CLSS 2005

The first two days of the CLSS has just ended and our months of hard work has somehow paid off. It was really successful with some minor problems that were all manageable in the end it was a success. But honestly speaking I somehow felt bad after delivering my first talk which was SALVATION, I just felt that I wasn’t that prepared and I was not able to drive the truths or should I say the fatal blows of the talk, but to my surprise two female participants approached my and said they liked my talk it was so inspiring and that they liked it so much.

I really felt blessed.

Day two, again I was a speaker, this time my CLSS jitters have somehow faded. I was back in the topic which was my comfort zone. New Life, I’ve given that topic to the previous CLSS last year and I knew that I could deliver it well this year…. To my dismay, again I felt I did not deliver my talk well and good. Last year in the ranking of
1-5 where 1 is the lowest and five is the highest, I scored a 5, today I feel that I just scored a 3… I’m not so sure if its just a bad feeling I got from our ALL-KNOWINg-ALL-CONFUSING EVALUATOR last time. If the elders thought they were helping us improve our craft by inviting an ALL-KNOWING-ALL-CONFUSING-PROUD EVALUATOR like him, well they were wrong…. I was always confident in giving the New Life topic, not until he appeared and gave some nasty and of course CONFUSING comments on my talk…

Well just a thought thou, but most of what he were more confusing than enlightening.
Like when he said “Pwede mo naman ibigay yang talk ng New Life kahit wag mo kwento old life mo eh.” Well if tried to sell a laundry soap and told your customers that it came make the dirtiest of clothes good as new, most probably you would believe the commercial but still you would have doubts because the add just said it, it showed no proof of what it can really do, but if you showed the viewers a white shirt that was soaked in water for 30minutes then was placed in a mud puddle and after one hour was left to dry, so you could just imagine how dirty it was right, then comes your all powerful laundry soap restoring the shirt to its original form. Now tell which was more convincing the second or the first, of course it was the second. I guess it is the same in the New Life topic, how can you say the Lord changed you and made you a new man, when since the very start you’ve always been good. But if a real scumbag, lowlife, good for nothing son of b—ch stood in front and told the audience his life before and his new life now, I believe we will also consider the sharing of the later.

Another nasty comment that he gave was this “ahhh teacher ka pala kaya ganyan kang mag salita.. iba ang teaching sa preaching.” WEEEELLLL EXCUSE ME!!!!! He may be a preacher but I dare ask him is he a teacher? You can never say Indonesia and Philippines are different if you’ve only been in the Philippines and has never even set foot on Indonesia. Maybe he hasn’t heard of BLOOM’S TAXONOMY where in there are 3 aspects of intelligence, COGNITIVE, AFFECTIVE AND PSYCHOMOTOR and when you teach you must tackle all three the same way when preach….
I HAVE SEEN THE ASPECT OF BOTH A TEACHER AND A PREACHER AND I DARE TELL HIM THEY ARE THE SAME !

Well the last and most confusing of all the stupid things I heard was this “maling sabihing nagpakamatay si Kristo para sa atin, hindi siya nagpakamatay, PINATAY SIYA DI SIYA NAGPAKAMATAY” Well kung pinatay lang si Kristo at di siya nagpakamatay para sakin I don’t see any point in being sorry for my sins. Why? Because based on what he said “PINATAY AT HINDI NAGPAKAMATAY!” Simply means Jesus was a mere victim and Jesus never sacrificed His life to redeem me from all my sins.

Anyway I gave my talk not to please people but to please God and I know despite all these things the Lord was pleased with the simple sacrifice that I offered for the last two days.

Lastly I’m so happy the long lost sons and daughter of CYM have returned Paolo Tablizo, Leonina Cauntay, Jesi Lucas, Angelo and Jerika

On our own I know it is impossible to bring back the lost children of our tribe,

but with God impossible is nothing.