This coming Sunday, June 7, 2009 I’ll be preaching on a sermon on the practical implications of the Trinity. I’ve been reading John Wesley’s sermon on the subject (titled: “On the Trinity”) and I’m been happy to learn that he shared my view that it is very difficult to explain the Trinity without falling into heresy.
Wesley wrote:
One of the best tracts which that great man, Dean Swift, ever wrote, was his sermon upon the Trinity. Herein he shows, that all who have endeavoured to explain it at all, have utterly lost their way: have, above all others persons, hurt the cause, whey they intended to promote … I insist upon no explication at all.”
As you may have guessed from the above. I won’t be trying to explain the Trinity in any metaphorical or philosophical manner.
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