Gathering, Growing, Going
Trinity Sunday is one of the notoriously difficult days upon which to preach in the church calendar. As a final sermon in a church it could easily go horribly wrong, so I’m going to cheat a little bit and whilst celebrating the Trinity, God who is Father, Son and Holy Spirit, God who has and is creating, saving and empowering us, I’m going to think this morning about a different trinity – our diocesan trinity of Gathering, Growing and Going… Part of the vision of the diocese is that we Gather in God’s name, we Grow into the likeness of Jesus and we Go out, led by the Spirit, to make disciples of others… And just as the Trinity of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit are inseparable, to a degree, in the life of any church, these things must also be inseparable. Back to the foundation stone of our faith and it is there towards the end of this morning’s gospel reading (John 3:1-17), ‘For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in