It’s not a book on being able to spit out facts on the omniscience of the Holy Spirit and how Christ’s hypostatic union works. This book can be understood by high schoolers, scholars, pastors, teachers, and moms and dads. It’s a deep read. But simple doesn’t equal childish. He says that the Trinity isn’t an oddity (for it is who God is, and God isn’t odd), but many of the images people use to describe God (eggs, water, a shamrock, even bacon) make the Trinity seem anything but ‘normal.’ Reeves then goes on to show how we can begin to view the Trinity as something normal.Īt 121 pages it is a short and simple read. This book is about the love of the Trinity for mankind and how it is so unexpected, undeserved, unmerited, and how God continues to show His mercy on us even still. And the best we can do is lift up a finger, as if even pointing to God is going too far. But the Father, overflowing in love, created us and sent His Son to die and share in what He has so that we could be co-inheritors with Christ and be reunited with God who then gives us even more: His Spirit, who “not only enables us to know and love Christ he also gives us the mind of Christ, making us like him” (pg. But to whom? As we continue to scan the painting, we see that he is barely holding his hand out to God who is reaching out, almost straining, to make contact with Adam.Īll of humankind has this kind of meager attitude (less actually) toward God. When we look at Michelangelo’s painting “The Creation of Adam” in the Sistine Chapel, we see Adam limply holding his hand out, being supported by his knee. Reeves’s basis is: What is the point of the Trinity? Why does it matter if we have one or not? How does what I know about the Trinity affect my daily living? “Who Among the Gods Is Like You, O Lord?”.The Christian Life: The Spirit Beautifies.

“Is there a God besides Me? There is no Rock I know not any,” Isaiah 44:8b. We can have comfort and joy in knowing that our triune God is beyond comparison with any other god made up by man. His book isn’t a point-by-point basis of ‘who/what’ the Trinity is, but why Christians should rejoice in the Trinity. Through the Trinity we understand the person and work of Christ, along with prayer, the church, and every aspect of our faith. In Reeves’s book he brings us an introduction to Christianity and our daily living that is rooted in the triune God who we worship, Father, Son, and Spirit. How are we able to live the Christian life? Through the Trinity. Why can we be saved? Because God is a Trinity. Why is God love? Because God is a Trinity.

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