“Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:” Matthew 28:19

Christians recognise the Godhead three as the trinity, but what do they do? How can three people have different functions but act as one person? Well, one way of separating the various jobs is to think of the trinity as a pizza.

There are three parts to a pizza.

1. There is the dough. You cannot have a pizza without dough, it is the foundation. God the Father is our foundation. 1 Corinthians 3:11 reads ' For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ' So when you look at the pizza base, the dough, think of foundation - God the Father.

2. Next we have the tomato sauce. The tomato sauce in this analogy is Jesus, God the Son. He is the source of life, all life, and like the colour of the sauce his red blood was spilled, given freely to pay the price of our sins. 1 John 1:7 reads 'the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin'. 

3. The last integral component of a pizza is the topping. The topping is the Holy Spirit which flavours the dish in a variety of different ways and has many different functions. In John 14:26 he is the comforter 'But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.' The Holy Spirit shows us how to pray in Romans 8:26 'Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.'

So the trinity of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit do individual jobs that perfectly complement each other. Like the pizza, you cannot have one of the three parts or else it is not a pizza. God on his own is not the trinity. We need God the Father as the foundation of our faith; God the Son, the sauce, the lifeblood of what we believe and finally God the Holy Spirit to provide those individual functions of the Godhead three that we need on a personal basis.

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Todays song is 'Sweet Holy Spirit' by the Isaacs. Click on the picture to listen.