The scandal of the Holy Spirit isn’t power. If there’s a Creator to be known, power has to be part of the equation. The scandal is the power of God dwelling in and operating through wounded, ordinary people. It’s not your gifting that makes you an excellent candidate to be a river of life flowing into the dead places; it’s your wounds. It’s not the gifting or qualifications of today’s church that makes us excellent candidates to reshape history and rewrite the stories of our cities through love; it’s our wounds and our ordinariness.
