Our Community Testifies of the Trinity

When God created heaven and earth, the only thing in creation he deemed "not good" was a man without community. We were meant for relationships, and we worship a God who is himself a community. Our love for one another is a testimony to the world about how the members of the Trinity love and relate to one another.

--Daniel Montgomery & Mike Cosper, Faithmapping: A Gospel Atlas for Your Spiritual Journey (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2012), 184.

The Triumph of God through the Death of God

Something beyond our comprehension went on within the Trinity, as the Son of God, the second member of the Trinity, breathed his last. God punished God. God's wrath was poured out in all its fullness upon God. God suffered. God was forsaken. And somehow through it, God triumphed.

--Daniel Montgomery & Mike Cosper, Faithmapping: A Gospel Atlas for Your Spiritual Journey (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2012), 58.

The Trinitarian Christian Life

It's really remarkable to see how Trinitarian the Christian life is from beginning to end. Consider what the apostle Paul writes in Ephesians 1. The Father chooses from the foundation of the world the saints whom He calls to Himself (Eph. 1:4). The Son gives Himself, sheds His blood, for the redemption of sinners (Eph. 1:7). The Holy Spirit regenerates and seals the Christian in faith (Eph. 1:13-14). From beginning to end, the Christian life is one lived with each person in the Godhead. It is full communion with Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

--Thabiti Anyabwile, The Life of God in the Soul of the Church: The Root and Fruit of Spiritual Fellowship (Ross-shire, Scotland: Christian Focus Publications, 2012), 77.

The Trinitarian Construction of the Church

Each Person in the Trinity plays a part in putting the church together. Christ creates in His crucifixion a new body called the church ([1 Cor. 12:12]). The Holy Spirit baptizes each person into the body of Christ (v. 13). The Father arranges each member in the body just as He pleases (v. 18).

--Thabiti Anyabwile, The Life of God in the Soul of the Church: The Root and Fruit of Spiritual Fellowship (Ross-shire, Scotland: Christian Focus Publications, 2012), 77.