Charles Schultz, the PEANUTS cartoonist, contributed a cartoon to a church magazine years ago. The scene is a church youth meeting. Standing in front of the group is a teenage character wearing a primitive, multicolored, witch doctor's ritual mask. The caption beneath the cartoon read: "My program tonight is entitled, It matters not what you believe, only whether you are sincere or not.' " (1)

Most of us believe that it really does matter what a person believes. At the same time, few of us would consider ourselves sophisticated theologians. In fact, most of us are really not very interested in church doctrines. And this morning we need to consider one of the most confusing doctrines of our faith ” the Trinity ” Father, Son and Holy Spirit. It is a part of our faith that we treasure, but w…