The Trinity, Building Blocks of Oneness.

Unpacking the Trinity, it’s all about Love! 
The Trinity was an ancient, early Christian understanding of how the disciples experienced Jesus, God. and the Holy Spirit.
For them, encountering Jesus was somehow encountering God directly.
Experiencing Jesus was a face 2 face experience with God.
Experiencing the Holy Spirit was a heart 2 heart experience with God.
There was this two-ness and one-ness to Jesus at the same time.
There was this three-ness and one-ness to God at the same time.
The early Christians sought out ways to express the mystery of this interconnectedness with creative explanations.   The Trinity was born.
 
Over time and religiosity and much 'churchifying', the Trinity has become trapped in a box.  Hard to understand for us, what it possibly meant to them so long ago.  Hard to relate to personally.   But the Trinity doesn’t actually box us in, it frees us!
It is the understanding of the experience we have in connecting with God, through Jesus and the Holy Spirit.  So, let’s unbox the Trinity (literally), play with it and free it from its rigid containment.  

(See the video below of a playful and tangible way to arrange the Trinity)

The Traditional Trinity many were introduced to:                         
                        Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
The Evolved Trinity we've come to better understand:                
                        God, Jesus, and Holy Spirit.
The Now Trinity we use in our RBCC worship service:                 
                        Creator, Christ, and Holy One.
The Known Trinity to freely identify with:               
                       God/They them, Jesus/He him, Spirit/she, her.
The Experienced Trinity that is centered on the activity of Love. :      
                       God the Lover, Jesus the Beloved, and Spirit the Love that unites them:
The Personal Trinity that invites us to fully live within it:            
God the Lover, (Insert Your name here!) the Beloved, and Spirit the Love that unites them.
 
The Trinity is a human notion.  Created to explain the mystery of the interconnectedness of our human hearts and minds to God, the humanness of Jesus, and the activity of  Love that Spirit brings it all together.   3 in one.  A fellowship.  A joining.  A Oneness. 
You can arrange and rearrange the Trinity Blocks anyway that is meaningful to you, making room for others to build the Trinity in their own way.  
Play with it. Make it your own.  Then, most importantly, live fully within it. 

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