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What’s Up With This Sermon Series on Doctrine?

What’s Up With This Sermon Series on Doctrine?. The Doctrine of The Trinity. God is the source, mediator and the power of new life. It’s an inadequate attempt to interpret this into the most suitable images available.

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What’s Up With This Sermon Series on Doctrine?

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  1. What’s Up With This Sermon Series on Doctrine?

  2. The Doctrine of The Trinity

  3. God is the source, mediator and the power of new life.

  4. It’s an inadequate attempt to interpret this into the most suitable images available.

  5. Matthew 3:16-1716 As soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on him. 17 And a voice from heaven said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.”

  6. Jude 20-2120 But you, dear friends, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit,21 keep yourselves in God’s love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life.

  7. Pick Your Heresy...

  8. God is a heavenly board of directors made up of three equal partners(production, sales, customer service)

  9. God is a committee or a board with one big boss and two subordinates

  10. God is like three members of a team sitting on the bench waiting to get into the game.

  11. God wears three hats - playing a part when needed.

  12. Why does this matter? What is so important about it?

  13. We need to understand some basic things about God.

  14. God enters into living relationship with us.

  15. God will that we exist in relationship with one another

  16. God is essentially self-giving love

  17. We find in the Trinity a way of knowing who we are, who we are called to be, and what we are called to do.

  18. Three is a Magic Number

  19. But I also believe that there is a deep and abiding knowledge of the Trinity that is imbedded in all of Creation.

  20. World Religions

  21. Greeks used the TriadDefining characteristic inCeltic religionsOldest of Indian symbolsFound in theTemple of HeavenThree Treasures of Tibet

  22. Physics

  23. The Standard Model of fundamental particles includes three generations of matterBaryons - made up of three quarks

  24. We perceive our universe in three spatial dimensions

  25. Jewish Tradition

  26. The number 3 is used to mediate between two opposing or contradictory values.

  27. 3 is the number of truth

  28. Once something has been done three times it is considered permanent because we are connected to it, and we connected it to this world.

  29. The Amida is prayed3 times a day

  30. There are 3 people standing when The Torah is Read.

  31. The number 3 connects the dichotomy of two and shows a common purpose

  32. 2 3

  33. New But Not Disconnected

  34. Three represents unity. The 13th rule of Ishmael for the Torah

  35. 3 Patriarchs3 Mitzvoth3 Pilgrimages3 Days of Reading the Torah in public3 Years of Torah reading

  36. The Trinity is not a REVEALED doctrineit’s a doctrine that arises from the experience of the Church

  37. The Trinity is a MysteryWhen your relationships lose their mystery, what happens to them?

  38. The Trinity needs to bere-imagined

  39. Orthodox art: The Trinity having a meal“perichoresis” - dancing around in harmonious joyful freedom

  40. It’s the Unity of a Community of “persons” who love each other and live together in harmonyEach exists only in this relationship and not apart from it.

  41. The unity of God is personal and not mathematical

  42. what does this mean for us?

  43. Relationships matter. Connections matter.

  44. Why do you love having friends over for dinner?

  45. Why do we like to sit on the patio with the family watching kids play?

  46. Why is it that loneliness is something to be dreaded?

  47. Why is it that your first reaction when someone says, ‘There is No God’ is pity?

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