I’m reading Total Truth by Nancy Pearcy right now and I love it.  It is required reading for me for what we are doing on campus, but even if it wasn’t I’d be reading it.  It is helping me to understand so much about developing a Christian worldview and how our culture shapes us more than realize.  I wish I had read this as an incoming freshman because it would have definitely changed the way that I understood and expressed Christianity in the classroom setting.  You should check it out.

Today I read a little section about the Trinity that is really illuminating for me.  The Trinity is something I do not understand at all.  I’ve only heard a pastor preach on it once, and I don’t really understand the significance of it for our faith, but this helps a little bit, and has me wanting to know more.  I think it speaks for itself.

The balance of unity and diversity in the Trinity gives a model for human social life, because it implies that both individuality and relationship exist within the Godhead itself.  God is being-in-communion.  Humans are made in the image of a God who is a tri-unity–whose very nature consists in reciprocal love and communication among the Persons of the Trinity.  This model provides a solution to the age-old opposition between collectivism and individualism.  Over against collectivism, the Trinity implies the dignity and uniqueness of individual persons.  Over against radical individualism, the Trinity implies that relationships are not created by sheer choice but are built into the very essence of human nature.  We are not atomistic individuals but are created for relationships.

…”The Church as a whole is an icon of God the Trinity, reproducing on earth the mystery of unity in diversity”…”Human beings are called to reproduce on eath the mystery of mutual love that the Trinity lives in heaven.”

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