What is the Holy Ghost’s function in the life of the church? Haunting.
“something profoundly discomforting, even if one can certainly want a ghost’s presence, as one may want, for a time, for the ghost of a past friend or relative” - Romand Coles
Jesus says, as is recounted in John’s gospel, that the Spirit will come as a comforter, and as one who reminds. Isn’t this also integral to haunting? We are not haunted by something completely foreign to us. But the ghost serves to remind us. And yet the haunting is disconcerting: we are left uneasy. Likewise the Holy Spirit reminds us of our past - that we are those called to Christ - and also urges us onward to the future - toward our calling to be the Imago Dei.
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