Bethlehem Conference for Pastors: A Meditation on the Trinity

I'm leaving tomorrow (Saturday) for Minneapolis to attend John Piper's pastors' conference. The theme of this year's conference is “This is My Beloved Son”: Exulting in the Trinitarian Relationships of Jesus Christ." Bruce Ware of Southern Seminary is the keynote speaker. John Piper will also do a biographical sketch on the life and theological contributions of Athanasius. I'm confident that this year's conference will be rich in Gospel food.

I have been reading Thomas F. Torrance on the Trinity in preparation for this conference's emphasis on the Trinitarian relationships of Jesus Christ. As I was reading Torrance this morning I came across a beautiful comment by Athanasius on the trinitarian benediction of 2 Corinthians 13:14 ("The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.") that gave me great cause to worship our Triune God this morning. Anthanasius writes:

"For the grace and gift that is given is given in the Trinity, from the Father, through the Son, in the Holy Spirit. As the grace given is from the Father through the Son, so we can have no communion in the gift except in the Holy Spirit. For it is when we partake of him that we have the love of the Father and the grace of the Son and the communion of the Spirit himself" (Athanasius, Ad Serapionem, 1.30.).

Indeed, the Gospel of God is a glorious Gospel!

Blessings,

Dan

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