How Important is the Trinity? Jesus Thinks It Is VERY Important

Written by Mark Farnham

On July 21, 2010

I’ve often reflected on the rather obvious thought that when his disciples were about to have the world collapse in on them, our Lord spent so much time in the Upper Room speaking to them about the mystery of the Trinity. If anything could underline the necessity of Trinitarianism for practical Christianity, that must surely be it!

Sinclair Ferguson, in an email to Robert Letham, April 4, 2003; cited in Robert Letham, The Trinity: In Scripture, History, Theology and Worship (P&R, 2004), 1.

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