Trinity Rope and Symbols

What do they mean?

The Trinity Rope and Symbols.

'Trinity' refers to the reality of 'One God in Three Persons'.
The one creator God whose presence, purpose and character lights up the bible from Genesis to Revelation. Hence the 'Trinity rope' of three coloured cords running through all the symbols:

Green for the Father – Creator and sustainer

Red for the Son – Redeemer and reconciler

Gold for the Holy Spirit – communicator and unifier

The sun shade - echoes God's overarching act of creation. The vertical symbols hanging from it represent the-hinge-of-history events of the bible's long horizontal historical story.

The Cross - where Jesus of Nazareth, trusting and obeying his Father, died as Messiah or Christ. He reverses the deathly effects of human disobedience in history and for the earth told in Genesis*.

The World embraced - by the Cross and the Empty Tomb. 'For God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not die but have eternal life.'

The Empty Tomb - from which Jesus was raised to life by God to rule as Lord over all authorities and powers including death itself.

The Dove of the Holy Spirit - uniting followers to the risen Jesus. 'Anyone who is joined to Christ is a new being;
the old is gone, the new is come.'

The new Worldwide Family in Christ – men and women, young and old in whom the truly-human character of Jesus as Lord is being formed. To be as salt and light to the whole human race.

*The bible's first book sees deeply into God's good creation. And what went wrong! So God tells Abra(m)ham that through his descendents (Israel) “I will bless all the nations." The bible then tells us that Israel is also part of what's wrong! So God promises a suffering servant to light the nations. Jesus comes bringing (by living), God's rule. He suffers, dies and is raised.
He now offers new life in himself to all peoples and creation itself.

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