Trinitarian Communion

By date, TEC turns 15 on Friday, January 9, 2026. By what week of the year, we’ll commemorate next Lord’s Day, the second Sunday of January (as was January 9, 2011). So for our communion meditation before, on, and after, let’s consider how the name of our local body looks forward to communion perhaps more than any other part of our liturgy.

We are Trinity Evangel Church. There are mysteries in the theology of the Trinity that I expect we’ll never fully grasp; glorified saints will still be finite, God is not. That said, a new disciple must identify with this God, not another, and be baptized in “the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit” (Matthew 28:19). There’s one name, with three names. It’s ground level Christianity.

One reason for this is because we are not allowed to worship idols. Any other God than this God—one God, three Persons, existing eternally, with equal divine power, glory, and nature—is not God.

But correct confession is only one level. This God made us in His image, it appears that the Persons even talked with each other about it, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness” (Genesis 1:26). This is a privileged status, but even more, it reveals some of the divine purpose: we are made for fellowship. We are made for communion. We are made for knowing, receiving, and giving love from and for others.

This fellowship is what sin broke. Reconciliation is what Jesus secured. The Lord’s Table reminds us of our forgiveness, but forgiveness is unto communion with God in three Persons, as well as His people. It is a Trinitarian table, a Trinitarian meal, and we are a Trinitarian people.