The Triune God Sends with Self-Giving Love

The Triune God, who is eternally in reciprocal, self-giving relationship, is a sending God.

The Father sends the Son at the incarnation because “God so loved the world” (John 3:16). After the Son’s ascension, the Father sends the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, as Peter reminds us, quoting Joel the prophet: “In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people” (Acts 2:17).

Out of this Triune divine being, the Father and the Son and the Spirit send the church from Pentecost to this very day. As Jesus says, “As the Father has sent me, I am sending you” (John 20:21).

This Triune God is a sending God who cannot hold back. This God is irrepressible in His love. He is by His very nature a missionary God.

God – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – is ahead of us on mission. He is beyond us and inviting us into this work with Him.

If we know Him, we move toward Him…and our God stands not just at the center of the church but on the edges and periphery. Our God stands in the blank spaces of the world inviting us to join Him where He already is.

The Triune God sends with self-giving love from the beginning of time until now. And He invites us to join with Him in this same posture of sending with self-giving love.