The Fellowship

The word "FUN" is pretty bounty this day.

I had a lot of fun during our Inter-Campus Ministry Fellowship. Yes. I'm a Campus Minister. I'm not one of those who have the best voices around, but I'm pretty much proud that I could sing a bit to praise the Lord. Just don't try listening to me. I'm always flat in singing.

The fellowship was joined by a lot of students from different schools, including ours. The fellowship was about nurturing one's relationship with others through Jesus Christ. A guest speaker discussed about this. According to him, there are three dimensions of relationship: Intra-Personal, Inter-Personal, and Transcendental.
The first one is the relationship with your own self. The hardest enemy to conquer is the self. I agree. We have our own insecurities. We tend to look on our negative sides, ignoring our positive ones. What we should do first before building up relationships with others is to accept one's self.
The second one is about our relationships with others who are around us. It is not good to be alone. Man is a relational being. We build relationships and depend on those ties so we can live and survive the trials life may bring. To those who wanted to live all by themselves, well, my advice to you is live with this line, "We are meant to live with one another." You'll never reach your destination in life with no helping hands.
The third one emphasizes that we are not servants of Jesus Christ but we are His friends. It's our task to respond to that generous invitation. We should also treat Jesus as our friend. He initiated by dying on the cross because of us, his friends. And it's the greatest love, sacrificing one's life for the sake of his friends.
The speaker differentiated two kinds of love, acquisitive love and appreciative love. The former is the kind of love which we acquire only. This love arises from physical needs only. It's the most selfish and self-centered kind of love. No one could ever satisfy one's needs but God. The latter is the kind of love not based on needs but on our insights into beauty. It is enjoyed without being used up.
These are the things I've learned this day and I wanted to share them to all of you. This day I've met a couple of kids from different schools. It was fun especially when we played the parlor games. We may not have won the prizes but the best thing is that we were united as one and we've built up new relationships with each other. I'd love to get to know them.