RThe Christian teaching that God is One in Three & Three in one is not a math, biology or physics problem to be solved, but a mystery into which we are invited to live and move and have our being.

That may sound like a cop out to people who expect Christianity to offer the same kinds of answers one might expect from math or biology or physics.

As Christians, we claim that this mystery we embrace about the nature of God is not only plausible, but true. And further, we consider it a first-order truth, one that governs and interacts with all other truth we may come to know about God, each other, and the universe - everyone and everything with whom we will ever interact.

The role of this day in the life of the Christian community is not so much to teach particulars of the formulation of the doctrine of the Trinity. Rather, it is an occasion to the people of faith to move deeply into the life and mission of the Holy trinity around us - beginning, but by no means ending, in worship.

Today is an invitation to celebrate and look around you for signs of the Three-in-One and One-in-Three in symbol, song, ritual, gesture, scripture, font, and table and above all, at work in the world.

Rev. Carl H. Orphanides
Mt. Pleasant UMC