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Here is a twenty-first century word everyone understands. It means access to a connected, global, multi-tiered delivery system. Today is not “Internet Sunday.” But today is the church calendar equivalent: “Trinity Sunday.” Trinity Sunday celebrates the wonder of connective power and the greatest delivery system for life and truth ever created. The power of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit brought together and offered to us for the sake of the world, for the sake of our salvation.

The greatest theological challenge that faced the first disciples was the concept of Jesus as one so integrated into the being of God the Father that there was no essential difference between the Father and Son. In the 4th century, there were two competing Christs: the Antiocheans stressed a human Jesus, …