I've been thinking about John the Baptist today and the significance of hinger people. I'm preaching on this on Sunday but also had a conversation yesterday with Jonny about Gen X'ers being hinge people. One view is that hinge people should not be focused on as they simply usher in the new, the other view that I'm developing in my talk is that actually hinge people are massive significant as they connect us with our past whilst leading us into the future. The danger being that if you ignore the hinge people then the connection with the past goes and the future has no connection with the past...
As well as that I think that in many ways Christians are hinge people living between the future coming of christ and his incarnation 2000 years ago. I may post more on this on Monday as I need to develop the talk further, and right now I'm off to see Primal Scream at the Apollo...
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