1. Prayer
Holy God, the earth is full of the glory of your love.
May we your children, born of the Spirit,
so bear witness to your Son Jesus Christ,
crucified and risen, that all the world
may believe and have eternal life
through the One who saves,
Father, Son and Holy Spirit,
now and for ever.
Amen.
4. This Jesus God raised up,
and of that all of us are witnesses.
Being therefore exalted at the
right hand of God, and having
received from the Father the
promise of the Holy Spirit,
he has poured out this that
you both see and hear.
ACTS 2:32-33
5. We believe in One God
The Father, the Almighty…
We believe in One Lord,
Jesus Christ, the only Son
of God, eternally begotten
of the Father…
We believe in the Holy Spirit…
who proceeds from the
NICENE CREED
8. The inner life of the triune God…
is characterized…by mutually
self-giving love. Each of the divine
persons centers upon the others.
None demands that the others
revolve around them. Each voluntarily
circles the other two, pouring love,
delight and adoration into them.
Each person of theTrinity loves, adores,
defers to, and rejoices in
the others.That creates a dynamic,
pulsating dance of joy and love.
9. If God is unipersonal, then until God created other beings there was
no love…a unipersonal God (might be) power, sovereignty, and
greatness from all eternity, but not love.
Love then is not the essence of God, nor is it at the heart
of the universe. Power is primary. However, if God is triune, then
loving relationships in community are the ‘great fountain…at the
center of reality’ (Lewis.) When Jesus said
you must lose yourself in service to find yourself, he was recounting
what the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit have
been doing throughout eternity… God is a community
of persons who have loved each other for all eternity…
You were made for mutually self-giving, other-directed
love (with God and with one another!)”
10.
11. “…light is not so much
what you directly see as that
by which you see everything else.
This is why in John’s Gospel,
Jesus Christ (says),
‘I am the Light of the world’
(John 8:12)”
13. - we CONFESS the UNITY of the TRINITY
as CHRISTIANS …
- we ACKNOWLEDGE the
REALITY/MYSTERY of the TRINITY
14. - we CONFESS the UNITY of the TRINITY
- we WORSHIP the TRINITY in UNITY
as CHRISTIANS …
- we ACKNOWLEDGE the
REALITY/MYSTERY of the TRINITY
15. - we CONFESS the UNITY of the TRINITY
- we WORSHIP the TRINITY in UNITY
- we SEEK to REFLECT the
inner LIFE of the TRINITY
as CHRISTIANS …
- we ACKNOWLEDGE the
REALITY/MYSTERY of the TRINITY
16. When Jesus said you must lose yourself
in service to find yourself,
he was recounting what the Father, Son,
and Holy Spirit have been
doing throughout eternity…
God is a community of persons
who have loved each other for
all eternity…You were made
for mutually self-giving,
other-directed love.
17.
18. Holy God, the earth is full of the glory of your love.
May we your children, born of the Spirit,
so bear witness to your Son Jesus Christ,
crucified and risen, that all the world
may believe and have eternal life
through the One who saves,
Father, Son and Holy Spirit,
now and for ever.
Amen.
Benediction
