It’s Sunday morning and the faithful have gathered. Early in the sermon I leaned over and whispered to Cindy, “Where is the Holy Spirit?” The title of the message this morning is “Holiness.” It’s being illustrated with a huge flower pot labeled HOLINESS and one chair labeled GOD and another for JESUS. Now the sermon is over and we never did get to the point where the Holy Spirit was introduced. I’m primed to expect the Holy Spirit because of the work I’ve done recently on a book Barclay Press will publish in the fall—It’s a Dance, Moving with the Holy Spirit by Patrick Oden. Nate, the pastor of a nontraditional church in the book, would be puzzled by a message about holiness that didn’t include the Holy Spirit. And I doubt God would say the Holy Spirit plays third chair in the holiness orchestra.
Sunday, June 17, 2007
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