The Orange advert claims: “I am who I am because of everyone.” But what does the Trinitarian God say to that? How does the Trinitarian nature of God shape our identities as Christians?
The God of this universe is a Trinitarian God; that is, He is one God, but He is three persons. The God of this universe is community; He is perfect, true and complete community. This means that community, that relationships, matter to God – it is central to His very nature. Consequently these things must matter to us too, they must also be central to who we are, both collectively, as we seek to demonstrate something of that community together (Acts 2:44-47), but also individually as we go about seeking to develop relationships with others and especially as we make that relationship that God desires with everyone known to the world around us (1 Peter 3:15-16).
When we consider the opening chapters of Genesis we are told that mankind has been made in the image of God (Genesis 1:27), that we have been made for relationship with God, but that the relationship that we are made for has been broken, that the image has been altogether distorted and that we are now alienated from our Creator (Genesis 3:23-24). We are now enemies of God (Colossians 1:21). This poses an enormous question; how can the relationship, for which we were created, be restored?
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