This morning I spoke about the Trinity in church.

I shared that whatever or whoever God is, that our doctrine of Trinity suggests two things over and above all else – that God has relationship at the core, and that God is a missionary.

It strikes me that many of our programs forget this over and over again. Somehow we believe that if we can answer peoples questions, if we can prove the resurrection, or the virgin birth, or this or that ‘truth’ then people will have no choice but have to believe, have to become followers of Christ.

If we don’t go down that road another common one is that if people see us doing good deeds, or immersed in good activity that they will become ‘intrigued’ and so turn to God.

I think we are missing something here. It’s not about answering questions, or about being right, or about helping out, or about ‘taking God to people’ – bizarre as God is already clearly present in God’s creation!

I think it is all about being transformed.
I think it’s about focusing on the Trinity and allowing ourselves to be overwhelmed, immersed, and totally overcome by God.
I think it’s about allowing God to overwhelm us so that God can transform us.

I believe that my small community needs to see transformed lives, not clever answers or good deeds, if they are going to consider God. I believe they also need to see trust and vulnerable honesty, rather than (often poor) attempts at justification or explanation.

When the bind man was healed and pulled before the people they asked him lots of questions and he answered none of them. ‘I do not know anything about all of that’ he said, ‘but I do know that once I was blind and now I see’.

Sharing how God is transforming my life is, I believe, the only way I can engage with people who need to encounter the transforming love of God for themselves.