This Sunday will be a liturgical mash-up of sorts. As Pastor Katelyn Gordon Cooke explains, on the liturgical calendar, it's Trinity Sunday; we'll still have our Pentecost decorations up; and I'll be preaching an Easter sermon from 2019 as part of our Greatest Hits sermon series. So exciting! :)
Each of those events and theological doctrines - Jesus' resurrection, the coming of the Holy Spirit and the birth of the church, and the reality of God as three-in-one - issues its own invitation that we get comfortable with mystery. Resurrection is beyond our full knowing as is the Holy Spirit and the Triune God. There's a gift here, I think, in that we are not expected to know everything but instead get to appreciate the wonder, beauty, and faithfulness of the God who created us and claims us.
