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Our June Pastoral Letter
is provided by

Reverend Dave Harkison

Dear Friends,

Sunday June 15 in the Christian Calendar is Trinity
Sunday, the day when we particularly remember God the Father,
the Son and the Holy Spirit.

For some people this can be confusing and can sound as if
Christians worship more than one God. Several years ago I was
challenged during a sermon to try and explain this.

I did so by picking up a Rubick cube with all the colours being in the
correct position. Each side was a different colour but that doesn’t
stop it from being a single cube. By jumbling the colours up we can
quite quickly get to the point many people are at when they try to
explain the Trinity. This is something which is easier to see than
to explain.

The cube has six faces; each face is separate and different. Yet
each is only one aspect of the whole cube. I did not have six cubes
in my hand. I only had one. Viewed from the top, it could be a
yellow cube. From one side it could be a red one, and from the
bottom white. But it is still only one cube.

This is a very inadequate picture of God. But it does help us to
envisage the tri-unity of God. Don’t get me wrong. I am not trying to
say that God is like a single actor playing three different roles in a
play.

What I am trying to say is that God appears to us is a different role
depending on the angle we see Him from. From one angle He
appears to be the Father. From another He appears to be Jesus
the Son. And from a third He appears to be the Holy Spirit.
And sometimes God is just God.

It isn’t really a contradiction to speak of God as being Three in One

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