{"id":30255,"date":"2015-05-30T10:25:56","date_gmt":"2015-05-30T15:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=30255"},"modified":"2018-12-18T13:45:56","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T19:45:56","slug":"ars-praedicandi-preaching-the-trinity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2015\/05\/30\/ars-praedicandi-preaching-the-trinity\/","title":{"rendered":"Ars Praedicandi:<\/i> Preaching the Trinity"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nSeveral people have sent me this meme and, as it turns out, while working out the preaching schedule for the spring and summer, my Pastor said, “Oh, good. You’re preaching on Trinity Sunday.” I’d like to think this was because he was looking forward so much to what I had to say, but I suspect that it was simply relief that he didn’t have to preach himself.<\/p>\n

The doctrine of the Trinity is clearly a—perhaps the<\/em>—central doctrine of the Christian faith. So why does it so terrify preachers? Perhaps because they learned it as a series of propositions to be committed (often imperfectly) to memory, propositions that seem somewhat incomprehensible and completely divorced from the everyday lives of people.<\/p>\n

I have no magic formula for preaching on the Trinity, but here are a few suggestions:<\/p>\n