The Trinity is a complex theological concept, yet because God is personally knowable, we should always continue on our journey of understanding Him more. Here is an overview of our lesson from last night:
The word Trinity isn’t found anywhere in scripture. But the concept is all throughout the Old and New Testament. The God we serve is triune, three distinct persons. God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. We spent some time exploring scripture that supports the idea that God is three persons (Gen 1:26, 3:22, 11:7, Isaiah 6:8, Matt 28:19). We also looked at scripture that confirms that there is only one God (Deut 6:4-5, Ex 15:11, Isa 45:5-6).
We looked at several images (egg, toothpaste, light, triquetra) that show how people try to explain the Trinity in visual terms, but all of these fall short of an explanation because of the complexities of the Trinity. And it makes sense that we, created, finite people, wouldn’t be able to fully describe our always-existed, infinite triune God.
Understanding what the distinct roles of the persons of the Trinity are helps to solidify the concept.
Groups of youth spent time thinking through other possible examples, some of which were: water, conjoined triplets, and muscles.
We ended the night focusing on this image:
I challenged the youth to be create and to create there own version of this image. The purpose of this is to enable them to continue to think about the Trinity, but also to work towards apply the lesson personally.
The main point of the lesson is similar to last weeks, God is knowable. We can understand the Trinity because we can experience each part of it in our own lives, which is a much better way to know God than to understand an image that falls so short of His awesomeness.
