Growing Up With the Trinity: An Englishman, a Scotsman and an Irishman Walked Onto a Football Pitch...

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She continues, “I never once had to scream and shout at anyone to notice me or look at me or care for me or ask me how I was feeling or anything like that. Passionate supporters would instantly recognise these feelings and it is to McGuire's credit that he manages to convey these emotions.

I think the first step is to admit that the Trinity is a mystery that is beyond our ability to perfectly comprehend. The Father and the Son have the same, identical will: “And just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so the Son also gives life to whom he wants” (5:21). With God being a community of persons living in self-giving love, we see that community and loving relationships are foundational to life.If you are over sixty years old and fancy a trip down memory lane, or if you are younger and wonder what all the fuss was about, I would say that Brendon McGuire has it covered with this book. Jesus repeatedly describes God as father, and this is a relation they have maintained from eternity (John 5:17; 6:38-40; 10:30; 14:9).

The single hand of God, the hand of the Son and the hand of the Father, the hand of power and life, holds the people of God invincible, safe, and deeply loved. When I was growing up, I remember someone praying this unusual grace before meals somewhere along the way: “Blessed Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, whoever eats the quickest gets the most. If ‘one thing,’ then not different; if ‘we are,’ then both the Father and the Son” (Augustine, Tractates on John, 36. The Trinity is somewhat harder, because we are all single beings and cannot really conceive of a a single Entity with multiple Personhood. He did not become Father at some point; rather, his very identity is to be the one who begets the Son.Many of these do a great job of shedding light on some important aspects of God but can also lead us astray. He tell us this in John 5 that the Father and the Son do the same, identical work: “Jesus responded to them, ‘My Father is still working, and I am working also’” (5:17). Each loop is made of the same ‘material’ (a line or string) and we talked about how each member of the Trinity is made up of the same ‘God material’ too. Then he explains that the Word is the glorious, only-begotten Son from the Father: “We observed his glory, the glory as the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth” (1:14). And perhaps in doing so, we would be imitating the very thing asian parents are often criticized for, namely comparing their children to one another.