Rediscovering the Trinity in the Local Congregation

 The purpose of this book is to provide a means to involve the congregation in rediscovering the unconditional love and grace of God to us and for us in Jesus Christ.  To know ourselves better leads to our knowing God better.  Understanding God in new and fresh ways leads to understanding who we are in a better way.  This comes together among the congregation when there is fellowship and conversation centered on and embraced by the Word of God incarnate in Jesus Christ.  The importance of this in itself is what T.F. Torrance refers to as “dialogical theology.”  “The Word of God encounters us in such a way that it creates for itself a sphere of human and personal conversation in which the Word is addressed to each and to all, but in which each helps the other both in hearing and in speaking it.  It is thus that dialogical theology has its essential place in the church as the sphere of a two-fold conversation between God and His people and between the different members of the Church in the presence of the Word Himself” (Theological Science 135).  The second person of the Trinity is the Word.  God as persons in communion, communes in the Word.  Dialogical theology is a participation in the life of God