Connected
Living In The Light Of The Trinity
Published on 17. December 2012
176 pages
978-1-84474-677-4 (ISBN)
Description
God is Trinity. This is foundational and life-changing. Yet, bizarrely, for many believers, this is one of the least-examined aspects of the Christian life.
Sam Allberry takes us right to the heart of who God is, something which has radical implications for who we are as beings made in his image.
Connected unpacks the practical implications of the truth that God is Father, Son and Spirit. This transforms how we think of God and provides a vital perspective on key topics like:
- identity
- gender
- church life
- discipleship
- prayer
Could any issue be more important than this?
The Trinity should never be shrouded in mystery - or jargon. Follow in Sam's footsteps and you will soon find yourself, like him, praising this awesome God who is Trinity.
Sam Allberry takes us right to the heart of who God is, something which has radical implications for who we are as beings made in his image.
Connected unpacks the practical implications of the truth that God is Father, Son and Spirit. This transforms how we think of God and provides a vital perspective on key topics like:
- identity
- gender
- church life
- discipleship
- prayer
Could any issue be more important than this?
The Trinity should never be shrouded in mystery - or jargon. Follow in Sam's footsteps and you will soon find yourself, like him, praising this awesome God who is Trinity.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Nottingham
United Kingdom
Product notice
Reflowable
ISBN-13
978-1-84474-677-4 (9781844746774)
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Book
06/2012
Inter-Varsity Press
€13.70
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Person
Sam Allberry is Associate Minister of St Mary's Church, Maidenhead, UK. He enjoys American history, bad puns and slowly perfecting his recipe for Thai green curry.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- The Trinity and God
- 1 God: the bottom line
- Devotion
- Out of bounds
- Where the demons get it right
- Mission
- No God but one
- One God for all
- 2 Divine integrity
- Our view of God
- You cannot have one without the others
- You cannot play the persons of the Trinity off against one another
- You cannot 'balance' the persons of the Trinity.
- Our view of the cross
- Was the Father reluctant?
- Was the Son reluctant?
- Our view of the Christian life
- Obedience in one area as an excuse for disobedience in another
- Obedience in one area as a threat to obedience in another
- 3 The One who is three
- God as Trinity in the Old Testament
- The plurality of God
- The angel of God
- The Christ of God
- God as Trinity in the New Testament
- The humanity of Jesus
- The divinity of Jesus
- The divinity of the Spirit
- The personhood of the Spirit
- What the Trinity is and isn't
- Not three gods
- Not three aspects
- Not a contradiction
- 4 The party that never ends
- Identification between Father and Son
- Distinction between Father and Son
- The Trinity is not just how God is to us, but how he is in himself
- Father, Son and Spirit are not temporary roles, but eternal identities
- Why this matters and what the Trinity shows
- God is eternally loving and just
- God is not dependent on us
- The true goal of the gospel
- The Trinity and us
- 5 You: an introduction1
- In the image of God
- Relationships matter
- Stuff first
- people second
- Service matters
- How we do power
- How Jesus does power
- Love for others in the Trinity
- Marriage and sexuality matter
- Adam + Eve = one
- Jesus on marriage
- Marriage and gender
- Marriage and family life
- Marriage and sex
- Marriage and sexuality
- Unity in difference, not sameness
- How to find yourself
- 6 You may now serve the bride
- The relationship between Father and Son
- Probing more deeply into their equality
- Probing more deeply into their difference
- Difference during Jesus' earthly ministry
- Difference in eternity past
- Difference in eternity future
- Headship in the Trinity
- Implications of this relationship
- Equality and difference are not mutually exclusive
- Within the Trinity, headship and submission do not involve inequality
- Headship and submission are not intrinsically bad
- The relationship between the man and woman
- Equality and difference
- Headship in male-female relationships
- All of us are under headship
- Christ is the example for us all
- Male headship is to correspond to the loving headship of God the Father
- 7 Showing God to the world
- The church's unity
- Unity in the context of diversity
- Unity from God
- Becoming what we worship
- The church's diversity
- Don't look down on your gifts
- Don't look down on others' gifts
- Being a body
- Christ's body
- Christ's bride
- The church's witness
- 8 What really happens when you talk to God
- The difficulty of prayer
- Looking for help
- By the Spirit
- The Spirit and why we pray
- Making his presence felt
- Knowing our sonship
- The Spirit and what we pray
- Praying when we don't known what to pray for
- Praying in line with God's will
- Through the Son
- The party has already begun
- Praying in Jesus' name
- Remembering the basis of prayer
- To the Father
- Prayer to the Son? Prayer to the Spirit?
- Not muddling up the persons of the Trinity
- What the Father is like
- Accessible
- Good
- Defining fatherhood
- 9 To the praise of Father, Son and Holy Spirit
- Recovering the scale of the gospel
- Chosen by the Father
- Why
- When
- Rescued by the Son
- Rescue and redemption
- Rescue and revelation
- Sealed with the Spirit
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. God: the bottom line
- 2. Divine integrity
- 3. The One who is three
- 4. The party that never ends
- 5. You: an introduction
- 6. You may now serve the bride
- 7. Showing God to the world
- 8. What really happens when you talk to God
- 9. To the praise of Father, Son and Holy Spirit
