http://nextreformation.com/?p=2447 Ekklesia, Transition, Leadership and Formation Tue, 07 Sep 2010 11:43:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://nextreformation.com/?p=2447&cpage=1#comment-190634 The Nature of God (personal reflections) « Jontyspeak’s Blog Fri, 23 Jan 2009 22:10:32 +0000 http://nextreformation.com/?p=2447#comment-190634 [...] The second thing that grabs me is the whole idea of ‘liminal spaces’ … those ‘thin places’ my ancient Celtic brethren knew so well.  A fellow blogger, Len Hjalmarson writes  an article called “Spaces Between” “This metaphor of “spaces between” seems to me to be pregnant with the Holy Spirit. It connotes an element of mystery and chaos, and more obviously - a liminal place, a location on the margins. And yet, aren’t most of our lives lived in these places? I am riding partly on intuition here, but I believe that the Holy Spirit is intensely interested in these locations, and our neglect of spaces between imperils the work of the kingdom.” [...] [...] The second thing that grabs me is the whole idea of ‘liminal spaces’ … those ‘thin places’ my ancient Celtic brethren knew so well.  A fellow blogger, Len Hjalmarson writes  an article called “Spaces Between” “This metaphor of “spaces between” seems to me to be pregnant with the Holy Spirit. It connotes an element of mystery and chaos, and more obviously – a liminal place, a location on the margins. And yet, aren’t most of our lives lived in these places? I am riding partly on intuition here, but I believe that the Holy Spirit is intensely interested in these locations, and our neglect of spaces between imperils the work of the kingdom.” [...]

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