The Trinity
Teaching Notes
Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves. Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord. Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. Share with the Lord’s people who are in need. Practice hospitality. Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse. Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn. Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but be willing to associate with people of low position. Do not be conceited. Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everyone. If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone.
Romans 12:9-18
To speak freely of mathematics, I find it the highest exercise of the spirit; but at the same time I know that it is so useless...
Blaise Pascal
There are two types of minds…the mathematical, and what might be called the intuitive. The former arrives at its views slowly, but they are firm and rigid; the latter is endowed with greater flexibility and applies itself simultaneously to the diverse lovable parts of that which it loves.
Blaise Pascal
Four Main Survival Responses:
fight
flight
freeze
feign
friend
Polyvagal Theory
Our first instinct that’s even deeper than survival: connection (“friend”)
We don’t need [connection] everyday. Just everyday that we eat.
Susan Pinker, Psychotherapist
Then the Lord God said, ‘It is not good for the man to be alone;
Genesis 2:18
Loneliness Equation: 1+0<1
Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness;…and God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him, male and female he created them.”
Genesis 1:26
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Genesis 1:1
Hear O Israel: The Lord our God [Elohim] is one!
Deuteronomy 6:4
Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.
Matthew 28:19
God the Father knew you and chose you long ago, and his Spirit has made you holy. As a result, you have obeyed him and have been cleansed by the blood of Jesus Christ…
1 Peter 1:2
There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope, when you were called; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all,
Ephesians 4:4-6
Trinity Equation: 1+1+1=1
God is…
God is 3 persons.
Each person is fully God.
There is one God.
Tertullian
God is one BUT God is not alone!
The energy in the universe is not in the planets, or in the protons or neutrons, but in the relationship between them. Not in the particles but in the space between them. Not in the cells of organisms but in the way the cells feed and give feedback to one another. Not in any precise definition of the three persons of the Trinity as much as in the relationship between the Three. This is where all the power for infinite renewal is at work:…
Richard Rohr, The Divine Dance
The living God is not a solitary God. The living God is not an isolated God. From all eternity the living God has lived in relationship-indeed, has lived as relationship. At the center of the universe is relationship.
Darrell W. Johnson, Experiencing The Trinity
What is your relationship with relationships?
Which relationship in your life do you most want to grow?
Setlist
WFC Lenexa + WFC Anywhere
Child of Love- We the Kingdom
Come As You Are- Crowder
King of Kings- Hillsong
Doxology-Phil Wickham
WFC Speedway
Take You at Your Word- Cody Carnes
Love So Great- Hillsong
Gratitude- Brandon Lake
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