Growing Up With the Trinity: An Englishman, a Scotsman and an Irishman Walked Onto a Football Pitch...

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Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). But as I tucked my child in that night, I was humbled by my lack of a basic understanding of the Trinity.

Each loop is made of the same ‘material’ (a line or string) and we talked about how each member of the Trinity is made up of the same ‘God material’ too. She was telling me all these positive things about who I am in my character and my value, but she also lived that,” Trinity says.By giving us the Spirit, the triune God draws us to himself, just as Jesus promised (John 14:17-18). I was tempted to use one of those explanations I had heard in church growing up: God is like an egg, God is like the three forms of water, God is like a flower… but I knew that all those fell flat because, in one way or another, they all promoted a trinitarian heresy.

We see all three linked together in scripture, for example commissioning us to baptize “in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit” (Matt. My mother spoke to me growing up right out of the womb,” Trinity says, “[saying things like], ‘You are loved, you are special, you are important, you are one of a kind, you are a daughter of a king’ like every single day. As a child, Brendon McGuire was taken to Old Trafford by his mother, as his colourful, hard-drinking father had no interest in football.The Father and the Son have the same, identical life: “For just as the Father has life in himself, so also he has granted to the Son to have life in himself” (5:26). The reason this books beats the many others that have been written about Best, Law, and Charlton is because it’s a story about what life was actually like back then during this fabulous period, so in that sense it’s as much a story of the culture of the time as it is a fascinating insight into three of the greatest players the game has known. The Trinity is somewhat harder, because we are all single beings and cannot really conceive of a a single Entity with multiple Personhood.

In particular, not only do I think we need to reflect more deeply about God’s vision for the family, we also need to recognize the unique contexts different families live in. For years, I’ve prided myself on my passion for theology and biblical literacy, and my shelves sagged with heavy academic books. I don’t remember my post-hippie birth parents (I’ve only seen the pictures and heard some of the stories), because I was raised by fire-breathing, Spirit-filled, holy-rolling, Bible-learning and Bible-teaching Christians, in a Christian family, in a local church. It was such an interesting conversation that I really wanted to bring Trinity on the podcast to talk about it with her. I think that was my mother’s biggest parenting tactic in this whole abandonment issue was words of affirmation.I look forward to seeing what the author’s next book will be - hopefully, another book surrounding the red devils. He spent over 5 years being a full-time caretaker for his parents, while raising kids and while his wife supported the family financially. The basis for this security (for the believer) and this fearsome fact (for the unbeliever): the singular nature of the triune God. While not the most pious offering, I was thinking of these words the other day and how, to a certain extent, they are true in the spiritual life.