Holy Spirit: A Biblical Study (1977) by Michael Ramsey
About the same time when I was growing up as a child Michael Ramsey as the retired 100th Archbishop of Canterbury was writing down his thoughts down about the Holy Spirit in pen on paper. It's an image of an age gone but perhaps returning soon. There's indeed goodness out there and people who might look strange to most of us are indeed as good a part of society and the greater work in proces than anyone else. With his usual consummate clarity of thought and style, Michael Ramsey sets out in this lovely little book to establish what the Holy Spirit meant in the experience and the language of the early Christians:
'There are none from whom we can learn more about a theme so intimately linked with the coming of Jesus Christ.'
There's indeed goodness out there and people who might look strange to most of us are indeed as good a part of society and the greater work in process than anyone else.
I think that is one of the key things that Christ has to unfold for us. That the "other" is never someone simply waiting to hear our message, to receive our "good news", but is always someone that Christ has already met and knows. Maybe, however different they may be, however strange, they just might have a message for us.
"All one in Christ Jesus our Lord" - not only promise, but the everyday fact and reality of our lives.
PS. Nevertheless.......be wise as serpents but gentle as doves.
