Attack Them Not!

The part of this course that really impressed me was the passion of the genuine Christians to share the love of Christ even when they experienced persecutions in their place. Some Christians transferred to another place then shared the gospel. Others migrated to another country and also shared the love of Christ to them for they knew that only Christ can help them in whatever troubles they had experienced. The challenging part of the course was the Unitarian doctrinal position held by some churches in Chapter 11. I find it difficult to look for the specific doctrines which they held. I had read the pages and look for it many times but I only found one church who held its view clearly about the Unitarian position, the Iglesia ni Cristo. It is really a Unitarian belief because they believe that the Father was only divine, Jesus and Holy Spirit are not. The other church that had this doctrinal position was the Philippine Independent Church led by Aglipay influenced and developed by Isabelo de los Reyes. The book didn’t tell clearly about their belief like the Iglesia ni Cristo but it simply stated the Unitarian belief because I know now of some churches who is Unitarian in position and for them Jesus is the only true God. It is still the same with INC as Unitarian but different in views on the true God. The part which challenged me to strive more and to become better as a person is the idea of not attacking fellow pastors and workers of Christ. Attacking includes verbal, actions and even entertaining bad thoughts towards them even if they did wrong in the ministry. Sir Ballono reminded us also in the class about this and it really stick into my mind hopefully by the help of God I can do this soon when I’m already in the 

ministry.