The scriptures of what the founder saint are in the gospel of the religion in his name but they are often stale and historical. To preach based on the literal reading of the scriptures will leave churches and temples with more empty seats.
There is the need to focus attention on the present and what more on the charismatic priests and pastors. What they say will make more impact and what they do even greater impact.
People see the coming to life of the founding saint through the stand-ins - the pastors or priests. While the founding saint or prophet do not sing and jump for joy in the house of God for that would be inappropriate, the modern lot find it appropriate, the charismatic leaders will do so and be more attractive than the founding saint of the old days.
The few who do not jump and dance and who not scream aloud will be look odd and not in tune with the rest. In time worship and prayer takes the form of what the young of the present generation would like to have outside the house of God.
This is good but yet not so. This is the way to bring the young to spirituality of sorts and hopefully they would be more serious from then on. But the means to the end may end up becoming the ends in themselves.
Questions will arise as to whose teachings are being propagated, the scriptures of the founding saints or the often personal anecdotal views seen through the eyes of the charismatic pastors or priests.
People end up reading and digesting the speeches and writings of the pastors rather than going to the texts of the scriptures. Isn't this dividing men of faith among the leading pastors or priests of the day?
Also, there will be dilution of the basics of doctrine of the founder saint and men will be detracted to the teachings of the pastor or priest instead. We need to go the upper source for clear water. This the good lord Lord Bo Tien did say.
But we will have to go upstream and against the current. Few will be bothered at all to do that and end up regarding the means as ends.
Lord Gautama Buddha stressed that the truth is against the flow or current. Lord Jesus too did not have it easy to correct the ways of the synagogues in his lifetime but he did what he could.
The means may be wrongly regarded as the ends and the pastor or monk may be wrongly regarded and idolised as the founding saint. Men may see the Buddha or Jesus in the monk or pastor.
No wonder men must pull themselves together and go to the upper source if they want clear water and better know the doctrine and saint rather than to know the man at the pulpit and his enthralling stories.
This would effectively mean that the man at the pulpit might inadvertently be rewriting the scriptures. Definitely, this could not be his intention and never will - never should be...
Means end up as ends and the priest the new saint? This would certainly be odd and thought provoking.
Thus even at Bo Tien mission or temple, notables like P. Philip, Chee S. H. and Chong Sim have to leave the scene before the man each one was could be hero worshiped and idolised as though he is the new saint. For the same reason, Elder Ling, C.K. and inner truth netizen have to fade from the front and stay in the back scene.
This is so that man in leadership do not end up being given the same attention as given to the lord saint. This is so that all realise that man is man and saint is saint, or rather God is God. This is the saying of all saints and prophets and reiterated by Lord Bo Tien
Lord Gautama Buddha stressed that the truth is against the flow or current. Lord Jesus too did not have it easy to correct the ways of the synagogues in his lifetime but he did what he could.
The means may be wrongly regarded as the ends and the pastor or monk may be wrongly regarded and idolised as the founding saint. Men may see the Buddha or Jesus in the monk or pastor.
No wonder men must pull themselves together and go to the upper source if they want clear water and better know the doctrine and saint rather than to know the man at the pulpit and his enthralling stories.
This would effectively mean that the man at the pulpit might inadvertently be rewriting the scriptures. Definitely, this could not be his intention and never will - never should be...
Means end up as ends and the priest the new saint? This would certainly be odd and thought provoking.
Thus even at Bo Tien mission or temple, notables like P. Philip, Chee S. H. and Chong Sim have to leave the scene before the man each one was could be hero worshiped and idolised as though he is the new saint. For the same reason, Elder Ling, C.K. and inner truth netizen have to fade from the front and stay in the back scene.
This is so that man in leadership do not end up being given the same attention as given to the lord saint. This is so that all realise that man is man and saint is saint, or rather God is God. This is the saying of all saints and prophets and reiterated by Lord Bo Tien
