Today is Trinity Sunday — the one Sunday in the church year where preachers attempt to explain the unexplainable, that one plus one plus one equals one.
We use well-worn metaphors — ice, water, steam. Clover leaves. Sunshine. And commit our heresy of choice. And none of them quite hold.
And it’s a strange, because nobody fell in love with God because of a good explanation of the Trinity, and yet, people find themselves caught up, sought after, transfixed, running from or to, the God who is three and one.
You see, the Trinity isn’t a concept to understand — it’s a mystery to embrace.
It’s not about understanding. It’s about belonging.
What we meet in the Trinity — is love.
Love in motion, in relationship. Love that makes space for more.
Creator. Christ. Spirit.
God above, beside and within us.
This is not doctrine; it is a love story — and we are part of it.
So instead of trying to explain the Trinity, maybe the best way to honour it is to write our own creed — not of how it works, but what we believe (on a good day…or want to…or would, if we thought it believable) …So, I offer this. A creed of sorts. Totally unauthorised…
We believe in the Creator — the Source of all breath and beginning,
who paints galaxies with light, and sees sparrows fall.
The One who calls creation good,
who made us not out of need but of love,
and who is still creating.
We believe in the Christ — the face of God we could touch,
who healed and fed and wept and laughed,
who called the unqualified, ate with the outcast,
and walked into death with open arms.
Jesus, crucified and risen, not to appease God, but to show love.
Jesus, who joins the human story, so no one is alone again.
We believe in the Spirit — fire and breath and wild wind,
comforter and disrupter, who speaks in many languages and lands on every head.
She is the whisper and the roar, the wind that won’t be boxed,
who prays in us when we cannot, and calls us into God’s dream for the world.
We believe God is not one voice but a harmony.
Not a hierarchy but a dance.
Not power over, but love poured out.
We believe the Trinity is a lived experience.
That to be made in God’s image is to be made for community.
That love is our origin, our calling, and our future.
That God is not a solitary throne, but a table with space for all.
We believe that when we baptise, we enter this dance.
When we break bread, we share in this life.
When we forgive, we join in this grace.
When we say yes to love — we say yes to God.
We believe the Trinity teaches us God is bigger, wider, wilder than our words.
And so we won’t try to explain God today.
We will simply breathe, in awe. And bathe in worship.
The Trinity is not a test of faith. It is the shape of our faith.
It’s how we pray, and live, and love.
It’s why we believe community matters.
That justice is relational. That faith is not a ladder but a circle.
Trinity belongs us to a God who is never alone — and never leaves us alone.
And so today, we come to this table, not with explanations, but with awe, hope, and love. We come to say: this is the God we don’t understand, but we trust.
This is the mystery we live in, and the dance we choose to join.
And this dance, this relationship, this God, always sends us outward.
To believe in the Trinity is to believe in relationship. In communion. In radical welcome. In community that reflects the very heart of God.
To believe in an all-embracing Trinity means we welcome the Refugee and challenge the voices that say ‘close the borders’ and ‘turn back the boats’.
To bear the name of the Trinity dares us to embrace a slogan that says All Are Welcome, and mean it. And challenge ourselves when we don’t.
So today, let this be our creed —in word, and in action.
Let our affinity with the Trinity affect our Refugee Week, our AGM, our life of discipleship.
Let our table be wide. Our arms open. Our decisions compassionate.
Let our church look more and more like the Trinity: diverse, loving, active in service.
Let us not seek to understand, but to embrace and love, and if this is heresy, may we speak it and live it, boldly, and always. For the glory of the Holy Trinity, One God, now and forever. Amen.
Holy Adventures 