This week we’ll be continuing in our Heidelberg Catechism series looking at questions 26-64 concerning the Trinity. To wet your appetite here are 10 reasons to focus on the wonder of the Trinity:*
- The doctrine of the Trinity is one of the most important distinguishing doctrines of the Christian faith and therefore is deserving of our careful study, passionate embrace, and thoughtful application
- The doctrine of the Trinity is both central and necessary for the Christian faith to be what it is. Remove the Trinity, and the whole Christian faith disintegrates
- Worship of the true and living God consciously acknowledges the relationship and roles of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
- The Christian’s life of prayer must rightly acknowledge the roles of Father, Son, and Spirit as we pray to the Father, through the Son, in the power of the Spirit.
- The Christian’s growth in Christlikeness or sanctification is rightly understood and enriched when seen as the work of the triune God.
- The triune relationships of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit cause us to marvel at the unity of the triune God.
- The triune relationships of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit cause us to marvel at the diversity within the triune God.
- The triune relationship of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit cause us to wonder at the social relationality of the triune God.
- The triune relationships of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit cause us to marvel at the authority-submission structure that exists eternally in the three Persons of the Godhead, each whom is equally and fully God.
- The doctrine of the Trinity- one God existing in three Persons in the ways we have described- provides one of the most important and neglected patterns for how human life and human relationships are to be conducted
*taken from Father, Son, & Holy Spirit: Relationships, Roles, & Relevance by Bruce Ware
