedules jam-packed and yet this will no longer feasible in
their calendars. Some might have a weekly session with their friends for some
drinks to rant about how a stressful week they had. Others may have this
session or probably engage with activities that seem to be their hobby or
something in that like.
13
weeks is still 3 months and the initial feedback someone can give by knowing
the length of the program is “Can I make it?” or “How far can I go?” As a
student that joined the community, I had my fair share of absences and I did
research to make up for those. But in all honesty, it is a far cry from being
in the class itself participating with the discussion.
The
topics of the sessions are:
Module
1: THE BASIC TRUTHS ABOUT CHRISTIANITY
1.
God's love
2.
Who is Jesus Christ?
3.
What it means to be a Christian
4.
Repentance and faith
Module
2: THE AUTHENTIC CHRISTIAN LIFE
5.
The Christian ideal: loving God
6.
Loving your neighbor
7.
The Christian family
8.
Life in the Holy Spirit
9.
Receiving the power of the Holy Spirit
10.
Growing in the Spirit
11.
The life and mission of SFC
12.
Transformation in Christ
It took years and I
feel hopeless at times. So what I have come up with finding my treasures to
fill the emptiness? I didn’t do anything and let fate do its job, haha! Which it
did, actually at some point when a flyer magically appeared in front of me
(seriously this what happened, because my brother handed it to me!) and the
little hunting I started ended in a bat of an eyelash J
Some will think
that members of SFC are boring and these people don’t know how to socialize at
all. Well, you are definitely wrong. They are far more than what you are
thinking which wears thick eyeglasses, who will not speak a word to you when
you don’t start the convo and most of all, these are people that don’t make
friends at school or at work that’s why they joined. Nope, these people are
yuppies (young professionals) and most of all live a normal like everyone else
their age.
They know how to
socialize in a clean-fun way, and they make use of their time and resources
wisely. Why would you keep on wasting money for beers where you can put it
somewhere worthy instead?
With the
discussions I’d attended, of course it’s normal that I have my own favorite
from the modules. Actually all of them but there were a few topics that really
stand out.
One of my personal
favorite was Talk # which is “What it means to be a Christian”
Maybe we are
unaware of what we do hence, damaging our names. If you belong to a well-known
family, you will be cautious if you bring justice to your surname right? How you
do on a daily living boils down to one thing – my last name.
But have we thought
if this is the only basis to be aware if we do rightfully or not? Have we
thought if doing something bad is far more concerning in the eyes of our Father
and yet it naturally slips our mind every time? Or we don’t care on that all?
No one is meant to
live forever. We are just transients of the earth and yet we focus more on
building for our future here. I’m not saying that we must stop working and let
things fall into its place, no – I didn’t mean that. What I’m trying to say is
we better work for our future in eternal life.
I have simple rules
or rather questions I always ask myself. I am not perfect and I guess no one is
either. But by simply keeping these in mind, I’m more cautious on whatever I do
and say.
a) Does will give
justice to my Christian name?
b) Don’t do
anything that your Father will be hurt of.
c) Do what is only
pleasing to God’s eyes.
Talk 9 will be
everyone’s favorite and I can bet you a dollar for every incorrect answer. Haha!
The topic Receiving the power of the Holy Spirit was a life changing one. You will
feel renewed as if you had a spa – yes, a spa for the soul.
Last Saturday was
the big celebration of all newly grads from Lower Antipolo chapter. It was a
blast! I really had fun and was able to have fun despite me being awake for 30
hours! Haha! Crazy me, but you can’t blame me. I never felt a single chance
that I was sleepy, but too much exhaustion have taken its toll on me and I need
to retire when midnight strike.
Some of the
nameplates I get to keep, and I’ll surely miss getting these. But I do not
fret, because I’ll get an official digitized ID with my name and SFC on it. Cooler
than these, right?
To my fellow
graduates, let’s make a stand and a change as newly members of Singles for
Christ. This is just the beginning of a new journey we chose to make.
Here at the
graduation rites, I took a photo (taken from my Instagram account) yes, we
still have a notebook and pen!
Here’s a video of
one of the song we sang that day. It was actually my personal favorite and was
really surprised that this was on their playlist. Sweeeeeeet! It’s really fun
to jump while singing for the LoRd J let’s
jump and praise Him! You can sense how frustrated of a singer I am. Haha!
Hold
me in Your arms, never let me go for I want to spend eternity with You.
nice post you have here lexi. im glad you made comments available again in your blog. keep inspiring us.
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