Oh hello everyone and welcome back to my channel my name is Moni as you guys can see here I have a guest I’m so excited to have him here with us y’all this one boy Chris what’s up the vloggers logging bloggers of Logies blog people hey money’s bloggers followers
Hey okay yeah so this is Chris I’m go ahead and introduce yourself what’s up like she’s saying my name is Chris originally from Dallas Texas I am a Langston along and as you are norm a part of the greatest of eternity alive Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity incorporated
So as you guys probably could tell from the title of this video and also by you know our attire our benefit yeah this video is basically going to be about Greek life basically it’s going to be about the combination of being a young Christian adult and being a member of
You know a sorority or fraternity I’m specifically black Greeks so that’s basically we’re focusing on right now so Chris when did you join Alpha Phi Alpha I joined Alpha Phi fraternity Beta Kappa Chapter Ed Boon end of spring 15 and if you guys didn’t know I joined Alpha
Kappa Alpha first BAM spring 17 so I’m a baby I’m sorry I’m not a neo but um yeah so these questions were questions that I got from a family friend and also some questions that I just felt like needed to be answered and also some questions
That I have um if you guys don’t know I joined on the end of my junior year so pretty late in the game I’m a senior now so I had a lot of time to really make up my mind and figure out you know was best for me and I’m definitely
Appreciative of that time that I got because I feel like my experience would have been a lot different I joined earlier so I’m definitely grateful Chris was one of the people who I talked to quite a bit before joining just you know running through some things our wasn’t
Just uncertainties that I had about being a Christian and also being a part of these organizations because you know I feel like a lot of the time we don’t necessarily know what we’re getting ourselves into so it’s important to talk to people who you know have walked the
Path that we’re planning on walking and to just make sure that you know everything’s gonna be okay once we get this so definitely important so if you’re watching this video shout out to you because I definitely wish there were things like this that I could watch Wow
You know I’m going through the process and another reason why I wanted to film this video with Chris is because if you kind of do you know Google search which you probably have already on this topic it’s a lot of older people that might be speaking on it there’s a lot of
Negativity you know so I just wanted to bring a different outlook and to have him here you know people who have joined recently and know what’s going on in these organizations right now to kind of bring a different viewpoint and so you know encourage someone or inspire someone that’s thinking about doing it
Now rather than someone who did it 20 years ago and did announce their letters 10 years ago so you know it’s just a different point of view so you know like I said I hope you guys enjoy and shout out to you for watching but yeah you
Have anything to tell the people um I guess the questions that we do ask if your specific question was not on the list feel free to comment below and money we’ll definitely get those questions to me if she can’t answer those or if you want me to answer either
Way we’re going to get your questions answered feel free this is a very open topic exam and I just want you guys to get enlightenment on whatever it is that you want to do exactly well let’s get started with these questions the first question number one is can you really be
A Christian and also be a part of a Greek organization so I’ll let you start you definitely can I mean we did it you know so um I guess to go into it a little bit more deeper the way that we did the way that I did it personally is I already established
Who I was on campus before I joined so the people that chose or voted me in they knew that oh that dude is a Christian because you know I’m not saying that I’m just perfect and I walked around here yelling Jesus but people are new by the way I talk about a
Way I walk the Bible studies I started an organization called words for Christ on campus I just did little things for people to know like I am a Christian that way when it does intake does come they don’t know like okay well this person is a Christian and they will
Decide whether they want you or not and most likely like I know for my chapter where I mean they’re not we’re not like against any religion or anything like that so that wouldn’t be a reason for them not to accept me but just in case
You want to put that out there that you are a Christian just in case you do have some people who might be a little iffy about that so exactly and one thing that I kind of will piggyback on what you said is it’s really good to establish
Yourself first so that you know once you do join these organizations people aren’t expecting something of you that you’re not willing to offer in fact so for me of course like my sisters like they know so and then I think even more stuff than what other people expect from
You it’s important to establish within yourself you know what I mean like your relationship with God so that once you do join these organizations you’re not wavering in your faith you’ve already built like such a strong foundation that you know when things come through organizations which they will and that’s
Something we’ll talk about later um you know you’re strong and you’re able to you know withstand I guess what would you call it that’s hard business yeah you know so I think it’s very possible the only thing that I would say is um you know if you are a Christian and you
Plan on joining this organization it’s very very important to you know build a relationship with God before you join and to just have that foundation because trust me it’s really hard to be in the midst everything that goes on and trying to use a beehive in half mouth and you know
You kind of get lost in the sauce you know but it’s very much possible to answer that question for sure second question do Greek organizations display characteristics that go against our beliefs I guess we’re being real yes we it does just from the you know getting drunk being high partying I mean
But that’s not only with Greek that’s like that very college in college you know what I mean like so yes that it does you know I mean that’s that’s just the world we live in but it’s not that’s not the that’s not a read that’s not a
Way to to you know get out of wanting to do it like that could be the time where you can’t be the light in that organization yeah those people are doing that well you can show that I can still have fun be Greek and not do those
Things you’re on I mean just because that’s the way that it is sometimes don’t necessarily mean like oh well this is important me because if that’s the case you’re not gonna get anywhere in life because you’re gonna always find something that goes against Christianity in this world
Yeah it goes against your beliefs in this world no one is the same so I mean that’s not a reason to not join in yeah so it definitely does yeah yeah and there are situations you know like that where you have brothers and sisters who
You know are doing things that do you go get your belief but you know God really calls us to I guess be the light and then it’s you know the darkness so I think one thing that people may think would be the solution is to exclude yourself from these things and it’s like
You know God could be calling us to you know or even you watching this video to be the light in the midst of like your brothers and sisters and another question that I think was asked was how do you isn’t that being unequally yoked do you know having brothers and sisters
Who are you know followers of Christ and it’s like say for instance we were brothers and sisters and you know here a question but I’m not that doesn’t make me any less of your sister you know what I mean like just in the natural state I mean yeah of course
The highest I guess the highest call of brother Brotherhood or you know sisterhood is you know having brothers and sisters in Christ but you know God also calls us to you know I guess go out there with exact my brothers I love my brothers to death I will do anything for
Them they always say I need to get high and drunk like they always do that what they know at the end of the day they know that I’m not gonna do it they know that if they need something if they need prayer they need a ride if they need
Somebody to watch them while they get wasted I’m going to be there I’m there to love them through whatever it is that they’re going through whatever that they do that’s not that’s my job as a brother is to love them through whatever they’re going through we all have trials and tribulations
We all have struggles we all have different walks just because they’re doing what they’re doing doesn’t necessarily mean they’re doing it just because it could be something that can be their getaway of some hurt that they’re going you know going through war that they have inside I don’t know all I
Know is my job is to be a brother be there for them and just show them the way pray for them see them at their worst and you know know that they have someone that stays with a brother and a sister and I feel like even in sororities and
Fraternities like you know like all your brothers and sisters like I know this sister – I could call when I’m trying to go shop and I need an outfit I know this it’s like a call when I’m having maybe relationship issues I know the sisters I
Could call and say like hey I really need to just have a bible study like I need to you know just talk let some things go I need someone to pray for me cuz right now I really just can’t pray for myself like you know true but there’s always different people so you
Know you can be the one sister that’s there that you know they can depend on for their relationship with God to improve or they can see and you know set a standard on in your chapter on your line so you know be that example of you know I feel like there’s there’s things
That go against Christianity or just go against like things that are morally correct but there’s also things that you know align with it such as the community service such as just sister loving each other you know you’re about unity in general so of course like business
Everything is that a lot and that goes with Christianity and being a part of a fraternity horse exactly it I feel like it’s more of pearls ink on the partying and drinking uh so that’s that’s anywhere but when it comes to the actual meaning of your fraternity or sorority our founders are
They knew what they were doing when they said those those morals when they said those standards when they said the motto everything they it lined up with what we need to do as human beings as moral human beings so the other stuff just comes with it you know exactly with
Everything frozen cons number three how do you deal with the attention and temptation that comes along with Greek life I mean not to be cocky or anything but the the attention that I got for the attention that I got as a as a as a a Greek it wasn’t that different from
Before I was Greek like I mean I mean girls like regardless you know what I mean but believe me or not I am a person that do not like attention yes I do like to hang with my brothers have fun stroll and all that but at the end of the day I
Like to do that as a group with my brothers and not to be the single one that sings you know I do not like being the center of attention so I mean the tension it kind of stayed I mean it did get a little bit worse you know you’re
Greek I mean come on now when we go Greek of course some more ours are gonna be on you it’s not just Chris it’s Chris the Alpha yeah now like I know I’m if everything was related to an alpha it’s not just Chris anymore and I kind of
Didn’t like that as well like I’m still Chris yes I joined a fraternity but I’m still Chris quit saying oh the mouth was this just because we’re alpha now you alpha now know your kind what does that mean like come on that’s crazy yeah similar situation like I said they
Got a pretty girls aren’t really late so I mean I had already done like well not really I wouldn’t say attention like fermentation at the Jews but just in general like I already did a lot on my campus so I was already heavily involved so it wasn’t like oh like who’s that
That’s a new face I think it was just okay cool what is it what did you making her way up you know you know so I think we’re really blessed not in that incident or definitely are in that search I’m really anything extra I think temptation will so came about I would
Say more so than attention yeah so dealing with temptation that kind of ties back to what I was talking about earlier when it’s like when you have that foundation it’s it’s a lot harder to fall installation than it would be you know before cuz I mean it gets real
I can’t I’ll be looking at my phone sometimes like wow this this is my fourth you hear like you’ve known who I was like why are you you know why are you mad at my phone now five letters exam we haven’t say no literally and looking like a holier-than-thou type
Person but it’s like you know I don’t really care how you feel like I’m gonna have to go home and deal with the you know with the realization of what I did not believe and I’m not really here to please anyone else so I feel like once
You have that mindset and once you understand like okay I did this for my reasons you know not for someone else is it’s easier to deal with temptation so that’s one thing that mine said is a powerful thing man literally because you can be so easily swayed like going through this
Especially an undergrad off the line and yes there’s definitely temptation than definitely in addition to attention but it definitely lies in you know your reasons your motives your intentions for adjoining because some people do join for the attention young people do you know and it’s easy to you know decide
For those people because you know they revel in who I think I love it so I mean you know those that’s just their reasoning for doing it and I’m know like for me that was of my reasoning and you know you just have to make up your mind from you know from the
Beginning and just know what it is that you will and won’t do and that just makes it easier just like setting standards in your head you know just like putting guidelines like this is how far I’ll go this is what I’m not willing to do and express that to your sisters
And express that to your chapter member so that they know like and they can you know watch out for you you know you don’t fall you don’t fall into temptation without anyone to help you because there’s some beggary are weak thanks man really really so number four
How are you treated as a Christian in a sorority or fraternity um I’m respected honestly yeah my brothers make jokes every now and then but at the end of the day like she was saying when someone else tries to coming intervene and make me do something that
I want to do they’ll stab me but I’ll know he’s do that or know you don’t do that like you know how to be like it’s kind of like like a rumor brother sister but you can pick on your brothers and sisters but thanks you know pop is a
Hundred pop you know what I mean so that’s kind of how it is with a fraternity or sorority like your brothers and sisters can joke around with you all is that all day about you know being a Christian and not doing this not doing that but the end of the
At the end of the day they respect you and they won’t let anyone else disrespect you because of it you know so I will say um I mean I’ve never really had an issue with being a Christian in a Greek fraternity like it it just doesn’t
I mean you know I just never had like a bad issues just the jokes from my brothers and stuff that’s about it so I’m going to say well you know who you are in the reasoning behind you being that way it that outweighs the the temptation to do things because the the
Reward is so much so much greater and it’s so much greater so and then the more you you practice that strength the easier it becomes to kind of get over it but then you guys want a devil tries to throw another temptation literally and as I do come on
I just do it I just I just dogged you out the other for the other temptation I just sick leave me alone I would say I’m saying to that question I’m not treated badly I think it’s it’s important to have this like to have these standards
Before you can join because I would say that it might be a little bit harder to you know come in and do all the things that you know people around me are doing and then at some point change my mind and you know have them trying to figure
Out okay well why isn’t she doing these things anymore or you know why did she acting that way anymore it’s really important to come in you know from the jump and be like hey I’m not about it you know you might get the jokes like I
Know for me like recently we took a trip [Laughter] all the way to Missouri which I thought this was like yes we’re gonna pray for us that’s a long trip and we don’t make it then safely so you know it’s like little stuff like that but I can’t
Complain like it doesn’t make me feel bad I don’t know that it’s not coming from a bad place like that’s not coming from you know a place where like they’re mocking yeah it’s gonna be moaning so it might as well at least you know I mean I
Feel like anybody can pray that those you have relationship with God but at the end of the day they know who they trust with the with praying over them and I think of that and who’s comfortable cuz I take that very like personal like the fact that my brothers
Automatically assume that I’m gonna be the one to pray or I’m gonna be the one to do this of that because I remember when we were voting for a position in the chapter everybody get the proper voting you know for the different positions but when it came to a chaplain
That I wanted to focus on dude I’m right proper vote I love I want to do something else they’re like we got it I’m like hey I mean I like the fact that they respect me enough to know like and they trust me enough so you know handle something so delicate as spirituality
And praying over people and kind of being you know people’s intercessors you know because the bible does say to pray for other people’s behaves you know think you have thanks on their behalf and the fact that my brother’s allowed me to do that you know what I mean like
That’s that’s a blessing in itself I mean and that also showed me likes always sometimes deal with dying thank God do people see you in me like you know what I mean but little things like that reassure me that they do something God you know what I mean so I mind you
Remind you that you’re still is don’t want something wrong always someone said like because you gotta be doing something exactly so yeah that’s our answer for the most part we’re treated you know just as we should you know I mean exactly you’re treated as you you
Know you carry yourself as you act so one thing that I would say is in order to gain that respect you know respect yourself and you know walk with your head up high like don’t be ashamed because people will treat you in a way that’s you know shameful so you know
Just make sure that when you make a decision that you make it standing bold in your face and you know that’s the way that you’ll receive the respect that you do so it’s really about the way that you you see yourself and you carry yourself
And you know that shows in the way that people treat you yes definitely let’s see number five did your faith grow during the time after you joined yes without saying too much my faith was tested like beyond measures it it really I was really at a point to where I have
To depend on my brothers they were you know they’re with me but just being in that situation to where you had to depend solely on God’s strength you know what I mean it I literally had just that you know what I mean and me still praying to him he still having faith in
Him me using him as a trail to get through the process um that in itself just sure that my faith like you know at first when I was gonna join a fraternity I was thinking oh this isn’t this might not be for God or God’s Way
You know the things that they do in the fraternity or whatever but after like you know using that situation to grow in him he showed me like I can literally find him in any situation whether I feel like that’s that’s his way for me or not he would literally
Like when you’re guys he will show up in every situation no matter what way you go he will show up and my faith definitely grew with joining this fraternity it was actually one of the best situations that I have been in one of the best experiences with my
Spirituality with him and I use that in everyday life like because of that I can go through every everything that I go through in life and say well I got through that with God so he’ll get me through this you’ll give me to that future endeavors future this future that
He would say that yeah I feel like this is something and I don’t want to say this in sound negative but I feel like this is a situation where you either come out of being your faith grows or it just kind of you know this is something
That can overpower your faith and you allow it to do so so that’s what I would say is I definitely feel like my faith is grown you know after joining because like we mentioned earlier you go through so many things that can easily like test
Your faith and allow you to you know put priority over your faith you know you might wake up in the morning and be like okay and not even with like just temptation um you know being a part of an organization saying this is a lot of work you know putting on events chapter
Meetings community service like there’s so many things wrong if you long meetings not even chapter meetings just meetings just hey all of us come together planning events except again just like the lives of your sisters like and you know being an integral member of your they should kid you know you can
Definitely prioritize that over spending time with God yeah you’re only a relationship because it’s very consuming like especially freshly joining like there’s so many things going on you know just coming back to school like there’s so many things that can really just take your attention away so yeah it’d be
Really easy to you know come into this and come out and you know have your relationship with God not be as strong as it was before but I would definitely say that it took a lot of like intention intentionality to make sure that you know post my relationship with God was
Just as strong if not stronger than it was going in and so that’s something has to be very intentional about if you desire so yeah um do anything else to say oh no that’s about it I think we’re hopefully yeah um number six this is the last question
So it says at number what number six hey that works okay at what point those Greek life become incompatible with Christianity um I would say when it comes to those times where you have to do or they’ll try to make you do certain things that go against you know even
Though you haven’t I can why are y’all not you know I’m not with that or whatever so it’s just more of like just knowing just knowing what your your what you what you wanted to do and not yeah I think yeah like would like basically what with what he’s trying to say I
Think it’s when you allow those cons to become okay yeah and when like you slowly you know when you company like okay I’m not gonna do this but after some time like you find yourself like that becoming okay with things that you weren’t well that’s how you know yeah so
I feel like that’s stuff I really like okay I need to you know try and figure out what’s going on in my opinion kind of like what you said I feel like there’s external factors and also internal factors so one internal factor that I think you know it could be a
Point where okay this is you know my organization in like what I’m doing with my organization and my walk with God becoming compatible is when you start expecting things from your organization that only God can do is I mean so I feel like you know when you start expecting
When you start expecting things like you know people to you know treat you a certain type of way or when you start expecting or you start getting like prideful in certain aspects or even you know things that could be considered good things but when you solely expect
That out of your organization when you find yourself like really truly living in organization I know that one thing that they say about these organizations is like networking but it says in the Bible that promotion doesn’t come from the east or the west that comes from God
Alone actually you know it’s like those little things that’s like you have to know in the back of your head like okay I’m not depending on aka or Alpha Phi Alpha to you know bring me a job like that’s God God is gonna give me the job
That he wants ready and the job that’s gonna allow me to serve like you know whoever he wants me to serve and also you know other things I would say just really trying to find yourself in these organizations as the point where you’re doing something wrong and I know a lot
Even for me and my life like yes okay it’s a priority but I come before that mone is the nursing comes before Alpha Kappa Alpha like money and my relation with God comes before I become an alpha like I would I would say in my head this
Is a platform for me to you know reach other people and for me to do you know what God has called me to do and I compare it to you know other things that I’ve done in my life you know in positions that I’ve served under things
That I’ve been able to you know tag to my name those are only those are only things those are only tags that come the only thing that stands next to me is you know that I’m a child of God and that’s really it so I feel like once you stop
You know dragging okay you know next to your dad but really finding your identity and you know these organizations that’s when you find yourself really struggling because you can’t find yourself in this yeah that’s how many people are here we get Malaysians you will get you love you wouldn’t be
Using company would be everybody you’ll be lost a loss longhand especially old I think those are you know things too if you do plan on joining to kind of keep in the back of your head like okay you know so that it’s like okay so when I
Get to the point where I see those things happening or you know I feel certain types of ways I can you know remind myself or I can quickly you know get back so of course like there’s times where you know everyone falls like we’re not perfect by bird we’re not
Perfect it’s like you know God is perfect that’s about her so it’s like you know he’s able to forgive us he’s able to you know reaffirm us and all times of doubt so it’s just like you know remembering that you have a God who loves you regardless of what it is that
You’re going through regardless of how many times you fall you got to get back up no more time than you fell so I mean it’s it’s good to know that you know we serve a god that’s so graceful and so well there’s just a you know forgive us
And to know you to not help us through these things I think all in all it’s a great experience on my own of a lot of negativity you know all sorts of things I think it’s just it’s just to remember that everything that we do even as people in
General should be done in moderation they’re gonna make sure that you stay up on who you claim to be you know and like I said because they might not be where you are spiritually they may do certain things or say certain things that you know my reputation to you know explain
Those things or to know that they’re just babes in Christ you know that means that they’re all milk we’re all meat you know that same thing you give that same grace that God gives us you know I mean don’t bash them because they’re not on
The level that you are you know what I mean they just don’t know my brother asks me crazy questions I’m like alright take out the spirituality is let’s put in common sense like how does that makes it okay one of my brothers and this is
Just funny I mean I had one of my brothers and you know he was smoking he was high or whatever and he caught me in the room he’s a tinker’s chimeric hello so he said for first of all he he barely reads the Bible but he knows it he
Barely reason but what he reads he knows he was like so when when Moses was talking to the burning bush you can’t tell me he wasn’t hot I was like I’m gonna figure out who this is I’m now gonna say I could ask the old camera I
Love my brother and I wouldn’t I’m pretty sure some of y’all might know him you will hit him up in no I would not hear the end of it but he was like he had to be how I’m like dude like you trying to do everything to justify what
You do her my hate now smoke EoE and leave it at that don’t be trying to justify what you’re doing dude just do what you’re doing okay like I just laugh I couldn’t even Matt laugh for a good three minutes cuz I’m like he was so serious that is he was awesome
And then you know just like that situation it’s important to not like even when you do joined organizations like don’t treat people you know like they’re any less than you know what I mean because that’s something that I’ve seen Christian Greeks do and I don’t I don’t really care for it because you
Know it’s just like you’re still my brother you’re still my sister you know I still love you this name you know we just don’t have that that spiritual connection you know we all to me you know sister had a brother but I still love you like you’re worse your
Best because you love me on my best in my word so it’s also important to still you know associate yourself with those people in to not you know say oh well you know I’m a Christian and you know I don’t do those things just like you know that situation it’s things that you
Don’t you look back on 10 years from now we all are both saved and be like man remember when that and yeah Oh Chris thank you so much problem yeah this is fine I like this really I’m alright touch I’m gonna be stuff like in the description go follow him Chris is
Really an amazing person yeah he was really one of my inspirations like I said I’ll talk to him quite a bit I was kind of scared like apprehensive to just because you know like this started stigmas about you know wanting to join organizations or whatever a video for another day but
Yeah but he definitely you know just encouraged me in doing it so I definitely am forever grateful to those conversations probate outlay thank you Jesus for that one either I don’t know if she’s told y’all what she’s done on campus but this girl is amazing uh
Magazine a true woman she is a woman a woman a girl and she does not hear it the way she carries myself the thing that she does she’s just she just flows like a woman and don’t worry I’m bragging about that so much cuz you
Don’t see that a lot now you don’t and I always have to get where credit is due it’s people you are so and the end result is we both are happy China still serving driving service oh my god in pink and green in black and a black angle and doing it you
Know right and also you know giving other people the opportunity to do the same you know I feel like it’d be great to have more Christians in the organization it’ll be a lot greater you know just to be able to have on true brothers and sisters in every fashion in
Every form so yes y’all I’m so happy we were able to do this video and I hope it reached someone and and I hope it really helps someone especially those of you who ask these questions I hope you got your answers if you have any other questions feel free to ask down below
Like we’re here for y’all just like we said like the way he inspired me the way I would inspire other people the way he also wants inspire other people we hope that you know if this video inspires you that you take this you know you share it
Or you show this information that you got from this video and inspire other people and if you’re already Greek you know maybe this can be an opportunity for you to especially kind of look back and think your you know and figure out okay maybe you know I’ve let my walk
With hearts be overshadowed you know by these things so you know this videos for everyone everyone narrator or not we definitely appreciate you guys taking out the time to watch it I hope you guys enjoyed it you know we are kind of silly so hope you guys you know I still got
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