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GROWTH
AND HUMAN PERSONALITY
Bishop Hall's Sermon At Kowloon Union Church
CHRIST'S CONCENTRATION. UPON INDIVIDUAL PERSONS
Bishop Hall said:
The Bishop of Victoria, the Right | Magdalene was at the foot of the Res, Ronald Hall, preached yester- Cross. There were many publicans day morning at the Union Church, in Palestine in His day, but only Kowloon, taking Growth as the Matthew and Zacchaeus to our Subject of his address,
knowledge gave up the love of money for the love of Christ, There were many Counsellors of the Sanhedrin in Jesus' day, we only hear of two who had any use for Jesus. One came to Him by night. The other took His body from the Cross.
JESUS UNSUCCESSFUL Remember that Jesus as a Pro-
Our Lord Jesus Christ was fond of growing things, Seed, leaven, little children, are obvious examples. Less obvious are the publicana and Biners with whom he consorted. They were regarded as weeds in the garden of orthodox society. They were altogether too luxuriant in their growth for that prime and phet and Teacher was not success proper religious garden. But to Jesus they were things with a ful by the test you would apply in capacity for growth, and so he is the physical world. If you are trying drawn to them. But to Jesus and chemicals in your garden to make to. God they were more than things your plants grow, the test of success flowers Persons RTC- more than things will be in the number. We make mistakes about persons which will respond to the treatment. when we treat them as things. Ona By this test Jesus is condemned as of the reasons why we have not a failure. There are two reasons been able to understand the teach for this which are like two sides of ing of Jesus is that nearly all the a cirele meeting at both ends. (1) texme used in philosophy about Because Jesus knew men and "knew persons nee really pictures derived what was in them: (ie. what they from things. They isolate the mind, really were in themselves) he re- the heart, the reason, from the fused to treat them as less personal person. By doing so we in fact and individual than they were. treat personal activity as a thing. He would not appeal to anything less than the whole man, though a There is no such thing as a human, mind, a human heart, a human will partial appeal would have been There is only Mary Anne's beart, more successful in surface results. reason was this.. John William's mind, and Mrs. (e) The other Jones will. Perhaps one ought to Because He knew what was in man go further and say that there is and what man is," He regarded as not even Mary Anne's heart, or sacred the personalities of His
He would not John William's mind, or Mri.fellow-men, Jones' will: but only Mary Anne them by storm: He preferred to feeling, John William
be lifted up on the Cross to draw thinking
them to Himself. Mrs. Jones being determined. JESUS NOT A PHILOSOPHER. Jesus had no education in a school of philosophy. He did not learn to discuss the difference between the mind and the will, the reason and the emotion. He learned instead to know people by living with them. He knew people as persona living, growing, changing, or merely set ting hard like concrete.
you are
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It is this dangerous person we Christians have been drawn to love. It is this dangerous person we are met to worship. It is this dangerous person who uses the written words of the Gospel to speak His own" us. Ho 18 personal message to- dangerous because He is so thor oughly right. A strong man armed is not afraid of any less than He He alone can find the joints in trust- his armour in which he
Persona
EVEN THE RIGHTEOUS CAN GROW.
To you and me that means three! things:-
2
But our thinking is so dominated by the learned people of the past,ed Jesus is dangerous also because! who have sat in their studies and ouce He becomes the environment of dissected their own experiences,& person you never know what will. Having tied up little bite into happen to that person. parcels with appropriate labels and have such an immense capacity for pigeon-holed them, they have then growth that in contact with the re-arranged them, without referen-person of Jesus Christ they may co to the fact that they were not grow beyond all recognition. really parcels at all because they had no being apart from the person whose experiences they were." "Our whole language and way of thinking about life in the world is so, dom- inated by this maudlin habit 'of (1) Jesus eays to us emphatically Greek and European culture, that that we can grow, "I come not to we cannot really conceive of a world call the righteous" He says,
but consisting of people holding to-inners." The righteous man is one gether, or falling apart, as those who cannot believe that he can grow persons held together or foll apart. any further. A sinner is a man who A famous religious worker song is growing even if in the wrong young men in London had an amus-direction by taking all that life ing way of exercising a smoke offers in both hands and dumning bemused discussion group."" He the consequences. But in his deal- would take them down the nearest ings with the righteous and sinners, tube and run races up the down- Jesus interest was to make them ward moving staircase. On a down grow. coming staircase you can only go His dealing with the righteous up by continual effort. If you stop forced them to ask questions about carried down, Now, themselves. When you are forced to civilisation as we know it is simply face a question that you do not made up of innumerable people want to answer, you get angry. This! moving forward or standing still or is what happened with the right going backwards. If these people cous people in Jesus' day. They were to stop moving there would got angry with Jesus because He be no such thing as Civilisation.compelled them to face questions I do beg you to try and think of about themselves. Publicate and a warld run entirely by persons. sinners were already asking" "ques- A world only continuing to exist as tions underneath. He could easily we know it as long as the various reach those underlying questions by persons of whom it is made up, His love and consideration for them. continue to function se persons They needed their self-respect animated by certain desires, hopes, restored, they needed to know that ambitions.
they could grow into better than PERSONS THE ONLY REALITY they word? We know that He did.
IN SOCIETY:
this for them. So His dealing with the sinners and the righteous în I believe that it was in this way each case was to convince them of that "Jesus" saw the world. The their possibilities for growth. foundation of His Kingdom was Publicans and sinners had to be built upon the rock of reality, shown that they could become better. because He saw that persons are The righteous had first of all to be the only reality in buman society. shaken out of their righteous:*:98 Prohibition laws were ineffective in to see that there was a righteoue- America because they disregarded, neas that exceeded their own. this fact. They yielded to the (2) Jesus message to day is still second temptation. They treated the same. Everyone of us may grow persons as things which could be if we will. Whatever we may have packed into the baggage van of aachieved in the past in spiritual train to be taken whither the re-life, is but a low rung on the ladder formers would take them without of the possible for each one of us, having any say in the matter How does He help us to grow?, themselves. Jesus would rather The men of His own day bed Him have one man go His way for love's Himself. They heard his words: sake and God's, than the whole they saw His actions: they were: world going His way because they under the spell of the growing had to.
power of His presence. You and I If all this is true, then the only cannot see Him with our eyes, nor environment for persone is other can de best Him with the ears of persons. Growth of persons then, the flesh. At this point our Gogpela unlike seeds or leaven, comes from come in. By reading our Gospels the other persons they meet in life. with imagination, and with the We know to what stature men and desire to know Jesus we top ten be women grew who met Jesus in the shaken out of our content. We can be led from imagination and But again notice there is nothing" mechita, to the prayer of eager automatic About
the effect of per- friendship and humble love. It is sonal ·énvironment
other in that-praying that we grow persons there must be response though.we know it bot. For prayer from the person. here were many is a going and coming between the, Women of
of person which is you or me and the Jesus of
person which is Jesus Christ."
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(3) "But, you may ask, "I have tried to read my Bible, and häve continually given it up! The stories which move others so deep- ly leave me cold—I have heard thêm" so often before.” Will this illustra- tion help you. You may have suffered many times at the handy of friends, showing you a book of snapshots of themselves and their children down the years. To you they are just snapshots. They have none of the associations linked up with the experiences of those holi- days. Those were your friend's experiences alone. Compare this with a portrait you may have of a beloved mother who has gone to her rest. That has associations for you which you alone can under- stand. Associations of two kinda. Firat All that your mother meant to you when she was alive: Second- lyAll that has happened in the bedroom or study in which the portrait has been since your mother died. The Gospels can be to you what your mother's portrait is and more because there is behind them not only a once experienced past but a continually living, present, (Continued on Page 4.)
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