Growing Up With the Trinity: An Englishman, a Scotsman and an Irishman Walked Onto a Football Pitch...

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I have been teaching children’s church for 24 years, and the concept of the Trinity has been the most challenging lesson I have tried to teach. But Trinity never thought about the fact that her mom wasn’t home a lot because Lawonna put good people in Trinity’s life that became a part of the family when she couldn’t be there.

At the end of the semester, the professor said we had barely scratched the surface of studying the Trinity.If we struggle with our belief, we can pray like the man who went to Jesus to beg for the healing of his son: “I believe; help my unbelief! From the first verses of the story of beginnings in the book of Genesis—“In the beginning God,” to Moses seeing the flaming bush and fire-seared mountains of the covenant, to the clear confession: “Listen, Israel: Yahweh our God, Yahweh is one” (Deuternomoy 6:4). He tell us this in John 5 that the Father and the Son do the same, identical work: “Jesus responded to them, ‘My Father is still working, and I am working also’” (5:17). Standing there with this youth who needed an answer from me, I remembered my favorite thing about my life as a teacher, a parent, and a Family Minister; I don’t have to know all the answers! But when he said, ‘I and the Father are one,’ hear both ‘one thing’ and ‘we are,’ and you will be free of both Charybdis and Scylla.

The Spirit shares the triune life of God by bringing God’s children into the mutual delight of the Father and the Son—and there we become like our God: fruitful and life-giving. Pray – the act of praying is entering the conversation always going on within the Trinity, immersing oneself in the Trinitarian Presence (Exodus 33:14, Hebrews 13:5). NIV) and found in the benediction “The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. This unity and diversity within the triune God is a model for the unity and diversity we experience in everyday life, especially in the Church and in marriage (Grudem, Christian Beliefs, 41). Title : Growing Up With the Trinity: An Englishman, a Scotsman and an Irishman Walked Onto a Football Pitch.Though the fathers of the church in the second and third centuries spoke of the three persons of the Godhead while recognizing that there is but one God, the councils of Nicea (A. A tree by nature roots itself into the soil, grows a thick section in the middle (a trunk), and smaller branches from that trunk. I am studying the Holy Trinity for Grad school and I was kind of lost because I never thought of it before. He spent what should have been the start of his pastoral ministry and the latter part of his youth, taking care of his parents. Then I’ll share an activity using the Celtic Trinity Knot to explain the Trinity to children along with the love that exists between each of its Persons and us.

There are 3 primary ones that I don’t mean to say are normative or universal, but simply general trends that I think many of us here can relate to, either personally or indirectly through others in this community.We’re afraid if we say that the Trinity is in some ways beyond comprehension that our kids won’t trust us to tell them with confidence about the truth of the gospel.

The Holy Trinity is truly an ineffable mystery, however, we are blessed to encounter God in various relational ways.And as someone who serves in youth group and is relatively young, parents often come and ask me to talk to their kids about something because they feel that they are unable to.