Episode 66: Talking Trinity, Part 3--The God with Scars

In their ongoing series looking at the idea of God as Trinity (Three Persons in One God), pastors Erica and Steve explore what the church has classically meant--and not meant--about Jesus being divine and human.  Is Jesus God's Vice-President of Human Affairs?  An empty human body like an avatar for God to control at a distance?  A half-human, half-divine hybrid like the mythic Greek heroes?  Something else?  Over the centuries, Christians have struggled to find good words to say that God goes "all the way down" into the fullness of humanity, and that God remains a communion of relationships while also taking on the fullness of human experience--hunger, sadness, joy, laughter, loneliness, pain, and even death--in Christ.  What does any of that complicated-sounding theologizing actually mean for anybody?  Join Erica and Steve as they try and make sense out of these big ideas and why the early church was so insistent on finding good words to talk about meeting God in Jesus... and seeing that God has scars.