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Madalas nating marinig ang salitang “kaligtasan” sa usaping pananampalataya. Minsan sa sobrang paghuhumali natin dito, nakakalimutan natin ang mga mahahalagang bagay para makamit ang totoong kaligtasan. Nakakalimutan natin ang ibang tao at mas natutugunan pa natin ng pansin ang pangsariling kapakanan sa hangaring maligtas. Nakatuon na ang ating pa-iisip sa sariling kaligtasan. Sa ganitong sitwasyon, mas mainam kung babanggitin natin ulit ang tanong na ipinukol kay Hesus ng isang taong nakasalamuha o naging kasama Nya marahil sa paglalakbay pabalik ng Herusalem - “Panginoon, kakaunti po ba ang maliligtas?”…. Sa sitwasyon noon, malaking usapin ang salitang “kaligtasan.” Para sa kanila, nandoon ang pag-iisip na ang tanging mga Hudyo lamang ang may malaking posibilidad na magkakamit ng kaligtasan dahil sila ang piniling bayan ng Israel. Nagpapatingkad din dito ang mga turo ng mga Pareseo patungkol sa kalalagyan ng lahat ng mga hudyo sa pagdating ng paghuhukom. Alam natin na hindi lang mga ...

“If anyone wants to be the first, he must be the very last and make himself the servant of all.” (Mark 9:35) I find this quotation very interesting. Not because it is coming from the verses of the Bible but more so on the value it portrays to us. But how could this be? How can we do that? These are probable questions that would rise up confronting this line of phrase. It is ideal I would say and seldom is it being done in our own experiences. Nobody would want to. Nobody understands. A politician during the campaign, getting hold of the microphone, often sounds like clashing cymbals when he/she started to be on the stage. Service is the most corrupted, abused and misused word during those none sense talk in the election time. The sad thing, many believe. My stay in Baranggay Saysain, Bagac, Bataan offers me a different view of what leader is all about. Maybe because it wasn’t election time during our stay there. Moreover, our group, composed of my other three classmates, were actuall...