Introduction

This week I want to think with you about what I'm going to call Soul Shapes. Is this a slightly idiosyncratic way of thinking about ourselves and the challenges we face as individuals, sometimes challenges we don't even recognise? The idea came to me one day when I was thinking about one of our children whose calling is in the field of forensic psychiatry. Maybe we could write a book together on spiritual conditions entitled Soul Shapes and How God Reshapes Them. And then we could write on how the gospel reshapes us to the new norm, namely our Lord Jesus Christ.