I am because we are

I am away for the next two Sundays. So I am not preaching this Sunday - Trinity Sunday. Which is sad. I like trinity Sunday and wrestling with what difference the trinity makes. My deep suspicion is that most Christians are not Trinitarian, or even monotheisitic. We slide into being tritheisitc, believing in God, the Son and Holy Spirit. 

Trinitarian theology is faith in God who is Father, Son and Holy Spirit. And it grew out of peoples shared experience of God,  and helped them both make sense of that experience and find ways to live in response to that shared experience.

For me that means that in the gospels we meet the Eternal Word (Son) who comes among us in Jesus. In his life, teaching, death and resurrection we are shown God the Father. We meet the character of the Father - Source of All Being - a character of love, generosity,  and mercy. And just as the risen Jesus breathed the Spirit into his followers, so the crucified, resurrected, and ascended Christ breathes the Spirit into us, so that we might be reminded that we are made in the image of God - Source of All Being, Eternal Word, and Holy Spirit. The Spirit enables us to to see the footprints of the ascended Christ in our world today. The Spirit enables us to join that work, bringing in the reign of justice and peace.  The Spirit reminds us that through the Ascension the crucified and risen Christ, the Eternal Word, is closer than our breath. We are never alone in this work. 

I am because we are. This is not about me, but us as God's people living in the Trinity

We are because God is.