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We
have considered how and why we should take the Trinity seriously over
the months of this summer. In the last few weeks I have sought to
show how we can recover the doctrine of the Trinity in our practical
Christian experience. This is not a doctrine for scholars to debate
but a truth that feeds and nourishes the soul of the Church and each
believer personally. This has been my purpose—to show how this
truth can and does feed the human soul at the deepest levels.
Perhaps
the most pressing personal question we face at the beginning of the
new millennium is: “What does it mean to be a human person?”
Scientists and social scientists work from every angle seeking to
give Western people a reason to have meaning and purpose. I suggest
the recovery of the doctrine of the Trinity, in our human
consciousness and experience, is the only meaningful answer to our
quest.
Non-Christians
often seek to understand the doctrine of the Trinity and find it
totally incomprehensible. The famous American, Thomas Jefferson, was
one such person. He called the Trinity “incomprehensible
jargon.” The medieval Catholic theologian, Thomas Aquinas,
would have agreed with Jefferson, but he would have also said that
which is “incomprehensible” is “not
unintelligible.”
Theologian
Charles Lowry has called the doctrine of the Trinity “the most
comprehensive and the most nearly all-inclusive formulation of the
truth of Christianity” (“What Is the Doctrine of the
Trinity,” in Millard J. Erickson, ed., The Living God,
Vancouver: Regent College Reprint, 1973, 419). I believe the doctrine
lies at the heart of the Great Commission in Matthew 28 and thus it
is vital to the true mission of Christ’s Church. I also believe
that Karl Barth was correct when he said “Father, Son and Holy
Spirit” is rightly the “Christian name” of God.
In
five previous articles we have surveyed the importance and
development of the doctrine of the Trinity in the history of the
Christian Church. I have maintained that modern Protestant Christians
pay way too little attention to this central Christian truth. Whether
it is out of sheer ignorance, or from a dismissive assumption that we
already know this truth, it does not really matter if we are not
committed to the confession of, and our personal and corporate
experience of, the divine Trinity. Our preaching, prayer life,
worship and music all reflect the virtual absence of Trinitarianism,
in both our private lives and in our church practice. The results are
serious. So how do we get this truth back and then begin to take it
very seriously in our Christian experience?
This
edition of the ACT 3 Weekly is different. Usually I write a
biblical or theological commentary on some aspect of the Church’s
faith, life, or mission. This week I want to tell you about ACT 3.
Who are we? What do we do and why do we do it? What are my dreams and
hopes for the future of this unique mission?
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