Liminal space is defined as a threshold, hallway, or transitory space from something to something. It seems to me that we’ve gone about as far as we can go with the trivialization of God, the marketing of God in America, and the total lack of reverence. It’s one thing to put a bumper sticker on your car, wear a WWJD bracelet, or come up with some cute phrases. It’s quite another to go where we are now.
Here’s some of what I’ve seen.
You can purchase a Jesus bobble-head in many places throughout the city.
Kids can buy plastic Jesus action figures of every sort.
You can buy “Jesus is my Homeboy” T-shirts in various colors for under $20.
When it comes to music you have all kinds of worship songs? Worship? Well, maybe that’s stretching it. Bruce Springsteen sings “Jesus Was an Only Son” and Kayne West has a song entitled, “Jesus Walks”. He has also appeared on the front cover of the Rolling Stones immitating as Jesus. Why, you can even get a lunch box to take to work that has DaVinci’s “Last Supper” printed on it. How cool is that?
Jesus is everywhere and in about every style or fashion you could think of, and …..probably shouldn’t! 
I see a hallway full of dark thresholds. Well meaning Christians trying to ‘enlighten’ those in darkness, bravely step out of His light to enter an unknown abyss . Shining the flashlights of their own ingenuity creates mirror images of themselves imitating Christ. How is this Jesus to the world? Impersonators!
They bounce a light of their genious off of each other thinking the grid of light will capture the eye of blind wanderers? They consider: ‘blind?’… well, there’s a cure for that. They know it takes mud of creation (really, from their own sandboxes?) mixed with DNA (Jesus’ cure for blind man) to restore vision.
So they roll up their sleeves, get their hands dirty, work up a sweat… then wonder why the physically healed get lost in the grid of dim impersonator light before them. The ‘healed’ (physical only) become captured in the grid gaps of this flashlight tag game… battery powered light of human ingenuity that only reflects off of other ‘people mirrors’. Unending patterns, none of which lead to the true light source, confuse their spirits that are searching for evidence of God’s light in these ‘Christians’.
So some genious figures we must cure blind seekers with God’s intangible DNA… it works! Disciples with Holy Spirit hands now come on the scene. Now, the next step: God’s light. Remember, they’re in an abyss with flashlights and people mirrors!
So, how do you funnel God’s light through a hallway door? Wouldn’t that require the help of the watchmen? Finally, a smart watchman, mirror image of the Creator, turns slightly and TRUE LIGHT floods through the abyss like a shining star with spiritual warmth…
Thank God for Watchmen!!
…otherwise, even the flashlight carriers with their shiny mirror sheilds of man’s physical world would get lost themselves. Must you enter the abyss battery powered when all you need is to direct your watchmen stars to tilt just a little? Don’t forget your spiritual mirror… if you don’t have one, STICK TO THE HALLS!