The Trinity

Gospel: John 3: 16-18

The Trinity is ultimately a mystery we cannot hope to ever understand.  However, this doctrine gives us a number of important implications for us human beings.  The first is that God is a community of persons so united to one another in love that they form one single entity.  From this first truth comes the second - that God is inherently relational and communal to human beings and the cosmos at large which God created in a free act solely in love.  

Since the relations of the three persons in God are perfect, we seek to perfect our own relationships in the world.  The Spirit enables us to re-store that which was lost: the sin of Adam marred our relationship with God; the sin of Cain fractured our relationships with one another; the sins of Noah's time separated us from union with the cosmos; and the sin of Babel laid bare the structures of sin we create as humans.  All of these were restored at Pentecost; we are able to have more perfect relationships in each sphere.

We human beings are inherently relational and communal beings as well.  Though our relationships are imperfect, we have a God who inspires and urges us forward each day to renew and re-create our relationships - with God, with one another, with the whole created order, and with that which we ourselves create - so that they may be more just, more loving, and more like the relationships within the Triune God who has created us in this relational and communal image.