Institute Project: Christlike Attributes Journal

I have registered for Brother Brian Chan’s Institute class of Jesus Christ and the Everlasting Gospel (REL 250) this semester. It is one of the four Cornerstone Courses of the Institute.

Unlike last semester, we will have a project for this 14 weeks study – Christlike Attributes Journal. We are asked to make at least one entry per week in a personal journal about our deliberate efforts to develop Christlike attributes. We will not be required to turn in our journal. Our journal can be keep anywhere that we comfortable. It can be a word document, Google Doc, a Notebook, Personal blog or even an App on our phone.

We can choose to work on one attribute for the entire duration of the course, or we may select select a number of different attributes. However, we are asked to focus on one attribute at a time, and spending at least a week on each one.

Each week, we will be asked in the Report Your Progress quiz if we have added an entry to our Christlike Attributes Journal. And, in each entry we are asked to explore one or both of the following questions:

• What experiences did you have as you developed your specific Christlike attribute?
• When did you realize that you did not act in a manner consistent with your specific Christlike attribute? What might you have done differently?

At the end of the course, instead of turning in our journal, we will submit to our teacher a brief writing assignment in which we describe what we have learned from keeping this journal.

I think that it is fair enough and sounds just right to have this project because this course we study about Jesus Christ. Heavenly Father invited us to ‘Hear Him’ when He introduce Jesus as His Son. Jesus Christ invites us to ‘Follow Him’.

The Savior is our perfect example and instructed us to become as He is in 3 Nephi 27:27, “… what manner of men ought ye to be? Verily I say unto you, even as I am.” his Atonement enables us to become more like Him and Heavenly Father.

We can accept the invitation to follow Jesus Christ by becoming like Him. An important part of becoming like Jesus Christ is to learn about how He lived, behaved, and taught. One of the way is to develop His attributes.

So, now I need to choose which attribute I would like to work on? It is kind of difficult to choose because there are so many of Christlike Attributes and I know that I am very poor in every each of them!

After much researches done on the Church website and resources, I decided to use Chapter 6 in “Preach My Gospel” as a guide to further study and create a plan to more fully develop one Christlike attribute that I choose.

First of all, the first step is to complete the Attribute Activity and identify the attribute I most need or want to develop.

The Attribute Activity sheet credit to https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org.