I have always found the concept of the trinity hard to understand. Who is our God? How is He three and yet also one? Do I relate to God as Father? Or as Jesus, the Son? Or as the Holy Spirit? How do I interact with all three? Should I do so all at once or one at a time? And if I do, am I then understanding them as three rather than one? But then if I focus on the oneness do I then lose the three-ness? Above all, what does this mean in practice? And how does it affect me as a follower of this God?
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This past Sunday was Pentecost Sunday. The day when the global church remembers the gift of the Holy Spirit, given to us, poured out upon the people of God. And what a gift! A gift, unlike any other.
All this is true… and yet. I grew up afraid of the Holy Spirit.
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