Week 6

There are many people surrounds us that may influence us or it could be the cause why we have this character and why we deal with different situation in a way that we use to deal it. I learned in the life of Ambrose of Milan is that, there are people that really influenced him of who he is. The good thing is that, they were part of his family member. Another thing that I learned is from our topic in Crusades. I learned that in every event happened in this world has positive and negative effects to the people and surroundings.

I remember when I was about to decide for my college, it was my mother and my uncles who influenced me to study at bible school. It was because I want to be like my mother. I wanted to study at the school where she graduated. She was the one who influenced me a lot to have intimate relationship with God and to study more about Him. She taught me to have a good personality that could help me to encourage other people to attend church and other activities in our church. She was the one who influenced me to be friendly and to always entertain the visitors in our church, so that they would come again and be encouraged to know more about the truth. It was also that in our church had many conflicts that had happened. That conflicts resulted splitting of the church members. The positive effect was that many churches had been made and been an instrument for the growth of the infant believers in Christ. The negative effect was the gap made, the trust had been fade, and the relationship that had broken because of it.

The actions that I may apply on these learnings, first I will continue follow what my mother told me to do because she influenced many positive characters in my life that I could really use for the ministries not only in the church but also to the places where God wants me to be. I will also influence other for the good attitude that I possessed so that they could also use it for the ministries of God through encouraging others. I will also look on the positive effect of the events that will happen in my life, especially in our church. I will not just focus on the bad effects instead consider the goodness of the bad event. It is because everything that will happen has its purpose.