Tuteng Pulpit tawh kisai sandan, zatdan leh pom
zia te a ki at i mu zel‐a, kicing khin kha ding himah taleh a thei nuam lai te’
aadingin phattuamna a om kha dingin, manlah kawmkal ah tawm hong kuppih ing.
Kawlgam SDA te’ pulpit bulphuh dand leh zat dan Laisiangtho’ deihdan leh ELlen
G. White ngaihsut piakna tawh ki thuhual maw, ki thuhual lo cih en dih ni.
1. Amasa
iin Kawlgam SDA te in Sabbath ni Sun Hunpi(Divine Service) pen biak piakna hun
khempeuh lak ah thupi ngaihsut pen zahtakkai pen hun iin zangh uh hi. Tua ahih
manin Sun Hunpi hun‐a, hunzangh ding te zongh aki lawm pen leh zahtakkai pen
thei dingin aituam ngaihsut uh hi. Pawlpi kem sia te, Upa, Deacon leh pawlpi mi
thu um mi citak‐a aki ngaihsun te bek pia nuam iin zangh sak nuam uh hi. Tua
banga zat sak zongh mihing’ theihna leh cinna ciang ah ahoih pen ding mah hi
ding hi.
2. Tua
hunpi ki zatna tauno(pulpit) pen a khuatual pawlpi mi numei te ki tam piak het
loin, lengla tungsiah pan, Mangkang, Mivom, Gamdang mi siama te, Karen siama pi
te leh tungsiah Zomi siama te in zangh leh thusia iin seh het lo uh hi. Tua
siama pi te in Madalay SDA biakinn khawng mah ah zongh a zat uh ciangin ki phun
lo hi. Numei leh pasal a kikim lo mah iin Pasian hong bawl hi ci‐in, pawlkhatte
in tel tek zaw hi. Tua a kikim leh kikim lohna a at khin zongh om ahih manin at
man tadih kei hang.
3. Sun
Hunpi kizat lohna hun kizatna pen pulpit om loin ngaihsun uh ahih manin Nilai
kikhop hun leh Kigin ni Sabbath dawn hun pen numei te zongh zangh sak bek loin
pawlpi tam simsim ah Sabbath dawn kigin ni kikhop hun khempeuh bang numei
hun(Dawka) hun ci‐in, numeite uun khin sak uh hi.
4. SDA te
ki uk zia pen Tungsiah ki ukna(centralization) hi loin Ai‐awh Ki
ukna(Representative) hi mah taleh thunei piangthak lo makai te hangin tungsiah
ki ukna suak kha pahpah hi. (Ki ukna khat ah tungsiah thu mang lo ding ka cihna
hi kei). Agentehna iin, 1994 kum iin Kawlgam SDA akiphuh kum 75 cinna, Diamond
Jubilee Pawipi, Singunau sangpi huang sungah kibawl iin kei zongh ka va kihel
kha a, a ni nih ni nitak teh mi namkim in i Kawlla(Church Hymnal) mah kisa ahih
manin ei Tedim kampau teng lah kitam pen iin eimi pawl khat in Tedim Latomno te
sa ni ci‐in, gualnuam takin Topa phat iin la kasa uh hi. A ki gualnop laitakin
Pr Thankuma, UMM Sect.(Late) in, “Sia Khen Go aw, tungsiah te’n hoihsa lo ding
hi,” hong ci ngiat hi. Lah ki khawl vat thei sam loin omdan(Mood) bel nuam pha
het lo hi. Aw, tungsiah te cih sangin i SDA ngeina hikei, zat dan hikei ci leh
khum si iin cia ka ci hi. Tungsiah te deih leh deih lo tawh kikal suan zaw lel
hi. Khat hong gen lai ning . Pawlpi mi pawlkhat in zongh Siate vaipuak nasep
sangin a mimal pahtaak deuh zanei zaw te lunggulh nei se hi. A kulna ciang
zongh om kha iin teh. December 2013, ka sang bup un Yangon Field‐trip ka pai
uh‐a, Sabbath ni Yagon Biakinn pi ah ka ki khawm uh hi.
Naungek
khat hong ki‐ap iin, a church pastor uh Pr Liantem in ap loin, Yagon Attached
Makaipipa Pr Zaw Min Lwin in ap hi. Thu nget sak hi lel hi. Union Chairman pa
om leh a ap sak tam thei keng. Church Pastor, Pr Liantem aadingin nuam masa lo
ding hi. Nopna dahna ah Churh Pastor pa in va pha pen iin ka um hi. A ap pa
hileng, Church Pastor pa mah cial in ka ci ding hi. 1995 um iin, AAS pan
Anlangh nipi khuan iin ka ciah hi. Pastor ngah ding Sia Kamglo pu na si iin,
pawlpi upa pa in, zanhah nitak thugen ding leh sivui dingin hong cial hi. Nong
cial uh ka lungdam. A hizong iin Church Pastor Sia Deng Kap tawh va kikum phot
loin ka tam zongh iin hun hong zangh lo ding hing, ka ci hi.
Va kimu pah uh iin Siapa in hun hong piak ciang
ka mangg pah hi. Thuneih vaipuak nasepna ah thunei nu/pa in hai zaw taleh zawng
zaw taleh zaneu zaw taleh aneih nading mun leh hun ah aneih kul hi. Thuneite
thu ahih lelngelna lai ah, 1994‐95 kum pawl iin Pr Lian Khan Dal Stewardship
Director kisem sak a, 1996 kum January kha teh UMM Session kinei iin Stewarship
Department kiphiat hiau hi. Pr Lian Khan Dal amun dang Dept. Director zongh ki
ngah sak tuan lo hi. Tua khit ciangin Pr Kai Khan Khual ki koih leu2 iin,
tudong Stewarship Dept. om suak hi. Pr Do Za Thang in Ministerial Diector a
nunung pen hong sep khit ciangin tu ni dong UMM in Ministerial Director koih
tuam loin President in len kop hi. A sem thei ding ki zong loin a deih te un
lah sem thei cingtaak lo hi ding hiam kuamah kikoih lo hil. Tua mah bangin
Laibu Bawl/Zuak Phualpi(Publishing Dept.) zongh ki lenkop hi. Hi gel pen Dept.
lakah thupi tuak ka sak mahmah ahihi. Makai khat ii deih leh deih loh pen pai
dan tawh kituak kei phial taleh ki hehsiam loin pawlpi mi, siate akei a kipan
ki heh thei bek hi. A ki lungkim loh hang’ zongh alau’ loh te uh lau tuan lo
hi.
Pulpit Cih Kammal A gui A Zaam leh a Khangkhang
a a Ki Zat Zia
1. Pulpit cih kammal pen Mang kam hi-a, Latin
kam pulpitumpan Mang te’n ana lak hi‐in, dawhdan no, tauno, Kawlte’n ( ) acihna
ahihi. Greek kam iin ambo na ci uh a, akhiatna akibang ahihi. Latin
kam iin lectus cih kammal zongh na nei uh-a, tua
pen sim na ding cih akhiatna ahihi. SDA Pawlpi in sim nading, sin nading mun
pen Sabbath School hun te, ni lai leh kigin ni te-a hun zatna te iin azangh
ahihi. Tua lectus pan iin lecture, thuhilh cih kammal aki ngah ahihi.
2.
Laisiangtho Lui leh Thak sungah Pulpit kizat detna kimu lo hi.1Thuciam
Lui hunin, Siampi te in biakinn sungah thuhilh cih sangin gan go iin mawh
sutsut uh hi.Solomon kumpipa in biakinn lamin azawh ciangin biakinn tual
ah(biakinn sung hi lo) athu ngetna dingin tauno khat na lam iin zang hi.
“Solomon in a dung pi sagih leh alang, a vai pi sagih leh alang, a sang pi li
leh alang a pha sumngo tau khat bawlin inntualah a koih khin hi. Tua ciangin
tua tungah amah ding hi. Tua ciangin Israel a kikhawmte khempeuh' muhin amah
khukdin'in van lamah a khut zan hi.”
2 Khang.
6:13.
3.
Thusicam Thak ah Tuiphum John in gamlak ah vangtung gamthu na hilh iin,
(Mate 3:1), khutsiam te pulpit bawl dingin sawl se loin sum zongh bei tuak
loin, numei te tawh zongh na buai lo uh hi. Jesu in Biakinn pi sung pulpit azat
sangin singnuai gammual, gunkuang tung khawng ah tu iin a tut sa iin thu nahilh
lai hi.(Mate 5:1). Pulpit zangh leh mualtung khawng, gunkuang tung khawng ah
kip loin ki loklok ding hi. Tu kawm sa iin thuhilh ahih manin a mel kimu lo
ngel ding hi.
4. Pawlpi
hun masa lai-in, inn ah kikhawm zaw iin, kum zabi thumna ciang cih simloh
biakinn kilam iin mipi ki hon khop na om nailo hi.2 Pulpit ki zat a ki muh
masak hun pen AD 250 kim pawl a, Carthage khua Siampi(bishop) Cyprian’ laikhak
atna pan kimu khia ahihi. AD 400 kim pawl iin Dragan lai atna ah zongh siampi
Chrysostom in biakinn sungah pulpit(ambo) tungah tu iin thuhilh hi cih na at
hi.3 (Dargan, Vol.1, 88).
5. Roman
Catholic pawlpi kuitung iin apicin ciangin Pulpit a lim zat pen pawlpi hong
hihi.
6.
Puahphatna(Reformation) a kuitung sakpa Martin Luther in RC upna amaan
lohna akawk khiat bek hi loin, biakpiak dan, pulpit zat dan zongh a laih mangg
ahihi.4(Fiddes, 42,43). Luther in la mahmah phuah siam iin Phatna la te
phuak-a, sing song service i cih lataang sak a i kikhop ama pat ahihi.
7.
Hebia te in a kikhop uh ciangin, siampi pa in mun khat ah
Piancil-Thuhilhkikna(Pentateuch), Salan late, sim iin mipi kizui sak-a,
thuhilh(sermon) cih om lo hi. (RC te in tudong iin tuamah bangin azangh uh ahihi).
A inn tek ah a tate uh pattah uh hi.
8.
Thuciam Lui lai-in Siampi leh Kamsang om tuak iin, siampi nasep pen
numei in sem ngeilo iin, kamsang nasep pen numei in zongh asep i thei tek hi.
Pasal te bek in banghang iin siampi sem cih kician taka lah tel theih ding om
lo hi. I theih na ciangah ki nam zuih ki guizuih ahihi.Kamsang nasep pen
sawlna, sapna angah numei pasal peuhpeuh in a sem ahihi.
9.
Thuciam Thak hun ciangin siampi nasep asem dingin kuamah pasal-numei
Pasian in ong seh nawn lo hi. Jesu bek in mawhnei te leh Pasian kikal ah siampi
nasep a sem ahi hi. 1Tim. 2:5, 1John 2:1-2.
10.
Thuciam Thak ah thu ummi numei pasal i sep ding vaipuak te pen,
Khasiangtho silpiak ci hanga tuate sex ci-in numei pasal deidan omlo hi. Rom
12:6-8, 1 Kor 12:6-11, Eph. 4:11-12. te sunga Kha silpiakte a Manglai iin at
leng kitel zaw ka sa hi. Tuate pen: Elder, teacher, prophet, evangelist,
miracle performer, healer(nalamdang lak thei te, cina damsak thei te) cih
bangin hong pia hi. Hih silpiak anei numei om leh Pulpit tungah thugen dingin i
khamm ngam diam?
11.
Pulpit tungah Lungdamna Thu agen peuhpeuh pen Jesu tanga(Ai-awh a) a gen
nu, agen pa iin a ki ngaihsun ahihi. Pulpit tungah Lungdamna Thu, Pasian’
kammal bek gen ding hi-a, numei te’n gen leh bang siahuai ding hiam?
12.
Thuciam Thak hunah siampi a sem lai ding i hih leh zongh, 1Pet. 2:9,
sungah, numei pasal khen tuam om loin, i vek iin, kumpi siampi pawl ci-a,
siampi asem ding iin hong ki seh loin, siampi nam in hong ki pahtawi ahihi.
(Pawlpi sungah innteek tat mahmah ding cihna ahihi. Thuciam Lui hun lai-in
siampite biakbuk ah aom uh hun tam hi.) “ Ahi zongin note pen Pasian in a hong
teelkhiat minam, Kumpi siampi pawl, a siangtho minam, Pasian' mite na hi uh a,
khuamial sung panin a lamdang mahmah ama khuavak sungah a hong samkhiapa'
nasepna a lamdangte a genkhia dingin Pasian in a hong teel mite na hi uh hi.”
Hih mun ah no numei te kihel kei uh teh aci ngam Kawlmi, Karenmi, Zomi SDA
Thelogian aom diam? Topa Jesu in “note vak kawikawi un la, pai un la, mi
khempeuh Keima nungzui mi suak sak un…” Mate 28:19, ci ahih manin Pulpit tunga
thuhilh, Pulpit tunga thuneih thupi masa lo hi. Numei ordination akikum hi
khang! Numei ordination kipia leh zongh siampi asem hi loin Pasian thuhilh
sianu te ahih leh bang poisia ding mataw? Kawlgam ngeina hikei, ci-in kawlte i
khual zenzen hangin Pasal te ordination i kipiak bek hangin Kawl Budhist te SDA
hong ki behlap hut hut tuan lopi.
13.
Ellen G. White in Pulpit leh pulpit pan-a thuhilh thupi sa maw? Pasian
thuhilh khiat thupi sa maw? en dih ni. ,“Pulpit pan-a thu kihilhte in, pawlpi’
nuntakna zah iin Leitung thuzawh pi lo hi. Thuhilh te in Lungdamna Thu, a thu
iin taangko iin, pawlpi’ zatkhiat kha nuntakna in pawlpi’ vangliatna lak zaw
hi, ci hi. (The world will be convinced not so much by what the pulpit teaches
as by what the church lives. The preacher announces the theory of the gospel,
but the practical piety of the church demonstrates its power. 6T 260.3). Mrs
White in bang ci beh lai hiam cih leh, “Ama’ aituam kha tungah Pasian’ thumaan
thutak ii huzapna in hong pumkhel hi ci-in avei mateng kuamah a siangtho
lai-atna tau(Pulpit) tungah ading diingin kuama kapteh cing lo hi.” na ci hi.
(No man acih ciangin mi peuhpeuh acihna hi.) (No man is qualified to stand in
the sacred desk unless he has felt the transforming influence of the truth of
God upon his own soul. 4T, 527.) Ih Pawlpi sungte ah Thuhilhna ki nasia
nget(lunggulh) hi. Pawlpi mite in Khasiangtho tungah a kingak ding sangun
pulpit tunga thu tangkona tungah kinga zaw hi. A ki zat lohna ah hong kisam lo
hi. Amaute’ tunga Kha silpiak aki bua te hingkiam semsem iin zawngkhal suk ta
hi. Pasian’ nasem siate in gamthakte
vaphu leh pawlpi mite tua vaipuak nasep in
thatang sawl ding hi. Tuabanga kizatna tawh amaute’ kizat theihnate hong khang
semsem ding hi.”
(Sermons have been in great demand in our
churches. The members have depended upon pulpit declamations instead of on the
Holy Spirit. Uncalled for and unused, the spiritual gifts bestowed on them have
dwindled into feebleness. If the ministers would go forth into new fields, the
members would be obliged to bear responsibilities, and by use their
capabilities would increase. 1SM 127.2)
14. Pr
Kenneth Madalah ah Church Pastor ahih lai-in, kei hi leng, Daw Hkon Shaung
pulpit tungah Pasian’ thugen ka khawl sak sangin, a pawlpi mite Pulpit tunga
Numei thugen ding dik a salo te, dik a sakna dingin ka han ka tha pia zaw ding
hi. Mandalay pawlpi mi pawl khat in Puulpit tungah Numei Pasian thugen dik asak
loh hangin, Mandalay pawlpi pen tuni dongin pawlpi khang hi het loin, pawlpi mi
a thak zongh tam hetlo hi. Kawlte’ ngeina hi kei ci-in, kawlte I khual hangin
kawlte kuamah Mandalay SDA biakinn ah hong ki behlap tuan lo hi. A biakin bel a
thak iin pawlpi mi a om sun in hanciam iin biakinn kipuah na ven, thu umlo mi
thak pawlpi mi hong suak tam lo hi.
15.
Pasian’ thugenna mun, Pasian thugente leh Pasian’ thugenna hunsung
khempeuh zahtaak kai’ sak ding hi zaw kha ding hi. Pulpit tungah Pastor te bek,
Siate bek, Upa te bek, Pasal te bek i cihcih laiteng tapkual han-a, bangmah
sempi ngap lo-a, mi’ lungsim ah zahtaak vangpiak aom ngaplo thunei nuamte hi
kha ding hi.
Thu Siksatna Laibu Te
1. Hoppe,
Leslie J. The Synagogues and Churches of Ancient Palestine. Collegeville, MN:
The Liturgical Press, 1994.
2. White,
L. Michael. “The Social Origins of Christian Architecture.” Harvard
TheologicalStudies 42. Valley Forge, PA: Trinity Press International/Johns
Hopkins University Press, 1990.
3.
Dargan, Edwin C and Ralph G. Turnbull. A History of Preaching. Grand
Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1974.
4.
Fiddes, Victor. The Architectural Requirements of Protestant Worship.
Toronto, ON: Ryerson Press, 1961.