Monday, October 22, 2007

Trinitarian Unity

For the next two weeks I am in the Effective Teams and Team Leaders module of CIT. This morning we were challenged to imagine the Trinity before the creation of the world. We were told to envision how the three persons of God interacted with each other and to think of adjectives and nouns that would describe this interaction. Words like perfect harmony, interdependence, peace, love and unity came to mind.

Then in groups, we were asked to look at different Bible passages and find the principles and values about teamwork that were illustrated through the Trinity. My group was given Genesis 1:26 “Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness.” God’s very identity in the trinity is diversity unified. The three persons of the Godhead had perfect unity and love even before the creation of mankind, but God desired to draw us into that unity. He wanted to create man in order to generate even more unity, not that God could be more unified.

No wonder the two greatest commandments are love God and love people.

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