Wildsons Wildsons! Ano ba 'yan?!

WildSONs: The New Breed of Youth Party!

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Nowadays, most of the young people are engaged in worldly pleasures such as bar hopping or going to night parties, drinking liquors and will go home wasted.

Those things are becoming normal in the modern times. But what they don’t know is they are exchanging the worth of their time in insignificant things. That’s why most of the youth don’t grow.

But there is one party that surely won’t get you drunk, won’t get you lost, and won’t get you wasted!

The super hyper youth party experience that I’m talking about is WildSONs or Wild Seeds Of the Nation! It is a youth gathering held in Cinema 5, Isetann Cinerama Complex, Recto every week from Wednesdays to Fridays with two service times every day from 3:00pm to 4:30pm and 4:30pm to 6:00pm. It is attended mostly by students from U-Belt 1 and U-Belt 2 such as PUP, FEU, RTU, TUP, PNU, PLM, Adamson, CEU and many more.

It is a service where the young people can experience the overflowing goodness and love of God in a very lively way!

First, there’s an icebreaker (sort of games and challenges) that also helps enhance the skills and thinking of the youth and helps boost their confidence, and for them to gain new friends as well!

Then there’s a band or called the praise and worship team that ministers and leads the youth to worship God through music. “There will be dancing, there will be singing, upon injustice we will tell of our God,” as the Christian song ‘The Hope of All Hearts’ says.

For the regular attendees, it’s already normal seeing them in a fashion of dancing and rocking out, praising and worshipping Jesus; but their common experience somewhat leaves a shock to new comers or they call them first timers, putting them into two categories – shocked new comers who are new to it and remain clueless of what’s happening; and shocked new comers joining in the hype in which the lyrics of the songs may also affect them. Either way, there is power in praise and worship because it sets the ground for people to ready their hearts upon receiving the Word.

After the praise and worship session follows a short teaching and prayer for giving thus giving way to the preaching delivered by a pastor.

This is the peak of the gathering; the most awaited; the most talked about – the Word. In every service, there’s a topic that is relevant to the youth and is always based on God’s Word. That’s why the youth attendees can always relate to what is being preached. It may be about and be applied to their studies, family, peers, ministry, love life or personal life.

Everything is rooted in the Word of God – in the Bible. And that’s how it really strikes the hearts of the young people that also gives them time to reflect and evaluate their selves while listening to the preaching.

As the preaching ends, there follows an altar call for those who came for the first time, telling what Christ has done for all of us, and inviting them to go to the front to show their selves to God as a symbol of response to His call. Then the pastor will be leading the prayer for them to accept Jesus Christ and make Him the Lord and personal Savior of their lives, not just to have a commitment to the church or to the organization or event, but a commitment to God. And that is the greatest decision that one should make in his/her life.

Then they will be welcomed by the regulars for them to feel the belongingness, that in WildSONs, they are one family, one church (people), and one body of Christ.

Before the gathering event ends, there will be a victory song as praise and thanksgiving and a way to bless our God as He blesses the young people by His Word. As they glorify God, you will witness the wildest and craziest people – singing, dancing, and jumping in an undignified praise!

If in a normal party, you’ll get drunk and tired, there in WildSONs, you’ll experience the hype of the party as never before! It empowers, strengthens, and uplifts your spirit! It is one of God’s tools to renew you and change your life!

WildSONs then is a party for God and a life-changing event which has a vision to win souls and make disciples, and has a goal to make every believer a leader of leaders, all for one purpose – to love God and to love people!

Secured Leader Ka Ba?

We had our PUP SONS Cell Leaders' meeting last Friday, Jan.6, 2012. And I just want to share the things and points that one of pastors in church, Pastor Jhun Montaño, shared about one's leadership - an extraordinary leadership. Not just being a leader in school or in an organization, but being a CELL LEADER! 


For me, CELL LEADERS ARE CARETAKERS OF SOULS ENTRUSTED BY GOD TO THEM. They are like parents to them, helping them grow in relationship with God, equipping them in truth and discipling them to be more and more like Jesus, and double-portions of them.


And ikaw, I know that God also wants you to be a leader. And I know you can be one if you know that you are not just an average student or an ordinary person, but a great leader that can do extraordinary things for this nation, and that's what will make you an EXTRAORDINARY LEADER!
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Isaiah 40:30-31
Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.

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Kung leader ka na, secured ka na ba sa calling ni God sa'yo na maging isang LEADER?
Tanggap mo na ba na isa ka na talagang CELL LEADER?


You know those leaders out there na bumibigay na lang? Sila ay ang mga hindi secured sa calling ni God sa kanila.




If you are secured in the calling of God to you, you'll overcome every adversity that will come!
Before you will be promoted by God, you will be first tested. Pag marami ka bang personal problems, secured ka pa ba sa leadership mo?


"LAHAT BA NG NAGSIMULA, NAGTAPOS?"
Maraming nagsimula pero hindi lahat nagtapos.


Here are some HABITS TO BE A SECURED LEADER:


1. DON'T COMPARE YOURSELF. NEVER!
    Stand out. Many leaders are invisible because they are not remarkable.
    (Remarkable - you're not looking for attention, you're just unleashing your potential)
    PURPLE ka ba? Meaning, kakaiba! Lutang! Nagsastand out! Yung tipong pag darating ka, makukuha mo atensyon nila!
    Bakit purple? Kasi hindi ordinary color. Hindi ka ordinary.
    Purple ka ba?? (tignan mo, pansinin di ba?)


    Aim for the top! Begin to see your uniqueness! Begin to stand out of the crowd. Be a purple student! Don't be invisible!
    Pansinin ka 'pag kakaiba ka!


2. SUCCESS IS NOT IN NUMBERS.
    Tama ba 'pag sinabing leader, may follower?
    Pero bakit ang eagle laging ginagamit na symbol for being a leader? It's because eagles are remarkable. It always flies by itself.
    It doesn't have any crowd or followers. An eagle can lead itself.


    Never allow your leadership to be based on numbers.
    Your leadership  does not depend on your numbers but on how you lead yourself.
    Yourself is your greatest follower. The person that you need to beat is yourself! Sarili mo muna bago ang iba! You cannot give what you do not have. Kung sarili mo hindi mo malelead, how can you lead others?


    Say this: "I will multiply this year because I will lead myself!" :)
    And don't make your leader your babysitter!
    LEARN TO LEAD YOURSELF. BE DEPENDENT ON GOD.
    BEGIN TO STRETCH YOUR WINGS AND BEGIN TO STRENGTHEN YOUR PERIMETER AS A LEADER!
    (securing your character and personal life)


3. DON'T PANIC!
    ..from the pains and pressures! 
    OFFENSE-PROOF ka na ba? :)
    The person who can handle the pressure does not panic! TRUE VALUES are revealed every time there is pressure.
    Lagi mong sinasabi, "I am a disciple!" Pero kapag nandyan na yung pressure - problema sa pera, sa pamilya, sa studies, may umaaligid pang gwapo/maganda.. DISCIPLE KA PA BA? :)
    And.. BE COOL! Walang eagle na nagpanic! :D


4. SURROUND YOURSELF WITH THE RIGHT PEOPLE.
    Sumama ka sa mga tamang tao! Dumikit ka sa matinde! sa magagaling! dahil 'dun ka rin gagaling! Magpahawa ka ng galing sa kanila! Gagaling ka pa kung secured leader ka.


    Pero hindi ibig sabihin nun na hindi ka na sasama sa iba. Hindi mo lang isusurround yung sarili mo with the right people, kundi ikaw rin, magiging RIGHT PERSON.
    ARE YOU WILLING TO BE THE RIGHT PERSON? :)


5. KEEP BUILDING AN ALTAR FOR THE LORD.
    Keep building the kingdom of God and not your own kingdom!
    DON'T BE POSSESSIVE. Pinagkatiwala lang sa'yo ang mga alaga mo! Hindi dugo mo ang  pumatak para sa kanila. :) DUGO NI KRISTO!
    OFFER EVERYTHING TO THE LORD! :)


   GOD NEEDS SECURED LEADERS!
  Isa ka ba sa kanila? :)

The Process of Being Christ-Like

The Process of Being Christ-Like

"Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion -- it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ." - Billy Graham\

A Christian who is not a disciple is not a Christian. A true Christian is a disciple of Christ. That’s why it is called CHRIST-ian. That is, a person being a "Christian" without being a "disciple," is another one of Satan's lies.

This lie from Satan tries to cover the reality that a person who claims to be a "Christian" but lives an unholy life is not a Christian at all.

Many people today "claim" to be "Christians" even if they are not.  This is mainly caused by all the false preaching and diluted gospels that make people think that they are saved when they are not (a favourite plot of Satan).  Then these false believers try to live the "Christian" life but cannot do so, because they do not have the Holy Spirit within them, therefore they are still slaves to Satan and their sins.

A 3^rd year Bachelor in Business Teacher Education student from PUP, Isaiah Daniel Malde, who is also a Christian and a member of Jesus Is Lord church music ministry and youth ministry outreach, shares the process of being a Christian based from his devotional revelations as he spend his quality time with God every day.

He defined the processes of being a Christian as the ‘process of becoming Christ-like;’ that we were originally created in God’s image and likeness (Genesis 1:26). God created us to have a relationship with Him. But man is sinful and God is holy and so there is a separation between God and man. And because of the fall of man (Romans 3:23), we lost our identity. Then because of the great love of God for all of us, He entered into this world by sending His One and only Son Jesus Christ, to die and be a ransom for our sins. And as we accept and receive Him in our lives, we also regained our identity because Jesus is our identity for we are created in His image.

God gave us the gift of salvation. And to have that free gift, first, we must confess our sins and admit that we sinned against God. Second, accept Jesus by opening our hearts and believe that He died on the cross to justify and redeem us from our sins; to forgive us and give us life. Third, we have to humble down ourselves before God and make Jesus our Lord and Saviour, and allow Him to take control of our lives.

                Accepting Christ is being born again (2 Corinthians 5:17). And it doesn’t end there; it is 180degrees no-turning back and we totally die from our old selves. Accepting Him means we no longer live but it is Him (Christ) who lives in us (Galatians 2:20).

We should have a healthy relationship with God by having constant communication with Him through prayer and devotion, and meditate on His Word day and night (Joshua 1:8) for it is the best way to talk to God, to grow more in relationship with Him and be disciplined by Him. We should also have fellowship with other Christians (belonging to a church) and share God’s word and minister to people.

Every Christian goes through the process of maturity that includes pruning and testing. Then we get to understand that God commissioned us to make disciples (Matthew 28:19), be baptized to declare that we belong to Jesus, and to obey everything He has commanded us (Matthew 28:20), to undergo trainings to equip us and become a leader of leaders. Then we harvest through witnessing and consolidating the harvest. After that, we take good care of them so that they will become leaders like us.

To be more specific about the process of becoming a Christian or being Christ-like, let’s look unto the things Jesus did, (Matthew 4) Jesus prayed, fasted, tempted, and tested. He also considered the Word of God as his daily bread. That’s what Isaiah Daniel considered as the basics of early Christianity. (John 4:34) Jesus’ food is to obey the will of the Father, so then he prayed for the sick, did miracles, preached the good news, went to synagogues, had eating fellowship with people, He even introduced and practiced communion and giving, He became our good shepherd, he feed thousands of people, disciple them and gave them the great commission, but more importantly, Jesus gave his life for us all.

Everything Jesus did that was written in the Scriptures is the very processes, in detailed, that every Christian should undergo. For as Jesus is, and so we are in this world.

A Christian is simply a follower and disciple of Christ who embraces His teachings and assists in spreading it; a person who repents, believes, and submits to Christ, and obeys every Word of Him, a person who loves God and His people, and will multiply and duplicate more Christ-like people, and will raise up a generation that loves God.