Matthew 28:16-20

An Incomplete Trinity?

Protestant churches who lean evangelical but not charismatic have occasionally been accused of being more “binitarian” than “trinitarian.”  The suggestion is that such churches, in an honest and appropriate effort to emphasize the single saving lordship of Jesus and preserve a sufficiently high Christology, have done so at the expense of lifting up the role of the Holy Spirit. 

Such criticism may be fair to an extent, so the opportunity to follow Pentecost with Trinity Sunday is an invitation to reiterate the role of the Holy Spirit while also emphasizing God’s triune nature.

Matthew's Trinitarian Statement

The downside is that it is very difficult to explain the Trinity without…