Transcendence

This is a re-post, five years old: "Visitors to our Church continually express surprise that an urban Church like ours should be viable -- or thriving, depending on the week. On this blog, I have sought to give some of the reasons why. A crucial ingredient is, I think, a strong emphasis on transcendence. This seems hard to describe, but it means 'outside the range of'. When you meet God, and walk with God, you continually experience, and reckon with, things that are outside the range of ordinary experience. OBSERVATION: Some theologians reject this. One (Lesslie Newbigin) said that nothing comes 'through the skylight, as we might say'. We say that it does."