Trinity Sunday
Trinity Sunday
Sunday 30th May 2010
Well It’s great to be back at Worship with everyone today. I’d like to thank Bryan Gilmour and Jim Barratt for conducting the services over these past two Sundays. It’s always good to have a range of different people preaching throughout the year, sharing their gifts and presenting the Good News of God in different ways. I love the way God has made us all unique and different.
Today we enter the Season after Pentecost and we begin this time, called ordinary time” with Trinity Sunday. This is the day Christians around the world take time to consider one of the greatest doctrines of our faith: the magnificence and mystery of divinity that is three-in-one — Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
If you know your church history, you realise that the Trinity has been one of the thorniest thickets, one of the trickiest subjects in the history of Christianity. Some have said that The Trinity is the greatest intellectual achievement of the church, whilst unbelievers can’t accept it in any form. Its elaboration has been complex, a theological construct hashed out by theologians and church elders centuries ago and yet still argued over every few decades. The idea of “the Father, the Son and The Holy Spirit” being one God and not three separate gods deserves some form of explanation because it isn’t really a straightforward concept to easily grasp.
God came to us in Jesus Christ, not as an idea, a philosophy, but rather as a person. The triune nature of the Godhead isn’t something too many of us consider as part of the daily expression of our faith.
But it is. At least it should be. For that’s the kind of faith, hope and love this world is hungering for. Experiencing God as Father, God as Son, and God as Holy Spirit, is what keeps our faith fresh and makes it possible to rebirth Christ into the world every day. God has determined not to remain vague and ethereal. God becomes flesh, God gets personal, speaks. The Trinity, in the Incarnation of Christ, is and should be the very basis for Christian preaching, and Christian life.
This week Duncan and I were at the Uniting Church’s Queensland Synod held at Alexandra Heads. Along with 350 other Christian people, we have experienced the reality of God in the flesh, through times of worship and Bible Study, times of debate and confusion, times laughter and amusement as well as times of disappointment and frustration. God has been faithful to the Church throughout the ages. Let us then be faithful to God as His Church as we ponder the mysteries of God in the experience of “The Trinity” and take up the challenge to make disciples of all people through the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. AMEN.
Grace – Full experiencing the personality of God this week..Rev. Brad Foote.
