Truth fears no questions

Yes truth fears no questions as truth is self-evident and is not threatened by our questioning. Truth can stand up to scrutiny on its own. It reminds me of a similar quote which goes something like "Unanswered questions are far less dangerous than unquestioned answers".

It is good then to live life with a free spirit of inquiry as we get to learn new things and new perspectives, and while we may not always be able to find satisfactory answers to every mystery, we can become better informed and gain a more well rounded knowledge and understanding about various subjects. If not for questioning, for example, we would probably remain in the dark ages of religion and live in fear of an "angry god in the sky". But with questioning and exploring, we discover many ways of looking at the Christian religion and realise it borrowed many different ideas from many different ancient traditions, and there goes the idea of an angry god out of the window. Instead, we realise the truth is not in a book and is in our heart.

The truth that sets us free fears no questions, and the truth of perfect love also casts out fear. There is no fear in love, just as there is no fear in truth. Truth and love goes hand in hand, and is always on our side.

Leadership is not about having the answer to all the questions....

Someone said: "Leadership is not about having the answer to all the questions....it's about enabling the group you lead to ask the questions!"


Yes, leadership is not about having all the answers, but enabling the group to ask questions because leadership is more about serving and nurturing and building up people, teaching them how to think for themselves, rather than about spoonfeeding, or worse, indoctrinating them into following the leader without questioning.

Even in the education system here in Singapore, the ministry wants to change the traditional mindset of teachers - that they are no longer to be seen as a  container of knowledge, facts and figures giving information to students just to memorise for examination without really understanding the hows and whys beyond the whats and wheres, but to be seen as facilitators of learning, self-discovery and critical thinking, encouraging students to gather information, compare sources of evidence, evaluate their validity, and draw their own conclusions about various issues.

It is much like what we have been doing in our own studies and research in comparing and analysing different religions, philosophies and schools of thought, and drawing our own conclusions. In a sense, we are our own teachers or leaders, and our own students at the same time, even as we also learn from other teachers and leaders, and compare notes with other students in this university we call life. Together, we learn and share and build up one another, till we all reach the measure of the fullness of Christ in maturity.