500 Years of Christianity in the Philippines

Activity:

1. What struck/caught your attention from the talk/s?

The passage that catches my attention from the talk is about the “Kingdom of God will be God’s
Gift to us” it gives us the idea that the greatest gift for us by our almighty father is his kingdom as we
continue to live on his teaching and learn to embrace his goodness, love and compassion to everyone.
The ultimate virtue of our God is Love where we can share to others and build harmony among our
neighbors. Love has been the most powerful gift and could be the greatest weapon to find the kingdom
and share it to others.

2. What feelings surfaced in you as you listened and watched?

As I listen to the talks, it gives me the feeling of being secured in the arms of our father on his
kingdom. He gives us the idea of love and compassion as we celebrate life on earth. This has been an
immense present that we could enjoy and share to other our optimism and our love for others.

3. What convictions/truths about our faith and mission are evoked in you?

There’s a lot of convictions/truths that evoked in me traditionally, faith and reason have each
been considered to be sources of justification for religious belief. Because both can purportedly serve
this same epistemic function, it has been a matter of much interest to philosophers and theologians how
the two are related and thus how the rational agent should treat claims derived from either source.
Some have held that there can be no conflict between the two—that reason properly employed and
faith properly understood will never produce contradictory or competing claims—whereas others have
maintained that faith and reason can be in genuine contention over certain propositions or
methodologies.

4. What gift/s have you received which you can share to people as we celebrate and journey with Jesus
the 500 years of Christianity in our country?

In 500 years of Christianity in the Philippines I’d received ample gifts from our father. No
believer can say that they have no gift of the Spirit from God. God has given all believers gifts; some
have several but everyone has these gifts. These gifts of the Spirit are given not for the believer but for
the Body of Christ. It is to make the Body complete. These gifts are intended for the church to edify it, to
strengthen it, to feed it, to exhort it, to encourage it and to have the Body of Christ empowered to do
the work of Christ. These gifts are always to exalt Christ, to witness of God’s power, to build up the
Body, and to work to enlarge the Body of Christ by sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ with the lost. There
are several biblical tools and surveys that believers can use to discover their own gifts of the Spirit.
These are helpful applications to allow the Christian to see what their gifts are and therefore how they
can best help the church. There is no believer in Christ that does not have the gift of the Spirit