17 Qualities of a Teamplayer (from John Maxwell)

Qualities of a Teamplayer Notes
(from John Maxwell's book)

These are some of my notes in our discussion last action group with Erik disccussing to us the qualities of a team leader by John Maxwell.

Communicative

- Don't isolate or be inclusive
- settle problems or issues within 24 hours
- be quick- if there is an issue. fix it in a proper way
- follow up important communication in writing
- be candid. speak tactfully

Dependable

- pure motives
- check your motives: is it only for your personal good or for the good of others as well.
- responsibility
- do it. fulfill it.
- sound thinking
- good judgment for the team. do what is right
- consistent contribution
- rain or shine. stay as you are.
- discover what your word's worth
- find someone to hold you accountable

Enlarging

- value your team mates
- your respect makes them feel important.
- know their dreams and nourish it.
- find ways to help others improve their talents and attitudes
- make themselves more valuable.
- you need to be a person of value. You cannot give what you don't have.

- Yel

Dealing with Difficult People

Dealing with Difficult People

Last night, our speaker Bros Flores in Lingkod ng Panginoon- Alabang made a powerful talk tackling the challenge of how to deal with difficult people.

It is easy to love people who are nice to us but how about people who causes us pain. It is easy to feel happy when we see the people whom we love to see. But it is different whenever the person or individual who we irritates us.

Tips:

1. Know the person. Practice empathy. Know where she or he is coming from. From knowing comes understanding. We cannot simply expect everyone to behave the way we want them to act or behave. We cannot change them but we can change the way we resppond to them.

2. Love them. Do not just depend on your capacity to love but from the love that comes from God. Love because it is God who first loved us. How can we also say that we love God if don't know how to love the brothers and sisters whom we can see.

3. Be God's medium to them. We are not Napocor, but we are only Meralco's. The napocor is the source of energy while the Meralco is the transmitter or medium for that energy to light up our homes. Allow God to use you as a vehicle for his love to touch the person who you hate.

4. Be a stepping stone. If you think that you don't have the resources that you need to help the brother or the sister, then let others do the job. Allow them to have an opprotunity to grow in maturity as well. Let those who have the skills needed to do it do the job for you. in other words delegate. Delegate in a loving way

5. Pray. Often than not, we forget to pray. Prayers work!. Let God's grace change the heart of the person whom you are praying. Allow also God's grace to teach you how to forgive and give you the wisdom how to handle this situation.

6. What if you are the difficult person?Then pray to be changed by God. Pray for feedback and ask help from brothers or sisters. Pray for God's love to transform your heart and the humility to accept your being difficult. Then change.

Bros was a former branch leader of Lingkod Alabang. At present, he is a seminarian in the Society of Jesus.

-Yel

Experiencing God in Ormoc

Travelogue

Traveling to a far and new place had always been a source of joy and pleasant surprises to me. What more in the last NLTC where kind and warm smiles greeted us as soon as we stepped down from the plane. By the way I was with Jun V, the former BL of Greenhills who is now married with Mau of Lingkod Makati and Norman from Lingkod San Pablo. We immediately met Father Ramil who fetched us from the airport and drove us to the seminary where we rested a day before we went to Ormoc. The seminary had been our temporary home. It is also here where we first met the bishop, the seminarians and some residents of Tacloban who warmly welcomed us. Finally we went to Ormoc. The trip is itself an adventure as we traversed the zigzag road en route to Ormoc.

Warm smiles greeted us as familiar faces appeared from Ormoc and other Lingkod branches. I was relaxed and immediately felt at home. Soon, after delegates from other provinces started arriving. The service team was very willing to help. They seemed not at all affected nor pressured in assisting the delegates. Truly this is where I found service with a smile in action. There was a system in placed that allowed things to work as smoothly as it should. More than the logistics or the system in placed; I believe that it is their big heart that really made it possible for them to perform the way they did. Truly God is in their hearts and their actions made it even more evident.

The whole NLTC event had been a relaxing and transforming event. It also gave us more time to connect and relate with other brothers and sisters from other branches. I had a great time relating with my buzz group with Macky from Lingkod Mactan and Mike Dayrit of Lingkod Makati.

I also had a chance to have an inter buzz group with other branches. It is a transforming event because it allowed me to have an honest peek of who I am. The meditations, the teachings in the plenary (thanks Jake), the track, the retreat, the masses of the different priests especially of Father Ramil : ) hehehehe , the worship and even the outing, e-night as well as the closing events are hard to forget. Sayang tapos na ang NLTC.

The event had been an awesome experience not only for me and to all of us who were apart of this great event. I will miss the friends I made from different branches. I will definitely miss you guys. Until we meet again.

Yel

CLP 5th Session

Sombrero Island Weekend

To open the ber-months, some of the brothers of Lingkod Alabang went to Sombrero island last September 1. Dom and Erik of Lapag joined by Orlan, Ronnie, Cis and Myx.



pictures courtesy of Orlan.

Who was Pontius Pilate?

Pontius Pilate's family name, Pontius, indicates that he was of the tribe of Pontii. It was one of the most famous of the ancient Samnite names. The surname or cognomen Pilatus indicates the familia, or branch of the gens Pontius. The name is uncertain, though some think it may have meant "armed with the pilum" (a spear or javelin). One interesting note is about another man in Roman history bearing the name. Lucius Pontius Aquila was a friend of Cicero and one of the assassins of Julius Caesar on the Ides of March (44 BC) when the would-be king was murdered.

The Roman Procurator

Tiberius Caesar, who succeeded Augustus in AD 14, appointed Pontius Pilate as governor of Judea in 26 AD. Pilate arrived and made his official residence in Caesarea Maritima, the Roman capital of Judea. Pilate was the 5th procurator of Judea. The province of Judea, formerly the kingdom of Archelaus, was formed in 6 AD when Archelaus was exiled and his territory transformed into a Roman province. Although it included Samaria and Idumaea, the new province was known simply as Judea or Judaea. It generally covered the S. half of Palestine, including Samaria. Judea was an imperial province (i.e. under the direct control of the emperor), and was governed by a procurator.

Usually a procurator had to be of equestrian rank and experienced in military affairs.

The Trial of Jesus and Pontius Pilate

Pilate had traveled to Jerusalem in order to maintain order during the huge festival of Passover. This festival was always a problem time for the Romans, especially since Jewish resentment had always run especially high during national or religious holidays.

According to the Scriptures the Jewish authorities brought Jesus to Pontius Pilate and began prosecution by saying,

"Luke 23:1-2 Then the whole multitude of them arose and led Him to Pilate. And they began to accuse Him, saying, "We found this fellow perverting the nation, and forbidding to pay taxes to Caesar, saying that He Himself is Christ, a King."

The main charges brought before Pilate about Jesus were political and not religious. Jesus was accused of being a political threat to Rome and to Caesar's authority.

Pilate spoke with Jesus (see John 18:33-19:12) and considered the charges being brought against Jesus.

1. He subverts the nation

2. He opposes payment of taxes

3. He claims to be a King

These were, of course, false accusations because Jesus refused the title of king in a political sense, and did not oppose paying taxes. He criticized the leaders on religious issues, not political.

Pilate's verdict on all three counts were "I find no case against Him." For whatever reason Pilate tried to avoid judging Jesus. He wanted to give the responsibility to the Jewish authorities, then he tried to detour the responsibility to Herod. He also tried to invoke the custom of releasing a prisoner in honor of the Jewish Passover and let the multitudes decide, but they chose a murderous criminal named Barabbas. Finally he had Jesus scourged in hope that the Jewish Sanhedrin would feel pity.

Titles and duties

Pontius Pilate's title was traditionally thought to have been procurator. Tacitus speaks of him as such. However, an inscription on a limestone block — apparently a dedication to Tiberius Caesar Augustus — that was discovered in 1961 in the ruins of an amphitheater called Caesarea Maritima refers to Pilate as "Prefect of Judea". Archaeologists believe it to be genuine and settles the argument about the historicity of Pontius Pilate.

Pilate in the canonical Gospel accounts

Christ before Pilate, Mihály Munkácsy, 1881

According to the canonical Christian Gospels, Pilate presided at the trial of Jesus and, despite stating that he personally found him not guilty of a crime meriting death, handed him over to crucifixion. Pilate is thus a pivotal character in the New Testament accounts of Jesus.

Responsibility for Jesus' death

In all New Testament accounts, Pilate hesitates to condemn Jesus until the crowd insists. Some have suggested that this may have been an effort by Early Christian polemicists to curry favor with Rome by placing the blame for Jesus' execution on the Jews. Yet Pilate's ability to be swayed by the crowd and his subsequent unjust decision to execute the innocent man hardly seem complimentary of Rome. So perhaps to save face, he "washed his hands", said that his death was not on his hands, and let the crowd decide.

Gospel of Peter

Main article: Gospel of Peter

The fragmentary apocryphal Gospel of Peter exonerates Pilate of responsibility for the crucifixion of Jesus, placing it instead on Herod and the Jews, who unlike Pilate refuse to "wash their hands". After the soldiers see three men and a cross miraculously walking out of the tomb they report to Pilate who reiterates his innocence: "I am pure from the blood of the Son of God". He then commands the soldiers not to tell anyone what they have seen so that they would not "fall into the hands of the people of the Jews and be stoned".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontius_pilate#Acts_of_Pilate

http://www.bible-history.com/empires/pilate.html

Conclusions/Realizations

· Things happened as to what God has planned

Pilate was a man of honor, he was escalated to that position for he deserved it. He was sort of a RIGHTful man... It is because of that TRIAL in which we perceive him as a bad guy...

· You can’t really judge Pilate’s actions, he almost tried everything to spare Jesus’ life, because He was not guilty of a political crime

· There is no answer to the question that is -whether Pilate is in heaven or in hell, for it is not rightful for us to do so…

BY kiko, kicks, kobrakumander, francis

Island Weekend on September 1 to 2

Lingkod Alabang brothers goes out for an island weekend - September 1 -2.