Trinity Sunday – June 15th 2025

When we think about the universe, and our place in it, and all that we have been given, we worship God as Creator and Father. When we look at Jesus, we see in him the expression in human form of all the qualities of God, especially love, and we worship Jesus as God and Saviour.

Although Jesus has ascended to the Father, Christians have continued to experience the presence, power and love of Jesus in the church and in their own lives by the Holy Spirt, whom we therefore worship as God. Though we experience and respond to God in these three ways, we are not conscious of any division in God.

The Bible rather suggests that Father, Son and Holy Spirit exist as a perfect communion. Therefore we worship one God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, the Holy Trinity.

Take heart if you struggle with the Doctrine of the Trinity – Rather strangely perhaps, Wesley was not much given to defending the mystery and doctrine of the Trinity, though he mightily assumed it. Wesley made a point of distinguishing between the fact of the Trinity, which he undoubtedly accepted and proclaimed, and the mystery and manner of the Trinity, about which he was bluntly agnostic. ‘1 believe the fact,’ he wrote, in 1771. ‘As to the manner, (wherein the whole mystery lies), I believe nothing about it.’ (Extract from “The forgotten Trinity in contemporary Methodism – Norman Wallwork.- Link here)