Stock Answers or Stock-Taking?

Abstract

"The first distinctive thing is that we recognise that when people ask a minister to conduct a ceremony it is a privilege to respond. lt is the prompting of the Spirit of God at work in their lives. In and through them we can hear what God has to say to us about their particular needs and aspirations; but these are also indicators of wider human sensitivities. My over-complicated faith is often challenged by the simple belief in God which others bring into my study"