(Redeemer Church, Monroe, MI)
The Christian idea of God as a three-personed being is brilliant. It makes conceptual sense of the idea that God is love.
Gerald Sittser writes:
"Over roughly four hundred years Christians came to two startling conclusions. First, they concluded that God is a relationship of love; God is one in community, or a tri-unity. God is love not simply because he loves his creation but because he is love within himself. The Father loves the Son; the Son loves the Father. The Holy Spirit, who lives in our hearts, is the perfect, pure and personal essence of that relationship, thus drawing us into the love that exists within the very being of God.
Second, they concluded that Christ is both perfectly divine and perfectly human... "
(Sittser, Water From a Deep Well: Christian Spirituality From Early Martyrs to Modern Missionaries, pp. 22-23)
