1. Talking about the trinity, part 2

2. “We worship one God in Trinity and Trinity in Unity
“We worship one God in Trinity and Trinity in Unity. Neither confounding the Persons, nor dividing the Substance. For there is one Person of the Father, another of the Son, and another of the Holy Spirit. But the Godhead of the Father, of the Son and of the Holy Spirit is all One….” [Athanasian Creed]

3. There is one God who exists eternally as three persons

4. responses
Rejection
Based on misunderstanding or false views

5. responses
Revision
Attempts to make it understandable

6. responses
Reverence
Wonder and worship
Mystery and meta-rationality

7. responses
Reverence
The boundaries of our knowledge are the horizons of our ignorance

8. responses
Reverence
“What we can understand about God leads to theology; what cannot understand leads to worship.” (Alister McGrath)

9. responses
Relational living
John 17:20-26

10. 20 “I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, 21 that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22 The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, 23 I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.

11. 24 Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world. 25 O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me. 26 I made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.” [ESV]

12. responses Relational living
Jesus prayed this not only for his first disciples, but for all who would become his disciples (20)

13. responses Relational living
He prayed for unity among his disciples then and now (21-23)

14. responses Relational living
This unity was to be similar or the same as the unity of the Trinity (21-23)

15. responses Relational living This unity serves multiple purposes
So the world would know that Jesus was sent by/from the Father (21, 23)
So the world knows that God loves Jesus’ disciples as he loved Jesus (23)
So that we might participate in the love of the Triune God (26)

17. I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth.

18. I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our
I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit       and born of the virgin Mary.       He suffered under Pontius Pilate,       was crucified, died, and was buried;       he descended to the dead.       The third day he rose again from the dead.       He ascended to heaven       and is seated at the right hand of God the Father almighty.       From there he will come to judge the living and the dead.

19. I believe in the Holy Spirit,. the holy catholic church,
I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic church,       the communion of saints,       the forgiveness of sins,       the resurrection of the body,       and the life everlasting. Amen.