{"id":2163,"date":"2012-04-26T14:51:42","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T14:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/?p=2163"},"modified":"2012-04-26T14:51:42","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T14:51:42","slug":"loving-the-trinity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/26\/loving-the-trinity\/","title":{"rendered":"Loving The Trinity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The theme of this developing sermon in my head seems to be &#8220;Loving The Trinity&#8221;.\u00a0 Not loving the doctrine of the trinity&#8212;but <strong>loving our triune God<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The Church of Jesus Christ has loved the trinity for 2000 years.<br \/>\n<em>The same Trinitarian doctrine is clearly confessed in the ancient creeds of the Christian church. In the Apostles\u2019 Creed, for example, believers confess their faith in \u201cGod, the Father Almighty,\u201d in \u201cJesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord,\u201d and in \u201cthe Holy Ghost.\u201d Similarly, the Nicene Creed states, &#8220;I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth .\u00a0.\u00a0. and in Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God .\u00a0.\u00a0. and in the Holy Ghost, the Lord and Giver of life, who proceedeth from the Father and the Son, who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Michael LeFebvre &amp; Phil Ryken, &#8220;Our Triune God&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/26\/loving-the-trinity\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"25\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"recommend\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The theme of this developing sermon in my head seems to be &#8220;Loving The Trinity&#8221;.\u00a0 Not loving the doctrine of the trinity&#8212;but loving our triune God.<\/p>\n<p>The Church of Jesus Christ has loved the trinity for 2000 years.<br \/> The same Trinitarian doctrine is clearly confessed in the ancient creeds of the Christian church. In [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-pastor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1FrAa-yT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2163"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2165,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163\/revisions\/2165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}