MORPHING IN THE SCIENTIFIC AND SPIRITUAL CONTEXTS

 Adam Grant writes in THINK AGAIN

"We celebrate great entrepreneurs and leaders for being strong-minded and clear-sighted. They are supposed to be paragons of conviction, at once, decisive and certain. Yet evidence reveals that when business executives compete in tournaments to price products, the best strategists are actually slow and unsure. Like careful scientists, they take their time so they have the flexibility to change their minds.

Just as you don't have to be a professional scientist to reason like one, being a professional scientist doesn't guarantee that someone will use the tools of their training. Scientists morph into preachers when they present their pet theories as gospel. They treat thoughtful critiques as sacrilege. They veer into political terrain when they allow their views to be swayed by popularity rather than accuracy. They enter prosecutor mode when they're hell-bent on debunking and discrediting rather than discovering. After upending physics with his theory of relativity, Einstein opposed the quantum revolution: "To punish me for my contempt of authority, Fate has made me an authority myself.'

Sometimes even great scientists need to think more like scientists."
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There is true similarity in what is stated  here on the trajectories of many Indian churches. Ascribing  whole credit to Adam Grant, for his brilliance,  his ideas are borrowed to cobble together  disapproval over derailment of values  in the erring churches.

Though trained well in the scriptures, the preachers present their pet theories as gospel overriding what is really in the gospel. They treat thoughtful critiques as sacrilege. They veer into political terrain when they aliow their views to be swayed by popularity as well as selfishness or selfcentredness rather than what the gospel presents or advocates. They enter the prosecutor mode when they are hell-bent on debunking and discrediting those who hold on to what the gospel really means. 

Believe it or not, many churches in India - not all of them - are in a mess today.

Faith has morphed into politics and money power. Faith is listless. Faith is cosmetic these days. Wealth, gained through means fair and foul, holds supremacy. 

A tectonic shift in the equation alone could banish or eradicate the rut and retrieve those churches on the cusp from absolute disaster and perpetual ruin.