Life infused creativity

We had Alan Donaldson, our new General Director for the Baptist Union of Scotland, join us today at our weekly pastors' meeting in north Edinburgh. Great guy, and with a real heart for getting our union of churches functioning together. I'm really excited about the way ahead. This is the biggest crossroads both in our Union and in the history of Bristo in a lifetime; and if we get it right, we can see our congregation being taken forward in renewed purposefulness within an exciting and bigger picture.

I was reading NT Wright again today, in The Resurrection of the Son of Man, and was impressed in how he talks of John's Gospel's emphasis on the new creation. We live in the season of the 8th day - the new creative act of God that issues, in the power of the Holy Spirit, to fashion and reshape all things in the life and the light of the Resurrected Jesus Christ.

I like that. For those who are arrested in the ministry and mind of Christ, things will never get stale. There is always freshness, newness. Amen - come, Holy Spirit!