The Indwelling Spirit
Speaker:
Andrew Hook
Date: Sunday 23 Jul 2023
Series:
Breath of Life
In Poetry in Motion’s rendering of a Antonio Machado poem https://youtu.be/drEeU7PMzsk a line is repeated 4 times. The last reads ‘last night as I was sleeping, I dreamt – marvelous error, that I had God here inside my heart’. This reminds us that at the heart of Christian faith is a gift of, and an invitation to, the shared life of God, and their freshness and vitality. This is good news and is marvellous and can be so good it’s still a tussle to believe it (hence ‘marvelous error’). How do we each picture or imagine the Holy Spirit? We look at some depictions – as a creature, a colour and a community – and conclude that the Holy Spirit is God on the inside, God growing us and God joining us to God.