CreatingCommunity is an email devotion to guide your preparation for worship next weekend. Imagine how much more clear and relevant God's Word will be if you have had an opportunity read, reflect, and dwell in the Word prior to worship. You may do this devotion alone, with others, as a family, or over Zoom as a small group.

This devotion is to be done in preparation for Sunday, June 7, 2020, The Festival of the Holy Trinity.

Please follow these three steps:

1. Read through the text
2. Respond to the questions (select one of the sets of questions)
3. Offer a Prayer
Matthew 28:16-20
Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
No Experience Necessary Questions:
  1. What scares, confuses, or challenges me in this text?
  2. What delights me in this text?
  3. What stories or memories does this text stir in me?
  4. What is God up to in this text?
Family Questions:
  1. What do you know about your baptism? Where did it happen? Who was there? Were you baptized in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit? What does it mean for you that you are a baptized Christian?
  2. How would you describe the God? What does the Trinity tell us about God? What questions do you have about God that Trinity makes clearer, makes less clear?
  3. Jesus ask his disciples to baptize in the name of the Trinity. Why do you think maters? Are there any other ways to be baptized?
Advance Questions:
  1. What is your favorite person in the Trinity - Father, Son, or Holy Spirit? Why do you think that is?
  2. What do you know about the Festival of the Holy Trinity? Where does it fall in the church year? What would be lost if the church did not observe this festival?
  3. What do you make of the fact that while the doctrine of the Trinity is not found in the scriptures, the New Testament possesses a "triadic" understanding of God and contains a number of Trinitarian formulas (such as Matthew 28:19, 2 Corinthians 13:14, 1 Corinthians 12:4-5, Ephesians 4:4-6, 1 Peter 1:2 and Revelation 1:4-5)?
Click here to listen to this week's CreatingCommunity Hymn
“Come Join the Dance of the Trinity”
Prayer
God of heaven and earth, before the foundation of the universe and the beginning of time you are the triune God: Author of creation, eternal Word of salvation, life-giving Spirit of wisdom. Guide us to all truth by your Spirit, that we may proclaim all that Christ has revealed and rejoice in the glory he shares with us. Glory and praise to you, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, now and forever.