The Experience of God - Trinity Sunday c 2022

<p><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Key Bible passages: Proverbs 8:1–4, 22-31, Romans 5:1–5, John 16:12–15</span></strong></p> <p>The experience of God (Trinity)<br /> Today is Trinity Sunday. From our tradition and in our history the church has usually named God as Trinity. God is One but at the same time God is Three - Father, Son & Holy Spirit. <br />  Today, I’m going to talk about how God is experienced and how in that experience, as God is revealed to us, we come to know God as three and as one.<br />  This understanding of God as Trinity comes from the experience of God by the people of Israel, in the early church, and in our personal experience.<br />  It comes to us in the Bible. The Bible records the experience, and the revelation of God, to the peole of Israel and the early church.<br /> This experience is made formal in the Creeds of the church, Especially the Nicene Creed. Creeds are short summaries of the faith, created in wordy arguments but built upon the experience of the Christian community.</p> <p>To put it another way our understanding & so our experience of God stems from <br />   i. creation.<br />   ii. from the life and work of Jesus, and<br />   iii. from the personal experience of the first Christians and church members down through the ages.</p> <p> h. God out there... (God the creator)<br /> Many people are led to faith, begin their faith journey, or are strengthened in their faith by the awe they experience in creation. Whatever you believe about the age of the Universe, if you are a Christian you will believe in God as the Creator, the one who spoke the worlds into being.<br />  Through the ages Christians, indeed all the major faiths refer to the divine origin of the worlds. In Eastern faiths, some indigenous Spiritualities and Greek philosophy, the universe, is the outworking of the divine. In Jewish, Christian & Islamic faiths, the Universe is the handiwork or the artwork of God. It is God’s Mona Lisa. Some Eastern faiths argue that the matter of the Universe is evil and tha