Our Culture in CFC

PUNCTUALITY

IN CFC, we do not practice the so-called Filipino time (staring late is expected), but CFC Time. This means

that we are punctual in all our activities, whether Household meetings, Prayer Assemblies and others. We should

be at the venue and ready for the activity before the starting time.

We start all our CFC activities with Worship. This the Lord is waiting for us. If we are late for no good

reason, we are being disrespectful to God Himself. We are also lacking in concern for our brethren who strive

to be punctual in spite of their own busyness.

CFC activities should start promptly at the designated time.

-CFC Ugnayan, Jan-Feb 2000


How to Demonstrate Punctuality?

at Home

• Giving priority to appointments made with family members.
• Assisting other family members so they can be where they need to be, on time.
• Being in the car in good time so as not to make the whole family late.
• Going to bed on time in order to get up on time the next day.
• Promptly responding to letters and phone calls.
• Being quick to praise other family members.
• Paying bills promptly.

at Work/School

• Working ahead so as to complete homework assignments and projects on time.
• Being at your desk before class begins.
• Being on time for appointments.
• Planning each day's activities ahead of time.

at Church

• Arriving early before each service begins.
• Not holding grudges with other church members - being quick to forgive.
• Giving your tithe promptly each week. 

“Some are habitually on time, others are habitually late; no one can be on time all the time, and no one needs to be always late.  If five people have agreed to meet at a certain time and place, and one if fifteen minutes late, he has used up one hour in terms of manpower, for he has taken away fifteen minutes from each of the others against their will.  If they are wise, they will spend that time in reading or in some other useful way, but the latecomer ought not to presume on their good will if he can possibly help it.  He might have the boldness to think–or to say–that they need to learn patience, that they are to be anxious in nothing–all of which is true, but he is not the man to tell them that.  What he needs to remember, long before the appointment, is ‘rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother’s way’ (Rom. 14:13); that he has no right to waste others’ time.

Of course, no one can keep the phone or the doorbell from ringing just before he leaves home, nor can he prophesy what will happen on the way; but it is always a good rule to start just a little earlier than you think you need to.

Every Christian worker can discipline himself to be habitually on time, by careful management and foresight.  It relives other people of much anxiety, helps them not to waste time and thus makes life easier for them.  It is a matter of common honesty and Christian courtesy, and is in line with the in junction to ‘let all thing be done decently and in order’ (I Cor. 14:40). ”                               —-Elisabeth Elliot’s Father