Worship Quotables

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• Tri-unity (Trinity Sunday, May 31) (4)
  The one God includes God the Son who brought salvation, God the Father who sent salvation by sending the Son, and God the Holy Spirit who brings salvation into human experience (the Trinity). —Fred Sanders, “Introduction to Christology: Chalcedonian Categories for the Gospel Narrative,” Jesus in Trinitarian Perspective, 8
• Tri-unity (Trinity Sunday, May 31) (3)
  The Bible presents the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit with different primary activities in relation to the world, for example, in creation, salvation, and sanctification. God the Father gives the Son his name (John 17:11-12; Phil 2:9-11), his words and works (John 5:36; 12:49), authority (Matt 9:6; 28:18; John 17:2), “life in himself” (John 5:26), […]
• Tri-unity (Trinity Sunday, May 31) (2)
  Both initiation and response appear together in the Godhead with each person freely exercising their innate inclinations and desires. Each loves, each is self-rendering, each serves, but within a harmonious order reflective of the dispositions of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Thus, decree and reply—loving ordination and engaging response—might be thought of […]
• Tri-unity (Trinity Sunday, May 31)
  In the end, the implications of confessing that one of the Trinity died on the cross are breathtaking. Jesus Christ is the Rosetta Stone that translates in many respects all of reality, but especially and most amazingly, the reality of God’s very existence as Holy Trinity. —J. Scott Horrell, “The Eternal Son of God in […]