{"id":5358,"date":"2023-06-06T06:43:32","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T12:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/whatgodwantsforyourlife\/?p=5358"},"modified":"2023-06-06T06:43:32","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T12:43:32","slug":"our-lives-and-the-life-of-the-triune-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/whatgodwantsforyourlife\/2023\/06\/our-lives-and-the-life-of-the-triune-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Lives and the Life of the Triune God"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Trinity Sunday.\u00a0 Every year the liturgical calendar gives preachers the opportunity to lose their congregations, bore them to death, and lead them into heresy, leaving them with the conviction that the whole thing is irrelevant to daily life.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s a bad thing.\u00a0 Because the God of Christianity is triune.\u00a0 How did the church arrive at that conclusion?<\/p>\n

Big picture: In one way the early church was thoroughly Jewish.\u00a0 The first Christians believed that there is one God.\u00a0 They believed that God was creator.\u00a0 And they believed that God had led the children of Israel out of Egypt.\u00a0 Blessing them with a relationship that God offered them in terms of a covenant: I will be your God.\u00a0 You will be my people.<\/p>\n

The early church also shared the Jewish conviction that God would one day send a messiah \u2013 a deliverer \u2013 who would create a set of circumstances that made their experience of that relationship complete.\u00a0 It would no longer be disrupted by their own failure and sins.\u00a0 It would no longer be disrupted by invasion and exile.\u00a0 And, back of it all, it would no longer be haunted by death, which seemed to put the lie to both God\u2019s claim to be creator and his offer of an enduring relationship.<\/p>\n

But that was where things took a different turn for the band of twelve Jews who followed Jesus.\u00a0 For centuries, Jews had entertained competing views of what that messiah would be like.\u00a0 Some of them believed he would be a king and conqueror.\u00a0 That he would restore the glory of Israel and put an end to the cycle of invasion and exile.\u00a0 Others believed that they would need to wait for the end of history.<\/p>\n

But Jesus taught something entirely different.\u00a0 He showed no interest in the politics of either Israel or Rome.\u00a0 He declared that the Kingdom of God had arrived and that it was not of this world.\u00a0 But, more importantly, he also made it clear that he was not just God\u2019s deliverer but one with God himself.\u00a0 And, in the wake of his Resurrection, he taught the disciples that the Holy Spirit would be given to them, not just as some ephemeral notion of God\u2019s presence, but as yet another revelation of God\u2019s being.<\/p>\n

To be taught this by a Jewish messiah, speaking to the hearts and minds of devout Jews, could only mean one thing: that God was a trinity of three persons.\u00a0 The disciples already knew the God of Israel as creator and covenant-giver.\u00a0 Now they had experienced that God as messiah and deliverer.\u00a0 With the ascension of Jesus, they experienced the presence of the Holy Spirit.\u00a0 And, yet, together those experiences were of the one, the same, the only God.<\/p>\n

In an important sense, then, the whole of the New Testament is about the efforts of the early church to come to grips with this reality.\u00a0 It was this conviction that drove them out into the wider world, and it shaped what they taught and how they lived.<\/p>\n

That is why the Trinity figures so prominently in the conclusion of Paul\u2019s second letter to the Corinthians:<\/p>\n

Finally, brothers and sisters, rejoice.\u00a0 Be restored.\u00a0 Be encouraged.\u00a0 Set your mind on the same thing.\u00a0 Be at peace.\u00a0 And the love of God and peace will be with you.\u00a0 Greet one another with a holy kiss.\u00a0 All the saints greet you.<\/p>\n

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.[i]<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What is going on here?<\/p>\n

First, a bit of background to this passage: Paul spent a lot of time writing to the church in Corinth before he ever traveled there.\u00a0 And he spent a lot of time with them when he finally visited. They were, if you will, the problem children of Paul\u2019s missionary efforts.<\/p>\n

There were a number of reasons for this.\u00a0 But the two dynamics that made life in the church at Corinth a mess were a good deal of sexual perversion and a lot of heresy.\u00a0 This was thanks in no small part to Corinth\u2019s standing as a leading port-city in the Roman Empire.\u00a0 So, think Amsterdam, New Orleans, or San Francisco \u2013 only on the Mediterranean.<\/p>\n

Over the course of his letter to the Corinthians, Paul deals at length with these issues and others.\u00a0 But at the end of his letter what he is trying to do is to distill the heart of what he has been telling them into a handful of must-do\u2019s:<\/p>\n

One, rejoice.\u00a0 Be joyful.\u00a0 Celebrate.\u00a0 I know I\u2019ve been really hard on you (and necessarily so), but God is doing a great thing and you\u2019ve been called to participate in it.<\/p>\n

Two, be restored.\u00a0 Your lives can be different.\u00a0 You can be healed.\u00a0 Not just as individuals but as the body of Christ.<\/p>\n

Three, be encouraged.\u00a0 Take heart. Your behavior has not put you beyond God\u2019s reach.\u00a0 God loves you.<\/p>\n

Four, set your mind on the same thing.\u00a0 You may differ on minor issues, Paul is saying, but you should all share the same commitment to the essentials of the Christian journey.\u00a0 You cannot be spiritual alone or divided.<\/p>\n

Five, be at peace.\u00a0 Life\u2019s circumstances may change and they may be challenging but center your life on the work that God is doing among you.<\/p>\n

The rest of what Paul has to say may sound to us like throw-away lines \u2013 so much verbal wallpaper.\u00a0 But it is not.<\/p>\n

He urges them to share the kiss of peace \u2013 which symbolized the healing of their relationships with one another.\u00a0 This wasn\u2019t a romantic kiss and it wasn\u2019t a kiss on the lips.\u00a0 It was probably more like kiss of middle easterners when they greet another.\u00a0 You embrace and you kiss one another on the cheek.\u00a0 You can\u2019t do \u2013 or, at least, you shouldn\u2019t \u2013 unless you have reconciled with one another.<\/p>\n

And Paul believes that this kind of relationship isn\u2019t possible unless their relationship with God had been healed.\u00a0 The one flows from the other.\u00a0 And every other of kind of healing is fragile, imagined, or inauthentic.<\/p>\n

He also reminds them in the sentence that follows that this isn\u2019t just possible with one another but it is shared with the larger church, whom Paul writes, greets them as well.<\/p>\n

But all of what he has said is only possible because of the blessing of \u201cthe grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit\u201d.\u00a0 Devout Jew, one-time persecutor of the church, Paul had concluded that the program of ultimate healing that Jesus had launched with the inauguration of the Kingdom of God was the work of the triune God.\u00a0 And that God is three in one.\u00a0 The ultimate expression of oneness, of intimacy, and love.\u00a0 The work of the God who created the universe and all that is in it.\u00a0 Who reached out in love to create men and women who share in the Triune God\u2019s capacity for the same love.\u00a0 Who, in spite of all obstacles, including our own willfulness provided a self-sacrificial path out of the hell we have created for ourselves, and welcomes us into his life, worked out in the life of the body of his Son, which is the church.<\/p>\n

This means that the Trinity is as relevant as any truth about God and life can be.<\/p>\n

If you thought that all God is interested in is getting your name moved from the column, \u201cDamned and going to hell\u201d to \u201csaved and going to heaven\u201d, you are wrong.\u00a0 If you think that all God is interested in is getting you to be a nice person \u2013 whatever that means \u2013 you are wrong.\u00a0 If you thought that going to church is just about supporting one more charitable institution among charitable institutions, and you thought that you could be spiritual all by your lonesome, you are wrong.\u00a0 Life in the body of Christ is participation in God\u2019s on-going effort to make our lives with him and with one another, look like the life of the Trinity.\u00a0 The perfect balance of love and truth, grace and judgment.<\/p>\n

If you don\u2019t believe in God, you are also wrong.\u00a0 Not less loved of God.\u00a0 Not so much cannon fodder.\u00a0 But completely deluded and just as exposed to emptiness as someone who walks away from the offer of love perfected.\u00a0 That is a vacuum that cannot be filled with \u201cthe\u201d science, with politics, with the effort to end hunger, or save the world from climate change.\u00a0 Because none of these things, however important they might be, speak in an adequate fashion to the loving nature of the Triune God, whose will for us transcends millennia and our narrow, fragmented visions of what humanity needs most.\u00a0 From before and after time, from a place we cannot imagine, out of an abundance of wisdom, truth, love and grace, the Triune God speaks to us in the way that an adult speaks to a two-year old who has yet to grasp anything that lies beyond the demand that the world meet his needs.<\/p>\n

And for those of us who do believe and have glimpsed the glory of the Triune God, we have much yet to learn.\u00a0 Much to learn about the mystery of the Triune God\u2019s life, whose way of being lies beyond our ability to grasp it completely or perfectly.\u00a0 Even more to learn about the nature of that life: God\u2019s capacity for love, mercy, and understanding.\u00a0 Much to learn about God\u2019s life-giving creativity, of which our efforts are a feeble imitation.<\/p>\n

But it is the glory of that life that the triune God longs to share with us.\u00a0 It is into that glory that we venture every Sunday, as we consume his life.\u00a0 It is the promise of that glory on which we depend.\u00a0 And it is the promise of that life which should fill every moment of our lives until we breathe our last.<\/p>\n

As St. Gertrude of Hilfta put it:<\/p>\n

May I breathe my last breath in the protection of your close embrace, with your all-powerful kiss. May my soul find herself without delay there where you are whom no place circumscribes, invisible, living and exulting in the full flowering of eternity with the Father and the Holy Spirit, true God, everlasting , world without end.\u00a0 Amen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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[i]<\/a> The elaborations are mine but thanks to Paul Barnett for the basic language of most of this translation.\u00a0 See his commentary on The Second Epistle to the Corinthians, The New International Commentary on the New Testament, <\/em>Gordon Fee, ed. (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1997): 614ff.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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