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What would you say if I claimed that what the world needs now is more teaching on the Trinity?
Maybe you’d say: “Get back to your books, Pastor!”
This Sunday is Trinity Sunday. How theological, right?
We all have a theology. Whether we like to talk ‘theology’ or not. Our theology is the image of God/ the divine/ a higher power/ the ‘unmoved mover’ that we carry around in our heads. And it shapes us more than we recognize. For us in the western tradition, we have been taught that God is singular, stern, authoritarian, and male. It is no accident that our political and cultural leaders have followed this pattern.
The trouble with this image is that it is not Trinitarian. The Trinity teaches us that God is three persons (one substance). This means that God is not singular. Rather, God is a community, a family of three equal partners. And their relationship is pure love, a love that overflows to creation. The Trinity gives us a very different image of God. A loving family of equal partners. (And plenty of Scriptures will help rescue us from seeing God as male.)
What kind of a world could we build with that image of the divine? What if the Trinity became our guiding image? For community, for marriage, for church, for leadership, for politics?
As I said, what the world needs now is more teaching on the Trinity!
Join us for worship on Sunday!
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